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Digital Ecosystems

Driving flexible frictionless business across industry boundaries

As the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold across the globe, lives and businesses are fundamentally impacted. With so many businesses suffering, traditional ways of operating are being tested creating an urgent need for a flexible, scalable, frictionless business.

With this urgency towards digital transformation across all industries, TM Forum is driving the development of essential tangible assets and relationships needed to position your organization for success in this constantly changing marketplace.

Get involved across a number of initiatives

Business
Architecture

Building business models, tools &
best practices

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Business
Assurance

Revenue assurance & fraud management in the context of IoE & ecosystems

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Smart
City

Enabling cities to engage and connect to their citizens

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Applied
Innovation

Catalyst projects; Incubator lab/think tanks; Blockchain sandbox

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About the Digital Ecosystems program

TM Forum is collaborating with vertical partners and industry associations in Digital Health, Connected Cars, Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities, demonstrating the value of collaboration and the technical assets of TM Forum’s community.

We invite you to participate in our cross industry collaborative activities and ecosystem foundation program initiatives which include:

Industries:

  • Digital Health
  • Industry 4.0
  • Connected Car
  • Smart Energy
  • Smart Cities

Program areas:

  • Zero Touch Partnering
  • Connectivity as a Service
  • Business Architecture
  • Technical Reference Architectures
  • Cross Industry Interoperability & Data Model Harmonization
  • IoT Management
  • Financial Integrity & Business Assurance

Here are some examples of TM Forum’s digital ecosystems related work done through the Catalyst Program:

4G & 5G NaaS for B2B & B2I Business Ecosystem

Connected Citizens: The Smart City Accelerator

Driver Connect – Fueling a personalized customer experience with AI

Enabling affordable and quality digital Health ecosystem for more than 1bn lives

Manufacturing Predictive Maintenance using 5G

Skynet

Wirtschaftswunder leveraging 5G for Industry 4.0

Smart City Ecosystem Enablement & Business Model

5G Intelligent Service Operations

Topics

  • Business Architecture
  • Business Assurance
  • Digital Transformation & Maturity
  • Face of Digital Leadership
  • IoE & Digital Ecosystems

Featured Collaboration & Education

Catalyst
Projects

Explore the proof-of-concept projects working on topics such as ecosystem management, IoT, blockchain and monetization

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Digital Business Ecosystem
training courses

Understand how ecosystems are changing the business world and learn a methodology to plan, map and model the ecosystem.

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Digital Ecosystem
Working Projects

Review the collaboration project workstreams underway and see how you, as a member, can get involved

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Featured Resources & EventsGo to Resources

TOOL

Curate Fx

The tool for digital ecosystem management within and beyond your organization.

TOOLKIT

Ecosystem partnering

Use the essential resources in this collection of tools, guidebooks, documents and more 

CO-CREATED

Template ROI model

Download the Return on Investment (RoI) model to create the business case for digital ecosystem services. 

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Joann O'Brien

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