Ansgar Schlautmann is an Associate Director at Arthur D. Little's TIME (Telecommunications, Information, Media and Electronics) practice in Frankfurt. He is responsible for the global competence center "Innovative Business Designs" which supports companies to adopt and profit from emerging technologies and business models. For the past 14 years Ansgar has worked for large international telecommunication companies as well as media and internet players. He is currently in charge of the growing M2M (machine to machine) ecosystem and has done several projects in this space, primarily focusing on the emerging ecosystem development and business-models required.