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October 2017

Agility in managing electricity grids: The case for...

The rise in renewable energy has created unprecedented challenges for the planning and operation of an electricity grid that was built on the assumption of power being provided predominantly by large, centralized generation sources and consumed as soon as it is produced. As a means of addressing...
In the Press
October 2017

Middle East leads urban mobility revolution

The rapid urbanisation across the globe is leading to mobility challenges as cities struggle toensure their populations can move around freely using both public and private transport. Solving these issues is critical to ensuring that cities thrive and attract the investment and people they need to...
In the Press
Strategy, Organization & transformation
October 2017

Energy storage: an adaptable approach to managing the...

The deployment of renewable energy over the last decade has created unprecedented challenges for the planning and operation of power systems. Consequently, battery-storage technologies have attracted great interest, as they allow utilities and network operators to adopt a flexible and adaptable...
In the Press
Utilities & alternative energy
October 2017

The Integrated Approach

Some of the vibrantly growing urban centers of the Middle East, such as Dubai, are building on best practice from around the world. This experience provides lessons, good and bad, for other cities across the world as they struggle to meet their own urban mobility challenges. The Middle East has...
In the Press
Strategy, Organization & transformation
October 2017

Trump’s America First Energy Plans Cannot Turn Back Time

The Trump administration’s approach to the traditional energy trilemma – the challenge of balancing cheap, secure, and clean energy – appears set to heavily favour the low-cost and secure aspects of domestic energy supply at the expense of any focus on carbon emissions. There is an abundance of...
In the Press
Utilities & alternative energy
September 2017

Arthur D. Little urges network operators to prepare for...

New applications could fuel global market of up to €3.5 trillion per year

Amsterdam, 20 September 2017 – In its new report, “Unlocking GigaWorld Innovation: GigaApps in a GigaWorld,” Arthur D. Little (ADL) outlines the investment and monetization opportunities available to network operators ready to embrace the “GigaWorld”, the emerging third cycle of the internet....
Press Release
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
September 2017

GigaWorld to unlock €250bn wave of innovation

This article is about a new report by Arthur D. Little on GigaWorld, which was presented at Liberty Global’s Tech Summit in Amsterdam. Gigaworld is to unlock a wave of innovation worth at least €250 billion per year to the European economy by 2025. New research from Arthur D. Little estimates that...
In the Press
September 2017

The five 5G deployment models for telcos

5G is becoming a strategic priority for telecom operators. It is expected to embrace and integrate partially existing and partially new innovative technologies, as well as accelerate the digitization of the economy further due to its ability to transmit large volumes of data with low latency in...
In the Press
September 2017

Digital transformation roundtable: Cutting through the...

European Communications brought together telecoms executives from across Europe to discuss the thorny topic of digital transformation. Strategy, staffing, technology and challenges were some of the areas hotly debated by participants. During the roundtable Richard Swinford, Partner at Arthur D...
In the Press
August 2017

Shaping the Strategies

The Middle East has been late to urbanization, but this has given it potential to shape its strategies in the development of a core need - urban mobility. Some of its vibrantly growing urban centers, such as Dubai, are now building on best practice from around the world. This experience provides...
In the Press
Automotive, Travel & transportation