For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Innovating Corporate Strategy Services

by Daniel Krauss, May 29, 2009

Blurring boundaries within the broader consulting services market are leading to heated competition among consulting firms around thought leadership and business model innovation. In this context, strategic management paradigms and models are playing . . .

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Access Structural Separation And Regulation Gain Traction

How The UK Experience Can Help Your Strategy

by Mike Cansfield, May 22, 2008

Despite the success of the liberalization of communications markets that began in the early 1980s, near-monopolies still exist in many countries at the access layer (from the street cabinet to the customer's premises). In 2005 in the UK, the regulator . . .

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Forrester's Strategy Review Methodology Tool  (55 KB XLS)

by Chris Andrews, May 1, 2008

Forrester's Strategic Review Methodology Tool

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Service Delivery Platform Success Requires A Strategic Vision And Corporate Collaboration

SDP Deployment Requires Carriers To Cross Organizational Boundaries

by Michele Pelino, March 23, 2007

Strategy professionals at communications service providers are challenged to expand revenue streams while supporting legacy technologies and next generation network initiatives. To efficiently deploy new applications like mobile data applications and . . .

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Four Steps To Derive More Strategic Value From Your SWOT Analysis

by Pascal Matzke, March 20, 2007

The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis methodology is one of the most popular tools among strategy professionals for examining and understanding the competitive positioning of their respective solution, organization, or . . .

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European Telcos Must Look Beyond Simple One-Phone Solutions

by Lars Godell, March 12, 2007

As many as 50% of European online consumers claim to know what integrated fixed and mobile phones are, reflecting a combination of consumer confusion and technology and market realities. The one-phone service comes in two flavors: the one the industry . . .