A question that spawns a new answer every time it’s asked. It’s the business world’s equivalent of what’s the meaning of life. Digital transformation has meant different things to companies at different stages of their maturity. But in today’s era, where change is the only certainty, a clearer and more universal definition has emerged. Digital transformation is the process of managing the adoption of digital products, platforms, and processes to create a more competitive organization. It’s not a one-time project with a finish line but a strategic capability that helps teams evolve in a way that best suits their interests. Whether it’s making ads more engaging for prospects (Hasbro), making processes more convenient for employees (DBS Bank), or making transactions more seamless for customers (McDonald’s), removing friction in user experience is a common theme in all successful digital transformation projects. Remembering this can prevent you from greenlighting vanity projects that bring no real value to your business.
Modus Create is one such digital transformation consulting firm dedicated to helping clients build competitive advantage through digital innovation. Its global team of strategists, designers, and technologists has helped the world’s biggest brands deliver powerful experiences. It specializes in strategic consulting, full lifecycle product development, platform modernization, and digital operations. Its official partners include leading technology companies like Atlassian, AWS, Ionic and GitHub, providing client’s unmatched capabilities across the full product development lifecycle.
Product Thinking: The Art of Outcomes
As organizations gain digital maturity, one of their profound realizations is that transformation is less about technology and more about culture. Organizations usually weigh success in terms of projects. How accurately are specs identified? Was the project completed on time and within budget? This approach might work in stable market conditions, but developing digital products is a different ball game. User needs are always evolving and often misarticulated. So, how do you create user-centric products that deliver value; and capture this value as revenue?
Design thinking stemmed from a backlash against the traditional feature- oriented approach of developing products. It is a set of hands-on cognitive processes that prioritizes customer needs over everything else. In other words, project thinking focuses on deliverables and outputs, while design thinking is all about user experience. But the truth is often in the middle, and that’s where product thinking comes in. Product thinking acknowledges the passionate user advocacy of design thinking but seeks to balance it with business capabilities and constraints. Experienced product managers pay heed to discovery, solutioning, and fit throughout product development. Once the development begins, engineers become focused on the technical aspects of the product, and stakeholders get more interested in the project’s progress. It’s the job of the product managers to ensure that the product never goes in the feature-factory modus operandi. And that’s where product thinking always comes to their rescue. This requires a mindset that prioritizes product outcomes over project outputs. Protect your online identity by making sure your accounts and passwords are secure. Built on VUE.JS and Ionic Framework, Beep runs a security check in just one minute and keeps your passwords safe with an obfuscated hashing algorithm.
Get ahead of the challenges of legacy technology and outpace your competitors with new capabilities. Modus Create’s product development platform is designed to resolve technical debt, develop cross-platform expertise, and create user-centric experiences. Tweag, a Modus Create company, is a leader in applying advanced technology to high-integrity industries like autonomous vehicles, fintech, and biotech. Tweagers are heavy contributors to functional programming languages like Bazel, Haskell, and Nix. As an AWS Select Consulting Partner, they have strengthened the security postures of both startups and the Fortune 500. They are also official partners with other leading technology companies providing an unmatched holistic technical expertise. Auditing web application performance in a simple and automated way.Gimbal can help maintain performance budgets from your CLI or a CI system and comment results on a GitHub pull request. Use the beautiful Ionic UI library with Vue applications. This adapter bridges Ionic internals to Vue and Vue Router, allowing seamless integration of the two frameworks. It brings teams at Modus together with the help of data coming from Slack, Harvest, Google Suite, and other services. This internal Progressive Web App uses React with Ionic web components on the front end. Business logic aggregates data from.
Visionary, Artist, Designer
PATRICK SHERIDAN is the Chief Executive Officer of Modus Create. He is on a mission to make people successful in the digital economy. In 2011, he co- founded Modus Create to right the wrongs of traditional consulting with open- source ethos, distributed workforce, and next-gen technologies. Today, Pat is one of the premier thought leaders in the world of digital transformation.
As a serial entrepreneur and an active startup mentor, Pat is a co-organizer of NoVa.JS and NYC.JS. He is a 2011 graduate of MindShare, received his MBA from Georgetown University, where he is currently an Entrepreneur-in- Residence, and holds a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Pat also serves as an advisory council member for the George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.
