Business Transformation Enabled by Accelerated Engineering

By

Rajesh Prakasam

VP - Engineering

There are many types of business transformation. In fact, businesses cannot survive without accepting that transformation is inevitable. The very basis of transforming a business lies in making fundamental changes to the way you conduct your business to cope with shifts within your industry or marketplace.

However, it’s safe to say that “making fundamental change” is an incredibly narrow definition of business transformation. The willingness to evolve is essential for business survival. Of course, transforming a business isn’t restricted to enhancing the customer journey and remaining relevant among the competition, but it also pertains to navigating ever-evolving regulatory complexities.

Types of Business Transformation

Modern engineering continues to fuel many business transformations across the board. In general, a business might go through six types of change. Though it’s common for business transformation to stem from digital technologies, it is much more than replacing current systems.

Business leaders need to remember that they must give all areas of transformation a proper amount of attention to pull off successful changes. Here are a few aspects to keep an eye on when guiding through a business transformation encouraged by accelerated engineering.

Organization Transformation

A proper business transformation begins with refocusing and redesigning the structure of a company and its operational mode. This process is ever-evolving and should emphasize the employees, conducted by general management. Transformation can only occur if management is supportive and entirely on board with the transformation process.

Management Transformation

As how we work continues to evolve, new generations are redefining the structures within internal relations. Rigid systems tend to hinder growth, and a good leadership model collaborates forces and quickly adapts to future changes. Management transformation can keep and foster natural talent, so organizations must pay close attention to it.

Cultural Transformation

One of the most challenging aspects of business transformation is cultural transformation because it involves a complete company-wide change in mindset. Implementing a new corporate culture is only feasible after a managerial change in perspective and an established, concrete company culture vision.

Digital Transformation

One of the most significant transformations a company will even attempt is digital transformation. To pull off a successful digital transformation, companies must rethink their business models from a digitally strategic perspective. Here, you’ll decide how modern technology can improve your products, services, and every aspect of your customer journey.

Information Systems Transformation

The core of business transformation lies in the evolution of its information systems. Technologies, processes, and staff are all part of transforming information systems, and integrating new technologies can help bring in a flood of new data for teams to analyze and share across departments.

Transformation of Business Processes

Before you transform your business processes, you have to know which business processes need improvement. Understanding your company’s aspects that need progress is a crucial step toward efficiency. Make sure you weigh the options and choose the path that will save time and resources. For example, the automation of repetitive tasks can free up employee time and allows them to focus on core business processes, such as customer service, instead.

How Modern Engineering Enables Business Transformation

While every company must thoroughly explore the path they take to business transformation, hitting on every aspect along the way, there is no question that we’re living in a digital age. All companies in almost any industry must reimagine themselves as a version of a software company.

The refusal to modernize while embracing cloud transformation and modern engineering practices is a survival risk. We must focus on the value of the conversion instead of what it will cost. There are specific principles and practices that companies need to transform into a business that’s incredibly profitable and productive.

Choosing to Transform Development Operations (DevOps)

There’s no question that development operations correlate to increased profitability. When companies can transform development and operations departments from a digital and accelerated engineering perspective, they’re more likely to exceed in market share and profitability. So, how can you achieve this level of transformation, bringing in profitability that will change so many things for your business?

The short answer is simple. You’ve got to focus on the six fundamental aspects of transformation and create a business-aligned, customer-focused product team that can focus on optimizing value with the proper organizational change and modern engineering practices.

There are some essential components to DevOps that you must understand before embarking on company-wide transformations, particularly in how they apply to any changes enabled by accelerated engineering.

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Understanding Flow Metrics and Value Stream Mapping

Value stream mapping weaves seamlessly with your daily flow by delivering value to your customers. Your company has to know the steps it must take to provide value to your consumer base and helps you to understand how long it will take to process something versus how long you’ll have to wait. Value stream mapping provides an efficient timeline.

Measuring the efficiency of your workflow is a must-have work aspect and a much-discussed topic in the DevOps community. To keep your workflow moving along correctly, you’ll have to categorize your work, your statuses, and your key metrics should include:

The Process from Project to Product

To transform a business, it’s crucial to have a solid operating model in place. The most significant shift in any transformation is from a project to a product. It’s much easier to embrace the ways of development operations without expansive project plans and partial resources. When team members are not assigned to various projects and value streams, they can focus on business alignment and customer focus for one specific task, which in this case, is turning a project into a product.

A product team consists of varying departments. These include:

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Transforming Your Organization Today

Digital transformation is more important now than ever, but to transform a company based on accelerated engineering means improving productivity and shifting to product-based teams while employing modern engineering practices.

By

Rajesh Prakasam

VP - Engineering

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