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August 2018

Telecoms operators and startups: Rethink and reinvent

Harnessing the disruptive power of startups

Telecoms operators around the world are already engaging with startups in an attempt to benefit from their agility, execution speed and disruptive power. However, realizing tangible benefits and value from these initiatives has been a persistent challenge. Fundamental changes to current approaches...
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
August 2018

Electric mobility roll-out in Latin America

ADL explores success factors for premium BEV roll-out in Latin America

Market introduction of full battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is, in many aspects, more complex than launching regular internal combustion engine cars (ICEs), and therefore represents a challenge in itself. However, it is an even greater challenge in emerging markets, where importers and dealers...
Automotive
August 2018

Energy Journal – Oil & Gas

Perspectives on the Oil & Gas Industry 2018

In recent months, the rules of the game in the Oil & Gas industry have continued to change, with a shifting of positions across the entire value chain.Upstream, the traditional East-to-West flow of hydrocarbons continues to slow, driven by increasing efficiencies in North American...
Oil & gas
August 2018

Energy Journal – Utilities

Perspectives on the Utilities Industry 2018

The global electricity industry is wrestling with its legacy as it undergoes the most significant structural changes since Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879. The forces of innovation and disruption led by technological advances and economic viability of several trends such as...
Utilities & alternative energy
August 2018

Driving transformation in research & technology organizations

Using key performance indicators to catalyze change

Research and Technology Organizations (RTOs) are under growing pressure to stay abreast of rapidly evolving business or national science and technology priorities and to demonstrate greater impact. They therefore undergo continual strategic and operational change to adapt, but in some cases,...
Organization & transformation, Technology & innovation management
July 2018

Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”

How to drive effective transformation

We are constantly bombarded with the message that we are living through a period of unprecedented change; that technology is rewriting the rule book across all industries; that any organization that fails to fully master technology will become commoditized, obsolete, or extinct; and that the only...
Technology & innovation management, Digital problem solving
July 2018

2018 Technology Trends

Say vs. Do Innovation

While KPCB venture partner Mary Meeker’s annual “Internet Trends“ report does an outstanding job as a ”State of the Digital Nation,” there is no single user manual on the related trends affecting how companies can leverage emerging technology. Often there is asymmetry between the apparent positive...
Technology & innovation management, Digital problem solving, Information management
July 2018

Why machine learning is crucial

Managing and gaining the most value from big data

This article explores the challenge of managing and gaining the most value from big data. We highlight the increased opportunity associated with larger data sets, while illustrating the limitations of current methods and human intellect across the 4 Vs of big data (volume, velocity, variety, and...
Industrial goods & services, Technology & innovation management, Digital problem solving, Information management
July 2018

The race to gigabit fiber

Gigabit fiber is driving take-up of new services

We increasingly see deployment of applications and services provisioned by underlying gigabit broadband. This is enabling people, machines, and applications to collaborate effectively and intelligently in order to enhance quality of life, improve our mobility, grow our economies and empower our...
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
July 2018

Risk as a value generator

Optimizing risk-based decision-making using a “Total Cost of Risk” approach

Boards and investors of leading corporations are now taking more active and questioning positions on risk management. Striking a balance between the potential opportunities unlocked by appropriate risk-taking and potential losses requires expertise and a clear risk management strategy that is...
Risk