19. Digital tools are needed for impact at maximum scale.
I'm not advising every impact maker I meet to go all digital, right now. I know about the problems - costs, privacy, etc...
However...
You can put it off today - the following trend will still be here tomorrow: Digital technologies can transform your operations for the better. High efficiency and effect are enabled by data-driven automation and AI, which can unlock true scaling up.
That is not to say that it's all moonlight and roses. McKinsey found that only 16 percent of digital transformations succeed and last. In traditional, non-digitally savvy industries, it can be less than 10 percent! In addition, impact makers need to navigate risks like data privacy, ethics of AI and donor goodwill even more carefully.
We can discuss the Do or Don't question - I'm listening and I can still learn. But I'm much more interested to discuss the How and the When for your cases.
How can you start going digital without overpaying, when to go all in and more.
Nicolas is an IT specialist who has spent his career to almost equal parts in academia and commercial web development. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Osnabrück (Germany), a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and in 2016 he defended his Phd dissertation in Computer Science at TU Delft (topic: flexible planning in smart grids) . Nicolas has been a programmer and data scientist in two IT startups, enabling neurosience-based web design and energy trading services. He also co-created a new data backend for an established B2B company, which is cloud-based and requires very high (99.9999%) availability. He lives with his family in Amsterdam-Noord and enjoys practicing his handstand.
