Business patterns within telecommunications

Abstract

The global telecommunications industry has changed from a number of co-operating national monopolies oå ering a restricted range of services to a competitive, growing market with players of many types and sizes, oå ering a large range of services. How can vertically integrated incumbents align themselves and their systems to best compete in this environment? Business patterns and enterprise modelling oå er a tool to model a large organization as a number of smaller enterprises that can compete with and co-operate with smaller specialist players in the market.In order to identify enterprises, this paper proposes that there are only a limited number of types of enterprise (manufacturer, service supplier, reseller, agent, broker) and that these enterprise types can only interact in a limited number of ways (component supply, aggregation supply, resell supply, trading, end-supply and commission). With the use of examples, this paper illustrates these types of enterprise and enterprise relationships, and how they can be combined to build both internal and external supply chains, and discusses some of the conclusions that can be drawn from this analysis.

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“…Most of the business we are doing today are well tried out and adopted over years. A concept of business pattern is introduced to capture and model such best practices and successful experiences in businesses (Russell, Barnsley & Holladay, 2001). In other words, business patterns are built on the business experiences and activities proven successfully in the past.…”

“…In other words, business patterns are built on the business experiences and activities proven successfully in the past. Business patterns provide guidelines that can be used to conduct business activities such as initialize businesses, decompose large organizations into a number of value-adding enterprises, and decompose the value-adding enterprises into a number of value-adding business processes (Russell, Barnsley & Holladay, 2001).…”

“…At the top level of the hierarchy, business patterns define the type of businesses. Russell, Barnsley & Holladay (2001) listed some of the top layer business patterns, such as Manufacturer, Service Creator, and Reseller. At the middle level of the hierarchy, business patterns define how a business is organized, i.e.…”