Community support and (location-based) mobile services are two prominent topics in research and development currently. However, they are usually not combined - there is little work on mobile community support services.(...)

This BCG report discusses how corporations can access new technologies, new sources of skilled labor, and huge new markets in the process.

The current trend of rapid growth in new communications technologies with no corresponding fall off in traditional modes of communication is unsustainable. Based on a December 2001 survey of 123 large corporations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, BCG's analysis concludes that companies must...

The present discussion paper investigates the market dynamics in the early phase of an in-dustry`s life cycle. The industry life cycle model is so widely accepted and its basic premises so taken for granted that it has become conventional wisdom in business. However, a num-ber of facets of the...