The Journey to Digital Transformation for Small & Mid-sized Companies
Summary
In this post, we’ll address these three areas – what digital transformation is, where to start for your situation, and effectively implementing a strategy – with a focus on small and mid-sized companies with less than $500 million in revenue. Most companies start the journey thinking about the benefits to themselves, but quickly realize the competitive advantages they can gain by including their customers in the calculation. If you’ve been running your systems on-premises with a server in a closet, now is the time to look at cloud or off-site hosted options to reduce your technology capital expense. If you haven’t purchased a major business system recently, you can keep this process moving by engaging a full-time project manager (if you’re running this in-house) or retaining a firm to help with selection (if you’re outsourcing). SaaS models for applications, high-availability infrastructure like AWS, and the ability to find the expertise you need to make it work together change the technology equation for smaller companies.
