Increasing the use of digitalization will be a transformational enabler for ZAR POLYMER, supporting the delivery of its strategy. Digitalization will improve the team’s productivity and the customer experience, and also promote the Circular Economy of plastics, thereby creating new and profitable business solutions.
It helps the business to collaborate with end-users and digital professionals to search for solutions to clearly defined business opportunities. The program looks to create additional business value, by implementing agile working principles and design thinking throughout the project life cycle.
When reviewing ideas, the program aims to score each one consistently, objectively and transparently on three key factors: business viability (Should we do it?), technological feasibility (Can we do it?) and user desirability (Do users want it?). This all happens in an innovative setting where business and technical know-how is combined in co-located teams, focusing on building, learning and adapting along the way, and keeping focus on the real business value they are aiming for.
Digital Studio projects have the following phases:
- Capture: identify the business opportunity or customer/ employee “pain point”, by capturing digital ideas from user interviews and across the organization.
- Concept: identify how to solve the issue identified by selecting the best digital ideas, validating the customer pain point and developing the initial business plan.
- Prototype: develop a prototype and run a proof of concept for the idea.
- Pilot: develop a fully functional Minimum Viable Product and pilot it in the chosen business unit(s).
- Roll-out and scale: launch the business, run the day-today operations and scale up.