5 Dimensions of digital transformation

What leaders need to understand to enable success

In today's digital age, boards and senior executives recognize the importance of integrating technology and digitization into their organizations, yet many digital transformation concepts still feel unfamiliar or abstract. Through these five simplified digitization concepts, leaders can strengthen their fluency and feel empowered to provide strong governance and ensure digital transformation success.

Transition from legacy business models to a technology-first strategy with a strong understanding of the concepts outlined below. Click on each dimension to learn more.

Explore the 5 dimensions

Modernizing legacy infrastructure

Building modern data infrastructure

Leveraging the cloud

Unlocking new business models

Personalizing experiences

The majority of organizations face the common barriers of data concerns and budget limitations during digital transformation. Overcoming these requires robust data governance, cybersecurity and analytics capabilities, as well as careful consideration and gradual modernization of technology investments. Organizations that proactively address transformation barriers and embrace technological advancements can modernize their legacy infrastructure while ensuring a positive ROI throughout their journey. Interested in learning more?

1 Modernizing legacy infrastructure

Once an organization has created a digital path forward, board members and leaders can focus on how to leverage this change to evolve their business or organizational model. But, getting started can be difficult. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the technology options and digital initiatives your organization could pursue, but Baker Tilly can help you sort through the noise and prioritize your path forward. Interested in learning more? Speak to one of our digital professionals today!

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2 Building modern data infrastructure

How do you stage and pace your legacy infrastructure forward while creating ROI along the way?

Data is at the core of both challenges and solutions during digital transformation. An organization’s success relies on their data maturity, which works to improve data utilization for decision-making and drives positive change in their people, processes and overall business results. Leaders should understand their organization’s data maturity to implement relevant solutions as effective data infrastructure and governance facilitates the use of data-driven digital solutions. Interested in learning more?

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How do you bring an organization’s technology systems together and leverage them to create enterprise value and streamline operations?

Cloud implementation goes beyond data storage, offering benefits such as lower innovation costs, faster market entry, enhanced security and more efficient infrastructure spending. Cloud-native technologies can help simplify operations and streamline workflows. Choosing the right platform based on your organization's maturity level enables better data integration and generation of actionable insights, facilitating connectivity between systems like never before. Interested in learning more?

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How can the advent and evolution of cloud services accelerate innovation while simplifying processes and reducing costs?

3 Leveraging the cloud

Understanding the investment required for foundational technology enables leaders to identify and implement new solutions that better serve employees and customers. Successful organizations excel by meeting or exceeding customer expectations in terms of response time, quality and price when compared to competitors or the status quo. Interested in learning more?

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How do you reimagine your customer touchpoints and employee experiences for the digital age?

5 Personalizing experiences

Organizations can monetize the data through various means such as improving business performance, selling data or offering data-related products and services. But they must first view data as an asset that adds value to multiple areas of the organization. To unlock new business models, organizations can shift to subscription-based models by repurposing technology to address market challenges. Interested in learning more?

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How can you diversify revenue streams by monetizing elements of your digital ecosystem?

4 Unlocking new business models

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