Digital Strategy

Successful digital transformation requires a strategic approach.

Your success in digitally transforming your organization is determined by your ability to develop and execute a clear strategy. This strategy must be driven and supported by leaders who embrace speed and innovation, and encourage rapid change.

Digital Strategy Services

Start your journey to digital success on a solid, strategic foundation.

Visioning
Innovation
Assessment
Product Portfolio

Visioning

We begin by helping you through the “Visioning” process to identify exactly what success looks like for the future of your organization. This is the first step of your journey to a successful digital transformation.

Once completed, this “vision” of success is what will unite your organization, guide your decision making, and keep everyone energized and focused on the actions that have the most impact.

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Innovation

While many organizations aspire to be “innovative”, few invest the time and resources needed to foster a culture of innovation that embraces new ideas and allows for healthy risk-taking.

We help prepare your organization to quickly gather, test and deploy innovative ideas so you can achieve your innovation goals and always stay ahead of your competition.

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Assessment

In order to get where you want to go, you must first have an accurate view of where you are currently, and what your next steps are.

Continuous Business Value Delivery (CBVD) is a specialized assessment and advisory framework focused on ensuring you are delivering the right product at the right time to your target market.

The CBVD® framework benchmarks your current state, provides a measurable roadmap for your transformation, aligns management on clear focus areas to be successful, and provides you with an enterprise change management plan.

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Product Portfolio

Making the right strategic decisions about your portfolio of products can either make or break your organization.

In order to stay competitive, you must be able to accurately identify and eliminate products in diminishing markets that are draining resources, and redistribute those resources to the rapid development of successful products in growing sectors.

We can help you make intelligent decisions about your product portfolio by leveraging data to quickly identify and prioritize markets with the best opportunities for growth and profitability.

THE OBSTACLE

A Change Resistant Organization:
A Key Obstacle to Digital Transformation

You need more than just new technology to stay competitive in the digital age.

Leading brands such as Google, Amazon, and Netflix have disrupted established industries in their pursuit of digital innovation. Organizations of all sizes now realize that preserving the status quo is a losing strategy. To stay competitive, every organization must pursue their own transformations.

Unfortunately, most companies never reach full digital maturity.

Key challenges standing in their way are the following:

Challenge #1:

Change-Resistant
Organization

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Challenge #1:

Change-Resistant
Organization

As humans, we find comfort in familiar tools, processes, and routines. Change is often scary and uncomfortable, which means substantial change at an organizational level can be very challenging.

Digital transformation starts with a careful consideration of how change will be handled across the organization.

Challenge #2:

Outdated Business
Model

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Challenge #2:

Outdated Business
Model

Many leaders mistakenly think that by upgrading their technology, they are “going digital”. If your approach is to look at new technologies in isolation you will run the risk of merely using new technology to power an outdated business model.

Instead, you must develop a strategy for leveraging new technology in order to deliver the best possible experience to customers, regardless of what the business model looks like.

Challenge #3:

Lack of Agile
Mindset

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Challenge #3:

Lack of Agile
Mindset

The ability to quickly respond to rapid change is an essential element of a successful digital transformation. Agility embraces evidence as the basis for change, which requires ongoing experimentation and quick pivoting of direction as new data becomes available.

Without this agility, your organization will end up with a linear transformation plan, one that limits change to a gradual series of events, leading to a slow pace of implementation and complete loss of momentum.

THE SOLUTION

AgileTrailblazers Helps Your Organization:
Achieve a Shared Vision

Vision

Your organization’s digital transformation journey starts with a vision that is shared among leadership and stakeholders, and clearly communicated to the rest of your organization

Leadership Buy-In

Without a clear vision of the future, your digital transformation efforts will end in confusion, failed starts, and a lack of buy-in.

Focused & United

Armed with a clear vision of the future and the right strategy, your organization will be focused and united on your journey toward successful digital transformation.

At Agile Trailblazers, we can help you fully assess what your organization’s current state is, identify the challenges you must overcome, and then develop and implement a clear, measurable roadmap for digital success.

WHO BENEFITS

Who is Digital Strategy for?

Leadership Across Your Organization

Digital Strategy gives you the ability to align all of your initiatives, projects, and activities toward clear objectives.

Departments or Teams Within an Organization

Digital Strategy provides guidance and clarity on exactly which tactics to execute on that will best get you to the destination you’re trying to reach as an organization, as a department, or as a team.

Leaders Looking for Alignment and Efficient Innovation

Digital Strategy ensures that nothing happens in your organization unless it has a purpose and helps move your organization forward, resulting in higher efficiency and productivity, faster innovation, and decreased costs.

REFERENCES

Some Completed POC Examples

Healthcare

Wearables Technology Saves Lives

Wearables are emerging as one of the leading technologies within healthcare. Whether it is Mixed Reality (MR), Virtual Reality (VR), or Augmented Reality (AR), the industry consensus is that these technologies are here to stay.

While Google Glasses never quite took off in the consumer segment for various reasons, they are experiencing a bit of resurgence within the healthcare sector. On behalf of one of our healthcare clients, we built a Proof-of-Concept around a medical transport team using Google Glasses to make a video call to E.R. to receive vital information while in transport, which can save lives in time-sensitive, emergency situations. Enjoy the video!

Ecommerce

Augmented Reality Revolutionizes eCommerce

A lot of the press and media coverage of the latest iPhone devices has been about the ARKit and how Apple is positioning the iPhone to be the “World's Largest AR Platform”. We at ATB want to be in front of this technology, so we built a Proof-of-Concept using Apple’s ARKit, which is shown in the video below.

The use case in the video below shows an eCommerce platform where you, the end customer, are using AR on your iPhone to explore how a product such as an espresso machine or kitchen blender might look and fit in your own kitchen.

Similar AR POCs can apply to any department with a related product roadmap or industry segment, such as gaming, education, training, social media, ecommerce, sports and healthcare.

Finance

Global Financial Institutions Increase Efficiencies with Blockchain and Smart Contracts

FinTech is probably the most active segment exploring blockchain technology right now, with 80% of global financial institutions either working on a Proof-of-Concept, or researching the technology. However, we see it being used in every industry and government entity as the technology matures.

Blockchain technology–specifically Ethereum and “Smart Contracts”–can be used for any transaction where a IFTT (If This Then That) business workflow is required.

“Smart Contracts” are basically a process automation tool with the upside of completely eliminating layers, whether the layer is people, processes, bureaucracy, or a combination of the three. Watch our video where we built a rapid Proof-of-Concept using blockchain technology.

INDUSTRIES

Digital Strategy Expertise In Your Industry

Financial Services
Healthcare
eCommerce
Government

Financial Services

A proper Digital Strategy enables financial services organizations to overcome fast-changing industry challenges, such as:

Ensuring integration of new technology with existing systems
Connecting agents across the globe and aligning their processes
Providing a consistent and seamless customer experience
Mitigating new security risks
Compliance with the laws and regulations of multiple countries

Healthcare

More patients are coming to expect streamlined digital experiences, and the healthcare system overall is moving toward more accountable care. Because of these changes, organizations must have a Digital Strategy that can help them leverage new technology in order to:

Acquire better data to identify waste and reallocate resources
Improve efficiency and reduce costs in all areas
Expand patient population through initiatives such as Connected Care
Provide the highest-quality treatment to as many patients as possible
Comply with changing government regulations

eCommerce

For eCommerce companies competing with giant online retailers such as Amazon and Wal-Mart, it’s crucial to have a Digital Strategy that enables you to:

Invest in the right eCommerce platform for your business
Come up with innovative ideas and business models, and be able to execute them quickly
Streamline your logistics and delivery to reduce costs and improve efficiency
Keep customers engaged with online/offline integration
Utilize Augmented Reality to create exciting, new shopping experiences
Accept new forms of payment, such as Paypal and digital currencies

Government

As local, state, and federal governments are looking to technology in order to improve citizens’ lives, budget and security concerns are top-of-mind. Having a proper Digital Strategy allows you to plan for a future in which:

Digitally-connected cities are the norm
More funds are freed up due to automation
Inefficient procedures and processes are replaced by highly-secure, streamlined digital applications
Decision-making at all levels is improved based on accurate, real-time data to serve more citizens faster than ever
Licensing and maintenance costs are reduced with open-source technology
Long, complex, expensive procurement and development cycles are replaced by a lean, Agile approach

Align Your Leadership Towards One Goal

Take the first step towards a successful digital transformation

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Digital Transformation

Digital Strategy

Successful digital transformation requires a strategic approach.

Digital Strategy Services

Visioning

Innovation

Assessment

Product Portfolio

5 Reasons Why a Digital Transformation Framework Is Necessary for Market Disruption

A framework to provide a measurable roadmap to your business transformation.

THE OBSTACLE

A Change Resistant Organization:A Key Obstacle to Digital Transformation

You need more than just new technology to stay competitive in the digital age.

Key challenges standing in their way are the following:

THE SOLUTION

AgileTrailblazers Helps Your Organization:Achieve a Shared Vision

Vision

Leadership Buy-In

Focused & United

At Agile Trailblazers, we can help you fully assess what your organization’s current state is, identify the challenges you must overcome, and then develop and implement a clear, measurable roadmap for digital success.

Align Your Leadership Towards One Goal

WHO BENEFITS

Who is Digital Strategy for?

Leadership Across Your Organization

Departments or Teams ​​​​​​​Within an Organization

Leaders Looking for Alignment and Efficient Innovation

REFERENCES

Some Completed POC Examples

Healthcare

Wearables Technology Saves Lives

Ecommerce

Augmented Reality Revolutionizes eCommerce

Finance

Global Financial Institutions Increase Efficiencies with Blockchain and Smart Contracts

INDUSTRIES

Digital Strategy Expertise In Your Industry

Financial Services

Healthcare

eCommerce

Government

RESOURCES

Digital Transformation Resources

DevOps Demystified: DevOps 101 with Atlassian

Solving the Content Management Conundrum

Enable Continuous Delivery of Containerized Applications with Jenkins & Docker

Align Your Leadership Towards One Goal

A Change Resistant Organization:
A Key Obstacle to Digital Transformation

AgileTrailblazers Helps Your Organization:
Achieve a Shared Vision

Departments or Teams Within an Organization