What is digitalization?
Larousse tells us that digitalization is the “process of transforming a company's services, through increased use of information technology.” This means changing tools and methods that are sometimes outdated by exploiting the new technologies available to increase productivity and efficiency. Thus, the significant improvement of Internet bandwidth through the generalization, the expansion of smartphones or the development of collaborative tools open up real opportunities for companies ofoptimize their organization.
Given the importance of this digitalization for the sustainability of the company, it is essential that it be an integral part of the overall business strategy. The implementation of such an approach will have an impact on a large number of services and processes, employees, customers or suppliers. Digitize your organization will induce a certain number of changes that will have to be anticipated, analyzed and managed. Get accompanied in this digitalization strategy makes it possible to limit risks, to avoid unnecessary errors and to take full advantage of the numerous advantages generated by this approach.
The importance of digitizing your systems
The digitization of an organization offers a large number of advantages that may vary depending on the level of digital maturity of each organization. We can mention a few benefits that are consistently found:
- A dynamic of improvement reinforced by simplified feedback ;
- La centralization of tools and information ;
- Access to a Up-to-date information, unique and common for all;
- One better collaboration and the emergence of synergies between processes (services).
This list is not exhaustive but illustrates the importance or even the need for businesses or administrations to digitize their systems to modernize them and stay efficient.
If we focus on the QHSE domain, forget your action plans on spreadsheets with several hundred lines, no longer look for the latest version of your documents in your multiple files, no longer shuttling between the various validators or approvers... Digitize your management systems and gain efficiency! Intuitively make your Single Risk Assessment Document (DUER) the core of your prevention approach, boost your continuous improvement by making each employee an actor in your system.
