“As a result of epochal shift of power in the marketplace from seller to buyer, the customer is now in charge. We now live in the age of customer capitalism. Making money and corporate survival now depend not merely on pushing products at customers but rather on delighting them so that they want to keep on buying. To prosper, firms must have knowledge workers who are continuously innovating and delivering a steady supply of new value to customers and delivering it sooner.”
Steve Denning on Forbes
There is only one point that I wish to expound upon in the quote above, that is that “firms must have knowledge workers….”
In the telecommunications market it seems that most innovation is coming from around the edges of the CSPs, in the vendors and the OTT providers.
Is it the ability to harness the best innovations from micro-companies that is driving communications evolution more so than a firm’s knowledge workers? Is this another epochal shift in how R&D is conducted? Idea outsourcing?
Denning also states, “In this new world, the bottom of line of business isn’t profits but rather customer delight, i.e. the provision of a continuous stream of additional value to customers and delivering it sooner.” This is another mindset shift for the CSPs to take on board.
Just as the CSPs’ enterprise customers are dragging them down the path of increased transparency and partnership, the CSPs’ OSS vendors also have the opportunity to help them delight and deliver.
Have you ever had an OSS or BSS project that’s impacted by poor data quality? The problem of data integrity gets raised on almost every
“One of my favorite things about designing software is designing the defaults. The defaults define the experience for everyone out of the box. And, therefore,
Have you ever been tasked with mapping out the processes for the telco you work for? Either as a way of documenting current state, or
In the last week alone, I’ve had two potent reminders that the world of OSS is simply (pun intended) too complex. This manifests in many
Here at Passionate About OSS, we are exactly that – Passionate About OSS (Operational Support Systems). We’re also passionate about BSS, NMS, or any other names you call the tools that help to operationalise your network.
