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Carl Potter
Research Director
Focus Area: Communications
Carl is a senior IT market analyst with over 15 years experience in the industry. He has worked as the director of research/analysis with a global systems integration company and also as the head of research with some of Europe's leading IT analyst firms. He has conducted large scale, multi-national market research projects on behalf of IT and telecoms organisations and also authored numerous in depth, comparative reports on corporate IT. Carl now holds Bloor’s brief for communications research.
Communications here refers to tracking the general area of enterprise fixed and mobile communications. This includes the network and communications infrastructure, telephony, VoIP and collaboration, plus issues related to enterprise mobility, fixed mobile convergence (FMC), unified communications and messaging. Carl also tracks developments in the mobile/fixed service provider (SP) industry in relation to how new service developments such as FMC, WiMAX, femtocells/ picocells, dual-mode cellular-WLAN and so on will impact the enterprise.
Carl previously also worked for two years in middle management at a high street bank in the purchasing department. He has also provided industry sector consultancy in: finance, local government, chemical, shipping, logistics and aerospace.
Some recent projects Carl has delivered include:
- An Internet survey of the most senior mobile industry decision makers including CEOs, CIOs and marketing directors to canvass their views on the future of mobile Java data services.
- A mobile telecoms study involving 600 interviews over seven European countries and 10 industry sectors, looking at mobile data usage by corporate organisations in Europe.
- A study looking at business on the web including a survey of the European top 500 firms over six countries and twelve industry sectors.
Research papers include:
- Corporate Social Networking
- Social Networking for Business - Its Increasing Relevance
- ShoreTel 8.1 - Unified Communications solution
- Business Drivers for Unified Communications - in the Financial Industry
- Business Drivers for Unified Communications - in the Manufacturing Industry
- Key business drivers for Unified Communications - in the Financial, Manufacturing and Healthcare sectors
- Unified Communications - for the enterprise
- Network and Voice Management Software
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