Business Operations Symposium


Monday, February 11, 9:30am-6:00pm
Hall 2, Auditorium A
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Theme : Managing the New Digital Market: Providing Anytime, Anywhere, Anyplace Services

MORNING: BUSINESS/MARKET DRIVERS & IMPLICATIONS for MANAGING MOBILE SERVICES

Session 1: Market Trends, Drivers and Influencers (Nokia Siemens Networks)

  • New Trends in mobile digital media and entertainment
    • Personalized/Targeted/Location-Based
    • User Generated Content
  • Value Chains & Business Models
    • End-to-End Content Lifecycle
    • The new mix of players (telecom, large corporate users, cable, device, media, web & advertisers)
    • Impact of mobile advertising
    • Value-add vs. Commodity bit pipe – both are viable if you plan for it
    • Preventing “over-the-top” services from maiming your added value
    • Key touch-points for making value chain partnerships work

Session 2: Business Transformation for the Mobile Service Provider (NetCracker)

  • Adapting to the Changing Market : Continuous Business Transformation
    • How to be lean, efficient & agile
    • Implications for existing Operations Support Systems
    • Migration challenges arising from transformation initiatives
  • Achieving Network & Device Independence
    • The role of SDPs in separating services from the infrastructure
    • Managing broadband/IP/3G networks
    • Managing multiple air interfaces – 2G, 3G, HSPA, WiMax
    • Challenges of End-to-end device management

Session 3: Customer Centric Management Implications – Optimizing Service Delivery for Enhanced Customer Experience

  • 3a: End-To-End Management: From Creation to Consumption (HP)
    • Using Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) for enhanced service delivery
    • Managing the content lifecycle from creator to consumer
    • Service delivery & distribution for content-rich services
  • 3b: Achieving Service Excellence by Focus on Quality of Service (Velocent)
    • Gathering and analyzing data from the network
    • Managing end to end Service Quality
    • Service Level Agreement creation and enforcement
    • Measuring the User’s Perceived Experience (CEM)
  • 3c: Evolution and Migration to Next Gen Mobile Billing Systems (Ixonos)
    • What is driving the change in billing
    • How will billing systems evolve to meet the billing needs
    • Migration challenges for the legacy systems
    • Real life examples and experiences
  • 3d: Evolving Customer Care models for the Mobile User (Cellvision/Telia Sonera)
    • Building customer centric views of the network/service
    • The role of innovative customer self service portals
    • Self-Serve case study at TeliaSonera
    • Improving the ongoing service offerings by service feedback


AFTERNOON: LEVERAGING MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS and STANDARDS for INNOVATIVE SERVICE DEPLOYMENT
Session 4: Why & Where Management Standards Matter

  • 4a: Business Transformation Case Studies (TM Forum)
    • Business Process, Information & Application Frameworks (eTOM/SID/TAM)
    • Prosspero Interface Standards
    • Rapid deployment using tried and tested application frameworks
  • 4b: Content & Service Management Models (Alcatel-Lucent)
    • Using Service Delivery Frameworks and Service Delivery Platforms
    • Moving from network focus to service focus
    • Interoperability challenges
  • 4c: Managing applications across a diversity of end user devices (TM Forum + Orange Netherlands)
    • Mobile and Wireless Device Management
    • Developing applications across multiple platforms
    • Optimizing to the device capabilities
    • Managing presence, identity & security

Session 5: Putting it All Into Action – Developing an End-to-End, Customer-Focused Strategy for Value-Added Services – Panel discussion

  • Panel discussion including various industry players looking to take the concepts presented during the day and explore and debate how they see the issues evolving. Featuring participation from
    • TM Forum
    • Nokia
    • NetCracker
    • TeliaSonera