Most autonomy programs stall between Level 2 and Level 3, and the reason is almost never technical. The measurement model and the operating model were built by different people, on different floors, in different decades. Until they are reconciled, the score and the system disagree, and the program funds the wrong work.
That reconciliation is the work I have spent the last few years on inside TM Forum, and the work I lead when an operator brings me into a transformation program.
Where I sit in the standard.I co-chair the TM Forum Measuring and Managing Autonomy workstream, which reconciles AOMM with the Autonomous Network Levels evaluation. I sit on the AN Core Team that governs how the evaluation tool evolves and how it links to value measurement. I currently architect the business-layer extension to the Autonomous Networks Map, in liaison with the industry's key players, for release later this year.
I have authored IG1491, IG1403, and a number of the GB15xx ANLET questionnaires, and contributed to the AOMM itself. I judge the TM Forum Excellence Awards in the Autonomous Networks category, and I sit as architect on the GNN Catalyst, linking its technical, business, and solution-design teams.
At Innovate Asia, I led Makman's launch of the TM Forum Autonomous Networks Upskilling Hub with Huawei and Ericsson.
Background.Control systems was my engineering major. Twenty years on, after telecom, oilfield digitalization, and building a consulting firm out of Estonia, I am back at the same problem at industry scale. The closed loop is the through line.
CEO and founder of Makman Technology Consulting, registered in Tallinn and working as a distributed team across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia. BSc Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Tripoli. Lean Site Champion, University of Michigan.
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