What is Digital Transformation?

In plain English: digital transformation is the journey that constantly adapts to external factors such as consumer behaviour and other evolving technologies. As a result, it is a constant moving engine and you get to succeed by being ready to change! However, it is rather shocking when travelling around on business or simply buying things from the local farms that some of them are incredibly comfortable sticking to things like cash-only payments and no booking systems at all. 

There are certainly many reasons for it including being comfortable with the current structure that works and not having to deal with further admin tasks involved. This means that one is simply not designed to scale and grow. Not only that, they tend to forget that the main reason they are in business is that someone is willing to buy what they sell or produce. Also, that customer is exposed to an incredible range of services from Apple Pay to subscription-based and virtual assistant services. Therefore, to that customer, this kind of experience is not just disappointing but incredibly hard to comprehend too. As a result, this could be the only reason for customers to move from one farm to another. 

Having said that, I do understand that it is really hard for small farms or even small businesses to find time to deal with it because of the lack of resources. So, a simple approach could be to identify an experienced professional to get a good understanding of how to get started while considering the use of the following structure or architecture when starting with the simplest and smallest digital service for the business: 

MACH is all about Microservices; API-first; Cloud-native; and Headless – which is a modern, composable software strategy defined by working with smaller solutions that seamlessly integrate. In other words, it is a connected service space that works when certain software practices are followed.