Agron Lasku
Partner
Agron advises ICT, Telecom, Media, Travel and Transportation companies, as well as the Public Sector, on strategy, growth, innovation, transformation and digitalization.
Areas of Focus
Education
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
CEMS M.Sc. in International Management
Stockholm School of Economics
Master in Finance, Investment and Business Administration
Past Experience
Handelsbanken Capital Markets
Account Manager and Project Leader
Agron is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based in Stockholm, serving clients globally on strategy and organization within a wide range of industries, including Telecommunications, Information Technology, Transportation, Media, and the Public Sector.
He is a revenue-oriented professional, experienced in building best-practice digitalization strategies that deliver or exceed committed strategic and financial targets. Agron works continuously in cross-functional settings to create, manage and empower winning teams who deliver sustainable change together with C-level executives, managers, and operative specialists.
Agron has a passion for education, digitalization, and helping people. He is responsible for Arthur D. Little’s global Digital Education initiative and has led multiple digitalization projects for both the private and public sectors. Since 2007, Agron has driven a charity project helping children and schools in northern Albania.
Agron is a thought leader and published author in the field of digitalization. He is also a mentor and coach for colleagues and start-up companies’ management teams.
Examples of his work include:
- Project leader for a growth strategy for a leading Nordic Media Conglomerate
- Project leader for the development of a global Smart-City strategy for a world-leading ICT company
- Project leader for an analysis of key change mechanisms of the ICT impact on society to envision the digitalized society of 2020 for a world-leading ICT company
- Project leader for a Pan-Nordic telecommunication services procurement strategy and implementation for 15 portfolio companies for a leading Private Equity firm
OEMs: Time for a connectivity management sourcing strategy refresh?
In this Viewpoint, we discuss the impact that the transition from classic subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to embedded SIM (eSIM) cards will have on the Internet of Things (IoT) value chain. The eSIM is changing the roles of a variety of players in the IoT ecosystem. With the cellular IoT landscape at an inflection point, we believe IoT OEMs should rethink their connectivity management sourcing strategies to offer more competitive value propositions.
Rethinking product connectivity
In a data-driven world, product manufacturers have a stark choice – either digitize to become more flexible and customer-centric or be sidelined by nimbler competitors. They need to embrace the transformative opportunities that data and the Internet of Things bring to add value to their offerings and change their business models.
All businesses understand the vital importance of collecting, analyzing, and acting on data to enable:
New business models, such as offering as-a-service or outcome-based pricing, and entering the Industrial Metaverse
Cloud expansion in Europe: Substantial opportunity, low risk for data centers
The global public cloud is quickly expanding, with infrastructure needs growing in a decentralized manner. As we explore in this Viewpoint, local data center operators can present themselves to this attractive market segment by aligning their facilities with the needs of hyperscalers, becoming a strategic partner of choice. This opportunity has limited risks, but the window is rapidly closing — cloud giants are already settling into their new homes around the world.
Excelling in a software-driven future
Software is rapidly becoming a critical asset as industries converge and perception of value shifts from hardware to software. Surgeons, for instance, can perform lifesaving surgeries via virtual reality (VR). But such a revolutionary procedure demands zero risk for error or downtime in connectivity, leading to new network requirements. Retail and commerce has also conjoined with computing, logistics, and finance for seamless online shopping.
Consolidation onset: How to sustain accelerated CPaaS value creation
With CPaaS market consolidation on the horizon, players must move from messaging toward AI and higher-value services
The Digital Nation – Lessons in building a successful digital economy
The pandemic has turbocharged digitalization across industries and countries, stress testing existing national strategies and bringing any gaps and shortcomings into sharp focus. Drawing on the example of digital leader Sweden, this article focuses on the wider lessons that every country can learn, and the capabilities required to build effective and successful digital nations moving forward.
Accelerating post-pandemic e-learning
An opportunity to establish a sustainable digital education system
Seizing the IoT opportunity in the 5G era
In light of accelerated industrial digitalization, there is a consensus that the IoT market has significant, yet untapped, potential. This potential seems more reachable with the arrival of 5G capabilities such as vastly improved speeds and reduced latency, all of which are poised to accelerate the adoption of IoT solutions across industry sectors. Over the next few months, Arthur D. Little will publish a series of viewpoints with insights on how to capture and scale this opportunity.
Realizing the potential of the Internet of Things with 5G
Despite the hype, the Internet of Things (IoT) has yet to deliver its promised benefits to industrial companies. The advent of 5G removes many of the technical barriers to its successful adoption, accelerating digitalization. However, as this article explains, realizing the potential of the IoT requires businesses to focus first on their needs and then on the available options to implement the best solutions for future success.
Unleashing value from intelligent automated processes
Robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) are complementary – when implemented together they enlarge the scale of value that can be created. AI can add intelligence to automated processes, enabling companies to extract insight on which they can base data-driven business decisions. AI capabilities can also enhance automation in which RPA falls short, as it can be used to digitize and structure data, which RPA systems subsequently act upon. AI-powered RPA offers powerful opportunities and will affect communication service providers (CSPs) in the near future. Arthur D.
Acing 5G pricing
Leading telcos have switched on their 5G networks and launched commercial offers to acquire early adopters. With the scale of investments required for 5G, the consumer pricing strategy becomes a critical lever for recouping these investments. In this viewpoint we aim to provide a framework for increasing customers’ willingness-to-pay for 5G services and B2C 5G pricing guidelines, in order to achieve optimal monetization.
Digitalization of government services
Governments and constituent entities are embracing digitalization to provide user-friendly government services to citizens and simultaneously reduce their cost to offer such services. There are numerous success stories, interestingly some of them are from very small nations but failures abound as well.
A successful digitalization approach should be viewed from the citizens’ experience perspective rather than purely as a large process automation / IT modernization program. A successful digitalization initiative entails:
The future of enterprise networking
Consumers and businesses around the world increasingly demand virtually instantaneous digital experiences in whatever they do. Many industries have already embraced the related opportunities in serving their customers instantaneously and seamlessly, and in reengineering their business models and digital production methods accordingly. The more companies digitize – whatever that may mean in each individual context – the more instant digital interactions matter. These expectations are the key driver behind industrial digitization.
Leveraging ICT for a World-Class Education System
It is widely accepted that education is paramount in a knowledge-based society. Young Shim Dho, South Korea’s ambassador to UNWTO, once said, “Education is what transformed our country from poverty to the 14th-largest economy in the world.” Yet, education itself is today on the brink of the most significant transformation ever experienced. The underlying vehicle of this change is information and communication technology (ICT), which has already transformed other industries and is now introducing myriad opportunities for students to improve their learning, as well as their results.
Cutting the Profitability Gordian Knot
The public transport industry displays increasing demand, flat capacity development, and squeezed margins. A number of fundamentals suggest that the industry’s value chain and competitive landscape may change significantly in the coming years necessitating further innovation of operations and services for players involved.
Agron is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based in Stockholm, serving clients globally on strategy and organization within a wide range of industries, including Telecommunications, Information Technology, Transportation, Media, and the Public Sector.
He is a revenue-oriented professional, experienced in building best-practice digitalization strategies that deliver or exceed committed strategic and financial targets. Agron works continuously in cross-functional settings to create, manage and empower winning teams who deliver sustainable change together with C-level executives, managers, and operative specialists.
Agron has a passion for education, digitalization, and helping people. He is responsible for Arthur D. Little’s global Digital Education initiative and has led multiple digitalization projects for both the private and public sectors. Since 2007, Agron has driven a charity project helping children and schools in northern Albania.
Agron is a thought leader and published author in the field of digitalization. He is also a mentor and coach for colleagues and start-up companies’ management teams.
Examples of his work include:
- Project leader for a growth strategy for a leading Nordic Media Conglomerate
- Project leader for the development of a global Smart-City strategy for a world-leading ICT company
- Project leader for an analysis of key change mechanisms of the ICT impact on society to envision the digitalized society of 2020 for a world-leading ICT company
- Project leader for a Pan-Nordic telecommunication services procurement strategy and implementation for 15 portfolio companies for a leading Private Equity firm
OEMs: Time for a connectivity management sourcing strategy refresh?
In this Viewpoint, we discuss the impact that the transition from classic subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to embedded SIM (eSIM) cards will have on the Internet of Things (IoT) value chain. The eSIM is changing the roles of a variety of players in the IoT ecosystem. With the cellular IoT landscape at an inflection point, we believe IoT OEMs should rethink their connectivity management sourcing strategies to offer more competitive value propositions.
Rethinking product connectivity
In a data-driven world, product manufacturers have a stark choice – either digitize to become more flexible and customer-centric or be sidelined by nimbler competitors. They need to embrace the transformative opportunities that data and the Internet of Things bring to add value to their offerings and change their business models.
All businesses understand the vital importance of collecting, analyzing, and acting on data to enable:
New business models, such as offering as-a-service or outcome-based pricing, and entering the Industrial Metaverse
Cloud expansion in Europe: Substantial opportunity, low risk for data centers
The global public cloud is quickly expanding, with infrastructure needs growing in a decentralized manner. As we explore in this Viewpoint, local data center operators can present themselves to this attractive market segment by aligning their facilities with the needs of hyperscalers, becoming a strategic partner of choice. This opportunity has limited risks, but the window is rapidly closing — cloud giants are already settling into their new homes around the world.
Excelling in a software-driven future
Software is rapidly becoming a critical asset as industries converge and perception of value shifts from hardware to software. Surgeons, for instance, can perform lifesaving surgeries via virtual reality (VR). But such a revolutionary procedure demands zero risk for error or downtime in connectivity, leading to new network requirements. Retail and commerce has also conjoined with computing, logistics, and finance for seamless online shopping.
Consolidation onset: How to sustain accelerated CPaaS value creation
With CPaaS market consolidation on the horizon, players must move from messaging toward AI and higher-value services
The Digital Nation – Lessons in building a successful digital economy
The pandemic has turbocharged digitalization across industries and countries, stress testing existing national strategies and bringing any gaps and shortcomings into sharp focus. Drawing on the example of digital leader Sweden, this article focuses on the wider lessons that every country can learn, and the capabilities required to build effective and successful digital nations moving forward.
Accelerating post-pandemic e-learning
An opportunity to establish a sustainable digital education system
Seizing the IoT opportunity in the 5G era
In light of accelerated industrial digitalization, there is a consensus that the IoT market has significant, yet untapped, potential. This potential seems more reachable with the arrival of 5G capabilities such as vastly improved speeds and reduced latency, all of which are poised to accelerate the adoption of IoT solutions across industry sectors. Over the next few months, Arthur D. Little will publish a series of viewpoints with insights on how to capture and scale this opportunity.
Realizing the potential of the Internet of Things with 5G
Despite the hype, the Internet of Things (IoT) has yet to deliver its promised benefits to industrial companies. The advent of 5G removes many of the technical barriers to its successful adoption, accelerating digitalization. However, as this article explains, realizing the potential of the IoT requires businesses to focus first on their needs and then on the available options to implement the best solutions for future success.
Unleashing value from intelligent automated processes
Robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) are complementary – when implemented together they enlarge the scale of value that can be created. AI can add intelligence to automated processes, enabling companies to extract insight on which they can base data-driven business decisions. AI capabilities can also enhance automation in which RPA falls short, as it can be used to digitize and structure data, which RPA systems subsequently act upon. AI-powered RPA offers powerful opportunities and will affect communication service providers (CSPs) in the near future. Arthur D.
Acing 5G pricing
Leading telcos have switched on their 5G networks and launched commercial offers to acquire early adopters. With the scale of investments required for 5G, the consumer pricing strategy becomes a critical lever for recouping these investments. In this viewpoint we aim to provide a framework for increasing customers’ willingness-to-pay for 5G services and B2C 5G pricing guidelines, in order to achieve optimal monetization.
Digitalization of government services
Governments and constituent entities are embracing digitalization to provide user-friendly government services to citizens and simultaneously reduce their cost to offer such services. There are numerous success stories, interestingly some of them are from very small nations but failures abound as well.
A successful digitalization approach should be viewed from the citizens’ experience perspective rather than purely as a large process automation / IT modernization program. A successful digitalization initiative entails:
The future of enterprise networking
Consumers and businesses around the world increasingly demand virtually instantaneous digital experiences in whatever they do. Many industries have already embraced the related opportunities in serving their customers instantaneously and seamlessly, and in reengineering their business models and digital production methods accordingly. The more companies digitize – whatever that may mean in each individual context – the more instant digital interactions matter. These expectations are the key driver behind industrial digitization.
Leveraging ICT for a World-Class Education System
It is widely accepted that education is paramount in a knowledge-based society. Young Shim Dho, South Korea’s ambassador to UNWTO, once said, “Education is what transformed our country from poverty to the 14th-largest economy in the world.” Yet, education itself is today on the brink of the most significant transformation ever experienced. The underlying vehicle of this change is information and communication technology (ICT), which has already transformed other industries and is now introducing myriad opportunities for students to improve their learning, as well as their results.
Cutting the Profitability Gordian Knot
The public transport industry displays increasing demand, flat capacity development, and squeezed margins. A number of fundamentals suggest that the industry’s value chain and competitive landscape may change significantly in the coming years necessitating further innovation of operations and services for players involved.
More About Agron
- The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)CEMS M.Sc. in International Management
- Stockholm School of EconomicsMaster in Finance, Investment and Business Administration
- Handelsbanken Capital MarketsAccount Manager and Project Leader