
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 & Analytics
- 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 & Analytics
- 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 & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- Radio systems

Driving Net Zero – Is agritech ready to capture carbon?
The changing regulatory and subsidy systems underpinning farming are undergoing radical change. Furthermore, issues such as soil health, net zero and farm nature value are increasingly in the public eye.
- AI & Analytics
- Digital service innovation
- Optics
- Physical sciences
- Sensing
- Signal processing

Where does quantum technology sit as part of a system?
For many business leaders, quantum technology remains confusing and inaccessible. But it can feel more familiar when it takes its place as part of a wider system. Here Edmund Owen explains the keys to integrating quantum components into larger systems, existing value chains and business processes…
- Digital service innovation

Collaborative autonomous drone fleets for next-level UAS operations
This reveals our vision and live demonstration of automated, AI-powered, collaborative uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) fleets and the exciting commercial use cases these present.
- AI & Analytics
- Digital service innovation
- Robotics
- Sensing

So – what does Web3 implementation actually look like?
What is Web3 – and more importantly, what might a Web3 implementation actually look like in reality? As we explain, CC has come up with a concept Web3 platform for green energy management that showcases some of the key mechanisms of Web3, including tokenisation, decentralisation and compute-to-data...
- Digital service innovation

Will multiple self-organised autonomous drones help scale future operations?
Will collaborative autonomous drone fleets drive UAV innovation and help scale future commercial UAS operations?
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- Tracking & location

How O-RAN and AI are set to transform service performance
We are entering a pivotal period for the future of telecommunications. It’s time to move towards the opportunities offered by O-RAN and AI. These are keys to unlock optimised network automation and maximised service performance.
- AI & Analytics
- Connectivity & IoT
- Digital service innovation
- Radio systems

How digital twins can help confront the challenges of scaling up cultured protein
In the world of bioprocessing engineering, companies developing cultured meat and other cultured ingredients face both technical and financial challenges at each step up in scale. Here, Steve Thomas and James Westley explain how sophisticated predictive models – digital twins – that couple biology, heat transfer, mass transfer and fluid dynamics can help…
- AI & Analytics
- Bioinnovation
- Digital service innovation
- Fluids & thermodynamics
- Synthetic biology

Quantum cloud computing plus digital service innovation will equal commercial advantage
What is quantum computing? That’s a question still being asked by much of the world’s C-suite. But here at CC our multidisciplinary teams of physicists, engineers and designers are already helping to plot a credible pathway for a future powered by quantum technologies…
- Cloud/scalable systems
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice

Unconventional outlook: medtech innovation in 2023
2022 was a rollercoaster year for medtech innovation, with a dramatic slow-down of venture funding, multi-national corporations (MNCs) hitting inflationary, recessionary, and geo-political headwinds, new emerging technologies, and the sprinkling of game-changing M&A. Rahul Sathe shares his predictions on medtech’s innovation outlook for 2023.
- Digital health
- Digital service innovation
- Innovation management
- Strategic advice