Accelerate Board Approval for Digital Transformation Budget
Tough sell. Business leaders struggle to convince boards about digital transformation. The crux? Building a rock-solid case with clear evidence and a mapped-out plan.
The problem
Boards are right to be wary of approving budgets for digital initiatives - as too often, they fail to deliver to expectations. And yet, every good CEO knows that we’re in the digital age and getting tech right is crucial for remaining relevant. Entering the age of AI has intensified it even more.
To bring the board onboard your digital roadmap must credibly answer the following, with objective evidence:
- Are the proposed technologies based on facts, not vendor agendas and internal biases?
- Does each proposed initiative have a measurable ROI?
- Is there a real urgency to implement them? Why?
The solution
Implementing a successful digital transformation strategy requires a meticulous approach, one that resonates with both the innovative vision of CEOs and the prudent oversight of boards.
Digital Diagnostics with DiGence® offers a comprehensive solution, equipping business leaders with the tools to present a compelling, data-driven case for digital evolution.
With Digital Diagnostics you will get the following benefits:
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1. Objective Technology Assessment
DiGence® delivers an unbiased, objective analysis of your digital landscape, cutting through subjective opinions and vendor biases. It precisely identifies where technology can truly enhance your business, ensuring tech choices are driven by your specific needs rather than market trends or internal preferences.
2. Clear ROI Demonstration
DiGence® Digital Diagnostics streamlines board approval by clearly quantifying the ROI of digital initiatives, providing concise analyses of how each technology investment aligns with tangible business outcomes, financial or otherwise.
3. Tailored Transformation Roadmap
This solution goes beyond mere analysis. It delivers a tailored roadmap for your digital journey that acts as a guide, ensuring that initiatives are implemented coherently and in sync with your business's pace and capacity for change.
4. Urgency and Relevance Justification
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, timing is crucial. DiGence® helps determine the urgency of each initiative with data-backed rationale for their relevance in keeping the business competitive and future-ready. This aspect of the service is particularly compelling for boards, as it illustrates the risks of inaction in a fast-paced digital economy.
What will you get?
Geeks’ Digital Diagnostics service empowers you to navigate the complexities of AI Adoption with confidence. It provides clarity and direction for your business to modernise by answering pivotal questions:
1. Which existing systems have you outgrown?
2. How many of your processes should/can be automated?
3. How many of your processes should/can be eliminated?
4. What customer pain points can be solved with automation or AI?
5. Where does your business leak value due to inefficiencies?
6. Which systems or processes are blocking your growth trajectory?
7. How can automation and AI increase your employee experience and productivity?
8. How can technology elevate your customer experience?
9. What key digital transformations could enhance your brand positioning?
What you will get out of this service:
List of problems and opportunities
Ability to drill down and see the data behind every insight
Simulating growth scenarios and analysing the technological impact.
Current technology map, gaps and overlaps
List of recommendations with clear ROI
12-month roadmap with priorities and dependencies
Case Studies & Testimonials
"Working with Geeks we have been able to identify where our strengths and weaknesses are, and prioritise."
"DiGence® really was exactly what we were looking for, we got a report that created the confidence the business needed going forward."
The recommendations made by Geeks freed up the time of all Niche Care departments, allowing to focus on what they do best.
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If you want to read more examples of our work (and hear the good things our clients have to say!) head over to our case studies page here.
How does it work?
The scope of your Digital Diagnostics can be flexible:
- Holistic Approach: Diagnose your entire business operations to identify the best transformation opportunities across the whole business for maximum impact.
- Modular Approach: Diagnose specific business functions for departmental transformation and impact.
Your Digital Diagnostics is delivered based on the following process:
1. Business processes and systems mapping
We capture a snapshot of the current state (As-Is) within the specified scope of your business, and its operations, by conducting interviews with key employees from each department and function.
2. Data Collection: Measuring what matters
The data we collect is used to draw insights, enabling you to delve deeper and understand the origins of recommendations. This acts as a source of confidence across your business and promotes alignment within your team. You can drill down into various types of data, including:
Objective Performance
Assess your business performance based upon 6 key objectives.
Company Time
See where in the business time is being spent on administrative tasks that could be automated with the use of technology.
Systems Map
A visualisation of how your systems integrate with each other and how they are used across the business.
Customer Touch Points
Review your client experience & where touchpoints can be streamlined, using a technological approach.
Qualitative Insights
See what pain-points, risks & improvements are suggested through a series of interviews with your stakeholders.
Quantitative Insights
Deep-dive into the numbers behind your processes: Hours spent on processes, training, enforcement mechanisms. Etc.
Financials
Assess your ROI on all of your technologies; are they fit for purpose? Are you overspending?
3. Insights: List of problems and opportunities
We then use DiGence® Studio and the AI engine behind it to draw insights from your data. The insights will be from the following categories.
Lengthy manual processes
List of manual processes that take a lot of time from the team.
Undesirable employee experiences
List of systems that have poor UX either as a whole or as part of a process and are not suitable for your business.
Disconnected systems
List of systems that require manual data transfer.
High risk of errors
Processes that pose the highest risk of errors and are not easily spotted, resulting in reputational damage.
Least scalable processes
Processes that would hinder scaling the business.
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Costly manual processes
Manual processes that are done by the most expensive employees.
Processes prone to inconsistency
Due to lack of documentation or systemisation.
Undesirable customer experiences
Touchpoints that are painful or lengthy for customers.
4. Recommendations: Transformations that take you to the next level
The DiGence® AI engine will recommend a list of transformations that offer the highest ROI, propelling your business to the next level. These transformations will fall into the following categories:
Systems integration
Connect existing systems to reduce manual data entry, errors, inconsistencies and processing time.
COTS Adoption
Identify and implement a commercial off-the-shelf system that is fit for purpose (e.g. CRM, ERP, Micro SaaS, etc.)
COTS Leverage
Change business process to utilise more of an existing system’s available features.
Bespoke Development
Design and build custom systems or apps to support your unique requirements.
AI Augmentation
Enhance the capabilities of existing systems with AI through backend or frontend integrations.
Robotic Process Automation
Automate routine tasks with RPA (e.g. browser extensions).
Business Analytics
Create dashboards, notifications and predictive analytics from the existing business data.
Research & Development
Build a prototype using emerging technologies to assess feasibility of innovative ideas.
Time and investment calculator
Here you can get an estimate of the time and investment needed for your Digital Diagnostics project, please modify the department functions you would like to include in this scope and how many total interviewees you think would be valuable knowledge holders to interview.
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Organisation Complexity
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Number of Interviewees
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Digital Maturity
The current status of your digital innovation and implementation.
Instant Estimation
These are estimations of the required work and investment based on your description of you organisation.
Businesses Processes: 0 An estimated total number of business processes across the selected business functions at your business.
Processes Steps: 0 Approximate number of individual steps across the above processes. These are items of work or activity carried out by your employees, customers or other stakeholders.
Data Points: 0 Per process step, during the interviews, we will capture 14 key data points. They cover an essential set of quantitative and qualitative characteristics, covering everything that matters, from time taken to complexity of decision making, tools and processes involved, etc. These data points are the fuel to the analytical engine of DiGence.
Interview Time: 0 hrs An estimation of the total time our analysts will spend with representatives across your business, in order to model your business processes and capture the above data points into DiGence.
Interview Sessions: 0 This is assuming 2-hour interview sessions to capture all the required insights about your processes.
Analysis: Included The total cost indicated below is inclusive of the interview times as well as the analysis of the data we will perform following the data collection phase in order to generate the reports, insights and analytics.
Presentation: Included Following the analysis, in addition to providing you with the reports and outcomes of the process, we will present the key findings to your stakeholders and train them on how to interpret and use the insights for business process improvements and data-driven decision making.
Total Investment: £0 This is an indicative figure based on some crude assumptions. We can work out a more accurate cost following your free scoping session. See below for more information.
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Leverage Digital Diagnostics with DiGence®’ to unlock substantial ROI by pinpointing and implementing the most effective digital initiatives.- Efficiency & Productivity
Streamlined processes and elevated workforce with automation and AI - Competitive Edge
Enhanced strategies for stronger market positioning and differentiation - Informed Decisions
Better strategic and operational management decisions backed by data - Investment Alignment
Optimal digital strategies to minimise risks and wasteful initiatives - Customer Satisfaction
Improved processes and efficiencies to enhance customer experience
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About Geeks
We are an innovation-focused technology consultancy in London that works with businesses interested in accelerating their Digital Evolution.
We believe in the transformative power of technology to redefine business landscapes. As a beacon of innovation in the AI age, Geeks stands as the total tech ally for changemakers and visionaries with a deep commitment to Digital Evolution, we empower business leaders to navigate the complexities of the digital world.
