- For over a decade LeanBPI has helped Irish SMEs integrate digital solutions, but many small businesses still aren’t reaching their full potential due to a lack of digital systems.
- Common barriers include lack of knowledge of new technologies, perceived high cost, limited time for staff training, and fear of failure.
- LeanBPI’s Digital Readiness Assessment evaluates business owners on factors like optimism, innovation, discomfort and insecurity — categorising them from ‘Explorer’ to ‘Avoider’ with a tailored action plan.
- LeanBPI partners with Local Enterprise Offices across Ireland to roll out the assessment to micro and small business owners and decision-makers.
- The Digital for Business programme, fully funded by LEOs, is expanding from small manufacturers to all businesses with up to 50 employees.
For over a decade, LeanBPI has been a key player in helping Irish SMEs integrate digital solutions for improved business efficiency. Its technical team excels at providing bespoke solutions to meet diverse customer needs — solutions that even the smallest businesses can benefit from.
Historically, digital transformation has been undertaken by larger enterprises with the budget and in-house expertise to drive the change. Smaller businesses face their own specific inhibitors: a lack of knowledge of new technologies, the perceived high cost of implementing them, limited time invested in staff training, and a fear of failure. Many also lack a clear sense of which technology investments would actually move the needle.
To address this, LeanBPI developed the Digital Readiness Assessment — a tool that evaluates micro and small business leaders against factors such as optimism, innovation, discomfort and insecurity, sorting participants into profiles ranging from ‘Explorer’ to ‘Avoider’ and giving each a tailored, actionable plan. LeanBPI delivers the assessment in partnership with Local Enterprise Offices around the country, alongside the Digital for Business programme — a fully-funded LEO initiative that began with small manufacturers in 2022 and is now expanding to all businesses with up to 50 employees.
“Small businesses form a significant part of our national workforce and economy.” — John O’Shanahan, LeanBPI |
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