The introduction of AI technology is rapidly evolving the business landscape, the pressure to digitally transform has never been so high. However, many employees often feel left behind, struggling to understand these technologies, new tools and company processes. This blog post outlines how businesses can empower their employees for success in this digital world, covering essential aspects such as training, communication and support.
What is Digital Transformation?
Digital transformation involves using digital technologies to create or modify business processes, culture and customer experiences to meet changing external requirements. Successful execution of digital transformation requires a customer-centric vision and strategy, organisational agility and the ability to scale valuable experiences.
The Role of Digital Transformation in Empowering Employees
Digital transformation significantly impacts employees by increasing productivity and creativity and providing access to more data and information, which aids better decision-making. Here are the top seven ways digital transformation can empower employees:
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- Helps to automate routine tasks freeing up time for more important tasks, improving efficiency and productivity, boosting morale and reducing stress on the team.
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- Gives employees access to real-time data which enables better decision-making, increasing efficiency and helps avoid potential problems.
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- Providing the ability to work from anywhere which enhances work/life balance, increases productivity and satisfaction, reduces commuting and childcare costs whilst fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
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- Increasing collaboration and communication connects employees with each other, facilitating knowledge, idea sharing and enhancing project collaboration and company news updates.
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- Improving customer service, allowing employees to focus on providing a better customer experience, improves communication and collaboration with customers, and leads to positive customer service experiences and company success.
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- Creates a more engaging and personalised work experience automates processes, introduces new technologies, provides personalised and relevant content and helps businesses understand and meet employee needs through data analysis.
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- Providing mobile and social tools keeps employees connected and collaborative, automates tasks, provides real-time data access, and leads to a more successful and productive workforce.
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Key benefits of digital transformation for employers
Digital transformation enhances productivity and efficiency by allowing employees to focus on high-value tasks through the automation of routine ones, reducing human error and operational costs. Access to advanced digital tools and technologies boosts employee skills, facilitates remote collaboration, streamlines processes and drives organisational growth.
Improved data accuracy is achieved through centralised storage, providing accurate insights for better decision-making and supporting intelligent strategies across the business. Employee engagement is heightened through effective onboarding processes that improve retention, educating and involving employees in digital transformation.
Enhanced collaboration is facilitated by digital tools that enable efficient file sharing, messaging and online collaboration, eliminating delays and disruptions and ensuring seamless communication within the organisation.
Changing lives of employees
Despite the numerous benefits, there’s a significant gap in technology adoption, with only 56% of organisations having trained their employees on new tools and processes. Effective digital transformation requires a cultural shift to enhance the employee experience, which can lead to increased profits and innovation.
Employees need to embrace and champion new technologies, adopt new tools and methods to improve efficiency and workflows and understand organisational goals to relate their efforts to business outcomes.
Enabling employees with digital tools is crucial, including process automation to reduce repetitive tasks and operational costs, application development through low-code/no-code platforms and project management tools to aid in planning, managing and executing projects efficiently.
