How should telecoms players restructure to deliver present and future value?
Most restructuring in telecoms has focused on delivering short-term financial gains. However, cutting operating or capital expenditure costs or restructuring balance sheets does not build a long-term business. Telecoms players must now look to alternative restructuring options to unlock their full strategic potential in the infocomms environment and survive in the long term. The infocomms sector needs new measurements that reflect different customer sets, different product lifecycles, and the rapid pace of change. These will enable the accurate determination of both short-term, financial value and long-term, strategic value in each discrete business area. Most telecoms players are unable to achieve the visibility they need to evaluate the performance of individual businesses. Organisations need to undertake a range of restructuring options to deliver on clearly-defined objectives for each separate business throughout its lifecycle. Ovum’s report Structuring for Survival: Strategies for
