TE-Advanced provides major enhancements to LTE and will be part of 3GPP Release 10 specifications. Table 13.1 TM validity for mobile communications ecosystem Radio Core and End-to-End TM Domains Access Transport Services Devices Network Comments Tech Strategy Stage gate model is applicable to all the components Tech Dev Both basic and applied research are applicable New Product Dev Collaborative product development is highly applicable and desirable Innovation Management IPR is a must for long term survival and shareholder value Knowledge Management KIM is about improving employees skills set and increasing collaboration via KM tools Cultural Management Cultural context sensitivity understanding is a must in globalization Tech Foresight Tech Foresight leads to innovation and foreseeing emerging technologies Tech Roadmapping Alignment of various players roadmap is a must for meeting the timelines Tech Commercialization Helps identifying commercialization approaches for both sustaining and disruptive technologies Managed Services Technology and product life cycle management and ongoing operations management are critical for the health of mobile networks Next Generation Mobile Communications Ecosystem WP 5D No.10 meetings Step 1 and 2 (20 months) Step 3 (8 months) Step 4 (16 months) Steps 5,6 and 7 (20 months) Steps 8 (12 months) Steps in radio interface development process: Step 1: Issuance of the circular letter Step 5: Review and coordination of outside evaluation activities Step 2: Development of candidate RITs and SRITs Step 6: Review to assess compliance with minimum requirements Step 3: Submission/Reception of the RIT and SRIT Step 7: Consideration of evaluation results, consensus proposals and acknowledgement of receipt building and decision Step 4: Evaluation of candidate RITs and SRITs Step 8: Development of radio interface Recommendation(s) by evaluation groups Critical milestones in radio interface development process: (0): Issue an invitation to March 2008 (2): Cut off for evaluation report to ITU June 