Overall view of the show: Better than ever to do business. The number of meetings, their quality, and the decisiveness of the people involved was up. MWC (Mobile World Congress) has returned to the days where the focus is business not hype. I hope they can keep this quality and focus in the years to […]
Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! are continuously offering new services for customers to experience, then refining those services within weeks/months based upon customer feedback. The typical operator product development process is usually: an opportunity is identified, market research is performed, a project is created once budget can be found, the new product development process runs […]
The purpose of this article is to review some of the significant developments and trends in the telecom industry through 2008, and look forward into next year on what developments and trends may start to unfold. Open Innovation, Telco API and SDP. A theme of this weblog throughout the year has been Open Innovation, the […]
At the end of November I’ll be attending Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore. I’ll be running a post-conference workshop on the 28th November, and a couple of sessions through the conference (26-27 November). Outlines of the sessions are shown below, and the conference brochure can be downloaded here. The purpose of this article is […]
The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of my findings from Informa’s IMS/SDP (IP Multimedia Subsystem) North America conference that ran from the 5-7 November in Dallas TX; I gave a preview of the event in this article. I’ve also put a few slides together to give a flavor of the conference […]
On the 30th October I gave a webinar entitled “Telco adoption of Web 2.0 principles and open innovation for rapid application development.” The presentation is shown below: Telco Adoption Of Web 2.0 & Open Innovation Issue 1 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: at&ts devcentral app… business) The webinar was also recorded, and […]
In a previous article, “The Internet’s gone Video: What does that mean to operators?” I gave a preview of the presentation I planned to give at the Dialogic One Event in the keynote session “Carrier Video Services Trends and Opportunities” on the 21st October in San Diego. The presentation, shown below, is split into four […]
On the 30th October I’ll be giving a free Telestrategies webinar entitled “Telco adoption of Web 2.0 principles and open innovation for rapid application development.” The pitch for the webinar is: “The battle is intensifying between telcos, consumer device manufacturers (e.g. iPhone and Sony PS3) and web-based services (e.g. Google) in the delivery of services […]
At the end of November I’ll be attending Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore. I’ll be running a post-conference workshop on the 28th November, and a couple of sessions through the conference (26-27 November). Outlines of the sessions are shown below, and the conference brochure can be downloaded here. The purpose of this article is […]
Over the past couple of years I’ve been helping operators understand ways they can harness open innovation. Using a quote from Henry Chesbrough, UC Berkeley, from his book ‘Open Innovation’ to explain: “Open innovation means that valuable ideas can come from inside or outside the company and can go to market from inside or outside […]