Digital Transformation in the 21st Century Digital Enterprise by Mark Hewitt
For enterprises, simplifying the concept of digital transformation is essential.
EQengineered distills digital transformation into three core elements, namely:
IT & Technology Modernization. The process of managing or moving away from old solutions and legacy systems — consolidating systems and workflows in favor of more automated, progressive solutions and approaches (like cloud computing).
Cross-Departmental Agile Practice. Building Agile project management competency and a PMO to govern process and standardize a mode of iterative progress and achievement of results across the organization.
Discovery of New Business Opportunities. Creating new business ideas, products and methods as the result of IT & Technology Modernization and Cross-Departmental Agile Practice. Examples of this may be services solutions with data, creating a platform that enables growth in the business’ service to a larger total addressable market (TAM), and self-service by customers or employees.
Essential to the concepts above is inspiring a culture of learning that embraces change as a matter of practice. This requires cultural change and new organizational muscle development to create, maintain, and sustain a new mode of operations.
Core practices of successful enterprises include continual training and learning for individual growth and team achievement. This learning culture can be serviced by internal trainers, partner trainers, and ecosystem facilities. Common examples of individual learning are use of third party platforms like Udemy and Pluralsight, or online learning from academic institutions like MIT, Oxford, Bentley, Khan Academy, and others. Partners may be strategic consulting relationships or training organizations. And, ecosystems facilities could be technology learning with companies like Microsoft, or perhaps topical Meetups or skills groups.
The goal of EQengineered is to foster partnerships and encourage learning, inspire ownership, and share what we have garnered through experience delivering digital solutions. We want to provide our client teams, projects and organizations with proven, practical best practices, tactics and techniques. We seek to provide this expertise by integrating as one team and modeling the behaviors, coaching toward success, and collectively caring for the results.
EQengineered focuses on forging partnerships that result in delivery of strategic value. The four core elements of our relationships are providing education, assessment, planning, and implementation through our DARE approach - Discovery, Assessment, Roadmapping, and Education/Execution.
EQengineered seeks to earn client trust by living our core values, namely:
Integrity (the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness/the state of being whole and undivided)
Transparency (free from pretense or deceit/readily understood/characterized by visibility or accessibility of information)
Reliability (the extent to which an experiment, test or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials)
Trust (one in which confidence is placed/assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something)
Below are the strategic consulting advisory service topics on which EQengineered provides education in the form of one (1) to two (2) hour workshops.
· Agile Practice 101 (overview/introduction, process, tools, techniques, best practices)
· Agile Practice 102 (establishment of the PMO)
· Application Modernization 101 (Challenges, goal, navigating technology change)
· Application Modernization 102 (Architecture, maintainability, performance)
· A Blueprint for the Data Analytics Platform
· Cloud Enablement of DevOps & Data Pipelines
· Incorporating Machine Learning Based Decision-Making
If interested in learning more, please reach out to me directly at mark@EQengineered.com. We hope to have the opportunity to collaborate with you and your team.