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EAS supports creating a digitalisation roadmap with up to 10,000€

Companies can apply for the Enterprise Estonia (EAS) digitalisation roadmap grant, which helps map the company’s development opportunities through the efficiency, digitalisation, and automation of production management processes. The grant of up to 10,000 euros involves experienced advisors and experts outside the company.

What is a digitalisation roadmap?

The digitalisation roadmap is the company’s strategic document that assesses the impact of digitalisation, the investments required to achieve the goals, and their profitability and schedule. The digitalisation roadmap points out the bottlenecks of technological processes and the initial task of solving at least one bottleneck.

With digitalisation, the entrepreneur adopts digital technologies and an innovative business model that supports it. A company can apply for a grant of up to 10,000 euros to draw up a digitalisation roadmap to involve external experienced advisors and experts. An overview of the company’s business model, supply chain and production or service provision process, and bottleneck solutions using digital technologies is prepared as part of creating the roadmap. In addition, the roadmap includes a baseline task for at least one solution for its development.

Who is the digitalisation roadmap grant for?

The roadmap is intended for Estonian companies of all sizes whose field of activity is not outside the beneficiary target group and whose average sales revenue in the main field of activity for the previous two financial years is at least 200,000 euros. In addition, the company must not have previously received digital diagnostics support.

Companies operating in the following areas cannot apply for digitalisation roadmap support:

  • temporary labour rent,
  • financial and insurance activities,
  • organisation of gambling and betting,
  • legal operations and accounting,
  • processing and storage of fish, crustaceans and molluscs,
  • real estate activity,
  • operation of head offices and management consultancy,
  • agriculture, forestry and fishing,
  • advertising and market research,
  • rental and operating lease,
  • production of tobacco products,
  • coal and lignite mining, oil and natural gas production and production auxiliary activities, and production of coke and refined petroleum products.

What does the digital roadmap include?

  1. The roadmap provides an overview of the company’s business model, supply chain and production or service provision process.
  2. Assessment of which bottlenecks can be solved by digitalisation.
  3. Assessment of the priority of solving bottlenecks, the cost of solutions, the payback period and the impact on the company’s business model and economic results.
  4. A three-year action plan for the implementation of solutions.
  5. The digitalisation roadmap’s good practice describes the principles of support, applying for support, and the process and methodology of implementing the roadmap. Adherence to good practice is a prerequisite for successfully implementing the roadmap and preparing a report that meets the conditions.

Read more about the project on the EAS website.

Astro Baltics and digitalisation roadmap grant

Astro Baltics has extensive experience in various digitalisation-related projects. Our main activities are analysing and mapping business processes and developing a suitable management model. In addition, we implement software solutions according to processes and documentation. We also offer business process audits, mapping, finding the exact cost of finished products, and much more.

Users of our NOOM business software can get a real-time overview of the orders, deadlines, materials, costs, and resources in progress. This information allows them to analyse the company’s efficiency and increase profitability.

According to EAS board member Sigrid Harjo, digitalisation is an essential opportunity for development in all sectors

“If previously EAS offered digital diagnostics support only to industrial companies, the new grant is its further development. In addition to production, various service companies, companies in the tourism sector, logistics companies, and many others who need to assess their company’s digitalisation and find new solutions for this can now also get a comprehensive overview of their processes,” said Harjo.

According to her, an individual approach is essential, because every company can be pinched from a different point. “When starting digitalisation, it is important to identify bottlenecks in your current processes and find modern technological solutions,” Harjo confirmed. He emphasised that this does not always mean making large-scale investments and does not require the status of a large company.

Harjo believes digitalisation helps alleviate labour shortages, increase supply reliability, and allow strategic decisions to be made based on data. “All this enables the company to offer innovative solutions to its customers, thereby creating new business models and ultimately increasing its revenues,” Harjo listed.

Previously, 127 companies have undergone digital diagnostics with the support of EAS. One of them is the packaging manufacturer Multipakend OÜ, whose quality manager, Tiiu Aasamets, pointed out that a lot has changed in the company since the digital diagnostics were carried out. “On the office side, we no longer have to do so much double work, and on the production side, thanks to the new equipment, there is also less manual work,” said Aasamets. In addition to the support, the company has invested itself in achieving the development opportunities revealed by digital diagnostics.

Find more detailed conditions of the grant on the EAS website.

Regarding any questions contact us:

+372 628 0000
info@astrobaltics.eu

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