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Recent Articles in Dealing with Disruption

Google: Where to cooperate? Where to compete? Oct 20, 2009: Our new Executive Briefing report analysing Google's strategy includes recommendations of how service providers can plan ‘coopetition’ with this very important player. (November 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream)

QQ: China's Monster 'Facebook' - on a screen near you soon Oct 7, 2009: An analysis of QQ.com - a profitable Chinese social networking and instant messaging service with 1 billion usernames, 75 million peak concurrent users, and plans to grow beyond China. (October 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream)

ESPN: Making ‘pay-for-content’ work – a telco opportunity Sep 24, 2009: The sports network ESPN is a master of the paid content business model, building platform scale and success using premium content. What are the lessons from ESPN’s US and UK strategies for other service providers and content distributors? (September 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).

Google Voice: one of the key battlegrounds for Telcos Sep 23, 2009: Google Voice, managing Customer Data, and Location Services will be among the key battlegrounds where Telcos' emerging business models and Google are likely to clash, according to a new Telco 2.0 Briefing to be published in October. It is previewed here. (September 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream)

Mobile Advertising: 100 times more 'eyeballs' - Blyk's Wholesale Strategy Sep 9, 2009: An analysis of Blyk's recent move from a retail to wholesale business model provides important lessons for the mobile marketing industry as a whole. (September 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream)

Digital Money: Agents are the Key to Mobile Money Transfer Sep 9, 2009: New data from M-PESA shows clearly how its success is directly related to its network of trusted agents - a critical success factor for any mobile money project. (September 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream)

Apps & AppStores: Litmus vs Apple AppStore Sep 4, 2009: As O2 UK's Litmus developer proramme matures into a global corporate project for Telefonica, we analyse the business model challenges it faces in becoming a vibrant community for developers and a value driver for the company. (Sept 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).

Case Study: Mobile Signature solution approaches key growth milestone Jul 23, 2009: Mobile Signature, a live example of a two-sided telecoms business model is approaching a key inter-operability milestone. Here is a review of the progress, the model, and its potential. (July 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).

Twitt-o-nomics: How will Twitter make money? Jul 23, 2009: Twitter's business model seems to be the familiar - "Web 2.0 Flip" - build an audience and sell to someone who thinks they can monetize it. There are key lessons to be learnt from Twitter for Telcos and other service providers. (July 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).

Mobile Payments: Lessons from the world's leading exponents Jul 9, 2009: An analysis of M-Pesa and Wizzit - one a classic ‘Telco 2.0’ platform, the other an extension to traditional banking services – and lessons for telcos worldwide. (July 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream)

Google - How (precisely) it profits from YouTube Jun 25, 2009: New analysis demonstrates how YouTube contributes to Google's position and power in the 'Digital Economy' and what this means for telcos' online video strategies. (June 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream.)

Zoompass: Implementing Mobile Money, Right? Jun 24, 2009: A major milestone has been achieved; the first inter-carrier mobile payments system in a developed market since PayForIt. (June 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).

Retail Services 2.0 - 'Supermarket' Strategy Not Enough May 28, 2009: Significant additional value lies beyond just re-selling other people's content, applications and services in addition to your own. 'Enabling' needs to be combined with retailing, say Telco 2.0 Brainstormers. (May 2009, Special Event Briefing, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).

Nokia's Strange Services Strategy - Lessons from Apple iPhone and RIM May 28, 2009: An analysis of Nokia's 10 year services strategy in the light of Apple and RIM's successes. (May 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stram)

M-Banking: can Zain's new business model for ZAP rival M-PESA? May 28, 2009: A major emerging market operator, Zain, has entered the mobile banking game with a radically different business model. (May 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream.)

Google's Complex Execution of Simple Two-Sided Business Model Strategies Apr 28, 2009: Analysis of the combination of classic 2-Sided Business Model strategies used by Google. (April 2009, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream)

Transactions: telcos’ future in one word Dec 31, 2008: Amazon presents an excellent example of a 2-sided transactions platform. Werner Vogel, Amazon CTO, explains. (Dec 2008, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).

Online Video Usage - YouTube thrashes iPlayer, but for how long? Jul 31, 2008: Online Video demand patterns are becoming clearer but a working economic model is not. What's next? (July 2008, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).

Telcos' Role in the Advertising Value Chain Nov 30, 2007: Summary: A report identifying how to build a valuable new business model and customer base. (November 2007)

Forget Mobile Advertising...Think Bigger Nov 30, 2007: Everyone is fascinated by the opportunities in mobile advertising; but there may not be enough advertising to go around. (November 2007, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream)

Google anchors its carrier off the coast of Telcoland Jul 31, 2007: Why is Google bothering with nonexclusive radio spectrum - and offering to sublicence it for public access? (July 2007, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).