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Making Digital Transformations Stick for Lasting Impact
Sarah McCandless • August 20, 2025
While most organisations invest heavily in new platforms, tools and processes, the true challenge isn’t starting a transformation — it’s scaling it. When transformations scale well, they create measurable impact across the organisation. When they don’t, they stall in silos, face resistance and struggle to deliver on the promised value.
So how do you scale effectively? And where does a consultancy like Enterprise Group Consulting (EGC) fit in?
The Common Scaling Challenges
Even with the best intentions, large-scale transformations often run into roadblocks:
- Siloed approaches – Different teams move at different speeds, creating misalignment and duplicated effort.
- Change fatigue – Employees feel overwhelmed, disengaged, or uncertain about the “why” behind the changes.
- Short-term focus – Too much emphasis on quick wins, without embedding the practices that sustain long-term impact.
- Lack of capability – Internal teams may not yet have the skills, frameworks or confidence to manage transformation at scale.
What Makes Scaling Work
Scaling requires more than rolling out technology across departments. There needs to be a greater emphasis on embedding new ways of working into the DNA of the organisation. The most effective digital transformations share some key ingredients:
- Clear vision & alignment – Leaders, teams and partners aligned on outcomes, not just outputs.
- Stakeholder engagement – Early and ongoing consultation to build trust and reduce disruption.
- Data-driven insights – Using analytics to tailor communications, segment audiences and prioritise change initiatives.
- Capability building – Coaching, training and mentoring to empower teams to take ownership of the change.
- Agility & adaptability – Embedding practices that allow organisations to pivot as needs evolve.
Where Enterprise Group Consulting Helps
At EGC, we focus on enabling organisations to not just deliver transformation, but to scale it sustainably.
Here’s how we make a difference:
- Tailored change strategies – No cookie-cutter frameworks. We design approaches and the team that fit your business, industry and stakeholders.
- Direct industry engagement – Working closely with executives and external stakeholders to reduce resistance and accelerate adoption.
- Data-driven communication – Segmenting audiences to deliver the right messages at the right time, minimising confusion and speeding up decision-making.
- Capability uplift – Coaching internal teams on change management and Agile practices so they’re equipped for future transformations.
- Sustainable outcomes – Ensuring that change lasts, by embedding practices that build resilience and adaptability long after the project ends.
Scaling Isn’t Just About Technology — It’s About People
Digital transformation succeeds when technology, people and processes move together. By combining strategy, collaboration and capability building, organisations can scale effectively — and sustainably.
That’s where EGC comes in. We don’t just help deliver transformation.
We help ensure it sticks.
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