Domain Modelling and the Co-Design of Business Rules in the Telecommunication Business Area
Information Systems Frontiers
Multi-perspective Enterprise Modeling (MEMO) - Conceptual Framework and Modeling Languages
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 3 - Volume 3
Next/New Generation Networks Services and Management
ICNS '06 Proceedings of the International conference on Networking and Services
Describing Next Generation Communication Services: A Usage Perspective
ServiceWave '08 Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Towards a Service-Based Internet
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
Realization of the next-generation network
IEEE Communications Magazine
NGN architecture: generic principles, functional architecture, and implementation
IEEE Communications Magazine
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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As the potential of a next generation network (NGN) is recognised, telecommunication companies consider switching to it. Although the implementation of an NGN seems to be merely a modification of the network infrastructure, it may trigger or require changes in the whole company, because it builds upon the separation between service and transport, a flexible bundling of services to products and the streamlining of the IT infrastructure. We propose a holistic framework, structured into the layers 'strategy', 'processes' and 'information systems' and incorporate into each layer all concepts necessary for the implementation of an NGN, as well as the alignment of these concepts. As a first proof-of-concept for our framework we have performed a case study on the introduction of NGN in a large telecommunication company; we show that our framework captures all topics that are affected by an NGN implementation.