What role do the toolsplay in the digital transformation?

It is not difficult to find that the domestic digital economy era has arrived. In the process of industrial economic development to the digital economy, many enterprises have also begun to enter the era of the digital economy.

For an enterprise, in the development situation of greatly changing market demand and rapid iteration, the views of users or customers will greatly affect the direction of the future business model, thus affecting the business decision of the enterprise. So, how to quickly respond to the needs of customers and users, and promote the transformation from product-centered to customer-centered enterprises?

Now, it seems that the answer to this question is also very obvious: to borrow a sentence from the Internet, " for traditional industries, digital transformation can use digital technology to carry out all-around, multi-angle, whole-chain transformation." Especially under the influence of the epidemic, many enterprises have also accelerated the process of digital transformation, such as during the epidemic period, the use of various digital tools such as cloud computing and low code platforms has surged. How should we grasp this opportunity to realize the digital innovation of enterprises, and how should we do the first step?

1.Tools are the "stepping stone" for digital transformation

Just like at the end of the 20th century, no one would think thatcomputers had brought so extensive and profound changes to our lives, which computers could replace part of manual work and would also improvepeople's office efficiency so significantly. Similarly, with the rise of a series of emerging technologies, such as AI,the Internet of Things, big data, and cloud computing, we can probablyexpect how these technologies will drive economic growth and accelerateinnovation a decade later.With the rapiddevelopment of technology, digital tools built based on these emergingtechnologies are also emerging, providing enterprises with different choices in various aspects.

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If digital transformation is the "stepping stone" of thedigital age, then digital tools are the "stepping stone" of digitaltransformation.

There may also be many people who are not clearabout the application of digital tools in business processes. Next, I took therole of human resources as an example to illustrate the application of digitaltools in business processes:

·In the screening resume link, you can conduct the first round of auditionthrough keyword screening, to save the time to manually read the resume;

·In the induction training, low-tech and repetitive tasks to improveoffice efficiency;

·In the performance management link, the commission rules can be set up in advanceto facilitate the generation of the final statistical reports;

·In the salary setting link, automatic compensation calculation andpayment can be realized by setting compensation rules and combining withattendance and punching in.

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In the role of human resources, if the traditional business process isfollowed, there will be many unnecessary repetitions and waste, which will greatly reduce the officeefficiency, and thus increase the long-term cost of the enterprise.

2. What can digital toolsbring to businesses?

01 Simplify existing processes and improve collaboration efficiency

02 Refactoring the business model

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03 Promote the awareness of innovation

As mentioned above, digital tools replace some of the labor. Because ofthis, tool-driven business change will redefine the functions of each role,promote talents to improve theirprofessional level, cultivate digital transformation talents, so that talentscan progress and grow in a direction of more innovative and valuable value.

·Complete the adoption of digital tools in theoverall process of enterprise business does not mean the end of digitaltransformation. Although the market has put forward solutions for collaborationand process links, the digital transformation of enterprises still has a longway to go.At present, the digitalization of enterprises is still facing someobstacles and bottlenecks, which pose great challenges for enterprises:

·The existing operating model cannot adapt to the market with fast iteration and variabledemand;

·The organizational structure of the enterprisestill maintains the original system, unable to make timely, rapid and effectivedecisions;

·There is noactual strategic implementation planning.

Therefore, the processof digital transformation is not a simple process of introducing tools andreimplementation, but the need to establish a systematic digital system andchange the overall business framework.

The era ofthe digital economy is an opportunity. Enterprises shouldexamine the development stage of the organization as soon as possible, andsynchronize the introduction of digital tools with the improvement of theorganizational system, so as to adapt to and establish the business operationsystem of the enterprise as soon as possible.