Member Projects

The mission of the Digital Ecosystem Management project is to accelerate the ability of our members to design, plan, operationalize and assure new market opportunities through insights, practices and tangible assets. The objective is to enable a structured, scalable approach to pivoting and commercializing new services.

The project enables cross-industry co innovation opportunities and reduces barriers to growing new business.

Some new initiatives have started, including the Ecosystem Reference Architecture aiming to demonstrate how to enable composable ecosystems, and the capture of new Ecosystem Use Cases, based on IoT, aiming to demonstrate the value of reuse of existing IT estate to grow diverse solutions, based on the TM Forum IoT reference architecture. The workstreams of the project are focused on:

Zero Touch Partnering (ZTP):

This is part of the foundations of the digital ecosystem management project. Here the member teams have built and continue to evolve the Zero Touch Partnering suite of use cases, reference architectures, API profile and subsequent APIs and data models to enable automated seamless partnering, reducing the friction of doing business.

Ecosystem Reference Architecture:

This workstream team is developing the reference architecture based on the ecosystem foundations of zero touch partnering, marketplaces and connectivity-as-a-service that demonstrate how to use ODA to create ecosystem solutions for adjacent vertical industry solutions maximizing application of ODA components, APIs and Canvas. The aim is to demonstrate how to generate a composable ecosystem driving accelerated new growth and business opportunities.

Ecosystem Use Cases:

The team is developing and providing inspiring examples of how Member companies have used, and are using ODA to enable new diversified solutions. These solutions include the description and intent of the solution, along with the detailed flows and models to show precisely how to reapply ODA for ecosystems and growth of business.

Data Collaboration:

This is an applied project of ZTP. It proves and demonstrates how ZTP can be used to generate new business model opportunities in ecosystems through the collaboration of data in a scalable way. The work is also improving and extending the foundations of ZTP to cater for this new business opportunity for telcos.

5G Private Networks:

is an applied project of CaaS. Here the member team will demonstrate how CaaS can be used to generate new revenues and business opportunities for 5G Private Networks. This work will also improve and extend the foundations of CaaS to cater for this new business opportunity for telcos.

Metaverse Monetization:

This is an applied project of ZTP and CaaS. Here the member team will demonstrate how ZTP and CaaS can be used to generate new revenues and business opportunities in the Metaverse. The team will also demonstrate how to strategically, and from a business perspective, de-risk the Metaverse opportunities while also exploring the role of the telco for growth beyond connectivity.

Partner Ecosystem Maturity Model:

This new work activity is focused on building the assets required to enable telcos and their partners to self-assess their ecosystem partnering readiness and monitor the maturing of this capability over time. Given the importance of the ability to partner effectively to enable frictionless trading, and create new business opportunities, this work is increasingly important as telcos and their partners explore new opportunities beyond connectivity.

Ecosystem Modelling:

explores how to model ecosystems, including the different role of stakeholders to enable realization of new business models. This team has recently published the Concept to Design Accelerator Framework, which brings together ecosystem modelling, partnering, marketplaces and business architecture – capability and value stream planning to demonstrate how to practically apply these disciplines together to maximize and accelerate the business opportunity, de-risking diversification for growth, reducing cost and maximizing margins.

Learn more about projects within the Ecosystems theme