Revolution Four Group (R4 Group) is a next-generation advisory firm, helping clients harness the power of technology to succeed in the modern digital era. We provide deep, specialized expertise to organizations seeking to innovate, transform, and thrive in the face of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The foundation of Digital Transformation is the ability to adapt to change quickly and effectively - agility and velocity. Organizations need to understand Agile development methodologies, drive agile practices throughout the organization, leverage modern cloud infrastructure, and move toward infrastructure-as-code. Success requires aggressive pursuit of automation to achieve Continuous Delivery and DevSecOps, delivering value to users and customers quickly and securely.
As most experts will acknowledge, the biggest obstacle to any major organizational change is often culture. To truly thrive in the modern digital era, leaders must designate technology as a first-class strategic concern, and embrace change as a positive. Organizations should foster productive risk taking and shared ownership of innovation, and coach managers into becoming change leaders. In turn, these leaders must develop responsive and adaptive organizations that focus on delivering business value while managing risk.
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution rapidly reshapes the world around us, organizations need to change how they think and work. This requires the adoption of customer and user-centric processes, while shifting focus from projects to products. The introduction of design thinking and lean processes benefits the entire organization, as teams become flatter, more dynamic, and cross-functional. Organizations must adopt modern, service-based architectures as requirements and applications are decomposed from traditional monolithic structures.
The importance of system and data assets has risen exponentially as business has become increasingly digital, and cybersecurity is becoming an overarching concern for most organizations. They must understand and integrate complex cybersecurity concerns across the organization, and incorporate security into application planning and engineering, instead of tack-on compliance. Organizations must develop strategies that ensure visibility at all layers of the IT stack, and acquire the tools and expertise to analyze, understand, and act appropriately at all stages of the cyber-defense life-cycle.