digiUP helps SMEs turn digital transformation into practical business development and long-term strategic action. Taskmill supported the initiative by designing and facilitating a workshop programme. During the workshops, companies identified development opportunities, defined success metrics, and created a concrete roadmap for change.
Connecting Digital Transformation with Business Strategy
LUT University and LAB University of Applied Sciences form an international, high-quality, experimental and energetic university community. DigiUP is a joint project of these universities set up to help SMEs in digital transformation. The project develops tools and methods that enable companies to integrate digital development and digitalization goals into the company’s overall strategy as well as long-term strategic goals.
digiUP selected Taskmill to support the pilot and design a workshop programme for participating companies. The workshops helped companies identify strategic development opportunities and define metrics for measuring success.
Each company also created a roadmap for implementing the selected change. At the same time, Taskmill developed practical workshop tools and trained digiUP’s own experts to facilitate the process independently in the future.
Identifying Digital Opportunities Through Workshops
Before the workshops, digiUP assessed each company’s current digital maturity through a survey and analysis.
“We conducted the workshops in two parts completely remotely and using virtual whiteboards. In the first workshop, we mapped the company’s current production process together with the client and analysed the areas where digitalisation could help the company”, Taskmill’s expert Raija Harle describes the first phase of the workshop.
“In addition, we jointly identified potential metrics to measure the benefits of digitalization.”
After the first workshop, our client’s employees were given the task of continuing to think about the indicators and what aspects of their own work could be automated.
From Development Opportunity to a Practical Roadmap
“In the next workshop, the client selected the first development target and we did a requirements specification for the digital tool. The company thus got a set of questions that they can use in interviews with supplier candidates”, Taskmill’s Mikko Piiroinen describes.
“We are working together on a project related to the introduction of a digital tool, so that the company knows the next steps to take the transformation past the finish line,” Piiroinen continues.
After the workshops, experts from the university community further helped the client company to find suitable supplier candidates.
“Mikko and Raija are an excellently skilled pair, with whom it is very pleasant to work. In addition to facilitating the actual workshops brilliantly, they have always involved us in both development and learning and have created tools for us to use in the future. In addition to professionalism, your company exudes caring, unwavering work ethic and positivity! Our customers were also happy with how much they got out of the workshop”, says Sariseelia Sore, LAB’s project leader.
LAB and LUT offer companies in the Päijät-Häme region great opportunities in the field of digitalisation, and these are really worth taking advantage of. You can read more about the digiUP project here.
Learn More
LAB University of Applied Sciences
Sariseelia Sore, Senior Lecturer & Coordinator of Education
sariseelia.sore@lab.fi
https://lab.fi/fi/projekti/digiUP
Taskmill
Elina Kervinen, Agile Leadership Consultant & CEO
elina.kervinen@taskmill.fi
https://www.taskmill.fi