We’re firmly entrenched in the digital age, and businesses of all sorts are creating clever, effective, and disruptive ways of leveraging technology. Organizations need to evolve to address the changing business landscapes. Digital business transformation is the ultimate challenge in change management.

The focus on digital transformation has never been greater. Even the companies that thought they could rely on legacy systems are now planning to go digital because of the disruptions that have been caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

1.Redundancy: Is there potential to consolidate multiple applications that perform similar functions to reduce cost and simplify? 2.Criticality: How key is the application and function to business operations 3.Rate of change: Would DevOps and agile technologies and techniques add any benefit to the application? 4.Competitive advantage: Will transformation differentiate the organization from its competition? 5.Business value: Where will the most ROI be gained?

Digital transformation makes organizations more agile. Borrowing from the world of software development, businesses can increase their agility with digital transformation to improve speed-to-market and adopt Continuous Improvement (CI) strategies. This allows for faster innovation and adaptation while providing a pathway to improvement.