About Us
Our mission
Our mission is to educate business leaders on the strategic value of technology management and its contributions to business success. We aim to transform telecom, mobile, and cloud management operations into strategic assets that can provide greater value to the overall organization objectives set by leadership.
What we do
AOTMP® is an independent 3rd party focused on technology management best practices for businesses and the vendors who support them. For 21 years we have collected data from many of our 60,000 followers to determine what works and what doesn’t in a technology management environment. We have assembled this information into our Efficiency First® Framework and it serves as the foundation for everything we do.
For businesses
We are a resource for:
- Technology management leaders and practitioners
- IT finance leaders and practitioners
- Sourcing and procurement leaders and practitioners
We provide them with:
For vendors
We are a resource for:
- Sales teams
- Marketing teams
- Delivery teams
- Products teams
What makes us different
- Over 21 years in business.
- Courses and certifications focused solely on telecom, mobile, and cloud/IT management best practices.
- Consistent founding three-person leadership team throughout.
- Creators of the Efficiency First® Framework - a standardized methodology for managing telecom, mobile, and cloud/IT environments.
- The Efficiency First® Framework is supported by two US Patents; think ISO or Six Sigma-like Framework.
- 200+ online courses taken over 45,000 times.
- 19 certification programs – 15 specialist, 3 Professional and 1 Master
- Just over 200 professionals have earned master certification credentials.
- Over 7,000 certifications issued to professionals globally.
- Team Performance Program measures 29 practice areas in technology management.
- Efficiency First® Solution Certification Program validates vendor solution performance.
- Best practices and industry standards determined from a database of thousands of organizations – we know what works and what doesn’t.
- Customers across the globe – every business has telecom, mobile, and cloud/IT services with the need to manage it.
What does AOTMP stand for?
Authority on Technology Management Practices.
Our legal name is AOTMP® University, LLC an Indiana Limited Liability Company. We do business solely as AOTMP®.
2003 - 2007
Focused on training and certifications for telecom and mobility management professionals. Training included 3 to 5 day bootcamps, live onsite training and online training courses. Training focused on inventory management and cost optimization / auditing. Most popular were Bring Your Own Bills, Inventory Management, Telecom Essentials, Auditing I and II.
2007 - 2020
Added consulting, events, research, and other publications to our business. We built hundreds of service and contract inventories for enterprises, ran nearly 100 TEM RFP’s for enterprises, performed hundreds of assessments for enterprise environments, held 15 industry events for enterprises and vendors, performed solution analysis for vendors and published hundreds of articles and research papers on telecom, mobility, and cloud/IT management best practices.
2020 - 2023
Began to narrow our focus during the pandemic to focus on training and certifications, industry publications, vendor solution evaluations and online events. Continued to collect data from our database of over 50,000 industry professionals as to what works and what doesn’t in their environments to further enhance our best practices that feed our content efforts – publications, courses, certifications, and events.
Present
Our focus today is 100% on best practices and general industry education with our primary solutions being courses, certifications, team performance and solution certification programs. Our Industry Education Advisory Council, made up of more than 70 industry professionals, provides guidance and input on the AOTMP® strategy including content and industry needs.
