Lessons in being agile – show, don't tell
08 Dec 2016
Lessons in being agile – show, don't tell
The Virtualization and Business Agility conference track was bursting with energy and engagement. Even at the end of a packed two days at TM Forum Live! Asia in Singapore, the participants were enthusiastic in sharing their views about key topics and next steps.
These are some of the things we want do next
What we confirmed or learned
- Digital transformation contains a lot of ideas – it’s about a lot more than technology; it involves a major cultural change if it is to succeed
- Future services are going to be mashed-up offerings that telco must support – so open APIs are very important and a good way to standardize and reduce efforts
- Sharing is good – for example, BT and NTT were very open about their transformation progress
- We’d like to hear more from customers, though digital transformation is affecting a lot of industries, not just telecoms
- A paradigm shift is needed for BSS/OSS transformation
- We like workshops, such as the pre-event one to develop a Digital Maturity Model and Metrics – being able to share and exchange views is a great opportunity in dealing with a common issue
- We must prepare the support structure for future services
- Open APIs are good for various industries, not just telcos
- New ideas on segmentation were really interesting
- We would like to share more about how to cope with rising amounts of video traffic while maintaining business as usual during transformation to being digital
- We’d like to create a standardized IT platform, including from legacy silos, using NFV technology
- How telcos are starting to observe IoT and downstream apps to protect and retain customers – but we need to understand a lot more about monetization and use cases
These are some of the things we want do next
- We need to explore more about NFV/SDN and IoT-type services
- We would like more sharing about HOW companies do things, not just why
- The new areas like blockchain, digital health and smart cities, are real eye-openers for telcos and we want to hear more about them via the Forum
- In NFV and SDN deployments, we need all the endpoints to be ‘fiberized’ – the last mile is the challenge is we want true NFV from end to end
- We are not familiar with what telcos can do regarding manufacturing and want to know more
- Future revenues for vendors are not clear, given what telcos are saying about what they need
- We’d like to hear points of view other than telcos about ecosystems and platforms, and how it will all work together
- Do we need an open catalog for telcos to expose and their capabilities?
- We want to hear from startups and HOW they work and how they view telcos – get those people to come in and share
- More Catalyst demonstrations here in Asia, the same kind of level as at TM Forum Live! in Nice