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[edit] Lead-To-Cash (L2C)
This refers to the experience a customer has buying an existing product or service. It begins with a sales dialogue between the customer and a CP which establishes that one of their products or services meets their needs. It ends when this need is fulfilled, the service is available to use and CP has been paid.
It includes “pre-order” or “order” management & “financial attribution” (including billing) in the NICC B2B requirements document. It is second behind T2R in NICC B2B’s priorities.
[edit] Trouble to Resolve (T2R)
This begins when a customer has told a CP they are not happy with either their product or service, or when the CP has proactively spotted a problem. It ends when that problem has been resolved and the customer is satisfied.
It includes “assurance”, “ticket/fault management “ in the NICC B2B requirements document and “trouble administration” by the ITU, and covers other sub-processes that are related to the T2R process, but which are not core to it.
[edit] Concept-to-market (C2M):
This process starts when one of several trigger events takes place, e.g., when a CP needs to
- remake a product because of high fault rates
- innovate a new service based on customer demand
- rationalise and create new self service products
C2M process spans the time from this trigger event, through product development, marketing, launch, and ready for sale/support. In addition, during the concept, specify and plan phases, C2M will determine how the product flows into in-life support and billing.
[edit] Abbreviations
- B2B Business to Business (electronic transactions via a gateway)
- BOM Business Operations Map
- BPEL Business Process Execution Language
- BPMN Business Process Modeling Notation
- BPSS Business Process Schema Specification
- CP Communications Provider
- ebBP ebXML Business Process
- ebXML Electronic Business XML
- eTOM enhanced Telecom Operations Model [TMF]
- ISO International Standards Organisation
- ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library
- ITU International Telecommunications Union
- L2C Lead to Cash
- LLU Local Loop Unbundling
- NGN Next Generation Networks
- NICC Network Interoperability Consultative Committee
- OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
- PR Problem Record
- T2R Trouble to Resolve
- TMF TeleManagement Forum
- WBC Wholesale Broadband Connect
- WBCC Wholesale Broadband Connect Converged
- WLR Wholesale Line Rental
- UBL Universal Business Language
- XML eXtensible Mark-up Language
- XSD XML Schema Definition
