As discussed in the previous chapter, the strategic goal of NFV is to build a multi-vendor ecosystem, enabling:
- Innovation
- Cost savings
- Risk reduction
The below is a view how we might structure the goals around the high-level stakeholders of the NFV transformation program.
| Criteria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | Cost savings | Risk reduction | ||
| Stakeholders | CEO / CFO | Increase business agility and flexibility to scale | Increase profit (margin, shareholder value) | Reduce risk of being unable to cope with continuously emerging competitive threats |
| Marketing | Shorten innovation cycle for new and updated services | Adopt low-cost unconventional means of providing services and doing business | Decrease client loss by becoming better in segmenting, targeting and positioning, thus improving customer satisfaction | |
| CTIO | Shift internal capabilities from operations to innovation | Eliminate duplications in Tech (Network) and IT | Reduce risks associated with rapidly changing services | |
| Procurement | Introduce multivendor strategy by disintegration of monolithic solutions | Decrease costs associated with upgrading expensive components more often | Decrease dependency on the key suppliers (vendors) | |