PRESS RELEASE: On September 21st, the Catalyst Project Awards Ceremony took place at the TM Forum Digital Transformation World 2023 (DTW) Summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The “Rise of bots” project, jointly developed by China Mobile, Middle East stc, Africa MTN, Thailand AIS, Huawei, iMocha, and Dongxin Software, based on the GB1047 Digital Maturity Model, stood out among more than 50 participating projects and won the “TM Forum Catalyst Best New Catalyst – Culture & Talent Award. This project applies the Digital Talent Maturity Model to help companies assess and enhance their digital capabilities, promoting efficient operations, innovative products, and services and making outstanding contributions to industry transformation.

The awards ceremony victory was a culmination of collective efforts, anticipation, and merit. The judges announced the category deserves special mention and recognition due to the pertinent area that it addresses and brings a much-needed solution to the industry.


Huawei team anchored the efforts over the last seven months, coordinating, mobilizing, and managing the framework design, travel, iterative optimization, logistics, and plenty of brainstorming while managing multiple stakeholders from different CSPs, TM Forum, and Tech partners very efficiently.

DTMM is an intensive maturity evaluation tool, focusing on practical details of organization, talent, and culture maturity | An evaluation tool generates an initial report, which anchors the subsequent action-learning workshop.

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