The importance of Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation has become one of the top priorities of businesses around the world. In 2020-2021, IT departments have invested more on Digital Transformation than they ever have in history. This is because Digital Transformation no longer is just necessary to be competitive, it is now necessary for survival. Digital Transformation is the alignment of a business’ strategy with its workforce culture, processes, and technology. It’s not about automating everything but automating the right things while removing inefficiencies and ensuring proper controls and measurements are in place. “Best practices” and “best-in-breed” are buzzwords from the past decade - you don’t want to be like everyone else, you want to be better. Hence: Digital Transformation. The right technologies give you information when you need it and in the context of how you need it. It measures not just output, but how that output was made (quality vs defects, processing time per employee or team, built-up and waittimes, bottlenecks, etc.). It connects employee performance with human capital development and monitoring. It models your operations so that you can simulate impact by adjusting variables like workforce, stock-levels, etc.
Vasavah’s goal is to enable business strategies and cultivate organizational capability with technology.
Technology works when it reflects your organizational processes and workforce culture. As such, we don’t just provide software, we provide services that operationalize your organization with effective technology.
Digital Transformation
As businesses deploy more and more software solutions into their operations, most find that a large percentage of their software’s functionalities are hardly used. This is because it is not about finding software with the most features, it is about finding the software with right features that best align with your workforce’s competencies, operational requirements, and business strategy. Good software delivers “best practices,” the best software conforms with your processes and enhances competitive advantages - software should adapt to and enhance your business, not the other way around.
Digital Transformation is unique per organization and so our service begins with a diagnostic. Having learned the baseline, we then recommend solutions and activities that can further your business goals through small systematic shifts in your technology, workforce culture and process. Such activities may include, a unified data strategy, deployment of new integrated software, artificial intelligence and machine learning implementation, omni-channel integration, as well as workforce culture-training & up-skilling, and change management.
Data Strategy
The new wealth is data and though many organizations have lots, their data is usually stored in archives, or separate fragmented systems, and require wait-times and effort to access them let alone create insights from them. In a lot of organizations, technology, rather than enabling rapid strategic changes and fast competition, actually limits and delays change. Perhaps due to numerous systems having been deployed but not integrated with one another - necessitating plenty of tedious encoding, reporting and manipulation of different systems just for teams and departments to work together. Or perhaps process changes that required time-consuming and costly change orders. Whatever the case may be, these are some of the typical challenges facing enterprises that began their IT deployments from way back. Data Strategy is creating your entire organization’s uniform data structure, secure data flow, and correct capture and display points. We then deploy software that allow data to flow through various systems with proper controls, audits, and security.
Enterprise Software
Vasavah’s own ERP solution, Kodanda.Cloud, is a full suite of enterprise modules that can be configured to adapt to business requirements without time consuming and costly customizations. Kodanda.Cloud can be deployed as an entire suite or one module at a time. It doesn’t require you to be exclusive to its modules since we welcome integration with 3rd-party systems. Although Kodanda.Cloud was designed with best practices built-in, Kodanda.Cloud’s architecture was made so that it’s extremely configurable for every client deployment, ensuring a better system fit with your business requirements and your existing technologies. Kodanda.Cloud has been deployed with some of the largest conglomerates in South East Asia. Below is a list of its modules:
- Supply Chain Management
- Service Management
- Records and Documents Management
- Client Management
- Workforce Management (HR)
- Data Integration System
The Journey
Every journey we take with our clients is different because every client and every project is unique. Hence our approach begins with understanding and planning. We deep-dive into your organizations’ strategies, challenges and situation and from there we propose our solutions
What we will do and won't do
We are not business consultants and we won’t tell you to change your business or how you run it.
Nobody knows your business better than you do. W hat we will do is make recommendations on how technology can better enable your business to maximize its competitive advantages and realize your business strategies. We won’t make you throw away your existing IT investments. In fact, our main goal is to not replace your existing software whenever possible. We will explore ways to extend your existing software so that they can perform better and meet your evolving requirements. Maybe we just need to integrate your systems better or connect new modules and dashboards.
Our technology deployments are designed so they match your workforce’s technical capabilities. We understand that different people have different technical competencies. We also know that technical competencies are some of the fastest skills to decay. Whether we need to do a cultural shift, up-skilling of your team, simplify user-interfaces to match your teams’ skillsets, or all the above, Vasavah can recommend a roadmap to drive this change effectively. We don’t do “forever retainer” engagements, we do projects. We don’t come in and tell you to make drastic changes to your business and let you do all the work. We come in to understand, diagnose, recommend, and execute. In fact, we prefer to recommend smaller projects in the beginning to ensure that the organization does not experience “change-shock”. The bigger the change, the bigger the destabilizing effect from the “Innovation S-Curve”. It’s a journey, not a sprint.