Martin Creaner's Blog

About Martin

Martin Creaner
President & Chief Operations Officer
TM Forum

Martin Creaner has been working in the Telecommunications Industry for almost 25 years and is currently President of the Telemanagement Forum (TMForum). The TM Forum is the industry body for the the global Telecommunications industry. It has 750 member companies in over 185 countries, including all the major carriers and all the leading equipment and software Vendors.

Prior to joining the TM Forum Martin held a number of executive positions with Motorola and British Telecom.

Martin is widely published and is featured and quoted regularly in business and trade journals. Martin is also the author of the leading telecoms business book “NGOSS Distilled”.


View Martin's TM Forum Profile

Email Notifications

  • Email Notifications
    Go

TM Forum Blogs


Martin Creaner's Blog
President & Chief Operations Officer 
TM Forum

The Insider The Insider
by Tony Poulos
TM Forum

TM Forum Training
by John Reilly
Subject Matter Expert and Distinguished Fellow TM Forum
 

Leadership Blog Leadership Blog
TM Forum

Browse by Tags

  • Enabling The Connected Life

    Interesting article on the potential of M2M to grow to a $1.2trillion market by 2020 I like the " Connected life " phrase they are using. Much more along the lines of how I see the future industry than the phrases we have been using for the past couple of years - such as "Telco 2.0" . This goes far beyond anything that old Telco can do by itself, and even viewing the opportunity through the lens of Telco is fatally flawed. This new services industry is all about understanding...
  • Why Operators need to become more 'Useful' !

    Over the past week I have been talking to a lot of people about how Operators can fight back against the constant erosion of their position in the new services market. Operators have moved from being the entity that created and delivered the service, to the entity that provides the pipes along which the services are delivered. This over-the-top challenge is nothing new and is something that has been talked about for the past 24 months. But it is becoming clear that the operators re-engagement in...
  • How Singapore is Taking on the Really Big Challenges

    A quite innovative communications business model is emerging in Singapore. At an industry event last week I saw some very interesting presentations on the government led initiative to provide an open access, common communications infrastructure that could be used by multiple service providers. Two independent companies are being set up - one call Netco will be responsible for putting in place a core transport network, while the other called Nucleus Connect will be responsible for setting up the full...
  • Winning in the new services world

    I saw recently that there is speculation that Apple is going to go into competition with PayPal by producing their own multi-purpose payment system. This would allow the iTunes and App store payment system to be applied to a wider range of participating products across the web. I'm not sure why this seems to have been greeted with shock and surprise by the industry. It is after all a logical move to further improve the return on investment they have made, and hints at a future where the enabling...

Paid Advertisement
About TM Forum
Introduction, History, Board, Management Team...
Membership
How to Join, Benefits, Member List...
Community
Community Home, Groups & Teams, Blogs...
Conferences
Event Calendar, Management World, Supported Events...
Training & Webcasts
Upcoming Training Courses, Upcoming Webinars, Podcasts, On-Demand Webcasts...
Initiatives
Cable, Enabling Cloud Services, Government and Defense...
Best Practices & Standards
Frameworx, Business Process Framework (eTOM), Information Framework (SID)...
Resources
Document Library, Case Studies, White Papers
Research & Publications
Business Benchmarking, Newsletters, Insights Research...
Copyright © 1988-2012, TeleManagement Forum. All Rights Reserved
Contact Us
Careers with TM Forum
News Room
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Sitemap