
The latest thought leadership from our expert teams

A new way forward for industry: the pervasive intelligence of evolved intent-based networking
This paper outlines our concept of ‘evolved intent-based networks’ – utilising pervasive intelligence from across an entire communications network to automate configuration that supports a specific set business of requirements. The ability to assure a specific service and experience level offers huge opportunities.
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- Radio systems

RIC and roll: how to unlock the true value of O-RAN
This whitepaper explores the critical role that the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) plays in transforming the network and empowering operators to create and monetise distinctive service propositions. In other words, it’s the RIC that can unlock the true value of the “open” proposition of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN).
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- Radio systems

Mobilizing private 5G networks
Private 5G networks promise to deliver huge business advantage. But, where to start if you are an enterprise, carrier or technology supplier considering deployment? This whitepaper is a practical guide to deploying a private 5G network for maximum business impact, including when using CBRS spectrum in the United States.
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- Radio systems

Driving net zero – is Agri-Tech ready to capture carbon?
The changing regulatory and subsidy systems underpinning farming are changing radically. Furthermore, issues such as soil health, net zero and farm nature value are increasingly in the public eye.
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Digital service innovation
- Optics
- Physical sciences
- Sensing
- Signal processing

Building empathy into human-machine interaction
One of the potentially most transformative challenges we face as deep tech innovators is building empathy into AI-enabled human-machine interactions. So, what is an empathetic machine and why is it important for business and society to build empathetic AI into human-interactive systems?
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- User Experience (UX)

With technology innovation, pharma can drive targeted delivery and seize market opportunity
Technology innovations are now able to start realising health concepts that have been talked about for years. As Stephanie Mou explains, insurmountable market advantage awaits the organisation that can establish a compelling delivery platform over the next five years…
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Human factors

Developing private network technologies for demanding use cases: Finding the right path forward
Adopting a private network can be game-changing in enabling greater productivity, flexibility and differentiation for enterprises with complex and demanding needs, but where to start? In this Innovation Briefing, we explore the emerging drivers for private network adoption and the key considerations of vendors and enterprises when developing technologies for demanding use cases.
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital security
- Radio systems
- Strategic advice

AI accelerators: Pushing the boundaries of intelligent devices through novel silicon architectures
Novel silicon architectures offer exciting opportunities for intelligent devices using AI, promising incredible growth for the future of silicon chip design.
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Connectivity & IoT
- Electronics & ASICs

Our interdisciplinary approach is propelling Human-Machine Understanding
We increasingly interact with technology in all walks of life. Interaction with machines of all shapes and sizes benefits from mutual understanding – we need to understand what they're capable of; they need to understand what we want.
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy

Autonomous collaborative UAV fleets will unlock commercial opportunity
Uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) applications promise significant rewards from new commercial use cases… But how does the industry bring about uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) commercial viability? Stewart Marsh explains how a new generation of autonomous collaborative UAV fleets could provide an answer for commercial UAS operations…
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Digital security
- Radio systems

The deep tech opportunities for surgical robotics
As usual, the CC digital surgery team was out in force at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics. In this article, Vice President of Digital Surgery Andrew Savarese reflects on the insights and analysis, and introduces key topics that characterise the deep tech opportunities that are unfolding…
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Robotics

Smart infrastructure and the intelligent city: unlocking the complexity
CC’s findings in its report on the current and future state of smart cities in Japan have wider implications. As Jiahui Hermes explains, organisations intent on innovation in this space can benefit from exploring themes that are common to the challenges of smart infrastructure across a range of applications anywhere in the world…
- AI & Data Analytics consultancy
- Human factors
- User Experience (UX)