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The telecom industry has long been in the business of offering quality network connectivity to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), as well as providing billing and security services. Since a few years telecommunication companies are offering through cloud services computing power and data storage. In 2011 telecom provider started to extend their offering by climbing up the IT stack and becoming software as a service (SaaS) provider and are building SaaS business application marketplaces.

Open Web Technology rewamped the online Search Experience of a major telecommunication operator in Switzerland : read the case study here.

In 2012 the Swisscom prize for outstanding ICT projects will be awarded for the third time. Any company who launched a successful and innovative ICT projet can registrer itself before the 31th of Mach 2012. The winners and all finalists will have the opportunity to showcase their projects in the Hallenstadion Zurich on 6 September 2012 in front of a large public of Swiss managers.

According to ''Le Shop'' press release from January 2012, 11% from purchase orders have been done in 2011 through mobile channel. According to Swiss publishers, for 2011 mobile traffic is some days, when content is attractive, higher than classical web. For medias, '' mobile devices'' reach now more than 40 to 50% of the total page views. I'm sure that this hurge increase will continue as soon as Androïd devices will be more convenient.

Welcome to 2012 and might this year bring you even more fulfillment, success, prosperity, happiness and health! What do Digital Strategists talk about during lunch time on the first working day of the year? Future trends, of course. And here are two topics among the ones on which there was consensus:

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At the information age, Business agility, the ability of a business to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently in response to changes in the business environment, can only be achieved in organization that can adapt their technical solutions or create new ones fast enough. Technical Agility is therefore a mandatory step toward Business Agility. Technical Agility suggests the usage of Agile methodologies in projects, the leverage of Open standards and ready-made technical components to rapidly assemble solutions.

I reviewed in this post the latest trends in innovation. Those suggest that the innovation process is much more than just a vertical one, internal to an organization. Recent successes and failures tend to prove this theory. As an example, Google has just announced  more "Spring cleaning" of projects; among the victims: Friend Connect, Google Gears, Google Wave, Knol, and others.

Reading this outstanding post from our friend at Index Ventures reinforce our view that ultimately we do a similar job at Open Web Technology than Venture Capitalists do: they finance the teams who accelerate the "shift from a product economy to a subscription economy", when we help the same teams deploy their services inside large corporations.

Swisscom is bringing handy little applications to television (Swisscom TV) : Photos (flickr, facebook, picasa, etc.) Weather forecasting service News VOD (video on demand) TV and sport recommendations. More here.