Amdocs Survey: Time to Market Grows in Importance
By | April 14, 2011
Amdocs has released the results of a survey that examines time-to-market trends over the last three years and explores the business impact and importance of time to market for service providers. The global survey was conducted by Coleman Parkes Research.
Key findings include:
- Seventy percent of the service providers polled said time to market is very important, up from 59 percent in 2008. But despite this growing importance, there has been little improvement in the average time to market for new products between 2008 and 2011. In fact, the number of service providers that are able to bring a product to market within six months has fallen; in 2008, 67 percent of service providers said it took six months or less to bring a new product to market, compared with 65 percent today.
- As many as one in three service providers failed to achieve their target of delivering new services within six months over the last three years, with the same proportion reporting that time to market is increasing by an average of 21 percent. Forty-five percent of service providers report that the increasing demand for support of third-party services such as app stores or IPTV and additional connected devices, has increased time to market.
- Fifty-nine percent of companies report that the complexity of the technology environment creates key challenges to bringing a product to market, and 58 percent referenced the inflexibility of existing systems and processes as a major inhibitor.
- Seventy percent of service providers cited the need to modernize the operational environment in order to bring products to market faster. Of the service providers who did report an improved trend in time to market, 76 percent cited that this was as a result of improving organizational alignment, 75 percent reported that this was a result of implementing changes to systems and processes for new products, 81 percent said it followed improved project management and control, and 65 percent cited business and operational support systems integration.
Conducted in February 2011, the research is based on qualitative interviews of 125 senior executives from 50 wireless, 50 wireline and 25 cable service providers in Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia-Pacific.
