TM Forum standards have been successfully adopted by many of the world’s service providers and their suppliers. However the world in which TM Forum operates is changing at an incredible pace. To ensure that the Forum's core frameworks keep pace with these changes, the TM Forum Board has established a project called ‘Blueprint’. This evolution strategy will cover the Forum’s response to key industry trends, alignment with other standards such as ITIL, and support for companies who operate solutions (Information, Communications, Entertainment) businesses.

The TM Forum Solution Frameworks can be viewed as blueprints to guide us in progressively moving towards service-orientation over a series of evolutionary phases (covered in Chapters 3 and 4 of this document). Their basic structures support service orientation, from the Business Process Framework’s set of highly cohesive, loosely coupled process elements to their companion groups of entities/objects modeled by the Information Framework, to the implementation of the processes by reusable business services (also known as NGOSS Contracts) to the cataloging of services by the Application Framework.

This document presents a Methodology for the TM Forum Solution Frameworks. This guide can be viewed as a companion to the  Solution Frameworks Statement of Direction (TR155), which is the Blueprint advice for an evolution strategy for the TM Forum Solution Frameworks.

Contained within this document are: 

       1. Business context for this evolution 
       2. The TM Forum approach to Implementing the Solution Frameworks 
       3. Evolutionary phases of implementation 
       4. Culture change issues.

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