Digital Strategy
Digital First have worked with many clients across the public sector, not for profit and agencies to help develop digital strategies and a direction of travel for driving digital Transformation, Infrastructure and Place. We work closely with organisations to:
- Generate a sense of commitment from political leaders, senior management and service delivery staff
- Engage key stakeholders, understand pain points, generate ideas and opportunities and priorities for digitisation
- Help to understand measure and benchmark digital maturity
- Create strategies that focus on digitising the organisation as well as helping sectors such as local government focus on digital infrastructure and place
- Create the digital case for change investment cases to drive a Digital ROI
- Help structure approaches to digital transformation and programme delivery
Often we find organisations are at different stages on their digital journey – some are clearer and have strategies to support this and need to focus on priorities, others often need some external challenge to build or regain momentum. Either way Digital First can help on your digital journey.
Investment Cases and Digital ROI
We help clients explore commercial revenue generating plans, drive value for money and secure financial benefits through our expertise and approaches.
Typical areas where clients seek help include:
Contract Review – testing the value of outsourced contracts to secure and negotiate a better deal, exit or move to a new delivery model – in IT services and other areas
Client Side Commissioning & Support – helping bring technical capability, commercial insight and procurement assurance to major partner, infrastructure and place-based procurements
Commercial Due Diligence – helping clients to understand the value of their services or products or to help assess the value of new ventures such as JVs and shared services
Strategic and full business cases – to gain internal buy-in or external commitment to new commercial ventures
We provide valuable support and insight, as well as capable and honest support, to clients to help both inspire the next steps and de-risk the process.
Our work at Thurrock Council helped the client decide on the future on its outsource IT and back office services contract – Find out more
Digital Programme Design
We help organisations design programme and phases of work that shape their digital journey. This is often driven by the need to construct a transformation programme, identifying and evaluating the priority projects for implements, building the investment business case, understanding capability requirements and building the delivery team.
At this point we help clients that already have a strategy for becoming more digital to fully identify the priority projects, set out the business and customer benefits and produce a full investment case to enable a programme of change to proceed.
Digital First helps the client to build momentum and capacity to take this important phase forward. Often, in our experience, we see clients that move straight from strategy to delivery failed to properly progress programme because they have not created the necessary conditions for change – full organisational buy-in, clear investment cases, project delivery plans and a clearly articulated technology road map.
We help clients de-risk all of this through this important phase of work, such as our recent work at Lewisham Council – Find out more
