8 Considerations for Selecting a Digital Partner

Here are a few factors to consider while selecting a digital partner to help with your organization’s needs. 

1. Strategy Consulting

   A new class of boutique digital partner offers creative strategic ideas to transform your business. A 30- to 60-minute conversation should give you an idea about how they apply emerging digital technologies to create new customer experiences with your core offerings.

2. Expertise

   Look for deep expertise in software delivery using emerging technologies. Current and past successful projects in Mobile, Analytics, eCommerce, Social, Cloud, and Internet of Things (IoT) are signs of expertise in emerging/digital technologies.

3. Process/Speed

   Effective partners think of project delivery in weekly iterative cycles instead of long projects that last for months or years. Look for how mature their Agile Development practices are to get an idea of speed.

4. Culture

   A culture of being close to the customer is important for being able to create effective and efficient digital business models. Look for a successful track record of working within an ecosystem of partners and clients.

5. Experience Design

   Ensure that the partner has an established history of compelling experience design and a seamless customer experience approach. You might get impressive design aesthetics, but ensure that they map to your customer journeys and create flawless user experience and interface design as well.

6. Ready-To-Go Building Blocks

   Does the partner have components or solutions that will speed up your time-to-market? For instance, at CoStrategix, we have pre-built assets and best-practice code configurations that shorten development cycles.

7. Ability To Innovate

   Look for packaged solutions or innovation labs inside of the company that you are considering partnering with. It also bodes well to look for patents they have filed that assert their critical thinking and approach to innovation.

8. Product Development Experience

   Is your partner of choice involved in a start-up? Do they have their own products? For example, at CoStrategix, we have worked with companies of many sizes and have a trail of patents. This experience implies our ability to rapidly iterate and establish market traction within constraints and market uncertainty.

In summary, selecting the right implementation partner for any of your digital transformation initiatives is critical to success.

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