Recently, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain has given birth to a new kind of firm: the cognitive firm, the ability to acquire and process knowledge. It involves high-level constructs that our minds use for reasoning, understanding, problem-solving, planning, and decision-making. AI is defined as “the science and…

Bob’s story — The WTF project mgt and team collaboration problem Today, complex products = complex organisations Bob, a Marketing manager in a car company who is working on a new car concept project team. Bob needs to prepare a marketing launch for the Paris auto show planned in October 2018. Leading the marketing initiatives, he is doing different activities (plan/define…

Roku successful IPO should not hide the big challenges the Los Gatos firm faces and will in the near future. As a “simple” video/TV platform, Roku is poised to be disrupted by platform systems like Amazon, Apple and Google sooner or later if it does not change. Started from smartphones…

Like in this Kill Bill memorable fighting scene, you may already know who is going to win. Now, imagine in a video OTT remake, who is interpreting Uma Thurman, Telcos or GAFAs? Not that obvious, as you’ll discover in this post. As described in a previous article “Video OTT Market…

There is not a single week or day we hear in the news a company announcing to go after the video OTT market space, merging, acquired(ing) etc. One can wonder in the messy market, why are they going after the video OTT market?, what are the companies going after the…

Through discussions with operators, partners and stakeholders, one million dollar question surfaces all the time: “how telecom operators can monetize OTT generated data”. Well, before exploring OTT data dynamics, telecom operators need to understand that they play in a multisided platform ecosystem and economy. …