Guide to Digital Transformation

Le 23 September 2024

Guide to Digital Transformation

This guide has been specially designed to help industrial SMEs on their digital transformation journey. Drawing on our experience of 400 diagnoses conducted over the years, this guide offers pragmatic advice, testimonials, clear steps and benchmarking data to help you develop your strategy and successfully complete your digital project. Download the guide and you'll have access to practical information sheets designed to boost your business through innovation and agility.

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Section 1
Specific characteristics of manufacturing
SMEs

Section 2
Why digital transformation?

Section 3
Looking at the big picture to see how you
stack up against the competition

Section 4
An innovative approach to success

Section 5
Implementing your digital transformation project

Section 6
Leading your digital transformation project to success and beyond

How to use this guide

We hope you will find this guide a valuable resource. You can read its sections in any order or from start to finish. The goal is to help you think about and plan your transformation projects. This guide aims to simplify the digital transformation process in an manufacturing environment by clarifying key concepts, presenting relevant approaches and providing clear explanations.

Understanding this guide in 5 minutes

Section 1: Specific characteristics of manufacturing SMEs and mid-market

Highlights the unique challenges facing SMEs in Industry 4.0, including limited resources and the need for innovation.
Emphasizes digital transformation as a strategic solution for remaining competitive.
Encourages adapting digital transformation to the needs and specificities of each company.

Section 2: Why digital transformation?

Stresses the importance of defining personalized and balanced objectives for digital transformation.
Suggests the use of forums and peer-to-peer exchange for inspiration and problem-solving.
Recommends “melting the iceberg of ignorance” to clearly identify the challenges to be overcome.

Section 3: Looking at the big picture to see how you stack up against the competition

Introduces the concept of digital continuity for a global and integrated vision of the product.
Presents diagnostics as an essential tool for assessing digital maturity and benchmarking against competitors.
Proposes assessment as a basis for concrete transformation proposals.

Section 4: An innovative approach to success

Recommends prioritizing transformation projects according to the company’s strategic challenges.
Helps avoid common pitfalls and encourages a consistent approach to innovation.
Stresses the importance of an evolving roadmap adapted to the company’s ambitions.

Section 5: Implementing your digital transformation project

Identifies five fundamental criteria for success, including management support and the commitment of key players.
Highlights the alignment of the roadmap with strategic objectives and the involvement of all levels of the company.
Emphasizes the importance of agility in implementing and adapting projects.

Section 6: Leading your digital transformation project to success and beyond

Presents digital transformation as a continuous process of improvement and adaptation.
Encourages the use of agile methods to constantly and effectively challenge the organization.
Insists on keeping the focus on customer, market and employee needs to guide the transformation.