Digital transformation

Digital transformation is more than technology adoption Transforming the organization's internal collaboration structureThis is a priority.

Digital transformation must begin with shifting internal mindsets.

The planners and marketers of a fashion commerce brand were struggling with the same issues every day.

 

“We simply don’t have enough people to handle the endless internal requests.
‘Please upload this banner today,’ ‘We need this feature next week’—requests keep pouring in.
Even though we ask them repeatedly to submit requests in advance, nothing changes.”
— Planner, Fashion Commerce Brand

 

At first glance, the issue looked like a simple “request management problem,”
but the real cause was the lack of a company-wide digital collaboration framework.

Departments submitting requests had little understanding of online business operations or development cycles,
and the communication flow across planning, requests, and development was not clearly defined.

In commerce, rapid response and flexible feature iteration are essential.
Without a structural foundation to support this speed, confusion and fatigue inevitably grow over time.

This led to repeated issues:

Severe bottlenecks in development & operations → delays in promotions and feature releases

Requests coming in randomly → unclear priorities & resource waste

Frequent urgent asks → rising fatigue → lower work quality

Ultimately, the core goals of digital transformation—efficiency & customer experience—kept being postponed


We summarized the essence of the problem as follows:

The entire process—from request → review → development → QA → release—
→ needs to be visualized transparently as a single unified flow.


Priority must not be set by “who asked first,” but instead by
→ consistent criteria based on business impact.


Digital literacy among non-technical teams must improve
→ to establish realistic request culture and governance.

 

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Our Solution

We visualized the entire workflow from request to release,
and restructured processes, prioritization, collaboration, education, and governance step by step.

Through the five steps below, we transformed an unstructured request environment
into a clear and executable digital collaboration model.

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Process Diagnosis & Visualization

  • We mapped the full end-to-end flow—request → review → planning → development → QA → release—to identify precisely where bottlenecks occurred.
  • We clarified roles and responsibilities (Owners) for each step and defined approval criteria and handoff points to visualize “who decides what.”
  • This process map became the shared language for all collaboration and prioritization discussions.

 

Priority Management & Collaboration Tools

  • We categorized requests into short-, mid-, and long-term tasks and introduced a shared framework to evaluate priority based on urgency × business impact.
  • Using tools like Jira, Notion, and Google Space, we made all requests, statuses, owners, and timelines visible in one place.
  • As the organization shifted from “informal verbal requests” to documented processes with context, urgent vs. important tasks became clearly distinguishable.

 

Digital Literacy & Communication Training

  • We offered “Digital Collaboration Understanding Sessions” for marketing, MD, planning, and other non-technical teams to improve understanding of development processes, estimation, testing, and release cycles.
  • We organized recurring request patterns and created request templates and checklists so non-developers could prepare clearer specifications independently.
  • As a result, request quality improved significantly, and conversations began to focus on specific requirements and expected impact—not vague demands.

 

Operational Governance Framework

  • We established quarterly review meetings with management and working teams to share request status, functional improvements, and resource usage.
  • During these sessions, new, postponed, and suspended requests were evaluated together, enabling organization-wide digital prioritization.
  • This shifted digital decision-making from “who speaks loudest” to a structure rooted in data and agreed-upon criteria.

 

Ready-to-Use Templates & Components

  • We identified frequently requested pages such as seasonal lookbooks, microsites, and pop-up pages, and converted them into reusable templates and components.
  • By enabling teams to simply replace text and images to publish new pages, we eliminated repetitive development cycles.
  • This significantly reduced dependence on development resources while dramatically increasing execution speed—creating an environment where “lack of dev resources” was no longer a daily obstacle.

 

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Attempting digital transformation without internal understanding
cannot lead to success.

We proposed a digital transformation framework tailored to the organization’s reality,
ensuring the highest possible impact.

 

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