Make/Shift

Sytze and Matthijs cover the purpose of the AppFactory department, as well as how and why they started it. Sytze and Matthijs chat about their prioritization process for managing requests and how the team is driving innovation.

Arno covers the importance of creating a vision and establishing a team to execute a plan to achieve digital transformation. Arno talks about how his experience at Mendix influences his interactions with customers and vice versa, and finally, how he measures the value of digital transformation projects.

Madhu covers how organizations leverage Intelligent and Connected Automation with low-code to drive business change. He talks about the different categories of projects that organizations consider with these technologies and the associated challenges. Finally, Madhu covers how to manage change during digital transformation efforts.

Johan will cover specific examples of what digital transformation can mean to different industries. Johan talks about the four main areas of digital transformation and how to think of that as a framework for how you approach change in your organization, the pros and cons of a bottom-up versus a top-down approach to transformation projects, and finally, advice around change management and how to lead your team to success.

Digital transformation requires you to look at the intersection of technology, processes, and human interaction. Mike Tarentino, Director of Digital Transformation, helps our customers to work with technology seamlessly by optimizing and improving processes. On season 2 of our Make/Shift podcast, Mike will chat with experts on how low-code can help with your digital transformation.

Maud and Lennart discuss how collaborating with a wide array of stakeholders is key to their development process, focusing on people and process first as they digitize airport operations, how low-code has enabled their team to quickly respond to changes due to COVID, and finally, the importance of unlocking and applying data as they create the future of Schiphol’s operations.​

Christina and Laura talk about creating an application and associated database that brings visibility into their clients' internal processes, evolving their consulting service into a scalable product, how they ensure success with a simple, but impactful, on-boarding process, their strategy for data management and permissions for users ranging from chefs to c-suite executives, and identifying sustainable techniques that also reduce their clients' operational costs.

Steve and Imran talk about the lessons that eXp Realty has learned from being a remote-first company who manages an engineering team of 100+, how migrating their monolith mission-critical application to a microservices-based architecture increased departmental collaboration, how they measure success and productivity across their dispersed engineering team, and transition advice for companies impacted by COVID who have not yet adopted comprehensive WFH policies.

Martin talks about the decade-long transformation of the insurance industry from tech laggards to technology champions, how modernizing core systems enable insurers to better engage with customers, the evolution of low-code implementation, from point solutions with simple processes to enterprise-grade deployments, the importance of culture, proper tooling, and organizational structure to deliver software and enable innovation, and finally, how the next decade will require insurers to focus on great digital experiences to maintain a competitive advantage.​

Rich talks about how the tech landscape within hospitals requires a different approach to selling a disrupting technology, the competitive advantage Kermit has created by delivering cloud-based software that still protects sensitive patient data that’s governed by HIPAA, (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), how Kermit transformed from a consulting service into a software-enabled offering by harnessing low-code, how Kermit has successfully digitized and mirrored previously broken workflows in hospitals rather than introducing completely new processes, and finally, insight into how low-code is guiding the future of their product offering.

Do you need to graduate from Excel and build a more robust application to handle internal processes? Secrid previously managed vendor relationships with dozens of spreadsheets, but recognized the risks associated with disparate data sources. Find out how Secrid created a solution quickly to address these issues, increasing the speed they can respond to vendors while maintaining an ability to scale as their business goes global.

Are you being asked to deliver more sophisticated applications despite facing resource constraints? Demands on IT are increasing by the day with no sight of budget increases for headcount, and IT is being stretched to the limit just trying to keep systems and processes running. With a never-ending backlog of projects coming, organizations need to enable their existing workforce to deliver more with less in order to keep up with these increasing demands. Hear from Jordan of NC State and his success story of a non-developer pivoting his trajectory from business major to pro-developer to deliver incredible projects, including an expansive course registration system, that save his university millions of dollars and years of standard development time.

Miroslav shares his experience with deciding between enhancing Trane Technologies’ monolithic .NET architecture or split processes into microservices, how the successful delivery of a few apps helped establish a Mendix Center of Excellence, how to manage a complex web of contributors made up of professional developers and non-coders alike, their Start/Structure/Scale process, the future of Trane’s ERP solutions, and the exciting opportunities that Mendix has brought them.

Sven discusses how their end-of-life plan for Lotus and Domino drove Continental to low-code, how they re-built their capital request workflow, methods of improving bottom-up collaboration, and finally, how Continental solved their unique communication challenge during the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.

Changing up your development practice doesn't happen overnight. From the team leader who makes a dramatic shift to get more done with less, to the makers across industries and business functions who turn their ideas into reality, the skill of choosing where, when, and how to make an impact at your company takes hard work. Sometimes the best strategy is to learn from what others have done before and to create your path to success. Struggling to start that EOL project? Need inspiration for improving a process in your organization? Then check out our new podcast series “Make/Shift,” where we explore how thinkers become makers, and illuminate the journey that individuals take to build solutions that make an impact on their organization.