EY Tech Connect

On this episode of EY Tech Connect, members of the EY Strategy and Transactions team, experts on capital allocation, explore the successes and pain points tech companies are experiencing and what needs to change.

We’ve seen the tech sector hit near record highs as tech companies increase their value chain exposure, drive disruption and transformation across sectors; on the surface, everything looks great. But are there hidden challenges that some of the recent successes may be obscuring?

The EY Team explains why now is the time for Tech Companies to pause, reflect and strategize differently.

Capital allocations is a broad topic; when we talk about capital allocations, our focus is on assessing, planning, reviewing, and prioritizing the uses of financial resources across an organization. Some categories we explore are; debt repayment, dividends, capital investment, sales and marketing expenditures, share repurchases, acquisitions, and R&D. EY finds that it’s imperative to develop a framework that consistently evaluates these investment decisions and monitor the progress on the basis that really allows executives to prioritize the many choices and demands on their capital.

Join Barak Ravid, EY Global TMT leader for Strategy and Transactions, Ryan Citro, EY Partner, Erika Maymon, and Akhilesh Kulkarni from the EY Strategy and Transactions team to discuss capital allocations and the actions Tech companies should be taking now. Hosted by our EY Tech Connect Moderators, Adrian Baschnonga, Lead Analyst for Telecommunications and Christina Winquist, TMT go-to-market strategy lead.

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The past year has transformed nearly every aspect of our world, how we used connectivity and content were crucial. Customer’s relationship with their internet service providers have been super-charged as dramatic shifts caused internet service to become essential for working, educating, and playing at home.

For Telco internet providers, perhaps no COVID-19 business phenomenon will have a more lasting impact on the interaction between customers and their service providers. EY Decoding the Digital Home consumer survey has helped us uncover some of these changing household attitudes and we’ll be drawing on some of the outputs of this research as part of today’s conversation.

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We are talking about the future of connectivity and we are going to zero into one crucial topic as part of that, it consists of one number and one letter, that’s right, it’s time to talk about 5G.

For the last twenty-two months, the pandemic has caused many to stay at home, connectivity is the lifeblood of how we live, work, play, eat and shop. 5G encompassed many industries making that connectivity possible.

We discuss what makes 5G unique, the advantages of combining 5G with other technologies, and what operators need to consider when embarking on 5G upgrades.

We take some time to dive into how 5G affects sustainability and the need for deeper cybersecurity.

The podcast concludes with thoughts on what the future holds for new technology innovations.

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