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Stuart Taylor

Director

Service Provider Transformation Group

Stuart Taylor is a Managing Director in the Service Provider Transformation Group. He leads client business consulting engagements with Cisco’s major U.S. and international service provider customers, with a particular focus on mobility. The team is responsible for helping customers to improve profitability through launching new services for top-line growth, improving go-to-market approaches, and delivering operational efficiencies. Stuart has close to 20 years of extensive industry experience with particular expertise in the areas of Mobile, Wi-Fi and Small Cells, Connected Life, Cloud Services and new Digital Media services. He frequently publishes and presents on these topics at leading international industry events and is widely quoted in the media.

Articles

January 21, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Discover What Consumers Want from Wi-Fi and Mobile

2 min read

Consumers have a true love of mobile devices, as evidenced by recent Cisco mobile consumer research.  Significant percentages of respondents reported using everything from laptops, smartphones, and tablets to eReaders and mobile gaming devices. Americans now own an average of three mobile devices each, up from 2.6 devices in the 2012 Cisco mobile consumer study.  […]

January 13, 2014

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Observations from the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show

4 min read

I am just back from attending the 2014 Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas where I was meeting with customers and visiting the massive show floor. CES is an intriguing...

December 10, 2013

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Unlocking Wi-Fi Enabled Value-Added Services

3 min read

Competing with the virtual, e-commerce world is becoming increasingly challenging for real-world businesses. Traditional retailers have long envied the massive amounts of valuable data that online retailers have available to help them better understand customer behavior and implement winning marketing tactics. Online retailers know valuable information such as how frequently customers return, how long they […]

November 27, 2013

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The Next Generation of Wi-Fi Debuts in Beijing

3 min read

I recently had the honor to speak at the Wi-Fi Global Congress in Beijing. As evident by the more than 400 people in attendance, the importance and relevance of Wi-Fi continues to grow.  The Wireless Broadband Alliance now has over 100 members, a doubling in less than 2 years.  The membership includes a mix of […]

November 14, 2013

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Understanding the Changing Mobile User

2 min read

The mobile market continues to evolve at a blindingly fast pace. It seems that new faster, sleeker, and more powerful mobile devices are launched every day, with new device categories created almost overnight. The number of available applications to run on these revolutionary new devices is staggering, numbering in the millions. Now you can do […]

November 1, 2013

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What Do Customers Want From Public Wi-Fi?

2 min read

It seems that the iconic “Wi-Fi Here” badge is turning up everywhere these days. Once found on coffee shop windows to indicate that patrons could connect their mobile devices to...

October 16, 2013

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Small Cells are Big Things in the Middle East

2 min read

I recently had the honor to speak at the Small Cells Forum in Dubai. One thing is certain: Wi-Fi and small cells are certainly important throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa.  Operators from throughout the region came together to learn how they could deploy small cells to meet their growing customer demands and improve […]

Wi-Fi Value-Added Services Improve the Retail Bottom-line

3 min read

Retailing has always been a tough business.  But, the move to online shopping, the challenging economy and changes in shopper’s behavior has placed even more pressure on traditional retail margins.  Retailers are constantly looking for ways to get more people in to their store and to spend more.  Traditional retailers have long envied the massive […]

Creating a Wi-Fi Monetization Virtuous Circle

2 min read

In the decade or so that Wi-Fi has existed, most technologists and mobile industry executives viewed it as the “poor cousin” to licensed mobile communications.  Now mobile operators around the world are asking how they can effectively use Wi-Fi to help them cope with the huge surge in mobile data traffic and to meet customer […]