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    Digital Transformation

    Digital Transformation - From Strategy to Shipped

    Digital transformation is a strategy problem, an engineering problem, and a change-management problem - usually in that order. We do all three, and we measure the work by what gets shipped, not by the deck.

    Seven phases of digital transformation
    1. 1
      Assessment
      Current-state audit of systems, processes, data
    2. 2
      Strategy
      Target architecture & sequenced roadmap
    3. 3
      Design & Build
      First production slice in 8–12 weeks
    4. 4
      Implementation
      Sprint-based delivery with weekly demos
    5. 5
      Adoption
      Pilot rollout & co-built training
    6. 6
      Monitoring
      Live dashboards on the business metric
    7. 7
      Improvement
      Iterate on what dashboards say, not feelings

    Phases 1–3 typically combine into the first 8–12 weeks and produce something live in production.

    What you get

    Digital strategy & consulting - current-state assessment, target architecture, sequencing
    Legacy system modernization - incremental rewrite paths that don't require a heroic cutover
    Business process automation across your CRM, ERP, and ticketing surfaces
    AI automation embedded into the workflows where it actually moves a number
    Customer experience design across web, mobile, and internal tooling
    Innovation management - bringing new product bets through validation to launch
    Change management and adoption support - the work that decides whether the rollout sticks

    When it fits

    • Leadership has named the outcome - revenue, margin, retention, time-to-market - not 'go digital'
    • There's a budget and a sponsor for both engineering and adoption, not just engineering
    • You'd rather modernize the highest-value system in 12 months than every system in five years
    • You can tolerate the change - the system that ships isn't going to look exactly like the system that exists

    When it doesn't

    • The transformation is owned by IT alone, with no business sponsor
    • The org isn't ready to retire any process - modernization without rationalization usually fails
    • The success criterion is 'modernization' as an end in itself, with no business metric

    Process

    Seven phases: assessment, strategy formulation, design & development, implementation, training & adoption, monitoring & feedback, continuous improvement. The first three are usually 8–12 weeks combined and produce something live in production. The rest is operating cadence: shipping every sprint, measuring adoption, and iterating based on what the dashboards say rather than what the steering committee feels.

    Full delivery process

    Pricing

    Fixed-price by phase, with each phase contracted only after the previous one delivers. Larger engagements run as a dedicated team or pod on quarterly cycles. We'll tell you which phase to start in - usually it isn't the one you expected.

    See engagement models

    FAQ

    Where do we start - strategy, or just shipping something?
    Both, in that order, in the same engagement. Pure strategy without an early shipped artifact tends to produce a deck nobody operates. Pure shipping without strategy produces a faster version of the existing mess. The first 8–12 weeks combine assessment, target architecture, and a first production slice.
    How do you handle legacy systems we can't replace?
    Strangler-fig pattern: build new capability alongside the legacy system, route traffic incrementally, and retire the old surface only when the replacement is proven. We don't promise heroic cutovers - they don't usually finish.
    What technologies do you use?
    Frontend: React, Next.js, React Native, Flutter. Backend: Node.js, Python, GraphQL. Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB. DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes on the cloud you already use. Choice is driven by your existing stack and the people who'll operate it after we leave - not by what's interesting.
    How do you handle adoption and change management?
    Adoption is engineered, not hoped for: pilot groups, in-product onboarding, training materials co-built with the team, and adoption dashboards from day one. If a rollout has 20% usage at month three, we treat that as a bug to fix - not a people problem.
    How do you measure success?
    Business metric agreed at the start (revenue per user, cycle time, support tickets per customer, etc.), instrumented in production, on a dashboard your leadership team sees. Project status is whether the metric moved, not whether the Jira board is green.
    TekPiq engineers in an architecture session at the whiteboard, one of them sketching the data model
    Architecture session in our office - client details on the board are blurred.

    Who builds it

    Our own team, working from our office in East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The engineers on your scoping call are the ones who build it.

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    30-minute scoping call. No obligation, no hard sell.