Five Tips to Scale a Software Company Quickly and Stay Competitive

How to scale up your software company and stay ahead of the competition.

March 8, 2023

Scaling quickly and effectively and staying competitive in this space is not an effortless feat. With that said, software solutions across the globe need to consider these five tips when growing and adapting their solutions, shares Trey Norman, COO at Mindbreeze.

It is a new age in the field of software, and to keep customers happy while growing new business relationships, solution providers need to leverage tech innovation, build rapport with partners, and maximize their product’s functionality and user experience. 

Scaling quickly and effectively and staying competitive in this space is not an effortless feat. With that said, software solutions across the globe need to consider these five tips when growing and adapting their solutions.

Leverage Existing and Seek New Partnerships

Many companies think they can do it all on their own and handle everything independently within their business. However, from experience and understanding of the software market, this is rarely the case. The famous phrase coined by John C. Maxwell, “teamwork makes the dream work,” applies to the software industry and almost every aspect of life. 

Focusing on core business values and “the what” your software is trying to accomplish as a company can provide insight into where partners make the most sense. Whether integrating existing solutions to make your product more valuable to customers or tapping into partners to assist in integration and technical support, there are many instances outside partnerships that are invaluable. Leaning on partners creates more robust software ecosystems for every party. 

Bring AI-driven Question Answering to the Forefront 

The mission of tech solutions and software should ask, “How can we make workers’ lives simpler and more efficient?” Artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides over the years and is doing amazing things for organizations, their workforce, and how they tackle processes.

AI and AI-driven question-answering permits every necessary worker to have personal assistants without the need to hire additional staff. This technology allows employees to search questions and find answers from a company’s already existing knowledge base. Companies can remain agile and efficient amid rapid growth by equipping workforces with tools to cut the time down to complete redundant tasks like research.

AI has many significant benefits that can be explored by all software providers – making lives easier for employees helps reduce burnout while increasing your bottom line and setting your company up for immense growth.

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Be Prepared to Produce the Same Output with Less Human Capital

As alluded to in tip number two, avoiding the addition of headcount is significant in the current economic climate. As budgets continue to tighten, organizations need to be prepared to produce equal or even more output as your company continues to grow.

Doing so with less human capital requires a data connection and aggregating knowledge to a central repository that workers can seamlessly access. Successful deployments often depend on the ease of the user. Giving workers across departments the ability to quickly obtain insights on tasks and entities will significantly increase employee efficiency. Software solutions can only benefit by making “ease for the user” a critical focal point of their product. Several AI and machine learning (ML) technologies make this level of simplicity a reality.  

Roll Out Highly Specific Applications for Information Retrieval and Insights 

Making AI more straightforward to use so your business can easily leverage the technology’s capabilities will reduce frustration, make deployments more manageable, and increase ROI.

Utilizing low-code and no-code technology is a key component of making the software simpler for the user so individual experiences are personalized and customizable. Today, a successful product must-have features for users to create their own experience in some shape or form. It is essential to recognize that the majority of the workforce is not comprised of technology experts. Throwing complicated software at them, especially with the involvement of other business applications, is a dangerous plan for companies seeking growth. 

The capability to customize where a solution is used and how it is displayed in one’s workflow can do wonders for successful rollouts and user experience. Workers who lack technical knowledge will be able to take full advantage of new solutions with much less dependency on IT teams – a key to sustainable digital innovation and transformation.

Seek Consistency in Your Operation

In all areas of operations, robust, scalable solutions are more likely to produce consistent outcomes and decision-making, leading to tremendous growth opportunities.

To achieve a high level of consistency, automating recurring tasks, leveraging necessary partnerships, and using resources wisely are the foundation of doing so. This entails aggregating company knowledge to point to a single source of truth for daily operations and customer support.

It is one thing for a software business to grow its customer base, but continually satisfying and retaining them is a whole different story. Customers want their providers to stay engaged by updating their offerings, providing consistent and effective technical support, and having satisfactory customer success management. 

Honing in on the first four tips will add consistency and satisfactory results for your entire operation – keeping customers and partners satisfied.

What Can You Do Now?

Asking important questions within and outside your company is critical. Involving managers and employees from different departments can help you make the necessary changes to stay competitive in this day in age because nobody knows better than the users and people on the frontlines. Frequently, upper management can miss details regarding the creation of the most effective product for current and potential clients. 

No worker wants a million new applications thrown at them, as confusion and stress will result from this strategy. Easily customizable solutions that can do it all and seamlessly integrate into current processes and software within your business lead to quick and competitive scaling.

Accounting for all the shared tips and strategic initiatives will force companies to want more. The helping hand of partners, immediate question answering, producing maximum output, access to simple and specific applications, and consistency give users a feeling of comfort. Once they see the positive impact created for their initial use case, customers will see the value of rolling out and scaling to more users across more departments.

Being a respected and long-lasting technology company requires innovation. Being willing to take the necessary steps to adapt your product to the demanding levels of customer support and product enhancements is a great start to ensuring that your software company is heading in the right direction. 

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Trey Norman
Trey Norman serves as COO and VP of Sales for North America at Mindbreeze. He studied Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University with a specialization in Digital Signal Processing. Trey is dedicated to helping customers uncover new insights in their data with the help of his team of machine learning and insight engine specialists.
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