What Is Digital Transformation and How Does It Create Real Business Value?

Digital transformation is the structured change of processes, operating models, and technology to improve performance and long-term resilience. Dreher Consulting supports organisations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by aligning strategy, people and systems to deliver measurable transformation outcomes.

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What Does Successful Digital Transformation Actually Mean?

Successful digital transformation is not about introducing new tools. It is about redesigning how an organisation operates so that strategy, processes and technology work together to deliver measurable results.

Dreher Consulting approaches digital transformation by analysing current operating models, identifying improvement potential, and defining a clear roadmap for change. We help organisations translate strategic goals into practical initiatives, ensuring that technology investments support efficiency, agility and sustainable growth rather than creating additional complexity.

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Why Do Digital Transformation Initiatives Fail?

Many digital transformation initiatives fail because goals are unclear, governance is weak, or technology decisions are disconnected from business reality.

We address these risks by creating transparency around objectives, dependencies and trade-offs. Our independent role ensures that transformation initiatives are prioritised realistically, governed effectively, and aligned with organisational capabilities and constraints.

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Digital Transformation – Action Plan

Embarking on a digital transformation initiative can be a major challenge for both management and staff due to the changes that accompany the implementation of new technologies and the optimisation of business processes.

The focus of our work is therefore not the marketing term "digitalisation", but the implementation of a digital transformation. This is not a marketing idea or gimmick, but part of our company DNA. We are implementation consultants here to support our clients through our work and expert knowledge to ensure their companies remain competitive in a digital world.

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What do you receive as part of a digital transformation consultation?

We do not build the tasks of a digital transformation as a strict plan to be worked through sequentially, but rather rely on an approach of 10 key success factors in our consulting.

Activities and measures are processed both in parallel and sequentially. At the same time, this project procedure model is adapted to the requirements of your industry, your customers and your situation.

Together with you, we create a team to promote the digital transformation and establish it as an implementation driver. Together we define a strategic vision and implement it step by step.

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We create a joint roadmap for the implementation of the digital transformation

 

 

All measures derived from the strategy are checked for their economic benefit, implemented and readjusted if necessary. We jointly define an individual training roadmap so that the digital transformation can be implemented with your employees.

We compare and evaluate your digital capabilities with those of your competitors and in the context of best-of-breed examples. Where does your industry stand overall in terms of digital maturity? (digital readiness). Who are the leading players in the digitalisation of your industry? We answer these and many more questions in a digital transformation initiative.

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What we liked was the cooperation with Dreher Consulting because we realised how valuable it is to have a project team and to rethink our processes: What do we actually want? Where do we want to go? And to have a good feeling that you're doing something that has substance from the ground up and just works."
Julia Einsiedler Project Manager | Mustang Jeans
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Together with you, we create a digital transformation roadmap, with concrete tasks and milestones. The development and implementation pace for advanced ERP software or AI elements for transformation depends on your digital transformation and its readiness, as well as on your budget.

Our experience shows that a relatively small team can get two large AI applications and digital technologies on the road to digital transformation in six months.

Digital disruption...

Another component of our digital transformation service is the assessment of your position in the context of disruptive factors that your industry or company has to reckon with. These can be not only known competitors, but also unexpected new competitors. They may well be competitors with a higher qualitative approach or low-cost newcomers or quite nimble digital natives.

Reputation management in a globalised digital world, PR issues and threats from IT security incidents are now more important than ever. 

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How could benchmarking be designed?

  • Review of current approaches to digital transformation in your industry

  • Ranking your capabilities in comparison to competitors and other companies

  • Identifying best practices and process models of market leaders in digitalisation

  • Developing a roadmap to improve online benchmarking capabilities to measure the degree of implementation of a digital transformation

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