Arthur D. Little - Exane BNP Paribas report 2013

4G - going faster, but where?

The 12th edition of the joint annual report by Arthur D. Little and Exane BNP Paribas focuses on 4G LTE. We held 91 meetings in the telecom-media-technology arena, across 15 countries. [...]

Restructuring Debts of Discoms' for Sustainable Power Growth

Overcoming supply shortages in India

India is fast catching up and the availability of power has a huge impact on the economic growth. In the last years, the country has massively enlarged its power generation. Still though, India faces the challenge of poor reliability and quality of electricity, leading to occasional blackouts. This report takes a look at the various issues on India's way to reliable electricity. [...]

Arthur D. Little’s Global Innovation Excellence Survey

Getting a Better Return on Your Innovation Investment

Arthur D. Little completed its 8th Global Innovation Excellence Study, a global, cross-industry survey of trends and best practices in innovation management. [...]

Cloud from Telcos: Business distraction or a key to growth?

Open action point: Make Cloud a sustainable growth reality for Telcos!

Cloud service revenues are passing 75bn USD a year globally and Cloud continues to be at the top of minds of IT managers and CIOs globally as well as those striving for growth opportunities in Telco portfolios. [...]

U-Channel Retail

“Ubiquitous, Universal and Unique”

The retail landscape is undergoing major changes driven by external trends and due to a challenging economic environment, spending and recovery continues to be challenging. [...]

Catching the Smart Home Opportunity

Room for Growth for Telecom Operators

Smart Home services are poised for strong growth and represent an attractive opportunity for telecom operators to expand their services and revenue streams. Telcos have several competitive advantages, including their internet gateways, strong customer relationships, and sales and support networks. However, partnerships are essential and timing is critical. [...]

The Business Benefits of 4G LTE

As Information and Communications Technology (ICT) continues to develop, the business world is applying it ever more broadly – and across increasingly diverse applications. Critical to this is the development of mobile communications technology. [...]

The Projects, Technology & Procurement Organization

The Emergence of a New Organization Form in E&P

The integration of Project management, Technology and Procurement functions into an integrated unit can improve performance by achieving better control, project cost reduction and the opportunity to achieve performance leadership through technology. [...]

Over-the-Top Video – "First to Scale Wins"

Does this Mean the Return of National Heroes?

Over-the-top (OTT) video services focusing on professional long-form content, such as Hulu, Lovefilm and Netflix, saw tremendous growth in subscribers and revenues over the last few years. [...]

Performance Excellence Networks

Solving the Global and Local Operations Footprint Puzzle

Global operations networks are challenged by three global trends: the maturing of emerging markets which changes consumers’ attitudes in these countries, the current and ongoing global and regional macroeconomic instability and the inherent inability of many companies to overcome these challenges with their current operations footprint. [...]