Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, fundamentally changing the way it operates and delivers value to its customers.
The role of digital technology is changing rapidly. In the past, it was only a driver of marginal efficiency.
Today, it is a facilitator for innovation and disruption. Digitalization causes far-reaching transformations from your mailroom and customer onboarding to various other aspects of business, enabling new opportunities for value creation and at the same time forming important risks.
Companies across all industries are struggling to get a grasp on the strategic implications of digital transformation for economical ecosystems and organizations.
While digital technology will change most industries, business leaders should not shy away, but rather confront the challenges head-on to unlock the significant benefits digital transformation offers.
Advantages can range from increasing efficiency and revenues to reducing operational costs.
Organizations that can quickly make the required digital transformation will gain the competitive advantage that comes with it.
There are five key areas in which digital transformation is providing opportunities for companies in all industries.
1. Digital Transformation: Improving customer engagement
The most crucial area where businesses need to innovate is the way they interact with their customers.
Clients are increasingly demanding when it comes to service and support. These stringent expectations raise the bar in terms of customer interaction and real-time support, calling for a digital relationship.
Customer engagement is a vital aspect of a company’s digital transformation and can be enhanced by:
- Helping customers to understand a company’s offering.
- Providing better digital tools and insights to make better choices.
- Simplifying billings.
- Allowing customers to better interact with customer service.
- Launching new digital touchpoints that improve their experience and are in line with their expectations such as digitizing your customer onboarding process.
2. Ensuring regulatory compliance
To make sure nothing slips between the cracks, you digitize at the start of your processes: when documents arrive in your mailroom.
When an incident that requires an official inquiry occurs, a company must be able to produce operating procedures, specifications, and additional information required by regulatory instances.
If not, the company can often face heavy fines. An effective quality management system can help you with this.
Digital documents can be easily tracked and accessed by document controllers and operators, enabling:
- fast and accurate response to regulatory inquiries when needed
- a reduction in future fines
- a reduction on existing fines if information management improvements are made
3. Increasing operations intelligence
Digital asset management enables the use of real-time monitoring and data analytics, increasing operations intelligence and allowing operators to handle challenges more effectively.
Moreover, better insights lead to better predictions and decisions in terms of product requirements and customer necessities.
By digitizing asset management, companies can optimize their demand response and increase revenues.
4. Boosting employee productivity
When employees have remote access to real-time information for example, via a digital archive, they can verify that they are performing correctly.
Digital technology can help companies to provide the correct and necessary information to employees, both in the office and on the road, through:
- more effective work requirements,
- enhanced planning and scheduling,
- optimized logistics information.
Information management solutions are key to decreasing the time spent on searching and interpreting ad-hoc information and avoiding unplanned downtime, improving the overall company productivity.
5. Using the advantages of the cloud
Cloud technologies have proven their advantages for the management of company data and to stimulate collaboration between various business teams that are working on large-scale projects.
Instead of using email, FTP sites, USB sticks, or external drives to share information, organizations now see the benefits of sharing information and collaborating through the cloud, saving both time and money.
Digital transformation is not just about knowing what is happening across an organization.
The real value lies in the control, analytics, and predictive response to maximize efficiency, productivity, and customer engagement.
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