Tag: Digital Transformation

SMB Resilience Amid COVID-19

Posted by Leonard Leeon in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Business Strategy, Cloud & Edge, Consulting, CPG-Consumer Goods, Digital Transformation, Healthcare & Insurance, Innovation, Internet of Things, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Mobile Computing, Organizational Change, Podcasts, Point of View, Research, Retail, Risk Management, Sales & Marketing, Security & Privacy, Social Media, Supply ChainLeave a comment

You are a small or medium-size business in the midst of a global pandemic that is constricting your business as governments order "non-essential" businesses to shutdown and growing consumer angst crush business activity and demand. What do you do? What can you do to survive and thrive? For many industries, surviving will require businesses to dramatically rethink the notion of business model, go-to-market approach, supply chain, sales channels, people and modality of work. All of this needs to happen with the consideration of the health and safety of employees and customers against the persistent threat of the coronavirus pandemic.

The 5G Autonomous Edge: The Next Frontier of Digital Business Innovation

Posted by Leonard Leeon in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Business Strategy, Cloud & Edge, Digital Media Telco Convergence, Digital Transformation, Electronics, Future of Cloud, Healthcare & Insurance, Holistic Trust & Security, Innovation, Internet of Things, IT/CT Convergence, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Pharma, Podcasts, Product Development, Research, Research Note, Retail, Robotics, Semiconductor End Markets, Semiconductors, Supply Chain, Telecom, Transportation & Logistics2 Comments

5G, AI, and the cloud are intersecting to unlock real-time autonomous capabilities at the edge. This evolution represents an inflection point for edge computing and a new frontier for business innovation and reinvention. Discover the potential of ubiquitous intelligence, edge cloud computing, and autonomous infrastructure to transform our world from the age of digital business to autonomous enterprise.

Industry Insight: Jio Platforms and Facebook Driving Digital India

Posted by Leonard Leeon in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Business Strategy, Cloud & Edge, Consulting, Consulting & Research, Digital Media Telco Convergence, Innovation, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Podcasts, Point of View, Research, Retail, Social Media, TelecomLeave a comment

Facebook's recent investment and partnership with Jio Platforms was met with a great deal of media and industry excitement. This move was widely touted as a coming of age of Digital India. The largest US tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft are looking to expand their global fortunes in the new digital economic frontier that is India with its 1.32 billion large consumer market. What is really at stake here and what does it mean in the broader context of India's economic digitization?

Industry Insight: AT&T’s Alliances with Microsoft and IBM/Red Hat – A Tale of Two Clouds?

Posted by Leonard Leeon in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Cloud & Edge, Future of Cloud, Internet of Things, IT/CT Convergence, Market Intelligence, Media & Entertainment, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Point of View, Research, Telecom1 Comment

July has been a watershed month for AT&T as it enters into two major "cloud deals", one with Microsoft and another with the newly merged IBM and Red Hat. At first glance, the two deals seem oddly contradictory - a collision of proprietary Microsoft cloud (although about half of Azure workloads run on top of Linux) with open source cloud from the combined IBM and Red Hat. But why two cloud deals? What makes them different? What does it mean for the companies involved?

Hybrid Approaches to AI for Realizing Intelligent Networks in the 5G Era

Posted by Akshay Sharmaon in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Analytics & Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & Edge, Digital Transformation, Electronics, Future of Cloud, Innovation, Internet of Things, IT Services, IT/CT Convergence, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Research, Research Note, Security & Privacy, Telecom1 Comment

You can't blame technology vendors and service providers for pushing the limits of marketing hype with Artificial Intelligence (AI). After all, it is hottest buzzword since cloud computing. But digital service providers in the emerging era of 5G need practical, real "AI" solutions to cost-efficiently scale their operations and deliver the quality of service that will deliver the promise of 5G to themselves as well as their customers. Hybrid approaches to AI are needed to accelerate return on investment as operators evolve their infrastructure and operations for a 5G future.

Digital Transformation World 2019: Key Takeaways

Posted by Leonard Leeon in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Cloud & Edge, Digital Media Telco Convergence, Digital Transformation, Event Summary Report, Internet of Things, IT/CT Convergence, Media & Entertainment, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Podcasts, Professional Services, Research, Telecom1 Comment

neXt Curve was in Nice, France attending the premier global event for digital transformation in the telecommunications industry held from May 14th through May 16th and hosted by TM Forum.  Leading vendors and operators converged to discuss what it will take help the telecom industry reinvent itself and aid telecom service providers in becoming digital service providers.  Now that 5G has arrived in select markets around the globe, the pressure is on for telecom operators to transform their operating models to capture the value promised by the next generation network.

Crossing the 5G and IoT Connectivity Chasm with SDR and SDN

Posted by Akshay Sharmaon in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Cloud & Edge, Digital Transformation, Innovation, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Product Development, Research, Research Note, Semiconductor End Markets, Semiconductors, Telecom2 Comments

The 5G promise is broad and ambitious, but business leaders need to recognize that we are at the very beginning of this journey, and emerging technologies under the 5G umbrella are creating new opportunities for new entrants to fill the gaps as the world moves toward the promise of 5G such as 5G-enabled IoT, new shared spectrum resources, hybrid multi-cloud services brokering, network slicing on demand within mobile computing nano-data centers at the carrier edge.

The Fight for 5G Superiority will be Fought in The Cloud

Posted by Leonard Leeon in 5G, 5G Evolution & Vertical End Markets, Cloud & Edge, Digital Media Telco Convergence, Future of Cloud, Holistic Trust & Security, Internet of Things, IT/CT Convergence, Network Tech, Research, Security & Privacy11 Comments

Since the term "Cloud Computing" was coined, CSPs (Communications Service Providers) have had a tremendous challenge developing viable cloud capabilities and offerings for their enterprise clients that compete with emerging digital infrastructure players such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.  With 5G on the horizon it is ever more critical that traditional telco operators find their cloud mojo lest current cloud leaders and new intermediary entrants make a move to the middle to take the great 5G promise away from them.

The Democratization of 5G Everything

Posted by Akshay Sharmaon in 5G, Business Strategy, Cloud & Edge, Consulting, Digital Transformation, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing, Network Tech, Research, Research Note, Security & Privacy, Telecom11 Comments

The original telco central offices of the past had legacy mainframe-like telephone switches with legacy voice features, which was ideal in the 1980’s and 1990’s but are archaic today. With VoIP over LTE in the cloud, these local offices can be re-architected into 5G nano-datacenters that provide very low latency fixed and mobile access and distributed edge computing that will enable new and innovative hyperconverged IT/CT applications and services that avail new business models and network monetization opportunities for operators.

The Future-Proof Organization

Posted by Leonard Leeon in Consulting, Digital Board of Directors, Digital Transformation, Executive Coaching, Holistic Trust & Security, Industry, Organizational Change, Podcasts, Point of View, Research, Research Note2 Comments

As businesses face increasingly rapid and volatile dynamics of change, business leaders are challenged to continuously shift and (re)position their organizations for survival. With change coming from a multitude of different vectors, what can leaders do to “future-proof” their organizations and win in a digital economy?

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