An Ideal Partner for Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is a forever journey, according to WGroup’s CEO, Jeffrey Vail. This is because technology is constantly changing, and companies must continuously stay up to date.

Companies today look at digital transformation as an outcome of IT-enabled sustainable business success. However, there are a number of pitstops in the journey. First, the IT organizations end up spending the majority of their time, energy, money, and resources on maintaining data centers or legacy applications, which leaves them no time to deal with digital transformation. The second bottleneck is the lack of the right skills or operating model that companies need for their IT innovations. Thirdly, the transformation planners engaged by organizations are biased toward mergers and acquisitions, causing an unfair wrench on the smaller firms willing to improve their businesses. With multiple divisions of a company headed toward different visions, the final pitstop is the majority of IT leaders’ inability to articulate a unified business vision.

Against these shortcomings, WGroup, a management consulting firm, supports businesses throughout their digital transformation journey by facilitating IT optimization. “We have come up with a peer-to-peer approach of knocking down all the barriers in the transformation ventures, thereby helping IT drive business value,” begins Vail. To remove the first bottleneck, the company has built an entire strategy practice around assessing what an IT organization is doing or where they are spending their money to be able to provide them with a series of recommendations on how to reorganize or implement different sourcing strategies. To fight the skill shortage, WGroup has a line of interim offerings called account solutions to help clients get the required skillset. Additionally, the company offers contract staff for the clients to grow placement services to obtain the resources and skills, and also critical training services.

WGroup also has tremendous experience in the due diligence of mergers and acquisitions, in terms of evaluating processes and developing synergistic plans for two organizations. In the absence of ample business visions for IT companies to align with, WGroup offers a dynamic vision strategy. With this outcome-driven, customer-specific, and agnostic approach, the team at WGroup develops an understanding of what the business leaders are working for, documents it, and then uses it as the vision to create their IT digital transformation strategy.

While firms often adopt a prescriptive outlook to solving business challenges in this landscape, WGroup takes a non-prescriptive approach by treating every client in a unique manner. Having consultants with 20-30 years of expertise across various industries in the team, WGroup has delivered value to numerous fortune 1000 companies. One of these clients that gained significantly with WGroup’s support was a legacy-oriented energy client that was looking to automate the vehicles in its mines. While the absence of a good LTE or 4G coverage in the mine made the networking needed for automation impossible, the client realized how IoT was the only way out. To facilitate the required automated environment, WGroup developed the required technical architecture for the client and designed a detailed organization roadmap to help them work toward their vision. With the adoption of WGroup’s transformation strategy, the client could thrive sustainably.

WGroup has made investments in a couple of research initiatives to provide insights and has researched changing technology trends across industries. At present, the company is working to leverage its global delivery capability to better potential. Presently based out of the US, WGroup is further looking forward to expanding operations in cities across North America. Lastly, risk mitigation is an area of significant focus for the company, and it has plans to deliver business value to clients in the form of holistic security solutions.