Poised for a digital transformation?

From smart homes to smartwatches, to connected devices controlling nuclear centrifuges, there’s no doubt that IoT devices are fast becoming more pervasive in people’s lives. 

Gartner predicts a 32% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for IoT from 2016 to 2021, with installed devices expected to total 25.1 billion units by 2021. Online market research and business intelligence company Statista, on the other hand, predicts that the installed base for IoT devices worldwide will be 75.44 billion by 2025. 

Technology is advancing at a rapid pace. Along with this are quickly changing customer preferences, which is why companies need to adapt their systems and processes to accelerate product development and time-to-market.

Digital transformation is often defined as simply using digital technologies to improve and optimize various aspects of a business. While true, it misses one key factor: agility. A business isn't truly digitally transformed until it is flexible and agile enough to react to the continual change and progress that's fundamental to the digital landscape.

But how can you transform your business without hampering your critical operations and potentially harming your reputation, costing you time and money?

Technology is embedded in every layer of modern businesses. Aligning the implementation of technology assets with the organization’s objectives and end-user requirements is essential for differentiation in highly competitive markets.

It’s no surprise that the 2017 Harris Allied survey listed finding and hiring top IT talent as management’s greatest concern five years in a row. Brad Keywell, CEO of Uptake stated in his publication, “The fourth industrial revolution is about empowering people, not the rise of the machines.” While compensation is still listed as the top deciding factor, there is now more emphasis on workplace happiness and engagement – employees want exciting work opportunities, innovative culture, and room for upward growth.

In the current digital age coined as ‘industry 4.0’, organizations around the world are all in fast pursuit of a digital transformation. Every modern business is a technology company at its core. What this means is that the success of businesses today lies in their ability to engineer IT solutions to support their organizational goals. Businesses have to be tech savvy in a way they haven’t had to be before, and with many challenges. In this article, we’ve compiled the key issues with digital transformation along with solutions to overcome them.

A key component of digital transformation is the production of customer facing digital products. A key word in that description is “products.” 

As an IT leader your end user focus has been employees who work in your organization and not current or potential customers. So when you’re tasked with creating a digital product for customers your focus needs to shift from an internal support mindset to an external product marketing mindset.

For a clear picture of what partnerships with our clients look like, we tapped into a resource here at Dynamic Computer Corporation, Lori Kasparian, a Senior Account Manager, who has over two decades of experience dealing directly with our customers. She leverages her wealth of knowledge to understand customers’ needs and pain points and works with them to understand how Dynamic can solve for their business.

You’re struggling with balancing the need for control and security of your endpoints with end user demands for flexibility and choice. 

It’s tough because as a technical expert you’re well aware of the serious threats to data and network security your organization faces. Organizations that have experienced a breach lose credibility and suffer market losses.

Given the complexity of today’s IT landscape, IT asset management (ITAM) goes far beyond simply making a list of assets and monitoring them. It entails figuring out the best assets for your company’s needs, how to maximize and manage their lifecycle, ensuring compliance and security across all assets, handling disposal, and everything in between. All of this plays into strategic decision making for the IT environment. In short, companies now face the challenge of monitoring, optimizing and protecting their IT assets – a challenge often solved by partnering with an IT solution provider to take the load off.