Service 04, Equip without complicating.

Digital transformation

Digital transformation has produced as many costly failures as successes. The difference rarely lies in the technology: it lies in having dealt with the process before buying the tool.

Typical length

4 weeks to 6 months

Deliverables

4

Steps

4

When we step in

The situations that trigger an engagement

If you recognise your company in one of these situations, a thirty-minute conversation will be enough to know whether an engagement is justified.

  • Data re-entered several times in different tools
  • A shared file serving as a critical database
  • Software subscriptions whose purpose nobody knows
  • A CRM or ERP project considered without a specification
  • Teams spending hours on repetitive tasks

Our approach

How we approach this subject

We always refuse to start with the choice of software. A bad process with a tool is still a bad process, only more expensive and more rigid. The audit therefore starts with what teams do, not with what they use.

The information system inventory often holds surprises: subscriptions paid for and unused, data entered three times into three different tools, and shared files acting as critical databases with no serious backup.

We then identify high-yield tasks that can be automated (customer reminders, report consolidation, transfers between tools) and cost them in hours saved per month. Only those with a payback period under twelve months are kept.

Solutions are selected against a specification, with a shared scoring grid and at least three candidates. We have no vendor partnerships and take no commissions, and we state this in writing in every recommendation.

In practice

What we do

  • Audit of the information system and subscriptions
  • Mapping of data flows and duplicate entry
  • Costing of high-yield automations
  • Writing the specification and selecting vendors
  • Managing integration and user acceptance testing

What you receive

The deliverables

Deliverable 01
Map of the existing information system
Deliverable 02
Automation plan costed in hours and euros
Deliverable 03
Specification and comparison grid of solutions
Deliverable 04
Migration and data transfer plan

An engagement that is scoped from the first day to the last.

Step by step, 4 weeks to 6 months

Step by step

The typical schedule

Indicative duration for a standard scope. It is set precisely in the scoping note, before any commitment.

  1. 01

    Audit

    Weeks 1 and 2

    Inventory of tools, data flows and actual subscription costs.

  2. 02

    Prioritisation

    Week 3

    Costing the gains from automation and selecting quick-return workstreams.

  3. 03

    Selection

    Weeks 4 to 7

    Specification, vendor consultation and comparative demonstrations on your own use cases.

  4. 04

    Integration

    Depends on scope

    Managing deployment, data transfer, acceptance testing and user training.

Benchmarks

What you can expect

< 12

months payback required for any automation retained

3

solutions compared at least before any recommendation

0

vendor commission, guaranteed in writing

Frequently asked questions

About digital transformation

No. We provide consulting only: our fees do not depend in any way on the solution chosen.

Almost never. We favour a sequence of short workstreams, each with a measurable gain, rather than an eighteen-month project with no end in sight.

It is covered by a dedicated transfer plan: scope, clean-up, pivot format and test set. It is the most underestimated part of this kind of project.

Get in touch

Need help with digital transformation?

Tell us about your situation. We will tell you frankly whether this service is the right one, whether you should start with another, or whether we are not the right partner.