1.
From insights to action, the path to extraordinary value starts here.
Elevate every
decision with
future-ready
network
operations
Fast-track to future-ready performance

2.
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Facing unprecedented demand,
Communications Service Providers stepped up.
Along with transformational changes such as
network cloudification, private networks and 5G,
CSPs find themselves at a crucial turning point:
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Stick with the status quo and watch
competitors drive the market.
OR
Build on momentum and reinvent
telecoms for a new era.
01
02
Which will they choose?

3.
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From delivering efficiency and revenue
through commodity products and
services to unleashing the power of
data for innovation.
From over-indexing on engineering and
technical capabilities to focusing on
customer and employee experiences.
From reactive to proactive.
From status quo to future-ready.
It’s time to
make a shift
3
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4.
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1.7x
Higher efficiency
levels for future-
ready organizations.1
More efficient
Advantages of being
future-ready
1 Future-ready organizations exhibited 6.4 pp higher profitability and 13.1 percent greater efficiency, on average
Source: Accenture Research and Oxford Economics Intelligent Operations Survey, 2020
Other future-ready benefits:
Improved talent mix, reskilling, customer
experiences and ecosystem relationships.
2.8x
Boost in corporate
profitability for
future-ready
organizations.1
More profitable
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5.
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An intelligent operating model has a high level
of operations maturity.
But how mature are operations
amongst CSPs today?
To find out, we conducted a global, cross-
industry study of over 1,100 senior executives—
including 50 CSPs—to find out how respondents
perceive their operations maturity and quantify
the link between business, operations maturity
and performance.
Are telcos becoming
future-ready?
5
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6.
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Our research and experience reveals there are
four levels of maturity:
of CSPs report a high level of
maturity as their current state;
we call them “future-ready.”
4%
Operations on the move
6
say they have evolved to
predictive operations.
70%
Each level is grounded in and enabled by progressively more
sophisticated technology, talent, processes and data insight.
Predictive
Stable
Future-ready
Efficient
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7.
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CSPs are confident they can
make the leap to future-ready
But why is the gap so
wide between where
CSPs are, and where
they think they can go?
36%
expect to be future-ready by 2023.

8.
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It’s clear a strategic pivot is in
order, but CSPs are not making
it fast enough.
How can they answer
the call for future-ready
network operations?
Strategy is the
biggest barrier
to operational
transformation
of CSP leaders ranked
strategy as a top challenge
to future-readiness.
33%
for all industries.
25%
Compared to

9.
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Three ways to become future-ready:
03
02
01
Know how
to leapfrog
maturity levels
Know the key
steps
Know the
ultimate goal

10.
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Know the
ultimate goal
Think big with strategy
at the forefront
01

11.
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Bringing business and
technology together
can get CSPs where
they want to be.
01 Know the ultimate goal
Breaking barriers
of CSPs say that business-
technology collaboration
is being used in their
organizations today.
10%
want to do this
within three years.
52%
Cultural alignment is key
The whole organization must embrace
the mindset of business and technology
interests working in lockstep to deliver
on customer-focused goals.

12.
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01 Know the ultimate goal
Rakuten looked to redefine the
telco rulebook by building Rakuten
Mobile: a fully virtualized, cloud-
native mobile network for a new
era of data generation.
We collaborated on Rakuten
Mobile as an operational
enablement partner, designing and
implementing an innovative new
cloud-native operating model that
enabled the speed and agility to
completely disrupt the industry.
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13.
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02
Know the
key steps
Automate at scale to
free up human talent

14.
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CSPs are leaders in
automation—but can be even
stronger by committing to
improving their data landscape.
Driving smarter decision-making
CSPs need to shore up data quality and integrity to take
advantage of advanced analytics and automation. This
will enable their teams to focus on more rewarding,
creative and complex work.
Taking analytics
to another level
of CSP executives say their companies
design their operating models based on
data rather than experience and intuition.
68%
Just
02 Know the key steps

15.
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CSPs have made great
strides in cloud adoption.
Now, it’s time to think
beyond cost and use the
cloud to boost innovation
and drive new and more
profitable business at scale.
A mindset shift
from cost to
innovation
Scaling cloud
investments
of CSP leaders say that
their organization is using
cloud at scale today.
86%
02 Know the key steps
CSPs need
to get the full
benefit of
the cloud

16.
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Know how
to leapfrog
maturity levels
Build ecosystem relationships
03
16

17.
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Without the right
ecosystem partners,
CSPs are leaving
themselves vulnerable
to being left behind.
Open to collaboration
Pushing the limits of
products and services
Partners can help CSPs drive and deliver
innovation that positions their operations,
services and data in a whole new light—and
brings new ways to monetize their business.
03 Know how to leapfrog maturity levels
of CSP leaders say that
partnership improved
over the last three years.
44%
indicate that the
pandemic boosted
this focus.
40%

18.
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A UK telco provider leveraged
our global network operations
ecosystem to find the right partners
for expanding its high-speed,
optical fiber network.
As a result, the company has
delivered fiber broadband to over
5 million homes and businesses
across the country while reducing
network deployment costs by 30%
and accelerating planning and
deployment from 80 to 50 days.
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03 Know how to leapfrog maturity levels

19.
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While most CSPs have made
progress in improving operations
maturity to reach the predictive
state, there is more to do. And fast.
With future-ready operations, CSPs
will have the operational foundation
they need to elevate every business
decision, realize sustainable growth
and deliver breakthrough network-
based products and services.
The choice to change
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20.
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Think Enhance Scale Foster Put Build
big and
go beyond
incremental
change
intuition
with the
high-quality,
diverse data
automation
and analytics,
AI and
integrated
solutions
with leading
practices
a human +
machine,
specialized
workforce
a cloud
infrastructure
at the heart
complementary
third-party
and ecosystem
relationships
Now is the time to make your move to intelligent operations. Here’s how:
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21.
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Four levels of operations maturity:
Appendix
Predictive
Concentrate mostly
on core process
improvements and on
improving quality and
compliance controls.
Stable
Future-ready
Efficient
More productive, they
incorporate tested
methods, such as Lean
Six Sigma and process
standardization and
deploy automation
technologies.
Focus on how automation
can support and augment
human ingenuity. They
deploy technologies and
leading practices with
that goal in mind.
See increased efficiency
and profitability, improved
stakeholder experiences and
better business outcomes.
They are more agile and
resilient than others.

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