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“Data – there sure is a lot of it and looking forward there is going to be increasingly more. The Ericsson Mobility Report found that mobile data traffic is expected to grow by 12 times between 2012 and 2018. That’s huge! So what makes data fresh? It’s the ability to use it in real time, […]
“Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.” John Naisbitt. Yesterday we spoke of a couple of acronyms that aren’t so common in traditional B/OSS, namely NFV and SDN. Today, I have five more for you that aren’t so common but have roles to play in B/OSS […]
“One has to passionately believe it is possible to change the industry, to turn it on its head, to make sure that it will never be the same again.” Richard Branson. Have you heard of these two TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) – NFV and SDN? If you haven’t, it might be time to do some […]
“Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.” Charles Stanley. When implementing an OSS, or most projects for that matter, it seems that there are four types […]
“Advertising is legalized lying.” H.G. Wells. My hat goes off for the persistence shown in securing an OSS implementation contract. The sales cycle tends to be lengthy (nine months plus plus). During that time, many promises tend to be made that the implementation team will find difficult to deliver. Unfortunately this often sets unrealistic expectations […]
“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.” Plato When do most OSS vendors/integrators deliver training to their customers? At the end of the project right? When SHOULD the OSS vendors/integrators deliver training to their customers? At the start…. and then throughout the implementation… and then after they’ve finished. Have you […]
NSN takes mobile broadband network operations into the cloud With NetAct 8, Nokia Solutions and Networks is virtualizing and modernizing its long-established Operations Support System (OSS) to make network operations simpler and nimbler. NetAct 8’s single, end-to-end view of multi-technology, multi-domain and multi-vendor networks helps operators to run these networks more efficiently and with lower […]
“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.” Albert Einstein. Further to yesterday’s blog about network modelling, I had a task back in 2001-ish to help a vendor develop their first-ever […]
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust. A new friend over in the Philippines suggested that I write a blog entry about network modelling. Now I’m going to sound like the ultimate nerd here but mapping network devices into OSS is probably the most […]
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Winston Churchill. Did that title grab your attention? I’m not some crazy who’s advocating the death of democracy by the way, but I do have an interesting question to pose today. Interesting to me at least… Given that there is a race […]
“The Delphi method is a structured communication technique, originally developed as a systematic, interactive forecasting method which relies on a panel of experts. The experts answer questionnaires in two or more rounds. After each round, a facilitator provides an anonymous summary of the experts’ forecasts from the previous round as well as the reasons they […]
“In 1900, Smithsonian Institution curator John Elfreth Watkins wrote an article for The Ladies’ Home Journal, entitled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years,” filled with predictions that many of his readers probably scoffed at as ridiculously improbable… But what’s more impressive is the extent to which Watkins’ vision of the future actually has […]
“…the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.” Seth Godin, in his book “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” Let’s say that the best in the business, what Seth Godin calls Linchpins, […]
Opmantek wins Knowledge Management & IT award in the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards Opmantek’s network management products are used by over 45,000 organisations globally including some of the world’s largest Telecommunications organisations. Over 13 years Opmantek has shared knowledge and vision within the network management industry, coordinating innovative ideas worldwide through a commercial open […]
“..you’ve got to challenge yourself to produce. Produce more ideas than you need for yourself so you can share and give your ideas away. That is called fruitfulness and abundance.” Jim Rohn. The more ideas you share, the more you have to develop, forcing you to produce and grow. This site exists to share ideas […]
Virgin Mobile Australia Partners with CSG to Improve the Customer Experience with CSG Singleview Virgin Mobile Australia, one of the country’s most popular mobile operators, and CSG Systems International, Inc., a global provider of interactive transaction-driven solutions and services, today announced that Virgin Mobile has expanded its use of CSG Singleview to improve the customer […]
“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.” Carl Rogers. If everyone is standardised, then nobody is exceptional. Nobody stands out. Everyone is consistent. Everyone is commoditised since there are no differentiating features. Not sure about you, but I want to differentiate. I […]
Hawthorn Football Club are AFL premiers for 2013! Go the mighty Hawks! Image borrowed from News Ltd’s story that can be seen here.
“At least DO SOMETHING! DO! Don’t think, don’t hope, do! At least you can come off and say ‘I did this, I shepherded, I played on. At least I did something” John Kennedy. I find this to be a brilliant analogy for OSS implementation projects too. There’s so much complexity, so many things happening dynamically, […]
“1. What percentage of your time is spent creating something new, as opposed to working out operational details or protecting the past? 2. List five ways that you can beat your competition. How could they beat you? 3. If you were entering your industry as a startup, how would you break the mold to beat […]
