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1. Theme Information

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Theme Name*Ecosystems
IPR Mode*

RAND

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Strategic Program
Theme Website LinkEcosystems Home 
Theme LeadJoann O'Brien 
TMF Project Manager
Subject Matter ExpertPierre Gauthier 


2. Theme Overview / Executive Summary


MissionEcosystems focuses on creating the critical digital enablers to drive growth for the Telco business and demonstrates the value and power of this through innovation projects.
Value (Benefit)Members can accelerate and derisk their diversification and growth strategy, leveraging reuse of critical digital enablers and enabling new business models and opportunities for growth.
Implementation
  • Delivers the essential assets, templates, use cases and catalysts to demonstrate to our member how they can accelerate and de-risk the concept to design phase for diversification and growth opportunities.
  • Enable the essential capabilities for our industry to rapidly partner and scale up new business opportunities through partnering architectures, APIs & reference implementations and use cases.
  • Stimulate new co-innovation projects on a series of strategic growth potential topic areas, powered by the Ecosystems enabling capabilities, of ZTP, CaaS, marketplaces, ecosystem design, etc.
  • Develop the essential capabilities to enable diversification, such as Zero Touch Partnering, Connectivity as a Service and Software Marketplaces, Business Architecture and Concept to Design Framework, taken together these will provide both the framework and the enablers to grow new types of business offerings. 
Theme Projects

Digital Ecosystems Management (DEM)

The Digital Ecosystem Program champions the Telco industry and builds the cross-industry relationships to enable co-innovation opportunities with the ultimate ambition to reduce friction and barriers of growing new business.
It does this by bringing together industry vertical demand side, through forging relationships with industry organizations, companies, academia and governmental bodies to deepen the understanding of the challenges and needs ensuring that the relationship opportunity and technical infrastructure allow for ease of partnering and delivery of cross industry services. 

Business Assurance

Business Assurance also provides confidence around the organization ensuring process governance and information integrity, which strengthens trust in the brand. The focus being on how to improve/maximize their value to the organization – ensuring engagement and recognition throughout the organization, established as key participants within change management teams and adopting a risk-based approach – both internally and external to the organization – Ecosystem Risk Management.

Business Architecture

Gaining a holistic view of your business from a capability perspective is key for building diversification and growth strategies. ODA's Business Architecture helps improve strategic decision making, communication between business & IT teams and alignment of stakeholders and implementation strategies.



3.  Team Chairs

This section identifies the team leads, chair and co-chairs.

Note - Please review the Team Roles & Responsibilities RACI here which also indicates which roles are mandatory or optional.

Projects

Project Team Chair

Project Manager Subject Matter ExpertComments
Digital Ecosystems Management (DEM) 

Connectivity as a service: Elaine Haher 

Zero Touch Partnering:

Abinash Vishwakarma & Yun LI

Ecosystems Modelling:

Martin O'Brien, David Mohally & Lekshmy Sasidharan 

Ifeanyi Onwuachu 
Business Assurance (BA)Adrienne Walcott 
Business Architecture (BAR)Ifeanyi Onwuachu 

4. Roadmap

This section provides screen shot of current roadmap


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