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Martin Creaner
President & Chief Operations Officer
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Martin Creaner has been working in the Telecommunications Industry for almost 25 years and is currently President of the Telemanagement Forum (TMForum). The TM Forum is the industry body for the the global Telecommunications industry. It has 750 member companies in over 185 countries, including all the major carriers and all the leading equipment and software Vendors.

Prior to joining the TM Forum Martin held a number of executive positions with Motorola and British Telecom.

Martin is widely published and is featured and quoted regularly in business and trade journals. Martin is also the author of the leading telecoms business book “NGOSS Distilled”.


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May 2009 - Martin Creaner's Blog

  • Benchmarking Comes off the Bench

    When you hear the term “benchmarking” you might think about a row of servers or other computer hardware being pitted against each other to see which processor is fastest. But instead of just determining who’s the best and greatest, benchmarking goes way beyond that to give you the means for improving business effectiveness through critical analysis of data. If you look specifically at the communications industry, today more than ever service providers can’t take anything for...
  • Still optimistic about LTE

    A few weeks ago I blogg'd on the topic of LTE and how it was going to bring the divided mobile world all back together . The energy and speed behind LTE is making it stand out in stark contrast to the sluggish way 3G rose to prominence. Today I came across two interesting news snippets about this - one supporting my optimism and one raising fears that LTE will be just another marketing-fest followed by slow delivery. Motorla announced today that they were going to double their LTE investment...
  • The industry follows behaviour, not requirements

    Last week at Management World Nice I was struck by the continued use of a surprising phrase. While there was alot of talk about technology and business models and even mo netization , the unexpected phrase that I heard several times that caught my attention was 'Social Psychology' . The context for this was in discussions about the direction of the industry. I heard people pronounce that we are no longer a technology led industry, we are a mass market lifestyle & fashion industry. What...

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