AOTMP® Industry Hackathon

Description: What are ways that a telecom, mobility, and IT organization can show more business value and impact specifically to the C-Suite? Technology spending is a top 3 to 5 company expense with over $3.8 trillion being spent on services, solutions and products globally. How can that huge investment directly correlate to what the C-Suite cares about … revenues, shareholder value, measurable efficiency, increased EPS, etc.?

Potential Outcomes: Models for calculating the value of technology and the value of efficient technology operations to bottom line business results.

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Description: What are some new and creative ways telecom, mobility and IT management organizations can incorporate and promote more diversity and inclusion?

Potential Outcomes: Tools that help professionals embrace, adopt, and evolve diversity and inclusion mindfulness.

Description: Constantly changing and evolving solutions, services and products available in the telecom, mobility, and IT management industry create sourcing, evaluation, and selection complexities that SMBs (small and mid-sized businesses) are not always equipped to address due to limited time or resources. How do SMBs more easily and efficiently sort out the thousands of options available to them?

Potential Outcomes: Tools that help SMBs find verified solutions to simplify the sourcing, evaluation, and selection of telecom, mobility, and IT services and solutions.

Description: When thinking of recruiting the best possible talent to work in telecom, mobility, and IT management, operational and financial business functions are often perceived as less exciting and appealing than technical and engineering functions. What are some new and creative ways to attract world-class talent and illustrate the cool factor across all facets of technology management?

Potential Outcomes: Technology, strategies, techniques, market analysis, and career opportunity studies showcase operational and financial business aspects of technology management.

Description: The Covid-19 pandemic shifted the workforce to the very edge of the public network – people’s homes. Network connectivity became the linchpin of work, school, and social engagement. Closing the digital divide is critical to leveling the social and economic playing field for everyone. What strategies help to close the gap?

Potential Outcomes: Technology, strategies, market analysis, and feasibility studies to that close the accessibility gap.

Description: Remote workforce is a sustained reality. How do organizations continue to innovate while keeping high engagement with employees while reducing the risk of remote work fatigue?

Potential Outcomes: Technology, strategies, and techniques that support individuals and ease remote work fatigue.

Description: The pace of technology innovation and adoption frequently outpaces the ability for organizations to efficiently operationalize technology lifecycle management. New skills are needed, new playbooks are needed, and new measures of success need to be identified. What are the strategies to prepare people for the workforce and upskill/reskill the current workforce to support everchanging technology management demands?

Potential Outcomes: Collaboration tools, engagement models, and industry roadmap for workforce preparedness and workforce evolution.

Description: Data privacy is of growing concern for consumers and business alike. As legislation is passed to catch-up with technology and current use cases, businesses and the industry must adapt to conform. What actions should industry take to get ahead of the curve and improve the ability to support data privacy expectations?

Potential Outcomes: Risk mitigation calculators, change predictor/notification tools, and models that reduce time-to-compliance and cost of compliance.

Description: Eco-conscious organizations face interesting challenges when considering the effects of technology on their entire business footprint. The carbon footprint extends beyond the business to the carrier, cloud, and network services providers. Additionally, the growing volume of electronic waste generated as byproduct of rapid technology innovation and shortened in-service timeframes contributes to increased negative environmental impact. What industrywide strategies should be adopted to reduce negative environmental impact from technology?

Potential Outcomes: Impact calculators, environmental impact models, and strategies to help businesses understand the total environmental impact of technology decisions

Description: As extreme automation led by AI creates redundancy of human input in the workplace, curating a sustainable and integrated technology and business strategy is vital to business relevance and success.

Potential Outcomes: Collaboration tools, engagement models, and industry roadmap for strategy alignment.