digital transformation and you: a seminar for charites
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Welcome Steve Rose, Technology Director ShoNet [email protected]
Programme (First Half)
▸ What is “digital transformation”? Alex Spofforth, Spofforths Brighton
▸ Save the Rhino’s Journey Susie Offord-Woolley, Save the Rhino International
▸ Integrating front office & back office (CRM + Finance) Daniel Daly, Spofforths Brighton
▸ Building a community to better engage beneficiaries Brian Parsanka, The Officers’ Association
Programme (Second Half)
▸ Self-Assessment exercise & discussion of your digital vision Ian Seath, Improvement Skills Consulting
▸ Audience & panel discussion with Susie Offord-Woolley & Daniel Daly
▸ Next steps Steve Rose & Alex Spofforth
Susie Offord-Woolley | Deputy Director
Save the Rhino’s journey
Connecting conservation and communities www.savetherhino.org
Why did we want to change
▸Our previous database was outdated
▸Couldn’t easily access our data
▸Clunky and time consuming
▸Lots of manual processes, people avoided using the DB if possible
▸Expensive to maintain and update
▸Didn’t integrate with any other system
▸We were getting no where with the database company who couldn’t see why we weren’t happy
Step one: Requirements capture and choosing a solution
▸Sat down with each member of the team to go through all the requirements
▸Compiled this into a tender document
▸Planned a tender timetable and sent tender out to approx. 20 agencies
▸Developed a marking criteria to see how responses matched to our requirements
▸Invited 4 to present their system
Step three: Managing the project
▸Requires a project owner within the charity
▸Useful to have a second project support for holidays etc.
▸Weekly calls with Shonet and our web agency to track progress against timeline
▸Issues tracking list which was reviewed each week
▸Cancelled other SRI projects to free up time to manage project
Step five: Testing
▸We used our original requirements to help test the system
▸Created test scenarios to run through the system i.e. two marathon runners want to fundraiser together using virgin Money giving etc.
▸Shonet do an Agile process for testing (iterative process)
Step six: Training
▸Shonet provided training days
▸We created a Salesforce handbook
▸Internal training sessions to ensure everyone was working consistently
Benefits
▸We can now access our data efficiently
▸Data is clean
▹ We can run profiles on our supporter base
▸Processes are mapped out and are more efficient
▸Team works better together, more collaborative
▸Opportunity to steward supporters
▸Integrated with other systems (Outlook, Mailchimp, Eventbrite)
▸All our data is in one place – not in excel documents
▸Much more motivated team as they don’t face so many barrier
▸Online fundraising has increased ▹2014-15 £33,302 online donations
▹2015-16 £54,556 online donations (39% increase)
•So much potential for future growth!
Lessons learnt
▸Project owner needs to be very motivated and have a vision of what they want
▸Ensure you are clear about your requirements
▸Involve the team in the process – it utilises their knowledge and buys them into the solution
▸Create capacity within the team – you have to not do something
▸Working with more than one agency adds some complexity
▸If you have no technical experience then find someone you trust to support you on this
▸Don’t get tied into one agency
▸Ensure you look at your business processes and map the solution around these (not the other way around)
▸Estimate the amount of time required for testing * 4
▸Plan for internal training – some team members will be resistant to change
▸Always plan a phase two – almost impossible to know everything you want ahead of using the system
Thank you
Susie Offord, Deputy Director
Save the Rhino International
Unit 5, Coach House Mews
217 Long Lane
London SE1 9AQ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7357 7474
www.savetherhino.org
Who we are and what we do
• Military charity
• Support Commissioned Officers of the Tri -services & Their Families
▫ Helping officers find employment
▫ Providing advice
▫ In cases of need, financial support
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The Challenges Digital integration across all platforms – App – Website – Salesforce - Eventbrite etc – Is a must to gain most out of your existing systems • Getting The OA out there • Growing our online community • Increasing engagement and keeping it • Reaching new members • Encouraging regular use of our services
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Providing Leadership
• As with any new initiatives important to have support and buy in from leadership team at outset – important for them to understand what trying to achieve and solutions available
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Building on Existing Systems • Current delivery based around integration of OA website – Salesforce portal pages – Apps such as Eventbrite an Gotowebinar – Dotmailer (bulk emails) Salesforce
• Analysis of google analytics indicated that majority of existing job seekers using mobiles or tablets to access out services
• Keen to service this group – Transition App logical development 04/10/2016 Digital Transformation and YOU
Building on Existing Systems (Now)
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PORTAL WEBPAGES
(Salesforce)
•Hon Reps
•Jobseekers
STAFF AREA
•Benevolence,
•Database
•Job Orders
PUBLIC AREA (Main
Website)
PRIVATE AREA
With content for
Hon Reps,
OA WEBSITE SALESFORCE
SINGLE
LOGIN
SalesForce
Portal Page
The Solution
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APP
MAIN OA WEBSITE (Public)
SALESFORCE (Jobseeker Member Area)
LOG ON (Via Communities)
Lessons Learnt ▫ Be realistic about the scope and what can be
included – understand the problem you are trying to solve (scope creep!)
▫ Identify the success criteria ▫ Dedicated project manager ▫ Select the right partner ▫ Stay on track (time – money – fit for purpose)
with regular reviews (weekly at least)
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Key themes: Enablers and Results
Leadership
People
Strategy
Processes
Beneficiary impacts
Income generation
Internal efficiencies
Digital Transformation Maturity
Initial Intent Initiative Intelligent Inspiring
Leadership
Q1-2
Strategy
Q3-4
People
Q5
Processes
Q6-8
Results
Q9-11
Current state? Future state?