Design & Architecture

The evolution of digital technology in a turbulent era has disrupted mature businesses and preconceived ideas. Companies must create new businesses with digital technology, striving for sustainable progress and competitive dominance while remaining agile and adaptable, unbound by existing business models and frameworks. In today’s commoditized world, creating a new business is not an easy feat. There are many considerations towards the essential value of a new business.

Companies must define their markets and customers and the value they provide with digital technology in terms of the scenario, story, and use cases, and clarify the significance and value of the business to the company. Advanced project and risk management is required under time, budgets, and personnel constraints, and companies must also understand and utilize the characteristics of digital and architecture to provide sustainable value in stages.

It is essential to build organizations to shape services and products, ensure effective marketing, and to continue the success of the business. New businesses are not guaranteed to succeed unless companies consider what they will sell and how they will sell it, including the formation of an effective sales team.

Businesses can only join the race once they are up and running. Meanwhile, creating digital businesses requires many simultaneous considerations. It is difficult for companies to get started all by themselves and make it to the starting line.

Companies face a technological revolution and a rapidly-changing business environment. Swift business reforms are required for companies to meet these needs and standards.

IT is the backbone of organizations, individuals, and businesses. It enhances the agility required for business operations, which is why companies set up agile organizations and apply agile frameworks (e.g. Scrum) to projects. However, companies have been unable to change the long-standing relationships and culture between the business side, which makes demands, and the IT side, which receives and implements those demands. Transformation projects are also stuck using a high-risk approach where the business side defines the requirements and delegates the work to an IT department or vendor. They perform checks just before going live at the end of the project, which creates a situation where project objectives cannot be achieved within limited budgets and deadlines.

The “Agile Manifesto” set forth the principles for successfully adapting to meet customer needs with digital technology. Companies must make a drastic switch to a project approach that makes it easier to meet customer needs and makes it possible to reduce transformation risks by changing the culture of the organization and the awareness of the people involved.

Companies and organizations must shift to the ‘Be Agile’ approach highlighted in the “Agile Manifesto,” with principles such as continuously understanding changes in customer value, collaborating with business and digital experts beyond the boundaries of companies and organizations, establishing a resilient architecture and design capable of withstanding change, having approaches on hand ready for changing risks, re-using digital technology, and leveraging AI, solutions, and advanced project approaches to quickly inject quality. In addition, companies must secure and train personnel capable of taking on new approaches, accepting the diverse cultures between companies and organizations, and the personnel who possess expertise in both business and digital technologies.