More than a handful of brands publish more content now than a major media property such as Time Magazine did 25 years ago. Despite the overwhelming and ever-increasing trend toward content marketing, and the need to continually feed an ever-increasing portfolio of content channels and formats, most organizations haven’t yet addressed content on either a strategic or tactical level. It’s high time they did, and hopefully my new research report, Organizing for Content, will help. It … [Read more...]
Four Disruption Themes for Business

By Altimeter's Research Team Analysts: Susan Etlinger, Charlene Li, Rebecca Lieb, Jeremiah Owyang, Chris Silva, Brian Solis; Consulting: Ed Terpening, Alan Webber: Researchers: Jon Cifuentes, Jessica Groopman, Andrew Jones, Jaimy Szymanski, Christine Tran Over 30 Technologies Have Emerged, at a Faster Pace than Companies Can Digest. If you think social was disruptive, it was really just the beginning. Altimeter’s research team recently convened for our annual research offsite and … [Read more...]
SXSW Interactive: Exploring the Perhiphery
SXSW Interactive—or what I like to call it, “Geek Mardi Gras”—is over, and the dust is settling. Although there was no real central theme at this year’s SXSW Interactive conference, there were very interesting themes on the periphery of digital. It’s great that the conference curators are exploring the outside boundaries of “Interactive”. It’s just that kind of attention to peripheral vision (and not a direct hit on traditional interactive) that will keep South-By relevant … [Read more...]
New Research: Building A Foundation For Mobile
One of the major themes in our research this year is Adaptive Organization. As we think about what makes organizations adaptive, it's not just the tools and services that they embrace but also their ability to adapt to change to stay in touch internally and to reach customers and prospects proactively. A key ingredient to making companies more adaptive is the use of mobile technology, but many organization are not yet in a position to truly capitalize on mobile due to their lack of proper … [Read more...]
Call for Insights #2: Altimeter Blog Ring and the Adaptive Organization

Request: We want to hear from you. Tell us on your blog or website how the principles of an Adaptive Organization impact your business, and we’ll cross-link to the conversation. Altimeter Group continues its blog ring in July and August to deepen understanding of our three research themes. The next theme of focus is the Adaptive Organization. Consider these key questions when contributing to the conversation on your blog or website: What consumer technology trends will contribute to the … [Read more...]
New Enterprise Mobility Report: “Power To The People”
Today marks the publication of Altimeter Group's newest enterprise mobility research report, authored by analyst Chris Silva. We began with a hypothesis that, as the age of mobile = email has come to a close, are mobile employees being served with the proper applications to make them be more productive? Our guess was that they weren't, and largely, rollouts are just getting started but there are already some lessons to be learned. The most important is that different roles have different needs … [Read more...]
Going Mobile? Tell Us How
Taking the Enterprise Mobile - We're Researching It We're very excited to announce that Altimeter's next research report on mobile is taking shape as we speak with numerous interviews underway with solution providers and mobile strategists. Its goal? To help map out the winning strategies for enterprise line of business managers to take their teams mobile. Be they salespeople or executives, field service workers or information workers, we're exploring how, once a solid control plane is in … [Read more...]
Altimeter’s Research Themes And Upcoming Research Calendar

As an analyst and research firm focused on disruptive technologies, our clients and others frequently ask us what we are paying attention to and what we are researching. There are a multitude of areas we would like to be paying attention to and probably just as many that we would like to research, but we can’t. So instead, we are focusing on just a few key disruptive themes that have the potential to significantly impact organizations and consumers from tomorrow through three years from now - … [Read more...]
