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Assess & improve your digital maturity

Enable your digital transformation

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Does this sound familiar?

You got stuck in your transformation and need a fresh view

You need an external expert’s view on the challenges you encounter in your digital transformation process.

You don’t know what digital capabilities to prioritise on

You want a clear roadmap to guide you during your digital journey and help choose the right priorities.

You need a better view on required digital investments

You like to invest (more) in digital but need to know where your investments will offer the most added value.

A framework to assess
& improve your digital maturity

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Research shows that while 90 percent of companies have launched or are running digital transformation projects, only a third of the expected revenue benefits, on average, have been realised.

To help companies realise the right investments, choose the priorities that deliver the highest ROI and find a balance between short- and long-term goals, we developed a practical framework. 

Project intake

Evaluate your current state

Design your future state

Governance & change management

Elaborate change plan & budget

Project intake

During the kick-off phase we’ll do a project intake, in which we define the scope, the responsibilities, the timeframe, resources, deliverables and ultimately the goal(s) for the entire project.

Evaluate your current state

In this phase we will assess the current situation. Our strength lies in our holistic yet flexible framework, that starts with enablers for success, adapted to your specific situation. We always evaluate from different perspectives: people, processes, tools, and knowledge.

Design your future state

“Always keep your goal in mind” is a familiar aphorism in many business discussions. In this third phase, we do exactly that: we design the desired future state, based on the information from the intake.

Governance & change management

An important, but often neglected, aspect is governance and change management. We’ll define the necessary governance and change management activities to ensure successful delivery of the proposed plan.

Elaborate change plan & budget

We evaluate the as-is situation, detect the major challenges to evolve to the preferred future state and define both a change plan and a clear budget overview for the entire project.

How we can help

To put our framework into practice, we have several hands-on methods and
tools that help you take steps in assessing your digital maturity.

Capability Framework & Capability-Based Planning

Our digital capability framework outlines the essential skills, technical capabilities, and organisational abilities required to thrive in the digital age. It includes elements such as technological infrastructure, data analytics, innovation culture, cybersecurity, and adaptability to change.

Workshops & Interviews
Via qualitative interviews with stakeholders we gain insights in specific challenges and needs. Workshops help to align everybody about the plan and goals, and can serve for a knowledge transfer as well.

Maturity Assessment

In combination with workshops and interviews, we rely on surveys to get input from a wider audience. The key for these surveys is that they need to be lean enough to encourage people to fill them in, but extensive enough to capture sufficient information.

SWOT-Analysis

The  SWOT analysis of your digital maturity unveils strengths in technology and knowledge, weaknesses in potential vulnerabilities, opportunities in emerging trends, and possible external threats.

Budget Estimation Framework

In order to support budget estimations, we’ve developed a lightweight framework to cover the different aspects that contribute to budget calculations.

Change Management Techniques

We apply different change management techniques throughout the different phases of our approach. We also put focus on communication to the broader organisation, all in order to maximize the adoption of the proposed changes.

What’s in it for you?

Frameworks, plans, tools… they are nice to have, but in the end it’s the results that matter. So, what’s in it for you? What can your organisation expect?

Better Business & IT alignment

A better understanding of your digital maturity will help you align IT with business goals. Organisations that assess their digital maturity often realize that a lot of business initiatives would benefit from a technology driven approach.

Objective and transparent decision making

A core part of decision making is being able to rely on factual data. Insights in your digital maturity helps to prioritise projects and solutions based on objective information. Consequently, you will evolve to more precise and focused planning.

Modernised IT Architecture

Digital maturity metrics, if defined properly, can help you break away from classic enterprise architecture practices and/or design patterns and help you create a future-proof IT architecture.

Why AE? What makes us different?

A true end-to-end partner
AE has a broad expertise, and our employees can boast a large range of skillsets. That allows us to be an end-to-end partner, that can help with assessing your digital maturity, but also with the following implementation of processes & applications.

More than just technology
We prefer to position ourselves on the crossroads between technology, business, and people. That gives us a broader view on digital maturity and a better understanding of its impact, not just on technology, but on the business processes, the organisational structure, and the people.

Always business-first
It’s always business first. In our assessments and in our advice. We will always keep your business goals in mind when we look at your digital maturity. Because in the end, it’s all about the tangible results you can expect from your digital transformation.

Get in touch with our expert

 

Here to help!

Vincent Verstraete
Digital Maturity Expert
Let's discuss how we asses & improve your digital maturity.