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		<title>Processing the relationship between the customer’s experience and the network’s performance in Telco Managed Services</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/05/processing-the-relationship-between-the-customers-experience-and-the-networks-performance-in-telco-managed-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Traoloch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telecom Managed Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managed services contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[processing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationship]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Processing the relationship between the customer&#8217;s experience and the network&#8217;s performance is at the heart of good governance.   Governance  takes place where the appropriate roles, process and technology are in place to capture all the elements that impact the relationship.  The impacts include how experience impacts on the network, how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penalties and rewards in Telco Managed Services contracts</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/05/penalties-and-rewards-in-telco-managed-services-contracts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/05/penalties-and-rewards-in-telco-managed-services-contracts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telecom Managed Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kpi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penalties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[provider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rewards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of our time is spent helping Service Providers and Operators create a framework for managing what is most important to both businesses.

From a commercial point of view this is crucial because the Service Provider’s performance against agreed KPIs will determine service-level penalties and rewards paid by the Operator. We have seen interesting differences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Customer Experience Management challenge in Telco Managed Services</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/05/the-customer-experience-mangement-challenge-in-telco-managed-services/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/05/the-customer-experience-mangement-challenge-in-telco-managed-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 09:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Traoloch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telecom Managed Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[approach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer experience management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managed services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[providers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Capturing and reacting to changes in customer experience has become a key aspiration for teams in operators and telecom service providers.  Conceptually the approach and desired outcome is clear, simple and desirable.  If we can capture consumer behavior accurately then we can better understand how they like to use mobile services and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it time for GSS in Telecoms Managed Services?</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/04/is-it-time-for-gss-in-telecoms-managed-services/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/04/is-it-time-for-gss-in-telecoms-managed-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Traoloch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telecom Managed Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governance support system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managed network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managed services contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[platform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service provider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ServiceFrame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telco Managed Services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The telecom industry has been dominated over the past couple of years by the emergence of ever more sophisticated BSS and OSS systems.  This reflects an acknowledgement of the growing important of analysis and business intelligence to drive more automation and more efficiency in the network.  Network design and optimization is no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“End to end metrics” or “end to end metric” within telecommunications managed services?</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/04/end-to-end-metrics-or-end-to-end-metric-within-telecommunications-managed-services/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/04/end-to-end-metrics-or-end-to-end-metric-within-telecommunications-managed-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telecom Managed Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business goal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end to end metric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managed services provider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network operator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service metric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telco managed services contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecommunications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=617</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“End to end metrics” (or is that “end to end metric”?) is a term which is, some might say, bandied about in the telecoms managed services industry – but what does it actually mean?  As part of the process of authoring our next thought leadership piece, I searched around for a concise definition – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you collecting the right information to ensure that commercial mitigation is a fair and swift process in telco managed services contracts?</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/03/are-you-collecting-the-right-information-to-ensure-that-commercial-mitigation-is-a-fair-and-swift-process-in-telco-managed-services-contracts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telco Managed Services Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercial mitigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network operator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service provider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SLAs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telco managed services contract]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Service providers and network operators enter into managed services contracts because both want to, at the most basic level, increase the volume of profitable business.  To that end, commercial mitigation is a key element of contract execution – and in order for both parties to maximise the likelihood of long term business success, commercial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling into the ‘generality’ trap in Telco Managed Services Governance.  Be a detail hero.</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/03/falling-into-the-generality-trap-in-telco-managed-services-governance.-be-a-detail-hero./</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/03/falling-into-the-generality-trap-in-telco-managed-services-governance.-be-a-detail-hero./#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Traoloch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telco Managed Services Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telecoms Managed Services Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governance telco managed services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MS Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vendor Performance Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Telecom Managed Services is at a critical inflection point.  Either big service providers will figure out how to become strategic partners or we will see functions start to move back in house. Why?  Networks are now more strategic than ever.   Five to six years ago network capacity was expected to growly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manual data collection to automated information in telco managed services</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/03/manual-data-collection-to-automated-information-in-telco-managed-services/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/03/manual-data-collection-to-automated-information-in-telco-managed-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telco Managed Services Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[automated data collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drive profit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governance enabler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meet expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduce cost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telco Managed Services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=607</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The move from manual to automated data collection is a hot topic amongst the ServiceFrame customer base this quarter. 

The rationale: we’ve ditched the spread sheet-based governance approach, having recognised that just meeting the expectations of network operators by delivering information is not enough. Now we need to optimise the way in which we, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation and commoditisation in managed services</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/03/innovation-and-commoditisation-in-managed-services/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/03/innovation-and-commoditisation-in-managed-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[managed services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commoditisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managed Services 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partnership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently spoke with Stephen McManus, an experienced manager in our sector, with a background in business continuity management and risk management at one of the major telecom managed services providers. He had some fascinating comments about the move to Managed Services 2.0, in which service provider key performance indicators become aligned with operators’ business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Quality?</title>
		<link>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/03/what-is-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serviceframe.com/index.php/2012/03/what-is-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diarmuid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outsourcing relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service delivery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service providers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[service quality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serviceframe.com/?p=596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quality is meeting customer expectations, simple as that. 
Sourcing managers are frequently polled on their satisfaction with their services relationships. And usually more than half, sometimes closer to three quarters, say they are dissatisfied. Their expectations are not being met.  Trillions of $ are spent every year on services that do not deliver the [...]]]></description>
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