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People like to talk about the closure of fast food chains or the collapse of iconic retailers, but it is hard for people to stay out of it when some well-known companies in the industry fail. For example, business leaders may be particularly interested when an iconic retailer is out of sight. In these cases, the problem that leads to the decline of the organization suddenly becomes obvious.

Emil Sayegh is the CEO of Hostway, a cloud computing provider that mainly provides hybrid cloud services.

It's not hard to find stories about the demise of struggling retailers and industry giants, but that doesn't mean the retail industry is in trouble. In fact, the opposite is true. In 2017, the number of retail stores opened increased significantly, and almost every time a store was closed, 2.7 new stores were opened.

The role of Digital Transformation in Enterprise failure

Industry research shows that 84% of the digital transformation of enterprises has failed to some extent. This is a big number. But if a massive failure makes headlines, what people are really witnessing is the consequences of missing out on innovation and changing the business to meet consumer demand. While many companies are doing their best to grow their business and keep up with the rapidly changing market, attempts at digital transformation often go wrong. Here are some eye-opening data:

Because the results are lower than expected, 40% of organizations will abandon or slow down the digital transformation process.

32% of organizations will achieve some milestone transformation, but may end up failing.

12% of organizations are actively trying to transform, but have failed to see the expected results.

The result is unfinished tasks, missed implementation and unsuccessful strategies.

Why do many enterprises fail in their digital transformation?

Some enterprises simply do not fully understand what digital transformation is, which can not form a unified vision, which perplexes this process in every step of enterprise implementation. For other companies, there may be a lack of attention and enthusiasm from business managers. This may be due to fear of changing the status quo or worry about costs.

For many organizations, they are just trying to take on too much responsibility at the same time. Large-scale technological transformation is very dangerous. They can lead to costly setbacks, cost overruns and narrowing the scope of business. Companies need to consider some of the challenges they face:

? Lack of programmers and developers to meet high needs.

? Efforts to break away from traditional systems cannot or are underestimated.

? Disagreement over how to measure success.

? There is no complete strategy in advance.

? The user is misplaced.

This does not mean that companies should not try to transform themselves digitally, on the contrary. In today's highly competitive environment, digital transformation is essential for enterprises, which can completely change their business.

Enterprises can avoid some of these problems with smaller user-centric changes. Successful incremental innovation, rather than investing in large-scale comprehensive and partial reforms, can achieve faster adoption and greater victories, while minimizing the risk of overall losses.

Create a new strategy with hybrid cloud

One way to implement these incremental changes is to use a hybrid cloud approach that is planned step by step, rather than the overall promotion and migration. Instead of moving the entire IT infrastructure to a public cloud, private cloud, or traditional internal infrastructure, hybrid clouds allow enterprises to mix and match infrastructure solutions to effectively meet the unique needs of the application stack. Hostway calls this approach the "third-generation cloud", an ever-expanding super system of hybrid cloud services and features designed to provide better applications, superior workload management, and fully customized control.

One iconic organization that has achieved great success through this digital transformation is the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Although about 1.7 million people visit the museum each year, 3 million people visit the museum's website each year. The Ford Museum has implemented a large digital transformation for individuals and websites, with only 5% of the collection for physical display and the rest of the archives digitized and presented online. There is no doubt that the Ford museum website is crucial to its business because it contains 95% of its assets. With the implementation of the digital transformation, the museum decided to adopt a hybrid cloud approach to take full advantage of virtual private clouds. This allows the Ford Museum to combine the security and configurability of dedicated server environments with the flexibility of public clouds.

In addition, this digital transformation makes them more flexible in their growth and development. "in terms of performance, the new environment is changing with each passing day," said Kevin Cubberly, the museum's information director. "We have the flexibility to show it and do what we need to do."

By using the hybrid cloud as a digital transformation platform, enterprises can experience the free innovation and development of a variety of cloud computing functions, while preventing common digital transformation disasters.

This is because the hybrid cloud allows:

? It can be developed safely with accurate testing and controlled conditions.

? Make better use of traditional applications that exist in the cloud.

? Traditional systems are not dedicated to the cloud, but remain on dedicated and local resources, while interacting effectively with the cloud computing environment.

? If the enterprise's digital transformation project stagnates, resources will easily be shelved.

? Deployments, such as application updates, are easier to roll back.

Security considerations

The business data of most enterprises is mission-critical data, so the systems hosted and executed on their data must always be running, secure, and scalable to meet changing business needs. These are important needs. Fortunately, hybrid cloud solutions that leverage direct connection capabilities through their hosted and managed service provider (MSP) partners can meet these needs. Choosing the right hosting partner can even rewrite technical support stories for organizations of all sizes.

Move forward

Technological innovation may lead to business disruption in some enterprises. But through a powerful hybrid platform, companies can turn these interruptions into benefits. Use hybrid clouds to bridge the gap between private resources and public clouds, effectively allowing enterprises to make small and rapid changes, bringing huge benefits to their business. With the change of technology, enterprises will adopt more suitable emerging products, and in the case of steady development of business, it will not lead to the failure of digital transformation.

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