4. Forecasting
Welcome to Yopla’s Digital Forecasting Service! This essential service helps prepare your team for change by evaluating your organisation’s culture and skills. Here’s everything you need to know about our Digital Forecasting Service, why it matters, what’s included, and how to get started.
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What is Digital Forecasting?
Forecasting is one of our favourite stages at Yopla! During this phase, we talk to everyone in your organisation again, with a little help from AI, to focus on digital skills, literacy, and organisational culture using tools like Myers-Briggs. The goal is to uncover the cultural readiness for change, identify challenges, and surface amazing insights that help align your people with the transformation. We often identify digital champions in this phase, giving you a complete understanding of the people who will drive change in your organisation.
Why Does it Matter?
Understanding your team’s readiness for change is crucial. Our Digital Forecasting Service evaluates your organisation’s culture and digital skills, from basic digital literacy to resource utilisation. By identifying potential challenges and empowering digital champions, we ensure your team is well-equipped and motivated to lead the transformation. We provide strategic insights, mitigate risks, optimise resource allocation, engage in scenario planning, enhance communication and stakeholder engagement, and maintain a continuous improvement approach. This holistic understanding helps you make informed decisions, anticipate risks, and ensures a smoother digital transformation. Here's some specifics.
Insight 
Description 
Readiness
Our Digital Forecasting Service starts with evaluating your organisation’s culture and digital skills. We look at everything from digital literacy and typing skills to resource utilisation and profiling. This helps us understand how prepared your team is for the upcoming changes.
Challenges
We delve deep into your organisation to uncover potential roadblocks that might hinder your digital transformation. By understanding these challenges early, we can develop strategies to address them effectively, ensuring a smooth and successful change process.
Digital Champions
A key part of our process is identifying and empowering digital champions within your organisation. These individuals will lead and promote digital initiatives, supporting their colleagues through the transition. With strong internal advocates, your digital transformation will be driven from within, ensuring greater buy-in and success.
Digital Literacy and Skills
We assess the digital skills and literacy across your organisation, identifying gaps and areas for improvement. This enables us to provide targeted training and support, ensuring your team has the necessary skills to thrive in a digital-first environment.
Strategic Decision Making
With insights from our Digital Forecasting, you can make strategic decisions with confidence. We provide a clear understanding of how each initiative will impact your organisation, helping you allocate resources effectively and prioritise initiatives that will drive the most significant impact.
Mitigating Risks
Our forecasting helps you anticipate and mitigate the risks associated with digital transformation. By understanding the ripple effects of your initiatives, you can proactively address potential bottlenecks and challenges, ensuring a smoother transformation journey.
Optimising Resources
We provide insights into the resource requirements and potential returns of each digital initiative. This helps you optimise resource allocation, focusing on areas that will have the greatest positive impact on your organisation’s digital maturity and transformation goals.
Scenario Planning
Our forecasting enables you to engage in scenario planning, considering different future outcomes and their impacts. By exploring various scenarios, you can develop contingency plans and make informed decisions, ensuring your organisation is prepared for any changes or disruptions.
Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
Effective communication is crucial for digital transformation. Our forecasting service helps you convey the benefits and value of your initiatives to stakeholders, fostering alignment and support across all levels of your organisation.
Continuous Improvement
Digital forecasting is an ongoing process. Regular assessments and adjustments ensure your organisation remains agile and adaptable in the ever-evolving digital landscape. This continuous improvement approach keeps you ahead of the curve.
What’s Included in the Digital Forecasting Report?
The Digital Forecasting Report offers a comprehensive evaluation of your organisation’s digital skills and cultural readiness. It includes high-level interviews with our tech experts, challenge sessions to identify risks and opportunities, and detailed profiling using Myers-Briggs. We cover:
Stage 
Description 
Detailed Assessment
Our detailed assessment covers multiple dimensions of your organisation’s digital landscape. This includes evaluating digital skills, organisational culture, and digital literacy. We use various tools and methodologies to gather comprehensive data, providing a clear picture of your team’s readiness for change.
Complex Analyses
We conduct complex analyses to identify your organisation’s strengths, weaknesses, and potential challenges. This involves exploring digital skills, literacy levels, and cultural factors that might impact your digital transformation. Our analyses provide deep insights into areas that need attention and improvement.
High-Level Interviews
We conduct high-level interviews with domain and subject experts to gain insights into your organisation’s readiness for digital transformation. These interviews help us understand the broader context and specific challenges you might face, providing valuable information for the forecasting process.
Champions
Identifying and empowering digital champions within your organisation is a key part of our process. These individuals will lead and promote digital initiatives, supporting their colleagues through the transformation. With strong internal advocates, your digital transformation will be driven from within, ensuring greater buy-in and success.
Personality Profiles
Utilising tools like Myers-Briggs, we create personality profiles to understand team dynamics and identify potential leaders and champions of digital transformation. This helps in aligning the right people with the right roles in your digital initiatives.
Digital Skills
We evaluate the digital skills across your organisation to identify gaps and areas for improvement. This assessment ensures your team has the necessary skills to thrive in a digital-first environment, providing a solid foundation for your digital transformation efforts.
Digital Literacy
Assessing the digital literacy levels within your organisation provides insights into the current capabilities and areas that need development. This evaluation helps in creating targeted training programs to enhance your team’s digital competencies.
Recommendations
Based on our findings, we provide tailored recommendations that address the specific needs and goals of your organisation. These actionable steps ensure practical and effective progress towards enhancing digital maturity and driving successful digital transformation.
Report
The report we provide is detailed and actionable, including insights, observations, and recommendations. It features high-level insights from our tech experts, identifies risks and opportunities, and plans to explore future challenges and opportunities. This comprehensive document serves as a roadmap for your digital transformation journey.
What Do You Need from Us?
All our work is managed within our Plans portal, an easy-to-use, task-by-task interface that lets you assign tasks to the relevant people in your team, view progress, and communicate with our team. This platform keeps you informed and on track every step of the way.
We need active participation, including providing access to necessary data, engaging in the collaboration process, and being willing to answer our analysis questions. The hard work is on us, ensuring you have a seamless experience throughout the process.
How Do I Get Started?
Contact us to discuss your needs and schedule an initial consultation. We’ll begin with a thorough assessment of your digital landscape, conduct interviews, analyse the data, and provide a detailed report with actionable recommendations.
FAQ's
How Do You Conduct Digital Forecasting?
We use a combination of AI forms, interviews, and data from previous digital maturity assessments, digital mapping, and horizon scanning. This holistic approach ensures a thorough understanding of your organisation’s current state.
What Tools Do You Use in Digital Forecasting?
We use advanced AI technology to conduct forms and interviews, combined with human expertise to analyse the data. We also leverage insights from previous maturity assessments, mapping, and horizon scanning phases.
How Long Does the Digital Forecasting Process Take?
The entire process typically takes about 3-4 months, depending on the size and complexity of your organisation.
What Does Forecasting Costs?
Forecasting costs £15,505 for up to 150 employees. Most of our clients get mapping as part of our Thrive subscription.
What Will I Receive in the Digital Forecasting Report?
The report includes a detailed assessment across multiple dimensions, complex analyses, high-level interviews, challenge sessions, scenario planning, identification of digital champions, personality profiles, digital skills assessment, and tailored recommendations.
Is My Data Safe?
Yes, we record and log everything securely with end-to-end encryption and in line with our data and cyber security policies.
Do I Need an NDA?
No, you don’t need an NDA, but we can provide one immediately on request.
Does Your AI Learn from Our Data?
No, the models never train on your conversations or data and are isolated to ensure this.
Are People Honest with You?
Yes, they really are. It’s amazing what is shared with us during the forecasting process.
Do You Keep People’s Feedback in Confidence?
Absolutely. We share high-level views of departments and functions but do not share individual feedback or names of those involved in the analysis.
Do You Really Interview Everyone?
Isn’t it amazing? AI has enabled us to involve more participants than ever before, giving your report more diversity, depth, and value than ever before.