and OSS/BSS These performance attributes can be corrected to improve the investment and revenue generated from the product. 38. Product strategy management: The development efforts in a telecom com- pany should be in line with the business strategy. This means that sufficient data needs to be analyzed to ensure that investment is allocated to the right technology areas and projects. Prioritization is also a key criterion in deter- mining where investment needs to be done at a specific point of time and what decisions need to be delayed. Product strategy management solutions maintain a repository of data that will help to take effective decisions on product strategy. These solutions also ensure that strategic decisions are communicated properly across the enterprise after taking input from key stake holders and getting approval. Previous case studies can also be referred with these solu- tions to tailor an approach to the unique situation and requirements. Product innovation management is also a part of strategy management. There are specific solutions that handle product innovation management. 39. Network activation: As part of order fulfillment, the details of the order is communicated to the service provisioning module. The provisioning mod- ule sends a request to the network activation application for activating the service. The network activation system generates specific control commands targeted toward individual network elements for enabling the elements to activate the service. The activation module activates the elements, followed by modules to start billing data collection, the activated elements are updated with status in inventory management module, and finally the validation module checks if the activation was completed successfully. Most network activation solutions support multitechnology, multivendor, multielement activation. 40. Subscriber provisioning: These solutions mainly handle provisioning and migration of subscriber data. Provisioning would involve updating subscriber details in an HLR (ho