TM Forum Business Innovation Award
Awarded to the Communications Service Provider demonstrating the most innovative and successful new service or business model.
Eligibility Check List
In order to be eligible for this award, your company must be:
- A current TM Forum member in good standing
- Providing a communications service directly to the end-user of that service (a Communications Service Provider)
- Delivering an innovative service to end-users, or one which incorporates a novel business model featuring an extended value-chain of partners
- Able to demonstrate use of TM Forum standards in enabling this innovation
- Able to quantify the business value derived from use of TM Forum best practices and standards in enabling that service
Judging Criteria & Process
An independent judging panel will assess each entry, announcing a short list of finalists by April 10, 2012.
Judges will look at the following criteria in order to evaluate entries:
- How innovative and successful is the new service or business model - has it been seen before, and how commercially successful has it become?
- To what extent have TM Forum best practices and standards been utilized to enable this innovation?
- Has the company shared its experiences, feedback or extensions with the TM Forum member community in order to improve TM Forum best practices and standards?
- Is the innovation isolated, or part of a broader change program across the business to unlock new revenue streams?
Entry Fees
There is no entry fee for TM Forum members.
How to Enter
Submission deadline was February 10, 2012.
Official nominees were announced March 12, 2012. An expert and impartial judging panel are reviewing all entries, and will announce the short list of the 2012 finalists on April 10, 2012.
The winner will be announced at the VIP Gala dinner on May 21, 2012 and the highlights from the evening will be announced during the Opening Keynotes at Management World 2012 in Dublin, Ireland.
The entry form for the 2013 Excellence Awards will open November 1, 2012.