What is digital transformation?
Digital transformation is a process of integrating digital tools with the aim of achieving a number of strategic business objectives. This transformation integrates digital into all business activities, into their products, their processes or even their strategies.
This requires a profound change in corporate culture as well as changes at all levels. Companies, whatever their sector of activity, must therefore adapt to the challenges of this transformation.
What are the challenges of a digital transformation?
It’s not enough to buy the right software to instantly increase productivity. Digital transformation requires changing the way people collaborate . It is then necessary to rethink the entirety of its working methods.
The challenges of digital transformation are based on three pillars:
- First of all successful communication and distribution strategies in order to create a personalized customer experience.
- Then an optimization of the processes as well as a modification of the work habits of the collaborators.
- Then the digitization of the company’s overall strategy is a decisive element for the sustainability and health of a company.
The stages of support for a digital transformation
An interim manager supports you in all stages of the digital transformation.
- To succeed in this transformation, it is vital to properly structure your digitalization project .
- You have to start by defining clear objectives before launching a digital transformation strategy.
- The next step will be to federate all the actors on the digitization of your company. This implies that the company’s management is in line with the new strategy.
- It is necessary to identify the services impacted by the digital transformation. Indeed, some services will be more affected by the transformation than others.
- Then comes the stage of evaluating the financing required for the project. The investments will have to be measured according to the objectives set.
- Such a project requires certain skills in digital transformation engineering. This is why it is important to create a competent internal team that will carry out the project.
- To ensure the efficiency of the whole project, new work processes will have to be introduced step by step.
- It will then be necessary to create a corporate culture that fully integrates new technologies.
Who to contact to help you in your digital transformation?
Turning to digital involves major challenges that you must face. Getting support throughout the process is highly recommended. Good support is the guarantee of a perfectly conducted process.
To find the right profile to lead your digital project, you can call on an external agency. It will allow you to find the profile that will hold the leadership throughout the duration of the project.
Reactive Executive offers you expert transition managers, reactive and capable of taking charge of a digital transformation project in France and abroad.
The role of an interim manager
The main objective of transition management is to support a company through change.
Managers are deployed in a company for a fixed period in order to manage crisis, change or transfer management .
At Reactive Executive, our interim managers provide a lasting solution to a transformation.
They identify the relevant levers for digitizing your organization. Indeed, it is important to clearly understand your environment and the crucial issues to be resolved.
On each mission, we work as a team with a talent manager and a business manager. We do not hesitate to readjust ourselves at any time to always be in phase and so that the mission is carried out on time.
The benefits of hiring an interim manager
An interim manager is a person who likes action, urgency or even change. He has a culture of results, and for this, he adapts and acts effectively throughout the missions entrusted to him.
Endowed with a highly qualified profile with a leadership temperament, the interim manager is capable of carrying out large-scale missions such as digital transformation.
Calling on an interim manager also brings:
➔ A concrete and quick solution
➔ An objective intervention, coming from an external peer
➔ Immediate start, possible within a few days
➔ Cost control
➔ Flexibility: the director arrives and leaves as needed
Our advice for a successful digital transformation
Motivating your teams through appropriate support is fundamental in the digital transformation process.
The way the teams are supported and managed will be decisive for the success of the project.
Here are the essential keys to the success of the digital transformation of a company:
➔ Discuss with the different actors
➔ Establish a strategy
➔ Rethinking its business model
➔ Use effective digital tools
Get support for the digital transformation of your business!
