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When researching my new book, ANYWHERE: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business, I was fortunate to interview more than 50 thought leaders in connectivity. Their input was invaluable and their ideas, advice and examples provide very rich context for the Anywhere vision....
February 3, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Over a quarter of Yankee Group survey respondents say they expect at least a third of their infrastructure to move to cloud computing in the next year, but company-wide adoption remains low. This executive-level research report features interviews with cloud computing pioneers and reveals their unique perspectives and metrics for success in 2010.
Jan. 28, 2010 | Report | by Agatha Poon | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Zeus Kerravala, Jennifer Pigg, Camille Mendler, Sheryl Kingstone, Emily Green
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When researching my new book, ANYWHERE: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business , I was fortunate to interview more than 50 thought leaders in connectivity. Their input was invaluable, and their ideas, advice and examples provide very rich context for the Anywhere vision....
January 24, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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ANYWHERE the book talks a lot about a future with many more connected devices than those we know and love today....
January 20, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Possibly the best proof of the value of expanding connectivity is the role it plays in providing healthcare in emerging markets. As I mentioned in today's webinar, during the research for our book I spoke with Dr....
January 14, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
Introducing ANYWHERE, the book
The official launch of "ANYWHERE: How Global Connectivity Is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business." Yankee Group CEO and author, Emily Nagle Green, covers the global impact of connectivity and provides expert advice on navigating the Anywhere revolution. Emily is joined by an executive panel of book contributors.
Jan. 14, 2010 | Live Webinar | by Emily Green
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In this webinar, Yankee Group President and CEO Emily Nagle Green discusses the new book "ANYWHERE: How Global Connectivity Is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business."
January 14, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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We interrupt your New Year's resolution-making for an important announcement. ANYWHERE: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business (McGraw-Hill) is officially shipping from all major booksellers....
January 4, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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After the financial services sector, the industry that's shown the greatest capacity to innovate with technology has been the gaming sector. (I will pass on what may seem like a glaring opportunity to editorialize.)...
December 28, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Consumer research is great. Just when you think you could be smart enough to predict the answers you'll get, consumers surprise you. Which is the whole point of asking, really....
December 17, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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With the global recession sending not just companies but public-sector budgets into massive decline, lots of pols want to know what to do to help the major growth engines in their regions spin back up....
December 14, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Calling all marketers: How do you sell a network? While operators fear their offering being reduced to nothing more than dumb transfer of bits, the actual internal complexity of their infrastructure gets more impressive every day. But I'm a geek....
December 11, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Emerging markets present unique connectivity challenges. While tackling those, two innovative start-ups offer key takeaways for Anywhere providers--no matter where they're located.
Dec. 10, 2009 | Report | by Emily Green
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I've been playing for the last few weeks with a new HTC Hero, courtesy of Sprint, and I like it. It's not easy to admit, for two contradictory reasons. First, I'm a BlackBerry addict, but second, we're an Apple family at home, with more Macs than residents... and that includes the dog....
December 2, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Last fall, Yankee Group began measuring the pace of global connectivity with a powerful metric we call the Anywhere Index. It's simply the number of broadband lines, wired or wireless, in a region compared to the region's population....
November 23, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Given the opportunity to join IBM's Global Executive Forum again this year, I jumped. Past experience has proven that it's an intimate, powerful gathering where C-level execs from global communications and media firms convene to mull key questions in leadership....
November 19, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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First it was an idea... then it became a company-wide research mission... now it's a book. Today we start talking publicly about something we have been working on at Yankee Group for much of this past year: our first mass-market book....
November 18, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Who was it who said, "Everything old is new again"? Reading David Pogue's NYT column yesterday on the Droid phone, I was struck by an odd sense of deja vu at his introduction....
November 6, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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"The ghosts of network neutrality?"] [/caption]
How's your Latin? "First, do no harm."...
November 2, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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When you've been a technology analyst for as long as I have, you either use or see all the hackneyed phrases that language has to offer. My personal bugaboo, inherited from a mentor years ago, is the use of the word era to describe a period of just a few years. As in, "the smartphone era."...
October 21, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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CEO Emily Green and Senior VP Zeus Kerravala host an open Q&A forum on Yankee Group's research initiatives and other news.
October 14, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Following a weekend when my baseball team eliminated itself from contention for the World Series (and here I prefer the active, responsibility-taking "eliminated itself" versus t...
October 13, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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SMB leaders, including Yankee Group's own CEO, face tough budget trade-offs for 2010. Save more money? Restore revenue growth? You can do both with Anywhere technologies.
Oct. 5, 2009 | Report | by Emily Green
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I'm not going to try to think of a clever title for this entry; it's too important not be misunderstood. Does this happen to you? You motor along thinking something is totally obvious to everyone, and then crash! A reality collision. Turns out that the world is not in line with your assumption....
September 30, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Maybe I have flooding on my mind because of the sad state of parts of Georgia today, mired in the overflow from the swollen Chattahoochee River....
September 23, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Dig past the continuing business press on the challenges that network operator Sprint has experienced on the consumer side of its business in the past few years, and you might uncover a successful enterprise side of the business and the early shoots of success in its beginning roll-out of 4G capabil...
September 18, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Making a quick trip to and from Paris for the Broadband World Forum last week, I got in a nice visit with Vivek Badrinath, EVP of Networks Carriers Platforms, and Didier Duriez, SVP, International and Backbone Network, with France Telecom/Orange....
September 14, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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My family and I spent last weekend with two other families we don't see as often as we'd like....
August 25, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Bloggus interruptus . Firing up my contributions to our blog again after a five-month hiatus feels weird....
August 14, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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I had lunch yesterday with Nicholas Negroponte. I wanted to get an update on the One Laptop Per Child initiative he leads for some YG connectivity research I'm doing....
April 3, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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I interrupt my regular stream of commentary on the emergence of ubiquitous connectivity--what YG calls Anywhere --to give the New England technology community a quick heads-up....
March 27, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Yankee Group CEO and President, Emily Nagle Green, hosts an open Q&A webcast specifically for analyst relations professionals. The session covers an overview of Yankee Group's Q1 achievements plus a preview of research and events to come.
March 27, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Now that the U.S. stimulus bill has been signed, sending private-sector America into a right tizzy to get all that money, media outlets are talking about 'shovel-ready' projects. Referring, I presume, to construction-type spending with designs, plans, and permits all tied up with a nice ribbon....
February 23, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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If it weren't for all the email I've received from David Plouffe over the past year or so, I might not have the brass to pen an open letter to our new President. But if everyone else can tell him what he should be doing, why not me?...
February 12, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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This morning I happened to catch a bit of a BBC radio interview with Jonah Goldberg , the author of the book Liberal Fascism . Asked by the interviewer to define the concept, his explanation veered heavily towards examples of governments teaming up with big business....
January 27, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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As any sci-fi geek knows, '42' is the answer in the comedy series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to a very important question. It's memorable just because it's so simple-minded -- when the question was the huge mind-blower 'What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?'...
January 27, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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President Obama, we need an Anywhere Network policy to advance America from 19th place in world broadband penetration and to plant the seeds of ubiquitous connectivity. But more importantly, the Anywhere network is at the heart of a broader economic recovery and can help advance progress on your health care, energy, and community service agendas as well.
Jan. 26, 2009 | Report | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg, Emily Green
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The old story about the shoemaker, of course, is that he was so busy making shoes for his customers that his kids went without....
January 15, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Today was investment banking boutique Gridley Company's eighth annual conference presenting trends and MA opportunities in media, marketing, information services, and financial technologies....
January 13, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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The emergence of ubiquitous high-speed Internet access around the world, coupled with the portability of computing, is contributing to a permanent shift in how employees do their jobs....
December 16, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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It's that time of year again: when experts (*) opine on the year that has been and the year that will be....
December 9, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Yankee Group CEO and President Emily Green discusses Yankee Group's Anywhere focus and research in this open Q&A forum specifically for analyst relations professionals.
December 5, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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From today's Wall Street Journal : "Nokia plans a do-it-all phone." What they're talking about is the planned introduction in mid-2009 of a new high-end touchscreen model, the N97....
December 2, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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OK, so it didn't involve limos, corsages, and crepe paper, but thirty years after my last prom, last week I went to another one....
November 25, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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In the universe of people who've experienced the value of a persistent broadband network, I don't think many would disagree that it's useful, even transforming. Where we seem to do battle is how that network should be delivered....
November 12, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Metcalfe's Law, also known as the network effect, says that the value of a network expands as the square of the number of users....
November 11, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Since the U.S. election, I've continued consuming more than my normal diet of political content. Pundits on Meet the Press today were discussing what Obama needs to do next, given the worsening state of the economy in particular....
November 10, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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If you ve read earlier entries here, you ll know one of my favorite topics is how wireless connectivity will progressively augment more devices in our lives, making them more useful to us in much the same way that electricity transformed the tools in our lives a century ago....
November 5, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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YG's third Mobile Internet World event took place this past week. Despite increasing worry about the global economic outlook, attendance grew over last year and the conversations were energized and thoughtful....
October 26, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green
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It's that time of year again: I was at an industry event this week to talk about network transformation. Here's the really short version of what I said: It has to happen, so buckle down and find a way to get it done....
October 8, 2008 | Blog | by Emily Green