Here’s the skinny: 5G will enable industrial automation, propel the next stage of world economic growth and productivity, improve standards of living, make industrial environments safer, and generate piles of money for NOKIA. Economic Data Showing Significant Productivity Deviations between the “Best and the Rest” Or that was the big theme of Nokia’s 2018 Global Analyst Forum, held at the storied Bell Labs facility in Murray Hill NJ. NOKIA put on an excellent two-day event with technical, commercial and industrial luminaries painting both the need and a solid overview of how NOKIA is building products and a business structure to deliver on those needs. We were favorably impressed with NOKIA’s steady commercial progress, and with investments they are making in the fundamentals, both technical and business. Highlights include: Common Software Foundation: a major investment in modular, re-usable software functions using the open source model internally. Nokia claim 75% adoption of CSF A new enterprise business group – to further develop channels, partners and solutions for enterprise. Moving remaining “hardware independent” software (primarily IMS core) to the software business, concentrating the software business and reinforcing Nokia’s position that fixed and mobile access should share a common core. Order growth acceleration in […]