NextGen Business

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to increasing the capacity of the organizations to manage an effective digital transformation and to accommodate new technologies. Once this o...

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to increasing the capacity of the organizations to manage an effective digital transformation and to accommodate new technologies. Once this overarching objective is met, the organizations involved are able to: • Increase efficiency: Efficiency is the natural result of improved processes. Using the unmatched power of modern technology, workflows can become faster, slicker, and more repeatable. Staff spend less time on mundane tasks so they can focus on ideas and innovations. • Allow the focus on core competencies: Digital transformation provides a good opportunity for firms to take a long, hard look at what is essential to their business and what is a sideshow. • Increase internal collaboration: If a digital transformation project is large enough, it can touch the whole enterprise and foster better internal collaboration. • Improve employee performance: Digital transformation can create a work environment where employees can improve productivity in their daily work lives. • Become more agile

A.1.1: Preparation (Kick-off Meeting) A1.2: Analysis of the current situation and barriers that hold organizations off digital transformation. A1.3: Best practice analysis on redesigning the organizational processes to take advantage of digital transformation. A2.1: Developing guideline on how to successfully restructure the organizational processes to cope with digital transformation plans. A2.2: Piloting the guideline with organizational bodies. A2.3: Finalizing the guideline.

The results of the project are: • A Guideline aimed at assisting businesses in effectively manage their digital transformation paths. The guideline will be issued after an analysis of the current situation in the companies, SMEs, startups…etc., and focus groups with experts to enhance the content of learning materials. • Best practice analysis on redesigning the organizational processes with a focus on accommodating new technologies. Immaterial results: • Organizational bodies are reinventing themselves. • Awareness raised among the target groups on the importance of digital transformation. • Better professional services and quality tools at local level. • Greater understanding among the partner organizations and stakeholders on how to offer better solutions tailored to the needs of organizations. • Increasing of transversal skills of the partners.