Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year

Lots of interesting things are happening in the technology products space. There are startups becoming unicorns, telcos anticipating 5G use cases, and enterprises looking for more and secure ways to handle consumer privacy.
2019 has been an interesting year, where I personally saw how investor money was not utilized in the right way due to internal politics, a great product I advised on was delayed and the e-commerce space is beginning to rationalize.
I feel 2020 will be the year when product consultants and advisors will get their due, advising CXOs on top level product strategy in the digital transformation story. However, the nuts and bolts of product development and roadmaps/stories/epics etc. will continue to be distributed among product managers and agile product owners.

Happy New Year to All!!

TM Forum Digital Maturity Model for Tracking Digital Transformation

According to their website, TM Forum is
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is the global industry association that drives collaboration and collective problem-solving to maximize the business success of communication and digital service providers and their ecosystem of suppliers.

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They have worked extensively on creating a digital maturity model, defining the digital transformation journey and working with CSPs (Communication Services Providers) looking to become DSPs. In their model, there are 5 dimensions covering:

• Customer
• Strategy
• Technology
• Operations
• Culture

Across these dimensions, 110 criteria are identified, along with sub-dimensions, to assess how far along a CSP has come in its digital transformation journey, and how to assess its target objectives.

TM Forum Digital Maturity Model

The full model is members only, but there are a lot of additional resources for telecom professionals on their website, including videos and case studies. For people looking to understand digital transformation in the telecom industry, this is a good starting point.