Understand how the house and home is changing in the digital hyper-personalized, IoT age, driven by 5G networks, edge computing and AI and learn what products and services are needed to meet the needs of customers.
The Future Home in the 5G Era looks at new hyper-connected home environments in which devices and apps will work together seamlessly to respond to and anticipate customers' needs, all with maximum security and privacy. Enabled by 5G, AI, and other new technologies such as eSim and edge computing, the Future Home's powerful service ecosystems will be a quantum leap from today's fragmented smart home technology, effectively extending the boundaries of the home even beyond the traditional bounds of the physical, to ultimately make consumers feel 'at home' anywhere. This will create tremendous opportunities for businesses including communication service providers (CSPs), device manufacturers and app developers, as well as those providing services in diverse sectors such as entertainment, health and social care, education, retail, and more.
The Future Home in the 5G Era combines original research from Accenture with practical insights and examples, showing how intelligently orchestrated Future Homes can yield economic success for businesses. Written by leaders of strategy and technology consultancy at Accenture, the authors have vast industry experience leading major units of Fortune 500 companies and start-ups.
This book looks at how businesses, especially CSPs, can overcome the challenges and capture the multi-billion-dollar Future Home market by putting strategic emphasis on excellent customer experiences, developing new business models, and turning their organizations into competitively agile platform-based innovators. For business leaders in any sector relevant to the Future Home, this book is an indispensable and value-creating guide.
Explores how the hyper-connected home of the future will break the boundaries of the traditional understanding of home, enabled by new technologies such as 5G, AI, edge computing and eSim
Illustrates the tremendous opportunities that the Future Home creates for businesses, including communication service providers (CSPs), device manufacturers and app developers, to respond to and anticipate changing consumer needs
Demonstrates how businesses can develop new business strategies and put emphasis on customer experience to become truly innovative and competitively agile
Combines original research and practical insight from strategy and technology consultancy leaders at Accenture, drawing from the authors' experience leading major units of Fortune 500 companies and start-ups
Jefferson Wang
Jefferson Wang is a Managing Director at Accenture Strategy leading 5G initiatives globally. He helps clients define 5G strategies and use cases to adapt to Standalone 5G, small cells, edge compute, and WIFI-cellular convergence to create new business models and revenue streams. Prior to Accenture, he helped lead a communications convergence start-up to a successful exit.
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"This book takes an in-depth look at one of the most fascinating challenges of today. It sheds light on the emergence of a radical new experience of home, driven by new technologies including 5G, AI, eSIM and edge computing. By using a powerful mix of real-life examples, strategic frameworks and thought-leading themes, it brings some great new insights for business leaders in the ecosystem connected to the Future Home. A must-read."
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"As new technologies such as 5G and others disrupt our daily life, including in our homes, this book shines new light on how communications service providers can thrive and grow in a landscape full of opportunities - but also full of competitors pushing from all sides. It is an inspiring roadmap for leaders to take the right strategic steps into the promising era of the Future Home."
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"An inspiring book that helps telco leaders to finally capture the opportunity of the fast- growing Future Home market. The authors provide great insights about the impediments and challenges of the Future Home market and a practical guide on how to resolve them."
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"'This is an inspiring book on how we can understand the emergence of a new experience of home and on how companies can seize the enormous business opportunities connected to this new experience. New perspectives, fresh concepts, unexpected ideas abound. The Future Home in the 5G Era is a groundbreaking book.'"
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"'Unfulfilled promise or future revolution - the connected home remained an enigma until the appearance of this analysis. The authors make a compelling case that cloud and 5G connectivity will ultimately deliver the seamless platform play the world is waiting for. In delivering this message they sparkle with ideas and innovative concepts - small wonder, given their collective entrepreneurial, corporate, tech and multi-industry experience.'"
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"'The Future Home in the 5G Era gives executives a language and a framework to determine how they will evolve their products, services and strategies to flourish and innovate in a large, fast-growing market.'"
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"'The Future Home in the 5G Era comes at an opportune moment, as science and new digital technologies unleash disruptive change across all fronts, transforming the (digital) lives of almost every individual: as private person, customer, manager, citizen or in other roles and function. An inspiring book with fascinating stories, well researched and clearly explained.'"
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"'The nature and experience of home is fundamentally changing with 5G. Well researched and with concrete suggestions on 5G implementation, this valuable guide will help firms and leaders seize the opportunities of an emerging multi-billion-dollar market: the market of the Future Home in the 5G era.'"
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