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After many weeks of travel and visiting with our clients all over the globe, I finally found myself back in Boston last month, enjoying the beginning of summer in New England and working through a backlog of emails....
July 19, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Wholesale network operations, or just 'wholesale' for short, has often been characterized as one of the least interesting components of a major telecommunications network....
June 25, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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I made a quick visit to Helsinki a few weeks ago; it's a city I always enjoy. This time, besides the teeny-tiny sauna in my hotel room (a memorable treat after an early-morning run past stunning Finlandia Hall), I found something else that was hot: an exciting community of mobile entrepreneurs....
June 17, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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I've been travelling like a maniac lately. Maybe you know the ads that have been catching my eye as I trudge in and out of jetways around the world. A global bank s poster campaign pairs arresting images of objects with simple words to label them....
June 12, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Anywhere is a rapidly accelerating future in which all of us, as well as the things we care about, will be connected. In my on-going quest to find yet more things in our lives that have already become connected, one of my most recent discoveries is the connected beer tap ....
June 9, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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A lot of the iPad analysis I've seen in recent weeks fixates on where it fits in our current world: where, or how, it inserts itself as a new type of connected device between a laptop and a smartphone. Playing with Yankee Group's unit, which so far on balance I do love, I get the question....
April 29, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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As a fan of all things connected -- and I do mean, getting all things in our lives connected, as that's a foundational element of Yankee Group's Anywhere vision -- I have mixed feelings about the recent spate of network operator announcements in the marketplace about M2M (machine-to-machine connecti...
April 27, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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As much as the job of research is to ask questions that you honestly don't know the answer to, and to stay open to what the data wants to tell you, I'm still fond of saying that at Yankee Group, we're not Switzerland. That is, we aren't staying out of the war, watching from the sidelines....
April 7, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Don't you hate it when real life moves faster than you do? If you write a regular blog or column, you may know this feeling: you get something started, it gets paused for some reason, but when you return to it, things have changed. That's the case with my entry today....
April 2, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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An entrepreneur once said to me, "I learn more about other companies by walking their hallways than I do talking from with their management."...
March 28, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Internet video, iPhones, explosive growth of mobile phones in Asia, flat-rate broadband pricing these and more have sent capacity demands on the Anywhere Network through the roof in the past year....
March 7, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Over a fun breakfast last week, I chatted with John Bruggeman, CMO of Cadence , the electronic design automation firm. Just back from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I was talking about the battles in the mobile revolution....
March 1, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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While researching my new book ANYWHERE: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business, I had the good fortune to speak with over 50 connectivity thought leaders. I'm using my blog to periodically share some of the insight that didn't fit into the book....
February 23, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Much has been made of Apple's pervasive industry influence, accomplished without actually participating at the in-person events that make up the annual tech sector calendar. But here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, Google has been the largest presence without a presence....
February 18, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Today's NYT has the story : putting a mobile router in school buses to offset the sometimes long commutes kids have. The students can do homework and chat online with teachers while they cover the miles to and from school and sporting events....
February 12, 2010 | Blog | by 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....
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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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