Digital strategy consulting defines the roadmap that aligns your organisation's goals with technology investments and transformation initiatives. Dreher Consulting helps businesses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland develop practical, measurable digital strategies that drive performance and future resilience.
A strong digital strategy makes the difference in four places. Alignment: technology investments follow the business model instead of running beside it. Measurability: every initiative carries owners and measures, so progress can be verified rather than reported. Risk awareness: dependencies and disruption pressure are made explicit before they surface in operations. And decision quality: leadership decides against a target picture, not against vendor slides.
That is why the strategy sits at the start of every digital transformation — and why it must know the enterprise architecture that has to carry it: the capabilities, systems and data the roadmap depends on.
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Discuss your digital strategy →A quick read before you spend a meeting on it. If most of this matches your situation, a digital strategy engagement is worth scoping — if it doesn't, we will say so.
The business model is under digital pressure — from customers, competitors or the supply chain
Technology investments are queued without a target picture to test them against
The ERP and process landscape must carry the strategy — not run beside it
Leadership wants measurable outcomes, not a vision deck
Access to leadership and the process owners
Honesty about the current capabilities — the assessment only works on the real state
A decision-maker in the loop from the first workshop to the roadmap sign-off
The differentiation is practical: our digital strategies are grounded in ERP expertise, process integration and the realities of transformation. The roadmap we write is one we are prepared to deliver along — into the processes, the systems and the organisation, not into a drawer.
Two things decide a digital strategy: how well the current state is understood, and how honestly the roadmap is sequenced. We work in four stages.
Situation assessment: current digital capabilities, the process landscape, systems and data — the honest baseline the strategy starts from.
1–2 weeks. Board-ready.Business ambitions, KPIs and priorities agreed with leadership — and the digital pressure on the business model made explicit.
1 week. Scored & ranked.Target picture and a sequenced transformation roadmap — with owners, dependencies and measures.
3–9 months. Governed.Implementation guidance along the roadmap; gates reviewed against the measures, course corrected.
4–8 weeks. Monitored.The current state of digitalisation across capabilities, processes, systems and data — honestly documented.
Read MoreWhich shifts genuinely touch your business model — and which are noise you can ignore.
Read MoreWhere the organisation stands against its ambitions — and what has to be true before each initiative can start.
Read MoreSequenced initiatives with owners, dependencies and measures — implementable, not decorative.
Read MoreEnvironmental-technology manufacturer · Digitalisation
ProblemA manufacturer in environmental technology with grown structures: work processes running on Excel, media breaks between departments, and no target picture for how digitalisation should carry the growth.
EngagementDigital strategy and implementation guidance: situation assessment, target picture and a sequenced roadmap — then the transformation delivered along it, into the processes and the systems.
85%
fewer Excel-based work processes · measured
15%
faster order processing · measured
12%
material stocks optimised · measured
Vendor-neutral since 1992: no reseller agreements, no kickbacks. We recommend what fits your business — including "don't invest yet."
Honest answers about scope, sequencing and cost — the questions that come up in nearly every first conversation about digitalisation.
Digital strategy consulting assesses your current digital capabilities, clarifies business ambitions, and defines a practical roadmap for how technology supports measurable transformation. It bridges the gap between strategy, operations and technology to ensure investments create value instead of complexity.
A digital strategy covers the business model, processes and technology together: what the company wants to achieve and how digitalisation carries it. An IT strategy defines the technology landscape underneath — systems, architecture, infrastructure. In our projects the digital strategy comes first and the IT strategy follows from it, not the other way round.
That depends on the number of business areas and how well the current state is documented. A focused situation assessment runs a few weeks; a full strategy with target picture and sequenced roadmap typically takes two to four months in the Mittelstand. The honest range for your case is set in the first conversation — after we have seen the landscape.
Yes — in that order. The digital strategy defines the target picture and the processes the ERP system has to carry; the selection then tests systems against it, which is how our independent ERP consulting works. Whoever selects first lets the system define the strategy.
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