TM Forum and Huawei release ‘Digital Twin for Decision Intelligence’ white paper 2.0 at DTW 2024
July 9, 2024
At Digital Transformation World 2024 in Copenhagen, host TM forum collaborated with Huawei to publish a white paper titled Digital Twin for Decision Intelligence (DT4DI). The release of this white paper was witnessed by a total of 13 leading global operators. In addition to Huawei, the esteemed contributors to the white paper encompass seven telecommunication operators and ten vendors, including Vodafone, China Mobile (along with its subsidiaries in IT, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Hong Kong, and more), HKT, AIS, STC, Nokia, Netcracker, and other industry leaders.
The underlying concept behind the white paper (WP) is the need for communication service providers (CSPs) to move from traditional Business Intelligence (BI) to a Decision Intelligence (DI) strategy and approach. To augment this necessity, the WP opens with the following quote from Cassie Kozyrkov, Chief Decision Scientist at Google: “Data are beautiful, but it's decisions that are important.”
In other words, the main reason to collect and analyse data is for it to then inform business decisions. A number of emerging technological trends are offering powerful new tools to help with that decision-making process and it’s those that this WP seeks to shine a light on. It’s the first output of a DT4DI collaboration project run by the TM Forum.
As its name indicates, the Digital Transformation World (DTW) event, which is run by the TM Forum, is primarily focused on helping CSPs with their digital transformation. Broadly, this describes the process through which the latest digital technologies are fully incorporated into a CSP business, informing every aspect of its operations and strategy.