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Key Takeawys

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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