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Upgrading the sourcing function to a strategy facilitator
The fast paced change in telecoms requires sourcing to be at the intersection of strategy and execution.
In telecoms, Sourcing as a process and organizational role is often highly focused on price of equipment and services. Habitually, success is measured by the obtained price per unit or system. In light of this, the sourcing process tends to be designed to primarily be an instrument to achieve such price/cost targets. For certain commodities such approach is adequate and in some cases...
Northstreaming - the blog
10 Jan 2012
Coming soon to a mall near you…
With Christmas and New Year celebrations fresh in mind, I take this opportunity to explore how future location-based services can help with the rather busy and tedious task of ‘Christmas Shopping’ (or any shopping for that matter). In this blog, I will use this as an example to illustrate how mobile location services could be greatly improved to...
Northstream in the news
24 Jan 2012
RIM co-CEOs step down
RIM has appointed a new CEO after increasing shareholder pressure and a poor financial performance in 2011. Thorsten Heins will take over as president and CEO, with former co-CEOs Mike...
19 Jan 2012
MasterCard seeks partnership with Swedish m-payments JV
4T plans to launch later this year; insists services like Google Wallet will not hurt premium SMS revenues.
4T, the mobile payment joint venture established by Sweden's mobile...
17 Jan 2012
Three should not be crowded out of the 4G spectrum
It is in consumers' interests that Three emerges from this year's 4G auction on a more equal footing with its rivals.
The blockbuster acquisition by AT&T of Deutsche Telekom's...
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Market and Product Idea Assessment: Northstream provides analysis to seed-stage RAN optimization company
Northstream assisted a Swedish start-up incubator to assess the market and product ideas for a potential seed stage company. The company’s ideas were based on research results that...
Network Lab System: Northstream evaluates options for internal lab test mobile network
Northstream helped an international product and service company to evaluate technology and architecture options for an internal radio access lab network. The lab system rationale was...
App Store Service Design: Northstream assists client in creating a WAC App Store offer
Northstream authored an implementation service design of a Wholesale Application Community (WAC) based app store. The service design included back-end, front-end and user experience...
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