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Yes, you heard it here first! The new buzz word is digital society continuity management. What it is? Well, business continuity is the activity performed by an organization to ensure that critical business functions will be available to customers, suppliers, regulators, and other entities that must have access to those functions. Digital society continuity thus […] Read more »
In a previous post we talked about how ICT departments should evolve to cloud service desks. These cloud service desks would preselect cloud services on suitability, interoperability, compliance, and security. They would present an approved cloud services menu to business users to choose from. We have now updated the model we base this on and […] Read more »
So let’s play! The telco die has six sides. Telco, netco, webco, servco, capco, and connectco. These sides are not just arbitrary positions. They are real business models that exploit retail and wholesale markets in the context of bundled capacity/service, unbundled capacity and unbundled service. Let’s explain. In telco terms, retail is the sale to […] Read more »
The worlds of social networking and telecommunications are coming closer together. With speculation over a deepening partnership (acquisition even?) between Facebook and Skype, and the recent launch of Hyves Mobile on the T-Mobile network in the Netherlands, it makes sense to look at what is at stake here. The figure below provides insight into the […] Read more »
Cloud computing (defined here) is important for telcos in two ways: They can use cloud for internal efficiency purposes, increasing bottom line They can compete in the cloud services market, growing the top line This post is all about the second item. It is important for telcos to find new revenue streams. A recent study […] Read more »
In 2006, Chris Anderson wrote the bestseller “The Long Tail” explaining how the Internet enables an online store to profitably sell small quantities of a large collection of items, a feat that was impossible in the offline retail world. In the world of SaaS, PaaS is the ideal vehicle for enabling a long tail of […] Read more »