OSS Transformation is all about managing change – organisationally, functionally and operationally during in-flight projects. This is the most commonly overlooked factor when planning OSS projects
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” Steve Jobs. I’m currently reading a book by Peter Sander entitled, “What would Steve Jobs Do?” Peter describes the following key take-aways for establishing a vision from his analysis of Steve’s actions: What would I want from a product / experience? What would surprise […]
“When you think of any aspect of life or work, augmented reality is completely going to change how we do it.” Ori Inbar. Here in Australia, we have a program called Dial Before You Dig, which provides information, usually in the form of plans, about underground assets for a given address. It is used by […]
“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” Charles Kettering. If you have a goal of creating the world’s best OSS tool, where do you start? Do you try to understand the competition and do it better than they do? How would you prove that it’s better than them in a […]
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” Brian Tracy. A Data Control Network (DCN) is the network that carries management traffic between components of your network, OSS, BSS and […]
“Decisions are temporary – Companies are often paralyzed by big decisions that they believe are permanent. They think that what they decide today has to be that way forever.” Jason Fried on here. This statement can be very true for OSS projects. They are so big and so intimidating for customers at times that they […]
“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” Earl Nightingale. After much delay, the OSS Roadmap page has finally been updated to include reference to TOGAF, eTOM and Zachman’s Framework, providing a slightly more comprehensive view of how to conduct a roadmap analysis on your OSS. […]
“Planning is Vastly Overrated – 37signals doesn’t do road maps, specs, projections. They have rough ideas internally but these aren’t shared externally. Even internally they’re not set in stone or written down. Think about what’s being done now and maybe what’s next. You set expectations too soon and things changed.” Jason Fried on here. Them […]
“The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we’re ready for it.” Anonymous. It strikes me that there are a lot of network experts in the world but there aren’t very many OSS experts, relatively. As such, OSS is a relatively more immature market in terms of the brainpower that has been […]
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” Napoleon Hill. Whilst doing some recent research I came across this interesting study by Frost and Sullivan. See slide 5 of this slide-pack. . Without knowing […]
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” George Bernard Shaw. Here’s my list of reasons why to choose a career in OSS: If you have ambitions to reach a senior position in a […]
“Consultancy is a supply – demand equation. The reason I have so much great advice to give is because I produce so much but nobody ever wants to take it.” 😀 I am an OSS consultant but I have to face facts – the customers will always know their business better than me. The customer […]
“You need to understand what you are buying, and why, how it will affect your business, and what the potential risks are. That detailed understanding may be beyond the scope of a procurement department.” Owen Williams. It is standard practice for an OSS to have in-built resiliency, meaning that if there is a failure in […]
“The iCub is the humanoid robot developed at IIT as part of the EU project RobotCub and subsequently adopted by more than 20 laboratories worldwide. It has 53 motors that move the head, arms & hands, waist, and legs. It can see and hear, it has the sense of proprioception (body configuration) and movement (using […]
“Many connection providers use outdated manual procedures for design, sizing, costing and build rather than embrace new technology. Few companies have so far adopted a GIS-driven (Geographic Information System) approach to design and build that allows more accurate designs more quickly and can inform other processes such as sizing, costing and overall customer service.” Davis […]
“We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.” Anne Sophie Swetchine. We’ve been extolling the virtues of SDN for some time now. But how about possible weaknesses? In an earlier post entitled Carrier SDN we discussed the potential reduction in time to market (TTM) in a software […]
“According to a research report published by Telco 2.0, telecom companies across the globe could lose up to $172 Billion in revenues from voice and messaging services [on a $375 billion base over the next five years].” Digital Service Cloud. In a nutshell, that’s $172B that won’t be available to be invested in big-budget transformational […]
“Carriers could have a couple of different viewpoints [on SDN]. One is we’ve gotta do something on our equipment costs because they’re not going down as fast as traffic is going up. Others say I want to compete with the data centre operators, the cloud providers. Others say I just want greater service velocity. I […]
“…When the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.” Gary Wolf. In yesterday’s blog, we presented this image, which shows the gaps in EMC’s social networks that prevent “perfect” information flow across their orgnas. The other message […]
“Always give more in use value than what you take in cash value.” Wallace D. Wattles. What does this mean exactly? Well, in the context of an OSS, it basically means that the CSP gets more value from their OSS than what they’ve paid a supplier / integrator for it. Given that OSS are big […]
“Wherever I see people doing something the way it’s always been done, the way it’s ‘supposed’ to be done, following the same old trends, well, that’s just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.” Mark Cuban. Has your OSS been SMAC-ed yet? Social Mobility Analytics (Big Data) Cloud (and Virtualisation) Have […]
