For CXOs running, or about to run, a digital transformation who want more than a RAG-status Gantt chart.
The Problem With Most Digital Transformation Programmes
Most transformation programmes are steered by milestones: go-live dates, system cutovers, budget burn-down. Milestones tell you whether the project is on schedule. They don’t tell you whether the organisation is actually building the capabilities the transformation was meant to deliver — and by the time that gap shows up, it’s usually post-go-live, expensive, and politically hard to name.
Digital Transformation Steered by What’s Actually Landing
BenefitPartner’s Digital Transformation Consulting is the STEER IT phase of the Capability Method: the business case (SEE IT) defines which capabilities matter and why; STEER IT tracks, week by week, whether the transformation programme is actually building them — not whether the project plan says it should have by now.
In practice that means:
- A capability heatmap covering 165 capabilities across 11 domains, updated through the programme so sponsors see capability build-up, not just task completion.
- Standardised master data capability units, so “done” means the same thing in finance as it does in operations — comparable across workstreams, not workstream-specific self-reporting.
- A delivery method that turns the heatmap into concrete, assignable work for each workstream lead — closing the gap between “the dashboard is red” and “here’s what to do about it.”
What’s Included
- Set-up of the capability heatmap against the transformation’s target-state design
- Ongoing capability tracking through the programme, reported alongside — not instead of — the usual milestone status
- Intervention support, by the delivery method, for workstreams falling behind on capability build, not just schedule
- A direct line into the Change Management (KEEP IT) phase once go-live approaches, so adoption checking starts from the same data rather than a cold start
Proven Where It Counts
The heatmap, the master data capability units, and the delivery method have been run inside a live SAP-centred transformation at a large industrial manufacturer — tracking capability build-up across production, supply chain, and back-office domains in parallel with the system implementation itself. The client stays anonymous by agreement; the method doesn’t need the name to prove it works, because it’s checkable capability by capability.
How to Start
STEER IT is how a transformation is steered — and it starts with Insight on one domain. Four packages, each ending in a decision — from DKK 40,000 per domain, fixed price. Nothing is committed before you have the numbers. See the packages →
Questions We Get Asked
Do you replace our systems integrator or implementation partner?
No. BenefitPartner steers capability build-up alongside whoever is doing the technical implementation — SAP partner, in-house IT, or another integrator. The heatmap tracks capabilities, not code.
What’s the difference between digital transformation and an IT/ERP implementation?
An implementation delivers a system. A transformation is supposed to deliver new ways of working that the system enables — the gap between those two is exactly what capability tracking is built to close.
Can this start mid-programme, or does it need to start at kick-off?
It can start mid-programme, though the earlier it starts relative to target-state design, the more the heatmap can shape workstream planning rather than just report on it after the fact.
How is progress reported to the steering committee?
Alongside the usual milestone RAG status, as a capability heatmap showing build-up by domain — so a “green” milestone that hasn’t actually built the underlying capability shows up as exactly that.
Does this flow into change management once we’re closer to go-live?
Yes — the same heatmap and capability data carries directly into the KEEP IT adoption check, so change management isn’t starting from zero.
