What is Digital Transformation?

Digital transformation has been named the next “Industrial Revolution” however with even all the talk very few companies understand what it is and even fewer how to adopt it.

Digital Transformation like any other transformation is about global change and the adoption of new strategy and working practices throughout the organisation.

Digital is the enabler just as steam and the combustion engine were in the first and second industrial revolution.

Digital shouldn’t however be underestimated as an enabler. Digital democratises power, giving the same disruptive capabilities to a lean bedroom start up as a large global organisation. It also allows large global organisations that have been through transformation the ability to change quickly enough to disrupt new markets, just look at Amazon. 

So, why transform?

Global markets are being disrupted by both large technology-based platforms like Amazon, Ali Baba and eBay and lean start-ups that can produce products, innovate at speed and respond quickly to change.

They both use data to enable them to make fast accurate decisions; Processes are agile and automated to allow quicker response to client needs and their IT and business infrastructure easily scalable to adapt to any internal and external change.

These organisations can go to market faster, offering better services at lower cost and there are more and more of them disrupting every market.

Transformation will allow your organisation to adapt to changing markets and quickly response to new opportunities and threats. 

Enablers like Microsoft and Google are forcing the move to a new type of platform based on cloud and subscription services.  Companies that don’t adapt will find themselves being forced to make changes to their IT processes however their business processes will not have adjusted to successfully reflect the change.

Those traditional companies not adopting this change will find themselves simply left behind and will eventually disappear.

How do we change?

Our consultancy team are here to help support organisations in the adoption of digital transformation.

We help take clients’ technology from necessity to strategy and integrate its uses into organisational culture.

The team will help you develop a powerful technology strategy that’s in line with the company business plans, ethos and provides a customer first focus.

We develop project and programme management around the successful implementation of the transformation strategy.

We will support the organisation in embracing the cultural change needed across all departments and levels of hierarchy with a strong programme of continuous training and development.

Though transformation is global and should be planned accordingly, implementation should be done in small project steps and reflect that in quick wins for the business. To do this we embrace agile working practices that show measurable results to the client within shorter timescales.

Contact us for an initial strategy review and begin your transformation.