Not being involved directly in what you are referring to, I cannot answer with certainty, but I can imagine that you are largely correct, regarding PLK. However, whether the solution is simply to abandon any activity that cannot be competently performed is open to question. Personally, I feel that is not a good strategy.
As I mentioned previously, I think it is important 1) to get the financial reporting working well (I'm open to discussion what 'working well' means), and 2) to use multiple means to assess the business, not just financial reporting, although financial reporting is a significant part of it.
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Michael Ansley
Polkomtel S.A. (PLUS)
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Original Message:
Sent: Mar 15, 2021 03:41
From: Cato Rasmussen
Subject: Manage Financial Performance
Go back and take a closer look at how the vendor (based on users input) conducted Polkomtel's process designs. e.g. By gathering current and past tasks, defining them towards functional specifications. E.G. Ending up with an old fashion product catalogue design not capable of auditing and tracking components of a bundle's elements individually. With all the possibilities of utilising a brilliant accounting (T-Accounts) architecture that the vendor was capable of providing, it was designed and defined based on old fashion service rating principles. That much for the experience! This was as much due to Polkom tel as it was on the vender at the time.
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Cato Rasmussen
Independent
Original Message:
Sent: Mar 12, 2021 02:45
From: Michael Ansley
Subject: Manage Financial Performance
*Perfectly* positioned? No... but then nothing is perfectly positioned. However, one part of knowing where to go is knowing where you are. 'Memories of the past' are what we might term 'experience'. Experience is not everything in the game of life, it needs to be combined with a small amount of naivety or perhaps childishness and an appropriate amount of risk-taking, as well as some more subjective items like vision. But those things without experience are much less worthwhile than with experience. Just as experience without those other things is also much less worthwhile.
It's possible to build bad experiences through poor reflection, just as it's possible to ignore valuable experience. Many suppliers and vendors are happy to narrow the message simply to sell their products. That's not a good reason to throw it out altogether, though. It's a reason to become a good judge of message.
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Michael Ansley
Polkomtel S.A. (PLUS)
Original Message:
Sent: Mar 11, 2021 03:23
From: Cato Rasmussen
Subject: Manage Financial Performance
Are you saying that by making your operation dependent on the memory of the past, they will be perfectly positioned to move on to the future possibilities?
Cognitive analytics can only collect and correlate on past data.
If investment capital is funded by obtaining short-term loans and the interest rate increases, what will happen to your past ROI calculations. Or if prices are being pushed down due to competition etc.
This is exactly the same arguments for technology solutions vendors and consultants have been running with for decades and never hit the mark.
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Cato Rasmussen
Independent
Original Message:
Sent: Mar 10, 2021 04:55
From: Carl Gandeborn
Subject: Manage Financial Performance
By integrating, translating and correlating data from the network, billing, CRM and accounting domains, it's now possible to generate an a zero-touch clear detailed picture of the profitability across the network, services and customers. With this insight other relevant financial KPIs e.g. ROI can be calculated and it's the base for predictive analytics helping operators with business cases and future network focused investments.
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Carl Gandeborn
TO BE VERIFIED
Original Message:
Sent: Mar 09, 2021 02:51
From: Cato Rasmussen
Subject: Manage Financial Performance
Let's get one thing clear. This has little to do with 5G or any other G for that matter. This has to do with how the product catalogue and the associated account ( T-accounts) are set up or not set up. Telcos traditionally could only bundle as a service, making it impossible to unbundle for separating tracking and reconciliation of the bundle's individual components e.g. traffic from device.
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Cato Rasmussen
Independent
Original Message:
Sent: Mar 08, 2021 14:19
From: Carl Gandeborn
Subject: Manage Financial Performance
Hi Roland, very true that its been difficult in the past for these type of solutions. Earlier there was a stronger direct relationship between traffic and revenue which made an assessment of profitability more straight forward. With bucket/unlimited price plans and an ever increasing complexity the picture is highly unclear. With the different strategic intents with 5G, the question will this if measuring the financial performance along other measurements will increased in strategic importance.
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Carl Gandeborn
TO BE VERIFIED
Original Message:
Sent: Mar 08, 2021 02:01
From: Roland Leners
Subject: Manage Financial Performance
I believe that the industry had a glimpse into this matter when it tried to automate cost accounting in regulated operators (the incumbents). I believe there were even initiatives in TMF in the revenue assurance area. At the end, those projects proved quite difficult because the vendors got ground by the inability of CFO and CTO/CNO organisations to collaborate. And probably not strategic enough for the CEO to onboard such projects. It is a difficult sell. Maybe 5G could change this, but I am not sure.
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Roland Leners
SATEC GROUP
Original Message:
Sent: Jan 05, 2021 07:57
From: Carl Gandeborn
Subject: Manage Financial Performance
Networks are increasingly complex and this trend will continue with 5G with new business models, open architecture, virtualization and automation and so on. Operators have so far been sufficiently profitable not having to financially measure and track investments in detail. In general there has been an ad hoc, top-down and slow approach often involving XLS, best guestimate assumptions taking weeks. The financial results are often too late to help the operations and too general to identify underlying under performance.
As operators are now investing in 5G, what is your view of the importance of automated zerotouch financial performance management? What would be the best use cases for such a capability?
#DigitalEcosystems
#General
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Carl Gandeborn
TO BE VERIFIED
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