The time has come for your company to accelerate its digital transformation. This is one move you won't want to miss.
The technological landscape is constantly evolving. Blink your eyes and you'll miss the next iteration of a software, platform, or idea. And although the speed at which our world is changing can be quite dizzying and almost impossible to keep up with, this is good for business.
Why?
Because technology allows your company to compete better in your market. Without new technologies, you would be left behind while your competition reaps the benefits of spending time and effort to employ the latest and greatest tools. That's why you need digital adoption strategies that keep you on the cutting edge of technological advances. You need to adopt a digital acceleration process that allows you to quickly integrate new technologies as they emerge.
Although it may seem like an impossible task to keep up with this digital acceleration, it is not. There are ways to not only keep up, but also get ahead of the game. Once you're at the peak of the learning curve, you can sit back and enjoy the ride.
But before you reach that milestone, you must work to achieve digital acceleration. As? Let's find out together.
Discover your needs
The first thing you should do is find out where your company is lagging behind in digital transformation. For example, is the telephone your main means of communicating with customers and clients? If that's the case, you're already far behind.
People don't answer their phones unless they know who's calling (and there's a compelling reason for them to answer). If your business depends on phone calls (or, even worse, cold calls), you are already failing.
To join the digital revolution, it is necessary to use more modern means of communication. Your first thought may be email, but that's not all. Younger generations (like millennials) don't have time to read long emails, they want their conversations to be less than 240 characters and include emojis.
To that end, your company needs to seriously reconsider how it communicates with customers, clients, and customers. SMS messaging, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook – these should be your first entry point for communication. For this digital transformation to be a success, you must first think young. How would your teen or twenty-something like you to communicate with them? Answer this question and you will be on your way to understanding communication in the digital world.
The cloud is your friend
It's time for you to abandon this traditional way of thinking about your company network. And I'm not just talking about a LAN-centric distributed file and folder system. I'm also talking about where you deploy your web-based applications. You've hired the best JavaScript and Python developers you can find, so why waste them on creating standard applications or applications that you'll serve in a data center that can't be scaled to meet growing market demand?
Move to the cloud instead. Use services like Google Workspace to make it easier for your employees to work and collaborate, and use platforms like AWS and Google Cloud to deliver these web-based applications. When migrating to these platforms, you can be confident that the infrastructure will scale as much as you need.
This is a digital transformation that will make a big difference in how well you can keep up with the competition.
AI will show you the way
When you're tasked with sifting through large amounts of data or trying to optimize your software solutions, chances are your human mind isn't up to the task. Take, for example, container optimization in a Kubernetes cluster. You might think it's as simple as adjusting the requests and limits for each container in a pod, but then you realize you need to make small adjustments to 20+ containers in a manifest. How do you do it yourself, in a time frame that can really make a difference?
You can not.
For tasks like this, you turn to Artificial Intelligence. A computer's CPU is much more efficient at crunching numbers than you are, so why not use this new technology that can not only get the job done faster, but also learn ways to better improve your entire delivery pipeline.
If you have Python Developers on your team, you are one step closer to implementing AI into your systems.
Automation is the key
Just like AI, you will need to consider automation. I'm not talking about robots to replace humans as your preferred employees. Instead, I'm talking about using software solutions to automate certain tasks in your development or delivery chain.
For example, if you're already using a cloud-based service to deliver web-based applications to customers, you can set up automation so that those applications update automatically, directly from your developer's GitHub repositories. Even better, updates can be automatically triggered by even the smallest compromise to a JavaScript or Ruby file.
Similar to AI, automation will make your delivery systems exponentially faster, more predictable and reliable.
Mobile is the now and the future
More than half of web usage is on mobile devices. This will not decrease. In fact, the market share of mobile devices will only continue to increase until the vast majority of people around the world access the Internet solely through a mobile device.
Therefore, your company must be compatible with mobile devices. But not sometime in the future – now. If your company website isn't already designed for mobile use, you're way behind the digital transformation curve.
But you can't just think of it in terms of optimizing your website for small devices. It is necessary to think about mobile applications as a way to deliver an experience to potential customers and consumers. These mobile apps and web apps can do a great job of enabling consumers to interact with your business in a much more immediate way. This immediacy will translate into more customers, more sales, more profit.
Mobile apps can also make a difference for your workforce. You can develop your own custom apps to improve internal processes, provide new communication channels for your team, and have a more robust digital ecosystem overall.
Conclusion
The time has come for your company to accelerate its digital transformation. This is one move you won't want to miss. Every second you hesitate to initiate this large-scale, enterprise-wide digital change, you waste precious time that you will never get back.
So what are you waiting for?
