Our Method
BML Digital exists to deliver growth to your business.
We do this by enabling focused, powerful, pragmatic, and effective business modernisation.
Our expertise covers:
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Accurately assessing the digital maturity of your business to show if you are digital by default or by design
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Articulating clearly how much that maturity is worth
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Developing a digital strategy that evolves your business to innovation today and market leadership tomorrow
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Implementing that strategy on-time and on-budget
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Providing senior IT leaders proven to deliver digital business success
We are a digital business ‘brain trust’ for your organisation.
In a digital world, our insight becomes your intelligence. Our experience becomes your edge.
We do this by following a clear, structured, yet pragmatic, four-point process: Assessment, Strategy, Roadmap and Execution.
It is impossible to begin a digital transformation journey or develop an appreciation of the digital profile of your company, without first assessing the current state of the business.
This assessment begins with a clear understanding of the current objectives of your business – and then seeks to answer if the current investment meets these demands.
This is not confined to technology. It must include the processes upon which your business stands, the people involved and wider groups of stakeholders, such as customers, partners, and suppliers.
There are two ways this assessment delivers value.
Firstly, defining a financial value on this state of play is often critical for businesses such as private equity companies at points of acquisition or investment.
Secondly, when a business recognises its position between digital by default or by design (if it is even on that spectrum), you have a powerful starting point for a strategy to do business better.
Our strategy for digital business is unique in two aspects:
- We neither start from, nor limit ourselves to issues of just technology. Our strategies span your entire organisation. We account for people, process, and change management
- We adopt a resolutely practical approach built on pragmatism, experience and proven tools
The strategy, like the assessment that precedes it, is grounded in the business objectives of your organisation. Recognising that modern business IS digital, we plan for how your business wants or needs to operate.
Having established the current situation and future goal, only then do we consider the role of technology in enabling the transformation. This is defined in a series of phased steps that build sequentially to deliver increasing return.
A critical component of this strategy is the roadmap of technological investment that will underpin and enable these changes.
For many businesses looking to embrace digital transformation, it is all too easy to prioritise the technology. The thinking behind this mistake is that the technology will drive – if not create – the changes being sought.
Consequently, the investment is made too hastily, without consideration for the implementation and use of the technology that will create the best return.
Our approach of assessment and strategy is designed specifically to prevent this. These stages culminate in the development of a roadmap that identifies the sequence, timings and conditions that need to be met for each phase of technology investment.
A successful roadmap for technology investment is not just a shopping list. It is not just a calendar for project completion. It is not just a statement of desired objectives.
It is a comprehensive plan that sets out the starting point, journey, and destination of your digital transformation programme. This will include the amount and nature of investment required, and the conditions that define success for each stage of the journey.
Most critically this roadmap will ensure that the digital transformation of the company achieves the stated business objectives.
Putting a strategy and roadmap into action is the most critical stage of any digital transformation journey. It is also the most difficult.
The biggest issue is often the lack of leadership – digital business leaders with a proven track record in delivering digital transformation are in short supply.
This is closely followed by an ability to assess – accurately and quickly – the impact of the changes being made.
Our proven methodologies are accompanied by access to some of the best digital leadership talent in business. This is backed by an unwavering commitment to tracking the improvements seen in your business.
Only when these changes are seen – and seen to be working – in any given stage of a transformation, do we move from comprehensive review to the next stage of the journey.
Digital transformation is rarely rocket science. But even when it is, our comprehensive and detailed methodologies ensure our clients move from assessment of the current to execution in the future, with confidence and a clear alignment to their objectives.