Every organization must embrace technology in the digital era just to stay relevant. Organizations that will thrive and dominate their respective industries will be the ones that merge technology capabilities with their core competency. The gist is that every successful company will be a technology company in part.
If you want to strategize and design the most optimal way to leverage technology, your starting point should always be sans technology. The start line of the journey of becoming a technology-driven organization is no different. Technology, as an enabler, should help the organization attain its purposes. But it is not the starting point. The starting point should be customer experience enhancement.
Technology architecture, designed around the way organizations can enhance customer experience, is the core of becoming a technology-driven organization. Exponential developments in the world of technology, and the increasing focus on customer experience, has also led to evolution in the ways organizations think about their technology architecture. However, the best-in-class architectures are the ones that have been designed around the customer-centric approach.
The core aspect of the platform architecture for the digital age is to act as a conduit for actions and decisions (from a systems perspective) that help enhance customer experience, thereby increasing profitability. Interactions with customers need to form the starting point of formulating the high-level blueprint of your technical architecture.
This report explores how customer interaction dynamics can be translated into the high-level blueprint of your technical architecture.

