Digitally transform your processes into one simple flow!

With the ever-increasing rise of data breaches, data protection is of the utmost importance for many companies beginning the digital transformation process. While some may have reservations about the cloud, the top public cloud providers are held accountable to provide strong security, privacy, and governance features, making it an essential component of any digital transformation. At the end of the day, data security is ultimately the final responsibility of the business. With the digital technology safeguards that are available to protect both on-premises and cloud environments, organizations have no excuse when it comes to safeguarding their data. Increased security is one of the most important outcomes of a successful digital transformation, allowing businesses to easily secure their devices and back up their data should any security disasters occur. 

If your business technology is weighed-down with overly complicated procedures and processes, you’re not alone. A major benefit of any digital transformation, is the streamlining of existing processes to support new business models. For the sake of employee adaptability, it is also important to build these new processes to improve business operations.  

A primary focus of digital transformation is to invest in the technology that will better your business processes. Many organizations find themselves retiring or reinvesting in legacy applications, as new business demands arise. By trading legacy systems for scalable, cloud-based technological solutions with streamlined processes, your infrastructure will be specifically designed for repeatable activities according to your business goals. Similarly, spending less capital on maintaining old hardware or outdated systems frees that portion of the budget to reinvest in customer-facing initiatives. Reinventing and reinvesting creates a modern workplace because it helps the business meet customer demands more efficiently, reduce time to market, and maintain better customer service standards. 

New technology facilitates collaboration and improved employee experience. This is often a central component of new tech and digital transformations: leveraging programs that enable and enrich employee collaboration from anywhere, on any secured device. New employees adapt quickly in key areas such as cloud-based file sharing, or internal team project sites and focus in more detail to digital transformation. 

Modern, cloud-based technology platforms improve an organization’s digital transformation. These platforms minimize disruptions of day-to-day productivity of all employees. Principal analyst and IT leaders spend less time responding to end user requests for password resets or email issues, and more time on discrete steps that promote digital change. Employees also become more productive as they garner new competencies around modern application capabilities. The key to maximizing these digital transformation benefits is ensuring that all employees are properly trained on any new business applications and their full usage. 

Many companies are pursuing digital technologies in order to transform their traditional business models. In today’s business world, there are numerous examples of this kind of innovation, from Netflix’s reinvention of video distribution to Apple’s reinvention of music delivery (I-Tunes), to Uber’s reinvention of the taxi industry. 

 By reinventing and adding to their current model for success, corporations can achieve a renovation that leads to significant new opportunities for growth. This is why more companies should be trying to follow a similar path. 

An area that doesn’t receive a large amount of attention, but which has proven itself to have enormous potential, is domain transformation. New technologies have the ability to redefine products and services, blur industry boundaries, and foster opportunities for non-traditional competitors. This form of wholesale transformation offers incredible opportunities for businesses to create new value. 

 An excellent example of how domain transformation works is the case of the online retailer, Amazon, which expanded into a new market domain with the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Currently, AWS is the largest cloud computing/infrastructure service provider in the world, in a sector that was previously dominated by high-profile behemoths Microsoft and IBM. 

 All businesses undergoing a digital transformation should be mindful of the new opportunities for domain transformation that present themselves with the incorporation of new technology. 

A successful digital transformation demands more than just updating technology or redesigning products. If an organization fails to align its digital transformation efforts with its internal values and behaviors it can have a knock-on effect on an organization’s culture. 

 Negative repercussions range from slow adoption of digital technologies to loss of market competitiveness and inevitable failure of the initiative and lost productivity and revenue. On the other hand, a comprehensive and collaborative effort can help shift the culture to understand, embrace, and advance digital transformation.