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Digital business building

Digital business building

DeepDive World professionals specialize in crafting and implementing digital strategies. We offer clients unique, innovative, and data-driven services to drive future growth, enhance existing digital capabilities, and expedite digital and business transformation initiatives.

Related topics
Digital
Growth
Strategy and Transactions
Mergers and acquisitions
Restructuring and Turnaround
The Team
Misha Hanin

President & Chairman

Ahmed Ali

CEO, MENA Division

Dima Zodek

CEO, North America Division

With our digital business building teams, we're all about innovation at startup speed, harnessing your core strengths to make a game-changing impact.

Today’s business landscape is so fast-changing and competitive that embracing digital technologies is imperative. This enables organizations to optimize current operations and unlock avenues for future growth and transformation.

However, success isn’t guaranteed. The vast majority of digital initiatives fall short of their goals due to various reasons like conflicting priorities, scalability issues, or misaligned processes. DeepDive World’s digital business strategy teams, cognizant of these challenges, collaborate closely with you to mitigate such risks.

Backed by a profound understanding of technology, data, cultural shifts, and process optimization, coupled with extensive sector expertise, we collaborate with you to craft and execute a bespoke digital strategy tailored to your business needs. This empowers you to proactively address disruptive forces, harness the value of data and technology, and carve out a distinctive position in the market, setting you apart from your competitors.

We can help you craft your digital strategies to achieve your objectives, by answering your most critical questions:

Grow: Identifying and creating revenue opportunities

  • How do I pinpoint fresh revenue prospects to foster expansion?
  • How to utilize data and technology to revolutionize my business?
  • How to map out my digital transformation journey?
  • How do I expand my business beyond its core for future success?

Optimize: Streamlining the core operations

  • How can I effectively implement and utilize emerging technology to streamline and automate core business processes?
  • In what ways can I harness data and technology to seamlessly adapt to the ever-evolving macro forces?
  • What strategies can I employ to leverage digital technology in pursuit of my sustainability objectives?

Accelerate: Propelling value creation through digital innovation

  • What digital investment strategy aligns best with my business goals?
  • What is the ideal digital investment target or partner and how to identify them?
  • How to seamlessly integrate a digital venture into my core business operations?
  • How to migrate data without losses and downtimes when implementing new systems?

Regardless of where your organization stands on its digital journey, our team or seasoned professionals will guide you throughout every stage of your digital strategy, leveraging our global network and diverse services offered by DeepDive World.

DeepDive World’s digital strategy consulting services can help you with:

Digital strategy consulting for growth:
  • Crafting a forward-looking digital strategy aligned with your strategic objectives, whether it involves enhancing core operations, innovating new business models, or integrating digital capabilities.
  • Services encompass digital maturity assessment, scenario planning, business model innovation, sector convergence analysis, and strategies for digital inorganic growth through acquisitions, partnerships, or investments.
  • Assisting in deriving value from data assets and analytics to optimize business performance.
  • Offerings range from digital transformation initiatives to transitioning to Software as a Service (SaaS) models.Advising and facilitating the creation of Corporate Venturing Capital (CVC) initiatives and fostering partnerships with startups to accelerate digital innovation.
  • Services include corporate venture spinouts and establishing venture capital entities.
  • Enhancing and digitizing front-end capabilities to optimize growth potential through strategies such as direct channel development, automated marketing and pricing, and digital customer experience enhancement. 
  • Analyzing current operational methods to identify digitization opportunities for improving efficiency, including digital supply chain optimization, intelligent automation (e.g., RPA), and adoption of emerging technologies like AI, IoT, and blockchain. 
  • Designing digital business models, governance frameworks, and platform strategies to support dual operating models and facilitate geolocation strategies such as intellectual property (IP) management.
  • Digital M&A: Identifying, evaluating, and executing digital deals to facilitate inorganic growth. Services include pre-deal diligence covering software, cybersecurity, and IT, future value validation for sell-side transactions, and integration planning for preserving or integrating acquired entities. 
  • Partnerships and digital ecosystem design: Analyzing threats and opportunities and identifying suitable acquisition and partnership options throughout the value chain and within innovation ecosystems. Offerings encompass market scans, ecosystem definition, and development of M&A playbooks. 
  • Digital value creation: Optimizing digital solutions to maximize value creation and achieve ROI. Services include portfolio assessments, strategies for the digital development cycle, and operational implementation support.

The team

Misha Hanin

President & Chairman

Ahmed Ali

CEO, MENA Division

Dima Zodek

CEO, North America Division

Rob Zacharias

Chief Operating Officer

Boris Heismann

Chief R&D Officer (CRDO)

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