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Rules of engagement: Winning with the basics in digital telecommunications

McKinsey

Online sales and service are key measures of successful digital transformations. But most telecom operators aren’t implementing the fundamentals that drive customers online and keep them there.

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The B2B analytics playbook: Capturing unrealized potential in telcos

McKinsey

Telecommunications companies have been leaving money on the table by underinvesting in advanced analytics in their B2B business units relative to their B2C operations. A new tailored approach across these segments can generate much-needed growth and margins.

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KPN dials up a new digital strategy

McKinsey

The leader of digital IT at the Netherlands-based telecommunications company explains how KPN reintegrated previously outsourced expertise and shifted to agile ways of working.

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Who wins in a 5G world?

McKinsey

In this episode of the McKinsey Podcast, Simon London speaks with McKinsey senior partners Ferry Grijpink and Philipp Nattermann—ahead of the headline telecommunications conference Mobile World Congress (MWC)—about how telcos can prepare to be winners in the fifth-generation (5G) race.

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Resilience in TMT: Winning in downturns

McKinsey

Economic downturns hold substantial opportunities for companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sector. By starting now to build an action plan and execute no-regret moves, companies can put themselves on a path to emerge resilient through the next slowdown.

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Is Solar Energy from Outer Space in Our Future? – Part Two: Alternatives to the Geosynchronous Solar Array

Energy Central

One of these borrows from the current strategy SpaceX is using to deploy a telecommunications network through a constellation of orbiting satellites providing global.

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Energy, Climate Change, and U.S. Regulatory Policy

Energy Central

Long before there was serious consideration given in the United States (or other countries) to enacting public policies to address the risk of climate change, regulatory policies existed in the electric power and other energy sectors, as well as in areas as diverse as banking, commercial airlines, trucking, railroads, and telecommunications.