Globally, the infrastructure and service provider sectors face major challenges and increasing complexity. Infrastructure companies are striving to deliver new, innovative products while facing relentless pressure to drive down development, production, deployment and support costs. All while working feverishly to meet growing market demand for 4G and LTE technology, which demands substantial commitments to research and development despite uncertain prospects.
Providers, on the other hand, are striving to create new services for developed markets to address declining subscriber growth and increased competition for subscriber bases in emerging countries. In both arenas they face sharply reduced pricing power, even as increasing momentum from alternative technologies such as VOIP threaten their traditional revenue models. The result has been an extended period of hyper-competition, uncertain and shifting industry dynamics and financial distress. Major industry players have already filed for bankruptcy protection, while a number of others teeter on the edge.
At AlixPartners, our consultants are seasoned professionals who have worked with dozens of technology companies on similar challenges throughout the world. We have the capability, experience and judgment to work with the most complex and multi-faceted global supply chains – bringing together deep operations management expertise, an overriding sense of urgency and a bias for action that can make the defining difference.