Strategic Consultancy Assignment Grant
The Strategic Consultancy Assignment grant offers crucial support to help your business adapt to challenges, identify new opportunities, and gain a decisive competitive advantage.
Digital Process Innovation Overview
The truth of the modern business landscape is that operational excellence now requires digital fluency. DPI is the transformation initiative that ensures your company not only survives but gains a competitive advantage.
Enterprise Ireland, through its dedicated Digital Process Innovation grant support, recognises this critical investment need. The programme is designed to accelerate your business’ digital transition, offering up to 50% funding of eligible costs (up to a maximum grant of €150,000) for projects that deliver a step-change in capability and operational effectiveness.
The wise deployment of DPI yields multiple benefits:
Productivity & Efficiency
Automation and better systems eliminate waste and streamline workflows, ensuring better use of resources and staff time.
Quality & Consistency
New production methods and technologies embed standards that improve quality, speed, and dependability of delivery.
Sustainability
Greater energy efficiency and lower emissions are direct outcomes of digitised, optimisation processes, addressing the critical sustainability aspects of modern businesses.
Customer Focus
New digital systems and customer experiences ensure the company meets modern customer expectations and enhances customer satisfaction.
Our Results Speak for Themselves.
LBS Partners’ Expert Approach
Our role as expert consultants is to provide the knowledge and methodology required to bridge the gap between abstract strategy and tangible results.
We do not merely introduce technology; we facilitate the transformation of business processes.
We start by understanding your strategic goals and the current state of your systems and architecture. Our Digital Consulting team applies a rigorous, fact-based approach (Discover, Define, Develop, and Deliver) to ensure every project is grounded in data and provides measurable insights.
We develop Digital Roadmaps that achieve perfect alignment between technology, processes, and the essential skills of your employees and teams. This holistic way of thinking guarantees that your investment is targeted for maximum impact and lasting success.
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Potential Project Initiatives for Digital Process Innovation
Based on a comprehensive review of your business operations, several key initiatives are typically identified as critical areas for immediate improvement. These projects are designed to leverage technology for profound process excellence.
Replacement of Legacy Systems
The continued use of antiquated systems is a primary source of operational inefficiency and poor data quality.
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Purpose: To replace outdated systems (e.g., on the manufacturing floor or in operations) with modern technology that can be fully integrated across the company.
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Impact: This dramatically improves data access and accuracy, enabling real-time decision-making and enhancing overall process control. It provides the necessary platform for future automation and advancement.
Digital Training (MS Training)
A team’s ability to fully utilise its digital resources is a measure of its effectiveness.
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Purpose: To equip staff with the practical skills to work smarter using existing tools like the Microsoft suite (e.g., Power Apps, Power Automate, analytics tools).
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Impact: This hands-on training boosts immediate productivity by automating routine tasks and streamlining workflows. It empowers employees to become part of the continuous improvement culture (Kaizen).
Data Cleaning, Accuracy, and Availability
Decisions are only as good as the data they are based upon. Flawed information leads to flawed strategy.
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Purpose: To structure, manage, and cleanse core data to ensure its accuracy and reliability. We develop dashboards and automated reports to provide clear, reliable insights.
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Impact: With trusted data, leaders can accurately track performance using defined KPIs, reliably measure effectiveness, and make smarter, faster decisions that drive growth.
Operations and Processes Optimisation
This is the core of Digital Process Innovation—the transformation of how the work gets done.
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Purpose: To utilise low-code/no-code technology (e.g., Power Apps) to build bespoke solutions that redesign or replace paper-based processes and inefficient workflows.
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Impact: Projects in this area typically focus on waste reduction, improving production methods, and embedding digital process innovation directly into manufacturing and delivery. This drives measurable cost savings and higher quality standards.
Digital Customer Experience
The digital customer experience is a critical component of a company’s value proposition.
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Purpose: To analyse and map key customer touchpoints to create a seamless, consistent, and personalised digital journey.
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Impact: By gathering and acting on feedback, and using technology to meet evolving customer expectations, the organisation builds trust, enhances customer satisfaction, and secures its position amongst competitors in the industries it serves.
Green & Black Belt Training
Sponsorship and training for a cohort of high-potential individuals to achieve external Lean Green and Black Belt certifications (or similar specialist courses in Operations and Innovation). These internal experts will become the resources responsible for leading large-scale, complex OE initiatives. They will employ their advanced methodology expertise to coach other teams and drive significant, measurable improvements across all areas of the organisation.