[Webinar] Digital Transformation: Methodology and Tools for Success

For every company that wants to stay competitive and innovative — regardless of size or industry — digital transformation is a non-negotiable step. Yet while many organizations are thinking about it, their leaders often aren’t sure how to get started.

How do you successfully drive digital transformation ? What approach should you take ? What are the essential tools?

These were the key questions at our January 21, 2021 webinar: “Methodology and Tools for Succeeding at Digital Transformation.”

Three speakers joined us to share their expertise and real-world experience:

• Sandrine Hirigoyen, President of DIGITALL Conseil, a consulting firm specializing in digital transformation
• Philippe Pinault, Co-founder and CEO of Talkspirit, an all-in-one digital platform for everyday communication and collaboration
• Céline Massy, Digital Transformation Architect at CEA (the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)

Here is a summary.

The 7 Steps to a Successful Digital Transformation

Sandrine Hirigoyen (Digitall Conseil) outlines 7 key steps for a successful digital transformation:

1. Define Your Objectives and Priorities for the Next 3 Years

Organizations must first qualify and quantify their medium-term objectives, taking into account the organizational context as well as existing technological and structural constraints.

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2. Diagnose Your Strengths, Weaknesses, and Maturity

This diagnostic aims to:

• gain a clear picture of your value chain
• and to understand and formalize business processes

3. Decode Your Market

By clarifying its market view, the organization will identify:

• its direct and indirect competitors
• weak signals that help detect market threats and opportunitiesnew
• digital solutionsnew solutionsthat have emerged in the marketRead also:

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Redefine YourselfBased on its

objectives, the organization will need to reconsider:its brand positioning

• its value proposition
• its customer journeys
• its business processes
• its product and service offering
• its
• its Chart Your Roadmap

The organization will then define an overarching vision

for its digital transformation, identifying:an overarching visionthe

• growth levers and performance drivers to achieve its goalsthe digital solutions to implement
• the organizational impacts
• the organisational impacts

Prioritize Your Action PlanEach initiative must be

prioritized based on three criteria:its return on investment

• its ability to address objectives and challenges
• its complexity of implementation
• its implementation complexity

Structure Your TransformationAll that remains is to organize the transformation itself, by taking several key actions :

communicate internally

• communicate internallyinvolve employees
• implement a
• cross-functional organizationcross-functional organisationmake data-driven decisions
• digitize internal processes
• build a digital culture across the workforce
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Cédric Deniaud: “Digital training must be thought of long-term to become a lasting and useful digital culture”The Role of Collaborative Tools in Digital Transformation

The Role of Collaborative Tools in a Digital Transformation

Philippe PinaultPhilippe Pinault (), successfully driving a digital transformation also requires deploying a collaborative toolcollaborative toolthat enables teams tothat will make it possible to connect the entire organization

• streamline information flow
• facilitate
• facilitate on projects and documentsThat’s why choosing the right tool matters so much.

Several factors should be evaluated

during the benchmarking phase:the

• features for of , such as video conferencingvideo conferencinginstant messaging chatand groupsthe
• features for of , such as file storagethe drivedocument co-editing, integrations, and more
• security and data hosting
• ease of useRead also:

Comparison of the Best Collaborative ToolsNext comes the critical deployment phase, which involves:

demonstrating the tool’s value to employees

• designing a group architecture
• establishing global governance
• globally raising employee awareness about responsible digital use, including the
• right to disconnectThe deployment approach will have a decisive impact on how well employees adopt the tool.

Real-World Insights: CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)

A successful digital transformation requires close attention to the employee experience. That’s why the civil branch of CEA decided to implement a

A successful digital transformation requires paying close attention to the employee experience. That is why the civil branch of the CEA decided to set up a digital workplace. The goal: enabling employees to access their work tools from anywhere.

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[Expert Perspective] How to Implement a Digital Workplace?This transformation was carried out methodically, guided by three questions:

What do we want to put in place?

• How do we go about it?
• What is our roadmap?
• In the meantime, the

In the meantime, the Covid crisis disrupted these plans, along with the ways of working at CEA, which had little prior experience with remote work. A remote work solution had to be selected and deployed quickly to ensure business continuity. Read also:

The Impact of Covid on Business Digitalization: Summary of the McKinsey Study (2020)After testing several tools including

After trying several tools, including Microsoft Teams, CEA ultimately chose Talkspirit. As a French-made solution (unlike Microsoft Teams), it is not subject to the Cloud Act* and offers stronger guarantees of data confidentiality for CEA’s often sensitive data. Digital sovereignty was a key criterion in the software selection process. Initially rolled out within small working groups, the platform now has

more than 5 000 users. And deployment is ongoing (CEA has a total workforce of over 19,000). In Céline Massy’s view, a successful deployment rests on two key elements:

having an

• being in a state of permanent anticipation of employees’ business needs (this proactivity enables fast responses when needs arise, and reduces the risks of shadow IT)
• making it a habit to involve employees early in tool selection decisions, in order to understand expectations, ensure collaborative choices, and drive team buy-in.Conclusion

Succeeding at digital transformation requires both a solid methodology and the right collaborative tools, within a structured approach. It also depends on involving employees at every stage — from identifying business needs through to full deployment.

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*Cloud Act: a U.S. federal law on personal data surveillance, adopted in 2018, which requires American service providers to hand over all stored data to federal authorities upon request — regardless of where the servers are located (including within the EU) (Source: Wikipedia)