New growth rules for the communications industry
April 29, 2019
How will CSPs keep up with the pace of change in the telecom market?
Accenture’s CMT Team, starting with Global Communications and Media Industry Lead, George Nazi, outline the positive steps telcos and CSPs can take to ready their product and services in both B2B and B2C markets for the next wave of innovation applications, from 5G implementation and beyond.
How CSPs Can Manage Pace of Network Disruption
George Nazi, Global Lead Communications & Media
New Rules For Telecoms Industry Growth
Francesco Venturini, Global Sales Lead Communications, Media and Technology
Maximizing Value Creation from Innovation
Omar Abbosh, CEO Communications Media Technology
Highlights from the Bloomberg CEO Forum
Thought Leaders on New Growth: The B2B Opportunity for CSPs
The rules have changed
The industry is being squeezed from all sides. Top-line growth is stalling. Revenues have levelled off. Customers are finding new ways to engage digitally and digital disruptors are undermining the traditional base of services.
Shift and disruption of value
The commoditized core business isn’t profitable and there’s ongoing substitution with low cost, digital alternatives.
Changing rules of the game
Market boundaries are collapsing and traditional approaches to growth are no longer sufficient. Historic positions of strength are eroding.
The liquid customer is here
Ongoing reduction of customer loyalty. Incumbency is no longer an advantage—CSPs are not an essential part of the users’ daily digital routine.
The telco playbook is outdated
Infrastructure-bound, with vertical integration & siloed operating models. CSPs have unscalable operating & technology models and legacy workforces.
Change the game
Riding on the disruptive trends, the CSP can reinvent itself by updating technology and operating models, adopting new growth models in both B2C and B2B, revisiting competitive positioning and moving to hyper-personalization for customers.
VIEW ALL
Scaling new growth is a deliberate and perpetual change journey, not a single event
- Transform the core business by building more competitive cost structures to improve flexibility, increase profits, and drive up investment capacity.
- Grow the core business by redirecting some of that investment capacity to drive incremental growth in the core business, including setting up for customer omni-channel strategies.
- Scale new business while identifying new sustainable business models which leverage and monetize key control points and scale them (at the risk of core business cannibalization).
- Pivot wisely by keeping an eye on pace and balance. The “core” and “new” businesses usually need to co-exist for a substantial period of time.
New models for B2B and B2C growth
Success demands a departure from today’s models and competencies if CSPs are to scale new growth models. In the long term, we see there being two key growth scenarios for CSPS. Each scenario needs distinctively different skills and capabilities, as well as divergent investment priorities and value creation logic.
Connected industry orchestrator
Building the B2B business by connecting industry X.0 with secure, reliable & smart connectivity.
- Driven by open APIs and digital network management & operations capabilities, specialized network clouds/value added services supported by real-time AI.
- Consolidated, network as a service. Hyper-lean operating model.
- Outcome-based connectivity monetization.
Multi-sided platform model
Maximum reach in B2C via an ecosystem of partners, customers and developers.
- Monetization of CSP control points & AI-powered creation of offerings to drive customer value.
- Focus on data & ecosystem services around Home, Mobility & Enterprise to command a digital service market revenue share.
- Turn customer access & insight into tradeable assets.
Get the essentials
Successful transformation is about more than completeness of vision. It’s about execution and picking the right, innovative consulting partner. Play to your strengths and make transformation a reality. Read the latest research and insights from Accenture’s Telco and Communications Consulting Specialists.
The Big Read
20 minute read
B2B growth: From network to net worth
Fuel for Growth
20 minute read
How telcos harness digital to fuel growth
Subscription Center
Stay in the Know with Our Newsletter
Stay in the Know with Our Newsletter
Follow us: Follow us:
