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Published by Darick Dunaway
On April 26, 2022

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Collaboration – Why it is essential

For IT and Software Development Companies, digital transformation and service delivery
success has less to do with employing cutting-edge technology or employing the best brains in
the industry. Rather, it has everything to do with one simple yet powerful aspect – collaboration;
be it internally amongst their teams or departments, or externally with their clients.

Collaborative enterprises encourage people – be it clients or employees – to contribute

unique insights to projects on a regular basis and to become motivated by a collective mission
rather than personal gain or the intrinsic pleasures of autonomous creativity.

These enterprises mobilize employees’ talents and expertise in flexible, highly manageable
group-work efforts by combining a sense of common purpose with a supportive structure. Not
only does the approach promote innovation and agility, but it also promotes efficiency and
scalability.

As an enterprise, it makes no difference how good your service is if you don’t have clients or
customers who want to use it. Collaborating with clients is a low-cost way to broaden your
audience.
Both you and your clients want to grow your respective businesses and gain new clients. Client
collaboration enables both you and your client to see success in your businesses and help you
achieve various objectives.

Collaboration is a powerful tool that helps your enterprise build strong networks and establish its
reputation. Being a successful enterprise means having an arsenal of strong alliances up your
sleeve, and efficient collaboration gives you that.

Collaborating with people, either internally or with clients, helps you learn new skills, practices,
technology, and processes. Every collaborative effort is an opportunity for enterprises to gain
knowledge.

With collaboration, you can make the client a key stakeholder of the service implementation and
all discussions surrounding it, making the process more transactional and instilling a sense of
shared purpose among all parties involved.

Ultimately, collaboration is a win-win process for enterprises, that helps them save money and
labor while enhancing their efficiency and relationships.

Steps to being more collaborative

For software development companies that offer digital transformation services, collaboration is
especially important. To implement digital solutions, it is first necessary to know your client well –
the industry they operate in, the nature of their operations, their budget, their organizational
gaps, the basis and goals of the project, their budgetary constraints, and how best to implement
the solution within these specificities.

You must first discuss the project’s basics with the client, such as how long it will take to achieve
specific goals and the project’s difficulty. Discuss the estimated date of completion as well as
the overall scope of the project, including any resources that may be required.

As an enterprise, you must consider how your services will benefit their firm in the short and long
term. It is critical to explain expectations on both sides here, as the client must provide clearly
defined goals for you to be successful. Only once all parties are pleased with the scope of the
task should you proceed to the following phase.

In addition to knowing your client wholly, you also need to be transparent about your own
capabilities as a software development company. Define your own advantages and
disadvantages. It’s preferable to recognize and accept your limitations than to take on work and
disappoint new clients.

Before engaging with the client, you would have clearly defined the internal procedures for
working on various projects and with various clients. It is critical that you adhere to these working
practices so that you are aware of and comprehend what may be expected as a result.

Finally, be sure to adhere to the project deadlines. When you commit to delivering at particular
intervals, missing these targets can severely affect the client’s business operations. Be prepared
to report the project results and status on a frequent basis as you go through a project. This is a
critical step since it reassures the client that you are on track.

Building a more collaborative software development company requires dedication and effort,
but the rewards are great. By collaborating with clients, you can learn new skills and processes,
save money and labor, and improve your company’s efficiency and reputation. Implementing
these steps will help your organization become more collaborative overall.
 Collaboration – The Smart Data way
At Smart Data, collaboration is not just a buzzword we use as a core value – it is something that
is essential to how we do things. We have always maintained that we are not just a software
development company – rather, we are an extension of our client’s technical teams.

To illustrate, we have been engaging with a healthcare provider since 2014. Since then, we have
delivered them digital solutions for various problems – ranging from rewriting their data
collection process, building them a fast and reliable Incident Management System that delivered
information about vulnerable patients to third party groups for fast and dignified treatment, and
integrating three different software systems that resulted in a decreased training time.

In addition to this, we have also built them a hybrid resource model to cover their technical
needs.

This is just one example of our collaborative nature. With a keen understanding of our clients, and
adaptability to their organizational processes, we have built a reputation for delivering high-
quality solutions to significant business problems without any hassle. We believe in being
technology partners, not vendors or gatekeepers.

Smart Data is a company of problem solvers committed to improving the business processes of
our customers through digital solutions. We design and implement scalable digital
transformation solutions that help you modernize your business procedures, increase efficiency,
and provide satisfying user experiences to your customers.

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