Kickstart digital transformation

Van Oord is a global leading marine contractor with 150 years of worldwide experience in marine ingenuity. Even though heavy asset industries are yet to be extensively disrupted, Van Oord set the bold ambition to make digital a central value driver for the business, created an internal digital transformation team to do so, and asked us to support this goal.

We believe that transformations should be both top-down to drive ambition and bottom-up to prove value from the start. Therefore we set up two workstreams: First, we kickstarted some data-driven projects to build key capabilities in the digital team and “open the door” for the organization to think more broadly about digital. Next, we used these projects as a foundation to develop the wider digital vision and facilitated some of Van Oord’s Business Units in formulating their digital strategies. Here, we collaboratively brainstormed and prioritized digital initiatives and detailed the first steps for implementation, including organizational and technological requirements.