The Smartphone as the Incumbent “Thing” among the Internet of Things

The smartphone has been the ubiquitous computing platform in the past decade. However, emerging consumer Internet of Things (IoT) technology trends, such as smartwatches and smart speakers, promise the establishment of new ubiquitous platforms. We model two competing horizontally-differentiated platforms that each offer a smartphone and another smart device. This market diverges markedly from standard mixed bundling results when devices from the same vendor have super-additive utility. We show that the degree of a smart device’s differentiation (relative to the smartphone) is the prime factor determining if it is profitable to deepen integration between a smart device with the incumbent smartphone platform. We provide managerial insights for technology strategy

Using a disruption framework to analysis the feasibility of Virtual Reality in medical use

Virtual reality (VR) technology is considered as one of the next big things in the Internet eld. This technology can be applied in various elds. This thesis studies the feasibility of using VR technology in the medical eld, especially in the medical therapy area. This thesis also discusses the nature of disruptive innovation. The analysis is based on a literature review of virtual reality and a framework called the disruption framework, which is devastated by an important terminology, disruptive innovation. The study uses trend charts and value networks to predict the feasibility of VR in medical therapy. The result shows that the virtual reality technology can cause a disruption in the medical eld, it will a ect the existing value network into the medical eld

Neologisms in Modern English: study of word-formation processes

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Smartphone Wars

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Why the iPhone Won't Last Forever and What the Government Should Do to Promote its Successor

Because of the overwhelming, positive response to the iPhone as compared to other smart phones, exclusive agreements between handset makers and wireless carriers have come under increasing scrutiny by regulators and lawmakers. In this paper, we document the myriad revolutions that have occurred in the mobile handset market over the past twenty years. Although casual observers have often claimed that a particular innovation was here to stay, they commonly are proven wrong by unforeseen developments in this fast-changing marketplace. We argue that exclusive agreements can play an important role in helping to ensure that another must-have device will soon come along that will supplant the iPhone, and generate large benefits for consumers. These agreements, which encourage risk taking, increase choice, and frequently lower prices, should be applauded by the government. In contrast, government regulation that would require forced sharing of a successful break-through technology is likely to stifle innovation and hurt consumer welfare.

Superfast broadband: the future is in your hands

The National Broadband Network (NBN) will deliver a comprehensive upgrade to Australia’s national broadband infrastructure. This will be of profound importance to Australia’s long-term productivity agenda. This paper, commissioned by Vodafone Australia, assesses new opportunities for the NBN. In particular, we examine how the growth of mobile services has transformed the telecommunications industry and how NBN has the potential to dramatically improve mobile telecommunications. It makes the case that the NBN, far from becoming redundant due to the explosion in mobile internet access, is in fact crucial to delivering better mobile services to both regional and urban areas without any significant increases in cost. It argues that the recent development of small mobile base stations (able to be placed on lampposts for example), connected to the NBN, can significantly increase and improve mobile coverage in both urban and regional Australia. This has the potential to radically reshape Australia’s economic and social future

Information Technology\u27s Failure to Disrupt Health Care

Information Technology (IT) surrounds us every day. IT products and services from smart phones and search engines to online banking and stock trading have been transformative. However, IT has made only modest and less than disruptive inroads into healthcare. This article explores the economic and technological relationships between healthcare and healthcare information technologies (HIT), asks (leveraging the work of Clayton Christensen) whether current conceptions of HIT are disruptive or merely sustaining, and canvasses various explanations for HIT’s failure to disrupt healthcare. The conclusion is that contemporary HIT is only a sustaining rather than disruptive technology. Notwithstanding that we live in a world of disruption, healthcare is more akin to the stubborn television domain, where similarly complex relationships and market concentrations have impeded the forces of disruption. There are three potential exceptions to this pessimistic conclusion. First, because advanced HIT is not a good fit for episodic healthcare delivery, we may be experiencing a holding pattern while healthcare rights itself with the introduction of process-centric care models. Second, the 2010 PCAST report was correct, the healthcare data model is broken. If Stage 3 of the MU subsidy program or some other initiative can fundamentally rethink interoperability (and we can fix the privacy issues) investment and innovation will migrate to data services built on top of shareable data. The final and potentially most interesting exception may be Mobile Medical Apps; products that are built on hugely disruptive platforms and championed by some of our most disruptive companies. Leveraging the growing computing power of smartphones and linkable biometric sensors, these apps hold the promise for “healthcare everywhere” and may be where the real disruption of healthcare will begin

Pluralizing the Sharing Economy

The so-called “sharing” economy presents one of the most important and controversial regulatory dilemmas of our time—yet, surprisingly, it remains undertheorized. This Article supplies needed analysis. Specifically, the Article offers a regulatory model that distinguishes between two separate kinds of transactions: conventional economic transactions and those that rely on temporary access to goods and services that would otherwise go underutilized (what I call “access-to-excess” transactions). The regulatory regime that this Article proposes would distinguish between true access-to-excess transactions and conventional transactions. The model is rooted in a version of pluralist theory that posits that the state is responsible for cultivating a range of social institutions that offer meaningful economic and social alternatives to individuals. Recognizing access-to-excess transactions in a separate legal regime does not mean countenancing all access-to-excess activity in an under-regulated Wild West of markets. Pluralism has something to offer here as well: I argue that, properly understood, pluralistic principles do not endorse free-market and hands-off policies. Rather, they require state intervention to preserve existing choices, embed and balance diverse values (not only autonomy), ensure fair competition, and protect consumers and employees from strategic and opportunistic behaviors. Thus, pluralistic principles offer the normative foundation for inventive regulation—neither conventional nor free market—that can restrain some of the “sharing” economy’s harms without impeding innovation. Finally, the Article reverses the lens: The “sharing” economy serves as a real-life laboratory to reveal the operation of pluralistic theory and, thus, sheds light on the theory’s limitations. In particular, the “sharing” economy shows how the plasticity of pluralistic theory may enable harmful free-market policies to masquerade as “choice.

Community as Canvas: The Power of Culture in the Emergence of Intelligent Communities

Intelligent Communities are cities and regions that use information and communications technologies (ICT) to build prosperous economies, solve social problems and enrich their cultures in the 21st Century. Many people are familiar with the concept of the Smart City, which turns to technology for solutions to problems from traffic congestion to leakage from water mains, public safety to parking tickets. The Intelligent Community is the next evolutionary step. Intelligent Communities turn to technology not just to save money or make things work better: they create high quality employment, increase citizen participation and make themselves great places to live, work, start a business and prosper across generations.Each year, the Forum presents an awards program for Intelligent Communities. The program salutes their achievements in building those inclusive, prosperous economies on a foundation of ICT. In the process, it gathers data for ICF's research programs, which the Forum shares with other communities around the world.The Awards are divided into three phases,and the analysis becomes more detailed andrigorous at each successive stage

Remaining traditional with the core while implementing digital solutions : a multiple case study of fast-moving consumer goods companies about digitalization and business model innovation

This dissertation explores the external and internal determinants influencing business model innovation in fast-moving consumer goods companies. It will further investigate the impact of digitalization-related factors on (existing) business models as well as the usage of digital technologies. In the end, barriers and success factors that shape business model innovation within the fast-moving consumer goods industry will be identified. In the literature review, definitions of the business model concept and its innovation are discussed. Based on those insights, the characteristics of business models in the fast-moving consumer goods industry are identified and a deepened understanding of the phenomenon on digitalization is created. Based on the theoretical insights gained in the literature review, a multiple case study spanning three different fast-moving consumer goods firms is performed. Business model developments and digitalization efforts of those three companies are investigated by the conduct of two semi-structured interviews per case with related managers, complemented with secondary data. It has been found that managing an old business model and a new business model that require different assets at the same time may create frictions that diminish profitability. As suppliers and distributors are highly interdependent and the German FMCG market is composed of a few big players, each interviewed company engages in different strategies and degrees of business model innovation and digitalization efforts. Especially adaptability seems to be a success factor to sustainable, long-term success.Esta dissertação explora os determinantes externos e internos que influenciam a inovação do modelo de negócio em empresas de bens de consumo rápido. Investigará o impacto dos factores relacionados com a digitalização nos modelos de negócio (existentes), bem como a utilização de tecnologias digitais. Serão identificadas as barreiras e os factores de sucesso. Na revisão da literatura, são discutidas as definições do conceito de modelo de negócio. Com base nesses conhecimentos, são identificadas as características dos modelos de negócio na indústria de bens de consumo rápido e é criada uma compreensão do fenómeno da digitalização. Com base nos conhecimentos teóricos, é efectuado um estudo de casos múltiplos que abrange três empresas diferentes de bens de consumo rápido. A evolução do modelo de negócio e os esforços de digitalização dessas três empresas são investigados através da realização de duas entrevistas semi-estruturadas por caso com os respectivos gestores, complementadas por dados secundários. Os resultados sugerem que a gestão de um modelo de negócio antigo e de um novo modelo de negócio, que exigem activos diferentes ao mesmo tempo, pode criar fricções que diminuem a rentabilidade. Uma vez que os fornecedores e os distribuidores são altamente interdependentes e o mercado alemão de produtos de grande consumo é composto por alguns grandes operadores, as empresas adoptam diferentes estratégias e graus de inovação do modelo de negócio e esforços de digitalização. A adaptabilidade, em especial, parece ser um fator de sucesso para um êxito sustentável e a longo prazo