TM Forum members accelerate progress
Watch the video to hear George Glass, Chief Technology Officer, TM Forum, discuss some of the advances that TM Forum collaboration team members made at TM Forum’s Accelerate 2023 event in Portugal.
Below are some of the highlights of the event, summarized by program:
Beyond Connectivity – generating new revenue
The Beyond Connectivity program held a 3-day development workshop to create a systematic, harmonized blueprint for new revenue generation. This covered the concept-to-design phase, aiming to accelerate and de-risk this stage of innovation and ensuring alignment between strategy and implementation, based on Open Digital Architecture (ODA) & Open APIs. There was strong support for the initiative, with participation from six CSPs, Vodafone, DT, TIM, NOS, STC, and AT&T as well as Detecon, KPMG, Huawei and CSG attending and leading parts of the sessions. The final framework will be published in the coming weeks.
Beyond Connectivity also held cross functional meetings, from which the notable outcomes were:
Business Assurance – aligning with ODA
The Business Assurance team started their journey to aligning with ODA with clear actions points put in place to achieve the objective of updating ODA to support real time payments. They also completed updates to the Business Process Framework (eTOM) and developed the first stage of their maturity model.
Human Factor - culture enabling transformation
The objective during Accelerate was to re-introduce members to the Human Factor program. Acknowledging the work done through the Digital Organization Transformation (DOT) and Diversity and Inclusion projects has led TM Forum members to focus on talent challenges.
By incorporating Human Factor into the Open Digital Framework (ODF), which includes the Open Digital Architecture (ODA), TM Forum is building a program that aligns with the challenges organizations face on the people side when working to become ODA compliant. This includes challenges such as developing people, skills, and culture. Members were also introduced to the Talent Consortia and the Inclusion and Diversity Score. Here is a summary of the outcomes achieved throughout the week:
Open APIs & data model accelerator
The API team ran workshops throughout the week to develop the architecture of Open APIs to support new developments and technologies in our industry. They also ran spec jam sessions so that all member project teams can learn how to develop Open APIs for their program while also getting hands-on practical experience. Over the course of the week, the objective was to accelerate Open API development, remove resource blockers and accelerate the various projects, including ZTP & CaaS. Other outcomes included:
Open Digital Architecture (ODA) – building the components and canvas
It was a busy week for the ODA team, with a Component and canvas accelerator running each day. These working sessions focused on component specifications, canvas specifications, component conformance, ODA security and privacy, as well as joint sessions with other teams. The key outcomes are summarized as follows:
Zero-Touch Operations - accelerating the transformation journey
Accelerate provided a valuable opportunity for the various workstreams of the Autonomous Operations program to share their work with one another and ensure alignment. Here is a summary of the outcomes of the individual workstream sessions across the week:
Congratulations are in order
Wednesday’s sessions concluded with an awards ceremony to celebrate the achievements of individuals and companies who have contributed significantly to TM Forum Collaboration work and to driving the industry forward. Four individual members were awarded Outstanding Contributor awards:
And the company Outstanding Contributor award went to Huawei Technologies. You can see all the winners here.
The Catalyst team award for Outstanding Contribution to TM Forum Assets went to Intent-driven autonomous networks - Phase II.
Work will continue back on Zoom on all the member collaboration projects in the weeks and months ahead until we can meet again in person. To get involved and add your expertise, join the projects here.