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Digital Transformation
While many organisations went through massive technology and digital change due to the economy wide COVID disruptions, it has been common to find that much of this rapid change has been driven by a “just get things done” approach without the normal planning and understanding of all the technical dependencies and implications.
What is a Digital Enablement Strategy?
Digital Strategies means different things to different organizations, while some focus on Digital Marketing other focus on the digital user experience. Our view is that a digital strategy covers the digital transformation of all areas of the business, and it defines the priority that these areas are tackled. To facilitate the business to undergo a digital transformation it is vital that the foundational capabilities and technologies exist and are supported within the business. We must set up the organisation up for success through an enablement program to ensure that its digital strategy is sustainable and supported by appropriate automation, collaboration and data & analytics systems and infrastructure. The digital transformation must go deeper than just client interactions and should seek to reduce process friction, improve the capture and use of data, and deliver real improvement to business value.
Our assistance ranges from capturing the aspirations of the business and developing business case and strategic requirements and planning documentation, developing approach to market options and documentation to maximise the competitive tension in the process, evaluate technical and operational fit of new vendor technologies and roadmaps and providing recommendations on implementation priorities and approaches.
As we seek to reinforce and extend the organisations digital capabilities it is important that we undertake more deliberate planning and move towards a “get things right” approach. Finding independent and technology agnostic advice with direct relevant experience is a material challenge and where Beyond Technology Consulting can help. Our experience in quickly assessing organisations existing capabilities and immediate priorities along with our deep understanding of the possibilities provided by technology enablement and data enablement strategies will reduce implementation time and project risk of your Digital Transformation Strategy.
How we can help?
Digital Maturity Assessment
Our consultants work with the organisation to assess its existing digital capabilities, levels of current technical debt and the opportunity and aspiration for improved digital work practices. This discovery process seeks to talk both to the IT functions within the business, and the non-technical stakeholders across the business that are responsible for business operations. Finally we assess the organisations existing digital plans and operational capabilities to improve critical business processes and embrace data driven decision support. The report then provides an assessment of the organisations Digital Maturity and actionable advice on how to improve.
Digital Enablement Strategy Planning
Once we have a clear understanding of your organisations existing Digital Maturity and operational capabilities we will develop a multi-horizon strategy to enable and accelerate your digital transformation . This strategy will take into account your current position, available skills and resources and appropriate change velocity given the broader organisational context. Based on appropriate industry practice and seeking to deliver rapid pragmatic improvements where possible, the strategy will provide a roadmap for changes to your foundational digital capabilities and operational approach, and priorities to resolve the identified gaps and requirements.
Our Experience
Current projects include both tactical technology evolutions and large organisation wide transformation programs. We have extensive experience working with organisations that are just starting the journey to digitally enable their workforce along with those that are looking to evolve their competitive position through enhanced digital capabilities.
After you identified the root cause of our difficulties we have never looked back”CFO | Financial Services Industry
I was astounded to see how reprioritising our IT could deliver such a material improvement in business outcomes”MD | Large field services organisation
It’s the first time that I clearly understand how we engage our IT to change the status quo”CEO | Large Professional Services Firm
Our business outcomes
Beyond Technology advise businesses on how to optimise the use of IT to achieve business outcomes.
Beyond Technology Consulting has several ways to help CFO’s and CIO’s to improve their organisation’s balance sheet. Our consultants are highly skilled in identifying how to optimise your IT costs to ensure that you are taking advantage of the technology available to your organisation.
Many organisations carry a significant IT failure risk without understanding either the potential or consequences of failure. Quantifying the latent risk, and taking steps to mitigate it not only makes good business sense, it often provides significant improvement in the efficiency and availability of “business as usual” IT service.
With the growing demands on IT departments it can be all too easy to focus on rapidly expanding capability and addressing the day-to-day challenges of running the technology. Properly aligning IT to direct business requirements, while improving the communication channels between IT and the business delivers massive efficiency and capability improvements.
Digital and Technology enablement is critical to all business's growth plans, and without appropriate IT foundations and planning your growth journey will be lost at sea. Aligning your technology planning to your business strategy and ensuring appropriate priority is given to future enablement projects makes a decisive difference to your business growth plans.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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In most professions where information is asymmetric (i.e. the professional could take advantage of knowing more about the subject that they are advising you on) such as Lawyers and Doctors, the governing body can deregister the professional as stop them from practicing. This does not happen with Technology professionals so conflict of interest is a critical problem. Similarly when a technologist is heavily invested in one specific technology it often becomes their go-to solution (to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail). By Maintaining our independence, Beyond Technology Consulting ensures that you are provided with unbiased and actionable advice that you can trust is free from conflict of interest and be assured that we are not monetising the advice that we provide you.
"Actionable Advice" is accessible, accurate and is advice that is provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand. We ensure that our recommendations are fit-for-purpose with an understanding of the context of your organisation to be both affordable and achievable.
We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This ensures that you don't end up with a solution looking for a problem and ensures that technology outcomes will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.
We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This combined with a bias towards flexible technology solutions helps to provide technology outcomes that will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.
There are two key reasons that organisations don't undertake regular independent technology reviews. Firstly many boards and executive don't know that organisations like Beyond Technology Consulting exist and they are left thinking that the only options are IT Audits that are provided by the big accounting firms that don't provide any answers or actionable advice. The second reason is that they don't feel that they understand enough about IT to be able to get value from a review. Beyond Technology Consulting understands this and have designed our organisation to provide "Actionable Advice" that is accessible, accurate and provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand.
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