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We've come a long way since the days when schools only had one computer in each classroom. Now students are increasingly looking for digital education to help them continue their learning at home and on the go. But they're not just focused on content: Students want more opportunities for connection and collaboration.

In this episode, Greg Merchant, Mic Locker, and Jennifer Eng dive into the expanding market for digital education; factors that could be preventing more widespread adoption; and the importance for companies to simultaneously target parents, students, and teachers.

For IoT companies, competition is fierce. But many might not be aware that they can redefine the nature of their competition using shaping strategies. The shaping strategy approach is designed for innovative IoT companies with aligned leadership who want to influence the direction of the entire industry.

In our latest User Friendly podcast, we talk to Deloitte leaders John Hagel, managing director and co-chairman of the Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge, and John Seely Brown, the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge. As leaders in this category, they will discuss the ways that using well executed shaping strategies can enable participants to learn from and share risk with one another—creating a profitable future for all.

Listen in to learn how to use shaping strategies for your organization.

The latest accounting standards are changing the way technology, media, and telecom companies recognize revenue—it's more than a change in rules, the new standard demands a change in mindset. In addition to impacting finance departments, the new accounting standard also means big changes for strategy, information technology, human resources, sales and marketing, and tax.

In this episode Joe Talley and Bryan Anderson explore the cross-organizational impact of the new revenue standards, how companies are developing their commission plans, operational impacts of the standards, managing costs and disclosures, and key points of focus for companies preparing to comply.

Listen in to find out how the changes will affect your organization.

Digital has transformed the way consumers approach entertainment and media consumption. The days of appointment TV, setting DVRs, and losing the remote are fading into the distance. Now consumers can stream shows when they want, where they want them. This shift has created a new marketplace for content services and is changing the way advertisers market to consumers. How can businesses capitalize on these trends?

In this episode, Deloitte's Kevin Westcott and Scott Lippstreu discuss how traditional television is losing ground to streaming, how binge watching impacts content distribution, what changes advertisers are taking to reach consumers, and how social media's stronghold on consumers may provide new opportunities for advertising.

Deconstructing emerging technology, media, and telecom trends.