Steps to be taken in Digitalization (in the COVID-19 Age) – 1

Concerning the first step, our suggestion is about the new realities, which the virus epidemic has exacted to workers in the crisis. The problems that are experienced in the following issues should be solved quickly and safely: Unable to take advantage of benefit of human resources and used technology sufficiently, being unable to do business trip, becoming history of physical meetings in company, unable to settle down to current tasks for some companies, inadequacy of crisis management and urgent action plan, disconnections and disruptions in the business processes, weakness in cash-flow-management, the problems of acquiring, evaluating and collecting of data. So, it is important to renew, be articulated, be made economic, dynamic and safe the existing digital background. And this is one of the steps that can be realized quickly.

Corporate agile, i.e. the concept of speed and flexibility in decision processes, contains the collaborative innovation, which provides to predict the opportunities and risks. Now let’s check on the details of getting most efficiency institutionally with economic and active digital background.

First of all, we are of the opinion that The Road Map Preliminary to Corporate Agile must be setted on below mentioned three elements.

• People (Organizational Architecture)
• Processes (Application Architecture)
• Instruments (Technology Architecture)

Competent and skilled human resources; active and advanced technological background; ecosystem friendly, based on mutual trust and collaborative business systematics; high insight, which is had in consequence of brainstorming, innovative thinking and studying of quality big data analysis; business intelligence; pointed predictions; speed and flexibility in decision processes can be maximized.

The paradigm shift in business model and corporate processes with the mentioned Digital Transformation Project, which will put into practice; undecentralized managing capacities, mobility (data and information-flow,  independence of location and time, private), KIPs, Managerial Risk Management (to manage the unavoidable and to avoid the unmanageable), Financial Management, Project and Portfolio Management, new concept ERP, SCM, CRM, HCM, IoT, Cloud applications and Artificial Intelligence with Big Data. These Instruments are basis to use.

When we put it into practice, which outputs do we hope to gain with provided inputs…

• Economic but high-quality operational capacity, safe and dynamic business model,
• A sustainable financial model, which will provide discipline of the strategic business model,
• To provide the highest level of customer and governance habitat harmony. Because in basis of corporate competition, not the product-centred financial portfolios but customer and other stakeholder-based information portfolios take part.
• By perceiving properly changes in the corporate ecosystem in time, to carry on competitive advantage in the digital age, to predict, how these changes have an impact on customer satisfaction and support,
• Safe and fast remote business conduct solutions,
• Utilizing and being integrated the ecosystem articulation,
• Supply Chain Security and Digital Management,
• Information will not be data repository inventory from now on, it will be managed, and it will be more helpful to the application,
• Scenario-based planning’s, which require to change with fast and flexible principle of ‘ perceive and react’ that is innate in the new strategic planning, and with corporate intelligence processes, customer based real time decision support, dynamic simulation analysis models
• Digital relationship management will become a key element of competitive advantage,

By providing an advantage against current and potential competitors with the formula, Digital Success= Corporate Intelligence + Corporate Reflex (Agile), both market developments and innovation of new product will be discussed with doing economic business background. And as a result, executives will manage the entity more effectively and efficiently, satisfy stakeholders in managerial habitat more and enhance reputation level of company.

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