Digital Talent and Innovation

Developing Digital Talent is a precondition to enabling innovative thinking. At the same time, you need to showcase progress to reach your annual targets. This stepwise approach will keep you on track.

A stepwise approach to develop a digital mindset

Identify top qualities of Digital Talent

Where to deploy your Digital Talent

Digital Championship: Quick Wins, Business Applications, ERP & Integration, Digital Mindset
Digital Championship: Quick Wins, Business Applications, ERP & Integration, Digital Mindset

Digital Talent and Innovation

Developing Digital Talent is a precondition to enabling innovative thinking. At the same time, you need to showcase progress to reach your annual targets. This stepwise approach will keep you on track.

A stepwise approach to develop a digital mindset

Identify top qualities of Digital Talent

Where to deploy your Digital Talent

Digital Championship: Quick Wins, Business Applications, ERP & Integration, Digital Mindset

Your most talented employees and contractors are waiting to unleash innovation upon your organization. To activate talent and engage in a trusting and lasting partnership with the subjects every organization needs to identify and foster the people that are intrinsically motivated to go the extra mile. A good practice is a stepwise approach by structuring larger engagements that might seem overwhelming to some in three areas with each increasing in value and duration:

Identifying and executing Quick Wins to automate specific tasks or processes.Refreshing business applications for Sales, Field Service, Project Operations, Customer Service, Marketing, Finance & Operations, and others.Transforming the organization to optimize for value creation, budget discipline and transparency, as well as increasing accountability for innovative programs and projects.

Your most talented employees and contractors are waiting to unleash innovation upon your organization. To activate talent and engage in a trusting and lasting partnership with the subjects every organization needs to identify and foster the people that are intrinsically motivated to go the extra mile. A good practice is a stepwise approach by structuring larger engagements that might seem overwhelming to some in three areas with each increasing in value and duration:

Identifying and executing Quick Wins to automate specific tasks or processes.Refreshing business applications for Sales, Field Service, Project Operations, Customer Service, Marketing, Finance & Operations, and others.Transforming the organization to optimize for value creation, budget discipline and transparency, as well as increasing accountability for innovative programs and projects.

Digital talent progression model: quick wins, business applications, erp & integration, digital mindset
Quick wins: optimization and automation

Quick Wins

Quick Wins

Optimization, Automation

Identifying and executing quick wins to automate specific tasks or processes with low-code, RPA, and simple AI.

Identifying and executing quick wins to automate specific tasks or processes with low-code, RPA, and simple AI.

Examples of low-code solutions:

Lifting Excel Solutions into the Power Platform to create structured data sources for 360* reports. Comprehensive Power BI reports from multiple data sources. Process Mining to examine cycle, lead and lag times, identify inefficiencies and bundle into a Tender or preparation for bidding. Adding functionality to the CRM, ERP, PPM, DMS, or other, larger applications.

Examples of low-code solutions:

Lifting Excel Solutions into the Power Platform to create structured data sources for 360* reports. Comprehensive Power BI reports from multiple data sources. Process Mining to examine cycle, lead and lag times, identify inefficiencies and bundle into a Tender or preparation for bidding. Adding functionality to the CRM, ERP, PPM, DMS, or other, larger applications.

Business Applications: AI, Insights

Business Applications

Business Applications

AI, Insights

Refreshing business applications for the core business as well as supporting functions, like Sales, Field Service, Project Operations, Customer Service, Marketing, and others.

Refreshing business applications for the core business as well as supporting functions, like Sales, Field Service, Project Operations, Customer Service, Marketing, and others.

Examples of business application implementations:

Project Operations, Field Services, Sales / CRM, Business Central ERP, SAP to Azure Data Lake, Learning Management System (LMS), Form Processing Solutions, Chat Bot Solutions, Data Mining.

Examples of business application implementations:

Project Operations, Field Services, Sales / CRM, Business Central ERP, SAP to Azure Data Lake, Learning Management System (LMS), Form Processing Solutions, Chat Bot Solutions, Data Mining.

ERP & Integration: Returns / Capital

ERP & Integration

ERP & Integration

Returns / Capital

Transforming the organization to optimize for budget discipline and transparency, increasing financial accountability for projects and programs.

Transforming the organization to optimize for budget discipline and transparency, increasing financial accountability for projects and programs.

How does the ERP increase value?

The ERP is the technological heart that scales with the organization. Because it holds all types of confidential monetary data, providing data to flow out and into the ERP introduces inefficiencies. Also, each value-generating product line or service starts having "exceptions" and other quirks.

By increasing the efficiency of the data model, the ERP can be a work horse for analytics and strategic decision-making.

How does the ERP increase value?

The ERP is the technological heart that scales with the organization. Because it holds all types of confidential monetary data, providing data to flow out and into the ERP introduces inefficiencies. Also, each value-generating product line or service starts having "exceptions" and other quirks.

By increasing the efficiency of the data model, the ERP can be a work horse for analytics and strategic decision-making.

Digital Mindset: Maximizing Capabilities

Digital Mindset

Digital Mindset

Max. Capabilities

Empowering talented individuals to increase emotional intelligence, vision in innovation, business acumen, and accuracy, ethics & technical excellence.

Empowering talented individuals to increase emotional intelligence, vision in innovation, business acumen, and accuracy, ethics & technical excellence.

What are programs that promote a digital mindset?

Application Rationalization, Business Transformation, Digital Transformation, Work Elimination, Intranet Refresh.

What are programs that promote a digital mindset?

Application Rationalization, Business Transformation, Digital Transformation, Work Elimination, Intranet Refresh.

The business might ask for a focus on assessing fiscal discipline and value delivery, specifically:

  • Portfolio Transformation: Scoping and optimizing capital project portfolio structure and design; creating process consolidation roadmaps for expenses; adjusting business case governance processes.

  • Application Rationalization: Refreshing the software review process & governance; optimizing license usage; reviewing enterprise architecture and organization design.

  • Hyperautomation: Reviewing process intelligence; optimizing process groups for scalability; restructuring processes and minimize exceptions.

The business might ask for a focus on assessing fiscal discipline and value delivery, specifically:

  • Portfolio Transformation: Scoping and optimizing capital project portfolio structure and design; creating process consolidation roadmaps for expenses; adjusting business case governance processes.

  • Application Rationalization: Refreshing the software review process & governance; optimizing license usage; reviewing enterprise architecture and organization design.

  • Hyperautomation: Reviewing process intelligence; optimizing process groups for scalability; restructuring processes and minimize exceptions.

Qualities of Talent

Qualities of Talent

There are specific characteristics of the people that you want to be in charge of your most critical initiatives. Here are some and how to identify them:

There are specific characteristics of the people that you want to be in charge of your most critical initiatives. Here are some and how to identify them:

Emotional Intelligence: Management of Trust
Emotional Intelligence: Management of Trust

Emotional Intelligence:
Management of Trust

Identify people that build strong networks and foster good relationships to unlock value by creating a trustworthy work environment.

Motivation & Curiosity: Vision in Innovation
Motivation & Curiosity: Vision in Innovation
Motivation & Curiosity: Vision in Innovation
Motivation & Curiosity: Vision in Innovation

Motivation & Curiosity:
Vision in Innovation

Empower strong leaders by assigning resources to the areas that they are passionate about. They will find ways to enable technology as differentiator.

Accuracy, Ethics, & Technical Excellence
Accuracy, Ethics, & Technical Excellence
Accuracy, Ethics, & Technical Excellence

Accuracy, Ethics, &
Technical Excellence

Strong value delivery is based on people that feel the sense of duty and adhere to their own high standards of skill building.

Value Appreciation: Business Acument
Value Appreciation: Business Acumen

Value Appreciation:
Business Acumen

Develop Business Analysts and Liaisons with confidence in their presentation, driving operational and capital elements of your initiatives.

Centralize and Distribute Knowledge

Centralize and Distribute Knowledge

Digital Talent needs places to thrive, learn, and spread knowledge, processes, methods, and gather innovative ideas. Empower all stakeholders to participate in becoming the leader in your industries. Cumulate deep expertise in diverse knowledge areas and distribute them to the right people at the right time.

Digital Talent needs places to thrive, learn, and spread knowledge, processes, methods, and gather innovative ideas. Empower all stakeholders to participate in becoming the leader in your industries. Cumulate deep expertise in diverse knowledge areas and distribute them to the right people at the right time.

PPM Center of Excellence

Delivery

Control the complexity of your capital initiatives

while realizing earned values and intangible benefits.

Control the complexity of your capital initiatives while realizing earned values and intangible benefits.

Control the complexity of your capital initiatives while realizing earned values and intangible benefits.

Portfolio and Program Structuring

Business Case and Portfolio Analysis

Project Methodology (Agile, Traditional, Hybrid)

Financial Budgeting, Forecasting, and Tracking

Risk Management

Resource & Vendor Management

Schedule and Quality Management

Governance & Compliance

Reporting Center of Excellence

Strategy

Create an organization that thrives on insights and

uses data coherently to aid decision-making.

Create an organization that thrives on insights and uses data coherently to aid decision-making.

Create an organization that thrives on insights and uses data coherently to aid decision-making.

Data-driven culture

Central BI Tool & Governance

Vetting Data Sources

Data Reporting and Security

Community for Insights

Data Dictionary

Report & Dashboard Centralization

Governance & Compliance