TM Forum’s Catalyst Team Awards recognize catalyst teams who have demonstrated outstanding work. The three winning projects are made up of collaborative teams of communications and digital services leaders who demonstrate commitment to the future of the industry through work in the Forum’s Catalyst program.

TM Forum Catalysts are short-term collaborative projects led by our members. They create solutions that address today’s most pressing operational and systems challenges and develop and enhance TM Forum best practices and standards, including Frameworx.

In less than six months, members work together to create proof-of-concept demonstrations for today’s most pressing business, operational and IT challenges. Their work ultimately develops and enhances the Forum’s Frameworx suite of best practices and standards, helping more than 900 Forum member companies reduce cost, risk and time-to-market as they transform for success in the digital world.

There will be three Catalyst Team Awards presented at TM Forum Live! Digital Disruption 2014 on Wednesday, December 10 at 5:15 pm at the Center Stage.

The categories are:

• Most Innovative Catalyst – Awarded to the Catalyst team with the most innovative concept and demonstration.
• Most Significant Contribution to Frameworx - Awarded to the Catalyst team that produces or contributes the most to Frameworx evolution
• Best Application of Frameworx – Awarded to the Catalyst team that produces most effective implementation or proof of concept of a Frameworx best practice or standard, demonstrating the value of the asset and encouraging adoption.

TM Forum Live! Digital Disruption 2014 Catalyst Award Winners

TM Forum recognizes the Catalyst Teams twice a year at our flagship events. See who the winners were at TM Forum Live! Digital Disruption 2014:

Most Innovative Catalyst

Smart City: Empowering Governments to Build

The design and implementation of a smart city initiative is a huge effort with many collaborators from government, service providers and other private enterprises. This Catalyst is the first step of a program of applying Frameworx to reduce the complexity and risk of implementing a smart city. This step will develop the Frameworx mapping and city profile definitions, and will validate these with Águas de São Pedro, a city in Brazil currently undergoing a smart city transformation.

Best Application of Frameworx

eHealth: Bridging the Divide

This Digital Health Catalyst will focus on coordinating the healthcare and communications industries by demonstrating use cases for the application of TM Forum concepts in the field of the digital health. This project will further elaborate how to extend the available concepts and best practice to enable the bridging of the divide between healthcare and telecommunication industry. These digital services hold the promise of enabling healthcare providers to be more efficient, deliver better care to a wider population of patients and lower administrative time and costs.

Most Significant Contribution to Frameworx

Smart Energy: Realizing the Digital Handshake

While the utility industry itself is well established, few holistic standards for operations of digitized Smart Grid operations exist yet. Building on previous catalysts, this team will show how existing concepts can be leveraged in the utility domain, and will describe how utilities stand to benefit from these proven and tested products and services.