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Business digitalization: what it is and why it is important

Business digitalization: what it is and why it is important

Nick
By Nick
last month - 05/03/2024 21:00

For many companies, especially the more "old-fashioned" ones, corporate digitalization constitutes a real challenge. Today, however, digitizing your business is no longer an optional choice, but a real necessity, an inevitable path to remain competitive and not be crushed by the competition. In a world in constant and rapid transformation, it is no longer possible to remain anchored to old models, but it is necessary to equip ourselves with tools, procedures and organizational settings that allow us to keep up with the dictates of today's digital era, where speed and efficiency they are the masters. In this article we therefore examine the concept of corporate digitalisation. What is it about? What advantages does it offer?

Corporate digitalisation consists of the integration of digital tools and technologies within a company and its processes, with the aim of optimizing the way in which the latter carries out and manages its operations, making them faster and more efficient. In practice, it is about exploiting the opportunities offered by digital to improve performance.

In other words, digitalizing a company means abandoning traditional tools in favor of more performing technological solutions, in order to simplify and speed up workflows.

How the digitalisation of a company occurs

Digitalisation passes firstly through the dematerialisation of both paper documents, transformed into digital files, and of the physical places where we communicate, collaborate and store data, creating a single virtual space shared between multiple users and accessible from anywhere.

A key element of corporate digitalisation is the automation of procedures, i.e. the abandonment of manual operations and more repetitive activities (such as entering data into an Excel file and its constant updating) thanks to the adoption of digital tools capable of carrying out the same tasks more quickly and efficiently.

The advantages of corporate digitalisation

Digitalizing business processes allows, first of all, to streamline the workflow and make each procedure more efficient, obtaining better results in shorter times. This consequently leads to significant economic savings, capable of amply repaying the investment necessary to implement the transformation.

Digitalisation also improves the experience of employees, as it frees them from the more mechanical and repetitive tasks and allows them to dedicate themselves to activities with greater added value, more functional to business growth, but also more personally satisfying. Furthermore, the digitalized approach facilitates information sharing, collaboration and communication between different departments.

Another fundamental aspect to consider is that the digitalisation of activities minimizes the risk of error and inaccuracies typical of manual operations, removing obstacles to business development.


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