The Information Agenda Guide for CSPs - Transform your business through information and analytics. The elements of an effective Information Agenda plan for communications service providers to help ensure the right information is delivered to the right people at the right time.
Digital Game-Changers for the Communication Service Provider IndustryCognizant
By monetizing data, refining their processes, boosting their technological maturity and proactively responding to subscribers' ever-changing needs and preferences, CSPs can improve their competitive standing vs. non-traditional competitors.
Shared Services: How Digital Can Accelerate the Leap to Value-Added Different...Cognizant
Shared services centers must embrace social, mobile, analytics, cloud and intelligent process automation techniques to navigate three critical shifts that can turbocharge innovation and reinforce market differentiation.
Accenture: Interactive-pov-precision-marketing-analytics Feb 2013Brian Crotty
This document discusses the benefits of using time-varying parameter (TVP) modeling over constant parameter regression (CPR) modeling to measure the impact of marketing on sales. TVP modeling allows parameters to change over time, capturing finer movements in sales in response to specific marketing activities. This provides more accurate and granular insights than CPR which averages effects over long periods. The document outlines how a fictional company called SuperiorBuy could use TVP modeling to understand the weekly effectiveness of different marketing channels over two years, helping optimize future budget allocation.
PARTNERS 2014 - Dr. Stefan Schwarz - Money for NothingStefan Schwarz
This document discusses ways for telecommunication companies to reduce spending on customer acquisition and retention, which on average accounts for 27% of operating expenses. It presents several case studies where companies avoided useless retention efforts that induce churn, avoided churn-inducing upselling, and acquired customers at the right price. Integrating customer data and applying analytics allows telcos to better understand customer value and identify opportunities to optimize acquisition and retention efforts that could save 7.1% of total company revenue on average. The document argues that telecom companies should leverage their data and analytics capabilities to unlock significant untapped value in customer management.
The document outlines the agenda for a presentation on omnichannel customer experience (CX) and digital transformation. The agenda includes discussions on the meaning and impact of omnichannel CX and digital transformation based on a 2017 CX benchmark report. It will also cover developing a 2020 vision for CX, assessing digital maturity, and defining a contact centre strategy for the omnichannel CX ecosystem. Interactive sessions are planned to help attendees attain their 2020 omnichannel CX vision.
The document discusses the applications and maturity of analytics in India. It describes an initiative by NASSCOM and Hansa Cequity to collect over 250 case studies on analytics solutions from Indian organizations. The case studies covered applications across various industries for customer experience, revenue improvement, cost/operations optimization, and risk/compliance management. An expert panel reviewed the case studies. Many case studies demonstrated predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities in areas like mining, energy/utilities, and other industries.
Customer data driven marketing for digital servicesVrishali Sinha
This document discusses how mobile operators can use customer data and analytics to improve digital marketing strategies. It recommends that operators analyze user behavior and segment customer data to personalize promotions and offers. This allows operators to increase adoption rates, enhance revenue streams, fully exploit upsell opportunities, manage churn, and improve customer experience. The document provides examples of how analytics can be used across the customer journey, from search and discovery to on-boarding and retention, to optimize interactions and conversion rates.
Digital Game-Changers for the Communication Service Provider IndustryCognizant
By monetizing data, refining their processes, boosting their technological maturity and proactively responding to subscribers' ever-changing needs and preferences, CSPs can improve their competitive standing vs. non-traditional competitors.
Shared Services: How Digital Can Accelerate the Leap to Value-Added Different...Cognizant
Shared services centers must embrace social, mobile, analytics, cloud and intelligent process automation techniques to navigate three critical shifts that can turbocharge innovation and reinforce market differentiation.
Accenture: Interactive-pov-precision-marketing-analytics Feb 2013Brian Crotty
This document discusses the benefits of using time-varying parameter (TVP) modeling over constant parameter regression (CPR) modeling to measure the impact of marketing on sales. TVP modeling allows parameters to change over time, capturing finer movements in sales in response to specific marketing activities. This provides more accurate and granular insights than CPR which averages effects over long periods. The document outlines how a fictional company called SuperiorBuy could use TVP modeling to understand the weekly effectiveness of different marketing channels over two years, helping optimize future budget allocation.
PARTNERS 2014 - Dr. Stefan Schwarz - Money for NothingStefan Schwarz
This document discusses ways for telecommunication companies to reduce spending on customer acquisition and retention, which on average accounts for 27% of operating expenses. It presents several case studies where companies avoided useless retention efforts that induce churn, avoided churn-inducing upselling, and acquired customers at the right price. Integrating customer data and applying analytics allows telcos to better understand customer value and identify opportunities to optimize acquisition and retention efforts that could save 7.1% of total company revenue on average. The document argues that telecom companies should leverage their data and analytics capabilities to unlock significant untapped value in customer management.
The document outlines the agenda for a presentation on omnichannel customer experience (CX) and digital transformation. The agenda includes discussions on the meaning and impact of omnichannel CX and digital transformation based on a 2017 CX benchmark report. It will also cover developing a 2020 vision for CX, assessing digital maturity, and defining a contact centre strategy for the omnichannel CX ecosystem. Interactive sessions are planned to help attendees attain their 2020 omnichannel CX vision.
The document discusses the applications and maturity of analytics in India. It describes an initiative by NASSCOM and Hansa Cequity to collect over 250 case studies on analytics solutions from Indian organizations. The case studies covered applications across various industries for customer experience, revenue improvement, cost/operations optimization, and risk/compliance management. An expert panel reviewed the case studies. Many case studies demonstrated predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities in areas like mining, energy/utilities, and other industries.
Customer data driven marketing for digital servicesVrishali Sinha
This document discusses how mobile operators can use customer data and analytics to improve digital marketing strategies. It recommends that operators analyze user behavior and segment customer data to personalize promotions and offers. This allows operators to increase adoption rates, enhance revenue streams, fully exploit upsell opportunities, manage churn, and improve customer experience. The document provides examples of how analytics can be used across the customer journey, from search and discovery to on-boarding and retention, to optimize interactions and conversion rates.
Stepping Up to the Challenges of Digital MarketingCognizant
"The advent of digital has dramatically impacted how CMOs run their marketing operations. By identifying and employing the processes, business models and technologies required in today's digitally intensive business environment, companies can strengthen their brand, enrich their relationships with customers, and manage an increasingly complex mix of partners, processes, and technologies.
Digital Transformation Company of the FutureRids Vazi
Digital transformation has rewritten the rules of competition across industries. Now, the consumer products sector is in digital’s crosshairs as web-connected digitized products deployed at massive scale become a major competitive force.
Download this white paper to learn about the role your products play as the central pillar of digital transformation.
How Insurers Can Leverage Social and Messaging Apps to Enhance Digital ValueCognizant
Insurance carriers looking to bolster their digital ROI and reach their clientele of millennials most effectively must look beyond mobile apps and online portals, into social and messaging apps. We offer a roadmap and use cases for enhancing insurers' digital presence.
- Best Buy is undergoing a strategic transformation of its supply chain to become more customer-centric and efficient in response to changing customer behaviors and trends in the retail industry.
- It is shifting from a push-based to a pull-based supply chain model with more tailored assortments and one unified forecast to better meet customer needs.
- A key part of the transformation involves deploying RFID technology to improve the customer in-store experience through more accurate inventory tracking and faster checkout.
Pervasive digital technology is fundamentally changing the retail banking business model. Here's how banking Chief Information Officers (CIOs) need to change in order to lead the digital charge, according to our recent study.
Data-enhanced customer experience: a recipe for happy and loyal customers. Perception defines quality, and it’s time to turn user data into a competitive advantage in enhancing the customer experience.
The Age Of New Reality Marketing V5.1 FinalTony Mooney
It\'s been a bug-bear of mine for many years that the average marketing skill set has not moved on very much from the 1960\'s model of 4 \'P\'s (Product, Price, Promotion, Place). Or that marketing is still largely synonomous with advertising - and spam advertising at that. This is a presentation I did to a marketing forum out in Singapore, where I\'ve tried to outline the new capabilities of the marketer of the 21st century. I also postulate the (controversial) perspective that a chunk of this new capability - especially around data and decisioning - might be better out sourced, leaving the internal marketing skills to be concentrated on strategy and proposition. See what you think. [Sorry you won\'t have my spoken narrative just yet but the slides are reasonably self explanatory]
We are in the midst of the next great transformative era in the media business. The digital age, supported by data, technology, and predictive analytics has created a new opportunity to be more precise, more efficient, and more effective with our clients’ media investments:
- New ways of identifying who your customers are.
- New ways of reaching and influencing them at critical moments.
New ways of discovering the 50% of advertising that works, and avo- iding the 50% that doesn’t.
This reports analyses the state to digital media and its impact on the future.
For further information please look up your regional contact here: http://news.ipgmediabrands.com/magna-global/press-releases/
Enabling your Enterprise Mobility to tap New Growth OpportunitiesNIIT Technologies
Enterprise Mobility is a powerful tool that promises to bridge the gap between business and IT and truly make IT a business enabler by providing the capability to tap new opportunitie
With the advance of digital media, consumers are engaging with brands using fundamentally different behaviors.
Wingman is a Digital Consulting firm. Working with our clients on their most challenging issues, we are able to develop well defined strategies for all digital media, be it on the web, mobile devices or social platforms.
This document discusses the impact of technology on the future of marketing. It notes that while marketing fundamentals have not changed, technology has transformed the practice of marketing as dollars increasingly migrate online. Most companies have increased their online marketing spending in recent years. However, marketers face challenges in obtaining an integrated view of customers across online touchpoints and interpreting the resulting data. To address this, the document recommends that marketers adopt technology-enabled collaboration, multichannel marketing, and personalization to deliver optimized customer experiences and drive revenue.
This document provides a sales strategy for IPenable, which designs communications solutions for electric utilities and device vendors. It outlines IPenable's target customers, key decision makers, sales processes, and initial sales successes and failures. The strategy involves prospecting utilities and vendors through conferences, associations, and meetings with CTOs, project managers, and engineers. The sales cycle can take 6 months to 5 years as utility projects require significant planning. Initial successes came from informational calls to understand customer needs, while delays occurred without a clear customer strategy or impatience with long sales cycles in the utility sector.
Industry Index DMP Insight Report - May 2015Gayle Meyers
This document summarizes a report on data management platforms (DMPs). It finds that over half of respondents currently use DMPs and nearly 40% plan to within a year. When selecting DMPs, marketers value performance, scalability, and value most. Currently, marketers are fairly satisfied with DMPs' ability to provide a unified data view but find data is still siloed across channels. Programmatic integration is the most important DMP capability and also the area with the highest satisfaction among current users.
It Takes an Ecosystem: How Technology Companies Deliver Exceptional ExperiencesCognizant
Experience is becoming a key strategy for technology companies as they shift to cloud-based subscription models. This requires building an "experience ecosystem" that breaks down silos and involves partners. Building such an ecosystem involves adopting a cross-functional approach to experience, making experience data-driven to generate insights, and creating platforms to enable connected selling between companies and partners.
Big Data, customer analytics and loyalty marketingKevin May
Want to improve the customer experience while optimizing customer service, marketing spend and wallet share?
In this FREE webinar from Tnooz and IBM, attendees learn the benefits of big data analytics including:
Developing persona-level customer segmentation.
Improving products/services launches.
Optimizing return on marketing spend.
Utilizing social media analytics.
Webinar presenters are:
Kurt Wedgwood – information agenda consultant for travel and transportation, IBM
Tzaras Christon – executive vice president for growth, Aginity
Kevin May - editor and moderator, Tnooz
Gene Quinn - CEO and producer, Tnooz
The document presents the findings of a survey of over 1,300 marketers on their mobile marketing strategies and effectiveness, including that few track customer mobile adoption, speed and efficiency are top priorities, and mobile works best when integrated with other tactics.
Right Cloud Mindset: Survey Results Hospitality | Accentureaccenture
The document summarizes survey results from the hotel industry on key functional objectives, technology challenges, and investment priorities over the next two years. Across various departments like guest experience, revenue management, and operations, common themes are emerging such as a focus on contactless technologies, improved data integration, and leveraging AI/ML to enhance capabilities like forecasting and pricing. However, legacy systems are limiting hotels' ability to achieve these objectives due to issues like lack of flexibility, integration challenges, and complexity. Moving to the cloud could help address these barriers by providing scalability, real-time data processing, and breaking down silos to improve collaboration.
Solving the Cross-Platform Targeting Riddle: A Forrester White PaperVivastream
This document discusses challenges with cross-platform user targeting. It describes three main targeting options - cookie-based, person-based, and inference-based - along with their strengths and weaknesses. Marketers are encouraged to shift from audience targeting to relationship management by gathering user data from various sources to improve targeting across devices. The recommendations are to push innovation, ensure privacy policies align with brand values, and invest in creative strategy along with targeting.
Social Networking Sites are Changing the Face of CommuncationIBMTelecom
Social networking Web sites and services have become primary communication media for a new generation of digitally aware consumers, competing with traditional telecommunications for "share of voice." To compete effectively over the long term, CSPs will need to take bold, significant steps to embrace the emerging broader definition of communications.
IBM SPDE - Enabling Service Providers to Work SmarterIBMTelecom
A brief history concerning IBM’s Service Provider Delivery Environment (SPDE) strategy. Summary of the latest capabilities IBM’s SPDE 3.0 brings to bear and highlights a number of case examples successfully addressing the transformation challenges CSPs must deal with today and in the near-term future.
Stepping Up to the Challenges of Digital MarketingCognizant
"The advent of digital has dramatically impacted how CMOs run their marketing operations. By identifying and employing the processes, business models and technologies required in today's digitally intensive business environment, companies can strengthen their brand, enrich their relationships with customers, and manage an increasingly complex mix of partners, processes, and technologies.
Digital Transformation Company of the FutureRids Vazi
Digital transformation has rewritten the rules of competition across industries. Now, the consumer products sector is in digital’s crosshairs as web-connected digitized products deployed at massive scale become a major competitive force.
Download this white paper to learn about the role your products play as the central pillar of digital transformation.
How Insurers Can Leverage Social and Messaging Apps to Enhance Digital ValueCognizant
Insurance carriers looking to bolster their digital ROI and reach their clientele of millennials most effectively must look beyond mobile apps and online portals, into social and messaging apps. We offer a roadmap and use cases for enhancing insurers' digital presence.
- Best Buy is undergoing a strategic transformation of its supply chain to become more customer-centric and efficient in response to changing customer behaviors and trends in the retail industry.
- It is shifting from a push-based to a pull-based supply chain model with more tailored assortments and one unified forecast to better meet customer needs.
- A key part of the transformation involves deploying RFID technology to improve the customer in-store experience through more accurate inventory tracking and faster checkout.
Pervasive digital technology is fundamentally changing the retail banking business model. Here's how banking Chief Information Officers (CIOs) need to change in order to lead the digital charge, according to our recent study.
Data-enhanced customer experience: a recipe for happy and loyal customers. Perception defines quality, and it’s time to turn user data into a competitive advantage in enhancing the customer experience.
The Age Of New Reality Marketing V5.1 FinalTony Mooney
It\'s been a bug-bear of mine for many years that the average marketing skill set has not moved on very much from the 1960\'s model of 4 \'P\'s (Product, Price, Promotion, Place). Or that marketing is still largely synonomous with advertising - and spam advertising at that. This is a presentation I did to a marketing forum out in Singapore, where I\'ve tried to outline the new capabilities of the marketer of the 21st century. I also postulate the (controversial) perspective that a chunk of this new capability - especially around data and decisioning - might be better out sourced, leaving the internal marketing skills to be concentrated on strategy and proposition. See what you think. [Sorry you won\'t have my spoken narrative just yet but the slides are reasonably self explanatory]
We are in the midst of the next great transformative era in the media business. The digital age, supported by data, technology, and predictive analytics has created a new opportunity to be more precise, more efficient, and more effective with our clients’ media investments:
- New ways of identifying who your customers are.
- New ways of reaching and influencing them at critical moments.
New ways of discovering the 50% of advertising that works, and avo- iding the 50% that doesn’t.
This reports analyses the state to digital media and its impact on the future.
For further information please look up your regional contact here: http://news.ipgmediabrands.com/magna-global/press-releases/
Enabling your Enterprise Mobility to tap New Growth OpportunitiesNIIT Technologies
Enterprise Mobility is a powerful tool that promises to bridge the gap between business and IT and truly make IT a business enabler by providing the capability to tap new opportunitie
With the advance of digital media, consumers are engaging with brands using fundamentally different behaviors.
Wingman is a Digital Consulting firm. Working with our clients on their most challenging issues, we are able to develop well defined strategies for all digital media, be it on the web, mobile devices or social platforms.
This document discusses the impact of technology on the future of marketing. It notes that while marketing fundamentals have not changed, technology has transformed the practice of marketing as dollars increasingly migrate online. Most companies have increased their online marketing spending in recent years. However, marketers face challenges in obtaining an integrated view of customers across online touchpoints and interpreting the resulting data. To address this, the document recommends that marketers adopt technology-enabled collaboration, multichannel marketing, and personalization to deliver optimized customer experiences and drive revenue.
This document provides a sales strategy for IPenable, which designs communications solutions for electric utilities and device vendors. It outlines IPenable's target customers, key decision makers, sales processes, and initial sales successes and failures. The strategy involves prospecting utilities and vendors through conferences, associations, and meetings with CTOs, project managers, and engineers. The sales cycle can take 6 months to 5 years as utility projects require significant planning. Initial successes came from informational calls to understand customer needs, while delays occurred without a clear customer strategy or impatience with long sales cycles in the utility sector.
Industry Index DMP Insight Report - May 2015Gayle Meyers
This document summarizes a report on data management platforms (DMPs). It finds that over half of respondents currently use DMPs and nearly 40% plan to within a year. When selecting DMPs, marketers value performance, scalability, and value most. Currently, marketers are fairly satisfied with DMPs' ability to provide a unified data view but find data is still siloed across channels. Programmatic integration is the most important DMP capability and also the area with the highest satisfaction among current users.
It Takes an Ecosystem: How Technology Companies Deliver Exceptional ExperiencesCognizant
Experience is becoming a key strategy for technology companies as they shift to cloud-based subscription models. This requires building an "experience ecosystem" that breaks down silos and involves partners. Building such an ecosystem involves adopting a cross-functional approach to experience, making experience data-driven to generate insights, and creating platforms to enable connected selling between companies and partners.
Big Data, customer analytics and loyalty marketingKevin May
Want to improve the customer experience while optimizing customer service, marketing spend and wallet share?
In this FREE webinar from Tnooz and IBM, attendees learn the benefits of big data analytics including:
Developing persona-level customer segmentation.
Improving products/services launches.
Optimizing return on marketing spend.
Utilizing social media analytics.
Webinar presenters are:
Kurt Wedgwood – information agenda consultant for travel and transportation, IBM
Tzaras Christon – executive vice president for growth, Aginity
Kevin May - editor and moderator, Tnooz
Gene Quinn - CEO and producer, Tnooz
The document presents the findings of a survey of over 1,300 marketers on their mobile marketing strategies and effectiveness, including that few track customer mobile adoption, speed and efficiency are top priorities, and mobile works best when integrated with other tactics.
Right Cloud Mindset: Survey Results Hospitality | Accentureaccenture
The document summarizes survey results from the hotel industry on key functional objectives, technology challenges, and investment priorities over the next two years. Across various departments like guest experience, revenue management, and operations, common themes are emerging such as a focus on contactless technologies, improved data integration, and leveraging AI/ML to enhance capabilities like forecasting and pricing. However, legacy systems are limiting hotels' ability to achieve these objectives due to issues like lack of flexibility, integration challenges, and complexity. Moving to the cloud could help address these barriers by providing scalability, real-time data processing, and breaking down silos to improve collaboration.
Solving the Cross-Platform Targeting Riddle: A Forrester White PaperVivastream
This document discusses challenges with cross-platform user targeting. It describes three main targeting options - cookie-based, person-based, and inference-based - along with their strengths and weaknesses. Marketers are encouraged to shift from audience targeting to relationship management by gathering user data from various sources to improve targeting across devices. The recommendations are to push innovation, ensure privacy policies align with brand values, and invest in creative strategy along with targeting.
Social Networking Sites are Changing the Face of CommuncationIBMTelecom
Social networking Web sites and services have become primary communication media for a new generation of digitally aware consumers, competing with traditional telecommunications for "share of voice." To compete effectively over the long term, CSPs will need to take bold, significant steps to embrace the emerging broader definition of communications.
IBM SPDE - Enabling Service Providers to Work SmarterIBMTelecom
A brief history concerning IBM’s Service Provider Delivery Environment (SPDE) strategy. Summary of the latest capabilities IBM’s SPDE 3.0 brings to bear and highlights a number of case examples successfully addressing the transformation challenges CSPs must deal with today and in the near-term future.
This report analyzes the state of the European telecommunications industry and provides possible scenarios for its evolution by 2015. While telecom significantly contributes to the European economy, public markets are concerned about weakening growth prospects due to declining fixed voice revenues and maturing broadband and mobile markets. Three scenarios are presented - "Telepocalypse" with industry collapse, "Convergence Compromise" with stable consolidation, and "Evernet" with new services driving growth. Regulation will be critical in facilitating new infrastructure investments needed to realize different futures.
2015 Global Trend Forecast (Technology, Media & Telecoms)CM Research
The document provides predictions for technology, media and telecom investment themes over the next 12 months. For hardware, it predicts wearable technology and mobile payments will benefit Apple and Google due to their mobile operating systems. Samsung looks risky, while Lenovo is a long-term favorite. Software defined networking threatens Cisco and Ericsson, while EMC is a long-term play. Google is positioned to gain from numerous concurrent consumer electronics cycles. For software, applications focused on big data like Nuance and Tableau are favored. Amazon may lose cloud dominance as prices fall. For internet and media, Google leads in e-commerce and mobile. Content owners could benefit from multiple internet TV platforms. Voice revenues are declining for telecoms who
Redefining Boundaries - Total Telecom Festival 1 Dec 2015Rob Van Den Dam
The document summarizes findings from a global study of C-level executives, including those from the telecommunications industry. It finds that executives expect increased competition from both within and outside their industries. They see emerging technologies like cognitive computing, the Internet of Things, cloud and virtualization as major drivers of change. However, some telecom companies are better prepared for disruption. These "Torchbearers" focus more on customers, are more innovative in their business models and revenue streams, and are willing to be first-to-market with new offerings. To thrive in the digital future, all companies must move with speed, scale and scope.
Telcos Strategic Positioning in the new world: The revolution will be Digital...Rob Van Den Dam
The document discusses potential strategic growth plays for telecommunications companies (telcos) in response to emerging trends and the changing technology landscape. It outlines two potential strategic growth plays:
1) A strategic operational play of perfecting core operations through initiatives like customer intimacy, virtual channels, and optimizing networks.
2) Creating a "smarter ecosystem" where the telco positions itself at the center of a network of partners and services that power business and consumer needs. This involves building an "integrated ICT engine" to underpin the ecosystem through capabilities like managed infrastructure platforms and integrated IP communications services.
Telecom 2020: Preparing for a very different futureRob Van Den Dam
Mega market and technological trends are creating a very new world for consumers, businesses and markets as a whole. A potential role for communications service providers in this new world charts a path to growth
Customer centric digital platform for utilities: Process to valueCapgemini
New digital technologies like smart metering and smart
homes, together with the rise of mobile connectivity and
social media, are playing a major role in transforming
how utilities and customers interact
Cloud computing technologies can help electronics companies improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enable new capabilities. Through cloud integration, companies can achieve operational efficiencies of scale, capture global market opportunities faster, and respond quickly to changes. Cloud computing also allows for enhanced systems, application, and data integration across direct sales channels. This improves customer experience and strengthens brands. Additionally, cloud computing improves operational efficiency by enabling collaboration and advanced analytics. It also enables collaborative product development through integrated information and applications. Finally, cloud computing can help electronics companies take advantage of opportunities in enabling smarter home technologies.
The document discusses AT&T's vision for how mobility will transform businesses over the next 3-5 years. It envisions that mobility will allow companies to streamline operations, increase worker productivity, and enable real-time response. It then elaborates on how mobility will enhance workflows, improve access to knowledge, speed up transactions, and provide better reporting and management. Specifically, it outlines how mobility can enhance businesses in four ways: by improving workflows, knowledge management, transactions processing, and reporting.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions can turn unstructured data into usable information through an open and flexible system. This allows organizations to be more productive, efficient and agile. ECM combines traditional collaboration tools with content management and social networking to create powerful new business processes. When implemented effectively with changes to work culture, ECM increases efficiency, fosters innovation, and drives growth.
1) Enterprises are at an inflection point with the rise of mobility and BYOD, but managing mobility in-house presents many complexities and difficulties.
2) Finding the right mobility partner is important to help enterprises navigate these challenges. Look for a comprehensive partner that can offer flexible, scalable solutions and act as an agent for business transformation.
3) Toyota Australia worked with UXC Connect to implement a successful enterprise mobility managed services program that provided a stable platform for innovation while avoiding overburdening their IT department.
Digital Transformation is recreating business models, changing the way customers and employees interact
and altering whole industries. Social and business values surge when people, devices, and resources are
meaningfully connected.
With the COVID-19 pandemic a further catalyst, organizations worldwide are embracing digital transformation
to manage rapid organization-wide changes in support of business continuity, remote working, and dynamic
service delivery.
Meanwhile economies are now facing the threat of recession and businesses are weighing the impact of
inflation and higher interest rates, as well as having to deal with crises in supply chains, energy sourcing and the
acquisition of digital skills. Making sense of such disruptive changes has never been so important in order to
transform smartly instead of being left behind.
As an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) leader with over 120 years of expertise and experience,
NEC is sharing its views on leading and emerging trends and technologies to help your Smart Enterprise anchor
its strategic investments. Explore NEC’s Top 10 Strategic Drivers and discover how to navigate through the
developments to simplify your organization, realize workforce efficiencies, deliver superior customer services,
and gain a competitive advantage.
By embracing Digital Transformation and enabling advanced approaches to how Communications and IT
services are delivered and managed, NEC provides new ways for Smart Enterprises to thrive and grow.
The document discusses enabling growth and innovation in Latin America through connectivity. It highlights key enablers like data, connected things, participating users, available capabilities, ubiquitous digitalization, and economic platforms. It then summarizes Ericsson projects and products like IoT network software that provides reduced device costs, extended battery life, and improved indoor coverage. The document also discusses Ericsson Cloud and the benefits it provides for digital industrialization. ConsumerLab insights on connected home services and commuting are briefly mentioned.
This document provides an overview of cloud-based unified communications and its benefits. It discusses key technologies like VoIP, video conferencing, and mobility that enable unified communications. Implementing unified communications in the cloud can improve collaboration, productivity, and customer service while reducing costs. Both large and small businesses can benefit from the scalability, flexibility and simplified infrastructure of a cloud-based unified communications system.
MSP Industry Brief - From Break / Fix to Recurring Revenue Madeline Titcomb
This industry brief highlights the industry and technology trends impacting MSPs now and in the future. It highlights ways for MSPs to take advantage of the cloud to create new revenue streams, address customer needs, and grow recurring
revenue for greater profitability and less volatility.
CIO's implanting digital transformation strategies are facing increasing challenges on how to migrate security integrated hybrid technologies. Find out here the future of Future Networks today
Customer Service is a new corporate battleground. Companies need to provide state of the art customer service in order to compete and in this new market. This white paper discusses the business value and best practices of integrating your companies phone system with a strong central CRM.
Digital Innovation - A framework of ImpactsMalcolm Ryder
Digital modes of IT-driven change are so varied that it is difficult to understand what an "enterprise" approach to coherent transformation is really based on. Researchers such as Archestra and Ventana offer a way to see the forest through the trees.
BroadSoft UC-One: Communications transformation - key to competitive advantageBroadSoft
Are you ready to transform your communications into a strategic competitive advantage? This e-book outlines the significant role communications plays in competing in today's global economy, and the benefits of leveraging the cloud and other innovative technologies to improve workplace communications.
Find out how cloud unified communications leads to higher productivity, faster decision making, and more streamlined processes to help you grow your business and deliver better customer value.
The Mobile Enterprise:
Putting business in motion.
Informed and inspired by 20,000 Smarter Planet engagements, here’s what we know and believe about mobile.
1. Advancing technologies are rapidly disrupting traditional business models. Senior executives must think strategically about how to prepare their organizations for this new environment.
2. Ten emerging technology-enabled business trends are profoundly reshaping industries: distributed cocreation, networks as organizations, deeper collaboration, the Internet of Things, experimentation with big data, wiring for a sustainable world, anything-as-a-service models, multisided platforms, innovation from emerging markets, and using technology for social good.
3. To exploit these trends, leaders must track their evolution, be alert to adoption rates, guide strategic adaptations, and use "test and learn" methods to avoid disruptions from overly rapid technology adoption
Ten tech-enabled business trands to watch - August 10Carl Terrantroy
1. Advancing technologies are rapidly disrupting traditional business models and forcing strategic changes. Ten emerging tech-enabled business trends were identified that executives need to understand and adapt to, including distributed cocreation, networks as organizations, collaboration at scale, the growing 'Internet of Things', experimenting with big data, and wiring for a sustainable world.
2. To guide strategies in this changing environment, leaders should track the evolution of new technologies, monitor adoption rates, assign accountability for implications across functions, catalyze collaboration across silos, and use "test and learn" methods when implementing technologies to avoid disruptions. Fully exploiting these trends will require transforming organizations into learning laboratories.
Cloud Computing: Helping Financial Institutions Leverage the Cloud to Improve...IBM Banking
IBM's cloud computing solutions improve capital utilization, reducing the excessive infrastructure costs associated with underutilized IT resources. They provide elastic scalability and accelerate time to value. They help increase agility and responsiveness to changing business conditions and foster innovation. IBM provides clear economic value and helps financial institutions work through the right mix of delivery models and choices (by workload) to reap the maximum benefit.
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The document discusses the nexus of disruptive forces including cloud computing, mobility, social computing, big data, and other emerging technologies. It provides data on how these trends are impacting IT priorities and challenges in areas like mobile and cloud strategy. Graphics show projections on key technology adoption trends like virtualization and mobile devices. The role of social media, analytics, and cloud brokers are also summarized. Finally, it emphasizes that leadership is needed to help organizations navigate these changing technological landscapes and realize business value.
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1. New Intelligence
The Information Agenda Guide
for Communications Service Providers
Transform your business through information and analytics
2. Turn information into insight (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and supply
Information is the key
There is unprecedented change taking place in chain management (SCM) were made to address these
the communications industry today. Technology, automation requirements. For most providers, information
Leaders from around the world are focused information into a strategic driver to accelerate globalization and economic liberalization have caused the managed by these systems is isolated, unsynchronized and
more than ever on the economic, social innovation, business optimization and sustained communications industry to change more rapidly than many often of questionable quality. Providers rarely obtain optimum
and environmental implications of global competitive differentiation. other industries. Gone are the days of vertical powerhouses value from this information.
integration, where free trade agreements, the providing one product—such as wireline phone service with
When a foundation of trusted information a predictable revenue stream—and controlling every aspect A recent IBM report, “Telco 2015 – Five Telling Years, Four
Internet and globalization are making the world
that can be shared, re-used and applied as of the creation and delivery of that product. Triple- and now Future Scenarios,”1 indicates that growth can be achieved
simultaneously smaller, flatter and smarter. The
a strategic asset is in place, organizations quad-play business models are becoming the norm as through pervasive, open connectivity for any person, object
systems and processes that enable goods
can optimize every transaction, process and communications delivery systems converge and consumers and a multitude of connected devices, stimulating third-
to be developed, manufactured, bought and
decision at the point of greatest impact. In increasingly desire a single source for their communications party innovation; and by leveraging customer and network
sold, and services that deliver everything from
doing so, they can move analysis from a back needs (wired, wireless, video and Internet services). As insights to deliver new experiences that help to accelerate
electricity, financial transactions and efficient
office operation limited to business analyst evidenced by recent industry activities, emergence of a the evolving digital economy. An information agenda creates
healthcare systems, to name a few, are driving
experts to an approach that enables everyone telemedia industry is a distinct possibility. an enterprise-wide vision that will allow providers to execute
us to become a smarter planet.
to optimize their decisions based on real-time, on the desired scenario, manage that growth and create the
Time-to-market for new services and return-on-investment desired results..
What all of this means is that for the first time in predictive analytics. It can deliver immediate
horizons are being significantly shortened as providers
history, almost anything can become digitally and cumulative value with each step, resulting in
compete in geographically larger and increasingly As a result, communications service providers are launching
aware and interconnected. This brings major sustainable practices and processes that create
competitive markets. Risk mitigation, from the technical, new initiatives designed to drive new intelligence, business
implications for the value that can be derived a smarter organization; one that can make better
financial and regulatory perspectives, gains importance as optimization and ongoing competitive advantage – and these
from such systems. With so much technology informed decisions ranging from everyday moves
providers collaborate with partners for content, services and initiatives all depend on the exploitation of information that is
and networking abundantly available at to major strategic bets.
technologies to gain competitive advantage or provide more created, owned or managed by the provider.
such low cost, what wouldn’t you put smart compelling service offerings.
Communications service providers are well
technology into? What service wouldn’t you Information is at the core of the communications industry
aware of the opportunities inherent in an
provide a customer, citizen, student or patient? The key to managing these activities is the effective The new, converged business model demands a better
instrumented, interconnected and intelligent
What wouldn’t you connect? What information stewardship of all of the information in your enterprise. utilization of information—information that is already in
world. Rapid increases in broadband deployment
wouldn’t you mine for insight? Successful communications service providers will be those a provider’s control as well as the massive volumes of
and throughput capacity will further amplify this that exploit customer, network and operational information customer, transactional and media information that will
The foremost issues facing enterprises today potential. 10,000 security cameras in London as a strategic resource. Those that don’t will be frustrated become vital in providing a broad range of customer
are the waste, inaccuracy and number of are connected to the web, feeding it video 24 and overwhelmed with increasing volumes of underutilized services and a superior customer experience. Every call,
missed opportunities caused by the inability hours a day. Take the 300 connected sensors on information. every SMS message, every pay-per-view or on-demand
to efficiently manage and apply the rapidly a bridge in Minnesota, add the 800 monitoring movie creates data that can enable a provider to gain
growing volumes of information. This information another in Hong Kong—and multiply by the Communications providers have invested in point solutions insight regarding the customer, market segments, emerging
explosion is creating challenges, but forward- millions of roads, bridges and buildings in cities with the goal of automating business processes to reduce trends and delivery channels. Considering the potential
thinking organizations are turning it into an around the world. Now add billions of intelligent cycle time and cost. Significant investments in enterprise- value of these data, a more effective strategy of information
phones, cameras, cars and appliances, and wide applications such as enterprise resource planning management is required.
opportunity. They are leveraging information
to identify opportunities for profitable growth, millions of miles of smart power lines and
cost take-out, and proactive risk management. roadways. Is it any wonder that in just three
They are transforming their business through years, IP traffic is expected to total more than half
information and analytics to make better a zettabyte? (A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes—
informed, real-time decisions as they turn their or 1 followed by 21 zeroes.)
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3. Today, CIOs have an opportunity to harness and leverage Overcoming these hurdles can be well worth the effort. When Information Management and Business Analytics Software
the information they have captured to provide sustainable all of an organization’s data can be consistently utilized with Information Management software and solutions comprise a Information Management and Business Analytics in action:
competitive advantage, rather than simply support or processes and governance in place to assure the delivery rich portfolio of technology and services that help companies Opportunities for Communications Industry Optimization
automate business processes. Yet, accessing and exploiting of correct, complete and current information, that information establish and leverage trusted information to optimize
that information is not simple. For example, data is often becomes trusted information. As seen in Table 1, that trusted business performance. Communications service providers Reduce operational costs
locked up in multiple departmental silos—putting it at risk information can then be used as the fuel for an entirely can reduce operational costs, gain a far more detailed • Enable faster call resolution via secure access to all
of duplication and other errors—and a communications new level of information-driven services—and sustainable understanding of customer trends and behaviors, reduce risk relevant customer information
service provider’s different business units may use different competitive advantage. and improve revenue management.
• Reduce customer service costs via improved self-
terminology or formats to describe the same information.
service
IBM Business Analytics software allows telecommunications
• Speed time to market of new services to help drive
carriers and cable operators to leverage information to create
new revenue
a sustainable competitive advantage. IBM analytics and
performance management solutions provide a planning, • Reduce cost and risk of retaining data longer than
Context marketing
consolidation and business intelligence platform that legally required
Advertising becomes Carefully targeted campaigns and customer interactions based upon
profile, location and time for improved up-sell and cross-sell revenue helps telcos and cable operators plan, understand and Transform infrastructure and business processes
manage financial and operational performance. With core • Improve overall IT efficiency and reduce costs by
Customer experience management capabilities including reporting, analytics, dashboards, consolidating data sources, establishing enterprise
Reactive network
becomes Understand and assess the actual customer experience, anticipate planning, scorecards and more, service providers can better platforms for business intelligence, master data
management
and resolve network issues and notify affected clients understand performance, nurture longer-lasting and more management, content-centric business process
profitable customer relationships and make more informed- management
Predictive Churn mitigation decisions throughout the organization.
• Establish enterprise information lifecycle standards, to
Predict subscriber usage and accurately identify high-value
Churn management becomes customers at risk of moving to another provider. Proactively address use information in accord with industry or regulatory
Information Management and Business Analytics capabilities
issues based upon understanding of customer needs to retain and requirements
increase loyalty. allow a provider to better utilize the information under its
• Integrate departments, processes and systems to
control, thereby facilitating more accurate customer profiling,
enable rapid and accurate provisioning
Monetizing customer segmentation superior customer experience, faster product development
Increasing average
and targeted service offerings based upon the individual • Retire and/or consolidate legacy applications
revenue per user Exploit customer, operational and network data to rapidly develop
becomes and deliver a wider range of services that exploit convergent profile, transaction context and device. This level of
(ARPU) via
technologies and are tailored to the needs of increasingly diverse coordination and optimization can only be achieved through Find new sources of revenue and profit, while
additional services
customer segments.
a common information management strategy. improving customer experience
• Improve overall customer experience across
marketing, sales and service dimensions
• Exploit extensive customer, network and operational
data controlled by provider to identify new revenue
opportunities, develop new products and services,
cross-sell / up-sell, improve customer retention, and
increase ARPU
• Proactively retain valued customers via predictive
churn management
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4. Building an information agenda • Strategy: The vision that guides decisions and helps the The next ring details the specific business optimization
For organizations that want to get started on the path to organization determine what information is needed to drive objectives that support the strategic imperatives. The
business optimization and establish a foundation for new your key business priorities. business imperatives and business objectives are the
intelligence but do not know where to begin, an information • Roadmap: A phased execution plan for transforming the foundational components used to help set the vision and
agenda is needed. The IBM Information Agenda™ is a organization, the roadmap will identify the specific projects strategy for an organization’s information agenda. This
proven, industry-based approach that delivers an enterprise- that will return the greatest value in line with your priorities approach helps ensure that IT objectives and overall
wide strategy to align an organization’s information with its and timescales. corporate objectives are aligned and provides line-of-
strategic objectives, leveraging roadmaps, tools and best business and IT colleagues with a common language to
• Information Infrastructure: The technology components
practice methodologies based upon expert industry and communicate in regarding all projects and plans.
and capabilities needed to establish a common
domain knowledge and successful client implementations.
information framework
In establishing an Information Agenda for the organization, At the center of the Information Agenda Guide are the lines
• Information Governance: The policies and practices
the CIO, working with line of business colleagues, puts of business that have primary responsibility for developing
that facilitate the management, usage, improvement and
information to work to achieve both short-term and long-term strategies to address these business imperatives and
protection of your information supply chain so you can
strategic changes. effectively execute or respond to the business objectives.
Figure 1. An effective Information Agenda provides a strategic vision and a ensure that information remains trusted and protected
phased plan that enables Communications Service Providers to align the use
of information with the organization’s business strategy. throughout its lifecycle
An effective Information Agenda helps organizations achieve
several key objectives: As figure 1 indicates, the Information Agenda Guide
for Communications Service Providers identifies crucial
• Identify data and content that are vital to the organization IT projects that establish the necessary information
infrastructure and then leverage that infrastructure to help
• Identify how, when and where information should be made
produce measurable business results identified by the
available
CIOs, working with their line of business colleagues, can business objective.
• Determine data management processes and governance
build a best-in-class information management vision for their
practices
organization and create a detailed roadmap to realize it. The Strategy — establish end-to-end vision and business-driven
• Identify and prioritize the information projects that deliver goal is to transform the organization to unlock the business value
the most return value of information for competitive advantage, enabling At its highest level, the Information Agenda Guide for
• Align information use to match the organization’s business organizations to deliver trusted, accurate information to Communications Service Providers incorporates industry
strategy optimize business performance. best practices to assist in identification of the primary
• Create and deploy an information infrastructure that meets information-centric business imperatives that drive virtually
both immediate and future needs The Information Agenda Guide for Communications Service every business decision. As Figure 2 illustrates in its
Providers can help direct businesses as they develop their outermost ring, revenue management, operational and
The Information Agenda Guide for Communications Service own Information Agenda in a matter of weeks through organizational efficiency, optimize IT strategy, governance,
Providers Information Agenda workshops. The Information Agenda risk & compliance, and customer focus are key strategic
IBM accelerates the process and minimizes the risk for Guide addresses the four key components of an Information imperatives that many communications service providers
Figure 2. The Business Optimization Map for Communications Service Providers:
creating an information agenda through industry-specific Agenda and ensures that they work in conjunction with each contend with under current market dynamics. a proven approach for turning strategy into reality.
Information Agenda Guides. IBM’s Information Agenda Guide other. It involves key stakeholders across the organization to
for Communications Service Providers is a practical, proven explore and address these four key components and ensures
approach for turning a client’s vision and strategy into reality. that they work together (see Figure 1).
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5. Roadmap – accelerate projects for short & long-term ROI As the journey towards business optimization evolves, them to retain customers and acquire news ones. Since
The roadmap gives information management and integration guiding principles will be applied to leverage existing better management of the organizations’ customer-related
efforts direction and cohesion. It spells out the priority, assets and IT purchase decisions with these key common information is vital to achieving these imperatives, CEOs
order and timeframe of IT projects necessary to achieve information requirements in mind. The journey will include and other executives are increasingly looking to the CIO for
the organization’s crucial information-enabled business looking for opportunities to use existing IT assets as common answers.
optimization objectives. The first step in creating the components to be utilized for other projects and will provide
roadmap is identifying and prioritizing the underlying IT guidelines that help ensure that new technology investments Making the transition from the current state of information
projects—usually combinations of software and services— can accommodate both short and long term objectives. management to the ideal state identified by an organization’s
that can help achieve each business imperative. information agenda is not an easy task. Some of the
Information Governance – align people, processes and information factors that prevent communications service providers
As Figure 3 indicates, the Information Agenda Guide As a crucial component of the Information Agenda Guide, from delivering a superior customer experience are the
for Communications Service Providers identifies crucial the information governance portion assists a provider numerous, isolated and inconsistent sources of customer
IT projects that establish the necessary information in establishing standards for data quality, management data distributed throughout the organization; poor data
infrastructure for improving the customer experience, processes and accountability throughout the information quality; the difficulty in coordinating and synchronizing
establishing new business models and improving operational lifecycle. These help to improve business performance via customer information; and the inability to establish a single,
efficiency—and then leverage that infrastructure to help standard definitions and processes that establish a more trusted source of complete, accurate and current customer
Figure 3: Addressing Common Key Information Requirements
produce measurable business results identified by the disciplined approach to managing data and information information.
business objective. across the enterprise.
Depending on an organization’s existing information The Information Agenda Guide for Communications Service
2. Establish an accurate, trusted view of information
architecture and the objectives that are of most importance Providers applies best practices, based upon IBM’s
over time—A flexible architecture can leverage existing IT
to the business, an organization’s final information agenda extensive experience in the communications industry, for
investments to produce accurate and trusted information
roadmap can contain some or all of these projects. creating information governance policies. It also leverages
that is consistent across sources, facilitating better
existing policies and procedures to create an environment
analytics and sound business decisions.
Information infrastructure — create, manage and deliver trusted that can more consistently and confidently manage
information 3. Plan, understand and optimize business performance information, thereby obtaining maximum value from these
All imperatives and business initiatives depend upon — Leveraging trusted information to build plans, assets in support of the strategic imperatives.
a common information infrastructure that enables a understand how business is performing and focus on
communications service provider to more effectively create, optimizing performance across the enterprise. IT projects for improving customer experience
capture, manage and utilize information associated with As a result of the industry-wide shift in emphasis from a
4. Provide solutions that address key business
customers, services, products and market strategy. As comparatively small number of products to an increasingly
objectives —These solutions focus on customer
shown in Figure 3, an effective information infrastructure larger and complicated number of services, improving
experience management, churn management and
allows a communications company to: the customer experience is high on most communications
loyalty, fraud reduction, new product offerings, regulatory
organizations’ lists of strategic imperatives. Providers are
compliance and information lifecycle management,
1. Manage information over its lifetime—Reducing looking for new and better ways to identify market needs
among others. These solutions can enable new business
the costs associated with managing information – both quickly, predict the buying behaviors and propensities of Figure 4: An example prescriptive roadmap of IT projects to enhance the
models and service innovation, improving operational
customer experience.
structured and unstructured - while controlling access, customer segments and provide new services that will allow
efficiencies while reducing costs and differentiating the
expanding retention and increasing compliance. customer experience.
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6. IT projects for revenue management IT Projects for operational and organizational efficiency
Revenue management has evolved from the time when a The idea of using technology to enable greater operational
regulated environment allowed providers to focus simply efficiencies is not new. What is new, however, is the
on cutting costs and adding new customers. In many realization of the vital role of information in accomplishing
communications service provider organizations, costs have this. An organization’s information agenda can now
already been substantially reduced, while the overall pool help direct the creation, collection, management and
of potential new customers is becoming more sophisticated dissemination of information required for efficient utilization
and demanding in the use of technology, services and of operational assets, with the goals of optimizing asset
information sources. It takes far more effort to attract and usage and life as well as planning and implementing new
retain customers in today’s market. infrastructure required to maintain market leadership. The
current market now requires an extensive ecosystem
The complexity associated with revenue management of partners and suppliers in order to meet customer
(Figure 4) challenges every provider. Some of the factors that requirements. Efficient partner collaboration and
prevent communications service providers from optimizing management can have a significant effect upon a provider’s
their revenue management opportunities are the difficulties market performance.
and delays in developing, planning and executing the launch
of new products and services due to a lack of sufficiently Unfortunately, the legacy data and information applications Figure 6: An example prescriptive roadmap of IT projects for operational efficiency
Figure 5: An example prescriptive roadmap of IT projects for revenue
management. reliable information, the inability to accurately identify already in place can be barriers to the implementation of
customer needs or segments that could be addressed by the an information agenda. Some of the factors that prevent
Many of the same issues arise when providing information targeted services, and the difficulty of quickly implementing communications service providers from achieving operational
about products, plans and services to customers, which, new services once opportunities are identified. efficiency are the inability establish a comprehensive view of
given the increasing complexity and variety, result in asset and infrastructure utilization due to the lack of data and IT Projects to optimize IT strategy
inconsistency of experience across the various channels Determining the life-time-value of profitable customers process integration among legacy IT systems or applications. Although this paper emphasizes the potential value
of interaction. The Information Agenda Guide helps and retaining them are equally important. The ability to The Information Agenda Guide helps communications of information under control of a provider, from and IT
communications service providers remedy these problems rapidly analyze massive volumes of data combined with service providers apply business intelligence and analytics perspective, there are two key barriers to the effective
by improving the quality and consistency of customer data sophisticated predictive algorithms can mitigate churn and to gain a more accurate and detailed assessment of network utilization of that information. The first is the number of
regardless of its source, integrating various sources of data positively impact revenue. The Information Agenda Guide and operational utilization with the goal of identifying issues isolated, legacy systems and applications that most providers
to create a “single view of customer” or central product helps communications service providers improve revenue or trends that may impede optimum utilization, result in maintain, making it virtually impossible to integrate these
catalogue that is consistent across all channels of customer management by offering business intelligence and analytic unnecessary costs or delay problem resolution(Figure 6). sources into a “single view” that provides a current, accurate
interaction, and helping establish an environment for capabilities to segment customers more effectively, improve Improved partner collaboration and management can be and complete of customer, product, network, asset or other
detailed analysis of customer transactions to gain insight into new customer acquisition, identify new product and service facilitated through well-established processes for product entity. Many providers will admit that a large number of these
customer trends. opportunities, and bring them to market faster. development and implementation cycles, timely and accurate could be removed without impacting operations. However,
settlements and shared insight in to the overall performance determining the appropriate ones remains a challenge.
of products and services.
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7. Once the relevant data sources are identified, an Information of these data sources or systems. In such an environment,
Agenda can enable a provider to establish enterprise-wide establishing a consistent information lifecycle strategy to
data quality practices that clearly define data and its meta- support the regulatory requirements is a daunting task.
data, its usage and the transformations applied throughout
its lifecycle. Data models specifically designed for the Equally challenging is the growing sophistication of agents
telecommunications industry and master data management that perpetrate fraud. With annual losses estimated in
capabilities further improve quality, consistency, access billions of dollars worldwide, identification and prevention of
and use of data for analysis and insight to enable service fraud in all areas of a provider’s operations is an unfortunate,
innovation, improve operational efficiencies and differentiate but necessary goal.
the customer experience (Figure 7).
The Information Agenda Guide provides strategies and
IT projects for governance, risk and compliance capabilities that enable a communications service provider
With every new service, new acquisition and new partner to systematically address the risk and compliance issues
there are new risks to assess and new compliance associated with data growth, data privacy, retention,
imperatives to establish in response to legislative and discovery, test data management and application
industry requirements such as data retention and privacy. decommissioning; records retention and management; and
Figure 7: An example prescriptive roadmap of projects to optimize IT strategy Figure 8: An example prescriptive roadmap of IT projects for governance, risk
Risk and compliance have a broad set of technical, e-mail management and archiving (Figure 8). Accurate and and compliance.
financial and legal implications and demands with respect timely responses to government reporting requests can be
Data quality is the second barrier that prevents a provider to information management. Behind all successful risk facilitated through better integration of data sources and The Power of an Information Agenda Approach
from realizing the full value of data under their control. and compliance efforts is information—trusted, accurate standard reports specifically tailored to lines of business. In With an Information Agenda for Communications Services
Analysis and decisions based upon questionable data information that can be quickly accessed and analyzed to the area of fraud, rapid processing of customer and network Providers in place, CIOs have many of the tools needed
provide little to no advantage to lines of business that are give a true picture of the business today and for the future. data via sophisticated analytics can help a provider quickly to make the essential transition from simply supporting the
required to meet specific business objectives in response to identify and address those problems. business to making a measurable, sustainable contribution to
rapidly changing market environments. However, the volumes of data, the diversity of information the business’ bottom line. The Information Agenda Guide for
and the number of isolated systems make risk management The Information Agenda guide for Communications Services Communications Services Providers supplies the integrated
Further challenging the provider is the increasing volumes of particularly challenging. Some of the factors that prevent Providers accelerates roadmap creation with best practice vision needed to help achieve the business goals and
data generated as a result of networks and technologies that communications service providers from effectively managing templates for specific IT projects. They are pre-configured objectives of a converged business model — and deliver
enable an instrumented, interconnected and intelligent world. risk and compliance issues involving enterprise information to accommodate industry-specific business optimization better business outcomes. These outcomes can range from
include the difficulty of establishing a comprehensive objectives and initiatives, allowing organizations to quickly improving factory utilization, to reducing material shortages
An Information Agenda can facilitate transition to an enterprise retention and compliance strategy for all data; the organize and prioritize IT projects within the framework of and inventory expense, to entering the market with new,
optimized IT environment through discovery and identification multitude of isolated, departmental, legacy, line-of-business their Information Agenda. high value services that increase the company’s market
of relevant data in myriad sources with the goal of reducing data and information systems that remain critical to a service differentiation and profitability.
the number of data sources (and associated management provider’s operations; varying regulations and data privacy
costs) while simultaneously aggregating and integrating key laws that international operators must conform with; and
data to enable easier access. the different management “domains” responsible for each
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8. The benefits — competitive advantage through business Analytics and Optimization helps businesses make better For more information
optimization decisions faster while optimizing operations, either by To learn more about the Information Agenda Guide for
The IBM Information Agenda Guide can help eliminating costs or transforming business processes. Communications Service Providers and IBM Information
communications service providers address a wide variety of Ultimately, Business Analytics and Optimization helps predict Management solutions, contact your IBM sales
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leverages IBM’s expertise to guide CIOs, senior IT managers
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Most important, consistently delivering trusted information process of building a cohesive Information Agenda with an
to the right people at the right time gives organizations the actionable set of projects to execute. A hosted workshop can
ability to use that information—and the intelligence derived result in faster execution and quicker realization of return on
from it—in entirely new ways, providing real competitive IBM Information Management and Information Infrastructure investment.
advantage for providers whose infrastructure and services solutions offer end-to-end information infrastructure
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Why IBM is the right transformation partner offerings have been specifically designed to address virtually
IBM’s unparalleled combination of pure science, deep every aspect of an organization’s trusted information needs.
industry knowledge and technology expertise makes it Based on open standards and reflecting an investment of
uniquely qualified to help business discover a new kind over US$12 billion in the last four years, these offerings are
of intelligence. Only IBM offers the industry accelerators, among the industry’s most comprehensive.
enabling technologies and deep expertise with a proven
approach necessary to do so. IBM complements its Information Agenda with additional
services and capabilities from IBM’s Business Analytics and
The Information Agenda Guide for Communications Service Optimization organization.
Providers is a practical, accelerated and proven approach
developed by IBM after years of experience of working with IBM Business Analytics and Optimization leverages the
leading global organizations. It is a cross-IBM program unique capabilities of IBM Research, which, when combined
composed of a proven, prescriptive methodology and with our world-class software solutions, foundational
mature software and technology assets delivered by IBM business intelligence, performance management and
practitioners with deep industry expertise. advanced analytics, accelerate client time-to-value. Business
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