Focus on Transformation and Impact

We’re focused on supporting digital projects with demonstrable, impactful outcomes to help your business grow. To be considered for funding, your project must be transformative and provide clear, measurable benefits. We’re looking for projects that will:

  • Increase productivity
  • Improve efficiencies
  • Expand into new markets
  • Create new jobs

 

Digital technology offers numerous opportunities to revolutionise your business. We’ve highlighted key areas where technology solutions can deliver significant impact, and the types of projects we can help fund.

1. Efficiency and productivity

Digital solutions can automate manual tasks, streamline processes, and optimise resource allocation, leading to substantial increases in efficiency and productivity. This includes implementing advanced project management software, sophisticated customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions that fundamentally change how you operate.

2. Communication and collaboration

Technology can enable seamless, real-time communication and collaboration across your entire organisation, regardless of physical location. This goes beyond basic tools to integrated platforms that facilitate effective collaboration, idea sharing, and data-driven decision-making, significantly enhancing collective output.

3. Data management and analysis

Leverage technology to not just manage vast amounts of data, but to extract deep, valuable insights. Business intelligence (BI) and advanced data analytics tools can empower data-driven decisions, identify crucial trends, optimise operations, and personalise customer experiences in ways that were previously impossible.

4. Customer engagement and satisfaction

Digital projects can vastly improve how you interact with your customers, leading to significantly enhanced engagement and satisfaction. This includes implementing AI-powered chatbots, and personalised marketing automation, that foster deeper customer relationships and provide exceptional support.

5. Cost reduction and resource management

Technology can drastically reduce costs by automating repetitive tasks, optimising inventory management with predictive analytics, implementing energy-efficient smart systems, and fully leveraging cloud computing for minimal infrastructure expenses. Advanced analytics can pinpoint areas for significant cost savings and resource optimisation.

6. Security and risk management

Implement cutting-edge solutions to reinforce your infrastructure security and proactively manage business risks. This includes advanced cybersecurity measures to protect against sophisticated data breaches, robust encryption technologies, continuous system audits, and comprehensive disaster recovery and backup solutions that ensure business continuity.

7. Scalability and growth

Digital technology is key to unlocking rapid scalability and achieving exponential growth. This includes improving time-to-market with innovative prototyping and testing, and leveraging cloud computing for flexible, scalable infrastructure without significant upfront investments. CRM systems, client portals and e-commerce platforms, can facilitate expansion into new domestic and international markets.

8. Online activity

Online activity underpins many aspects of modern business, offering numerous benefits. It allows for the automation of business processes by integrating with back-office software like stock, accounting, and order management systems. Developing your website can enable ecommerce functionality and expand your reach into new international markets through website localisation. App and software development can significantly improve customer engagement. Overall, online communication acts as a central hub for your digital operations, helping you acquire new customers and contributing to your business’s growth and success in a reliable, cost-effective way.

9. Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Embrace AI technology to simulate human intelligence functions like perception, learning, and reasoning. AI can automate complex, repetitive tasks, freeing your employees to focus on high-value, strategic work. Specific applications include expert systems, natural language processing for enhanced customer interactions, speech recognition, and machine vision for quality control and process optimisation.

10. Wide Area Networking (WAN)

Invest in transformative WAN solutions to seamlessly connect multiple business locations, dramatically improving communication and collaboration among employees regardless of their physical location. A robust WAN also significantly enhances security by providing a more secure way to transmit sensitive data between sites.

12. Local Area Networking (LAN)

Optimise your on-site operations with advanced LAN solutions that enable seamless communication between various systems and applications at a single site. This allows for true integration of disparate data sets using high-performance wired or wireless infrastructure, leading to real-time insights and operational efficiencies.

Next Steps for Your Project

This list, while not exhaustive, provides examples of the types of projects we are able to support. Your project could also be a combination of these technologies.

If your proposed project will genuinely improve efficiencies, increase productivity, accelerate growth, or transform your business operations, we encourage you to register. Subject to your eligibility, you can then discuss your project in detail with one of our specialist Digital Advisors.

Our Partners and Funders

Digital Enterprise is funded by the UK Government and supported by the following organisations