In the realm of digitization, the promise of accomplishing tasks faster with lesser effort is a very attractive prospect. However, the traditional approach to measuring productivity often relies on counting hours invested rather than evaluating how swiftly and intelligently one arrives at the end result.
Faster but lesser effort?!
Digitization helps us to get things done faster with less effort. But does the promise of digitization also reflect how those digital products are developed?
While measuring productivity, many organizations still have a Marxian approach by counting the hours spent on getting things done rather than how fast and smart you have arrived at the end result. Conscious and proactive digitization can help you to achieve those results faster and smarter!
Trend ≠ Value
In 2022, we saw a similar rat race towards building a “light & dark” theme option by a lot of SaaS startups! Many digital products boasted how hundreds of hours were spent on carefully designing this new light and dark theme for their users, only to discover later that users were only curious to try it out and was not proactively using it.
One simple and very effective method to improve your consumer productivity is by collecting feedback and acting upon it. In a digital product, to build a new feature or change an existing one, this can sometimes take thousands of hours in coding. And it might end up being used by your consumers once in a full moon.
If your product has to adapt to all those feedback coming from users, you don’t have more than 8760 hours per year to address all of them! (Probably not even the additional 24 hours you get in a leap year!)
Enter rapid application development
Imagine the same feature request or user process flow change done up to 15x times faster. A few weeks of coding to build, test and deploy these changes involving by 4-5 software engineers, get reduced to just a few hours or days of NoCode effort with probably just one or two persons! This is what NoCode offers.
But remember, the core of end-user centric approach still remains, get feedback and act upon it. The main difference this time is, you launch those changes requests and features to your users in a few days instead of weeks or months in the past.
Conclusion
In conclusion, embracing digitization's full potential involves rapidly prototyping and seeking feedback from end users, creating a dynamic cycle of continuous improvement and responsiveness to user needs.
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