This post originally appeared on my Altimeter analyst Jeremiah Owyang's Web Strategy Blog By Chris Silva and Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analysts at Altimeter Group Last year’s over hyped skydiving was replaced by down to earth by grounded product enhancements. We’re live from the Google IO conference in SF with 6,000 developers, press, and media in San Francisco’s Moscone event center. We noticed a lot of Glass Explorer units (which surprisingly was barely mentioned in the keynote) … [Read more...]
Four Disruption Themes for Business
April 18, 2013 By 19 Comments
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...]
The Phone Doesn’t Matter In #FacebookPhone
April 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
This post was also cross-posted at my blog makemobilework.com. We all gathered amidst the rain and clouds at Facebook HQ, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA to see what would be unveiled. A new flagship Android phone, tailored toward Facebook users? A new branch of the Android OS? A groundbreaking partnership? Turns out it’s an application – a launcher to bring Facebook to the top of the Android OS on the devices it will run on and, in addition, some purpose-built hardware … [Read more...]
Monolithic Mobile, Will You Buy In?
February 26, 2013 By 1 Comment
This post originally appeared on analyst Chris Silva's blog MakeMobileWork.com My colleague Brian's blog is abuzz with comments about mobile strategy, so key to success he urges readers to "[f]orget about social media," at least for a moment. Brian's comparison of social to mobile is apt, both began as fragmented, bootstrapped efforts, then social got the attention of the CMO. Now, it's mobile's turn; it's unfortunately common to come across companies with solid customer mobile initiatives … [Read more...]
New Research: Building A Foundation For Mobile
September 19, 2012 By 5 Comments
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 #3: Altimeter Blog Ring and the Sentient World
September 5, 2012 By 6 Comments
Request: We want to hear from you. Tell us on your blog or website how the Sentient World impacts your business (positively or negatively), and we’ll cross-link to the conversation. Altimeter Group continues its blog ring in September and October to deepen understanding of our three research themes. The next theme of focus is the Sentient World. Consider these key questions when contributing to the conversation on your blog or website: Once the information exchange begins, how can … [Read more...]
Samsung, Apple, Innovation And Fishwrap
August 31, 2012 By 1 Comment
This post first appeared on Chris Silva's blog Make Mobile Work. In the wake of the Samsung/Apple trial verdict the news is crawling with hyperbole about how disruptive the verdict will be to the mobile OS ecosystem, specifically Android’s momentum. Nothing new in the world of tech reporting, of course. In reality, life is long and the sea changes predicted rarely amount to more than surface ripples. Will Android and its ecosystem be affected by the recent pro-Apple verdict in its battle … [Read more...]
What We Heard At #AGMobileUp
August 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to all those who helped us make our #AGMobileUP Tweetup a success last night in Boston. We had a great and varied group of attendees hailing from agencies, mobile startups and the VC community as well. We all had great conversations and great food (don't believe me? See Joselin Mane of BostonTWeetUp's amazing writeup) and a few themes stuck out to me: On Mobile Social/Mobile Is Cool, But It Scares Us A Bit: Gathered around someone's iPhone, as one does at a mobile tweetup, we all … [Read more...]
The Mobile Experience, Tables, Chairs and Screens
July 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
This post originally appeared on Chris Silva's MakeMobileWork blog. We talk a lot about screens these days, so much so that for me to type the word "table" without appending a "t" onto the end has become somewhat of a difficult task. That said, there's much talk about how it's important to converse with customers across the multiplying number of screens we interact with daily, but little thought given to what the experiences on each screen, each surface really are. In a meeting this week, … [Read more...]
Google Says, “It’s Our Turn” In Mobile
June 28, 2012 By 2 Comments
This is a repost from Chris Silva's blog Make Mobile Work. I spent yesterday morning at the Google I/O developer conference and, aside from peopleliterally skydiving into the event – the news was largely tech-related and heavily mobile. Google made announcements of its new Nexus Tablet, the JellyBean aka Android 4.1 OS and home media sharing features of its new Nexus Q device. Here is what stands out: Android grows up – It was no accident that the Android portion of the keynote … [Read more...]
