Fully funded digital & software transformation reviews
Identifying your charity’s opportunities to
Improve efficiency
We explore how digital transformation can significantly improve your efficiency by
- Automating manual processes
- Reducing errors
- Improving productivity
- Improving integrations to create more seamless processes
Reduce costs
We identify opportunities for technologies to help you reduce costs by
- Reducing staff and admin costs
- Streamlining processes and improving productivity.
- Digitising end user experiences (see tab below)
- Apply better use of cloud storage
- Transform vendor management and end user strategy
Enhance security
Cybersecurity is not just about managing risk, it’s also a strategic issue that shapes your product capability, organisational effectiveness and customer, client or staff relationships.
Our review will:
- Assess security postures in context of latest threats
- Identify needs to embed security considerations into all of your products and processes, for example security measures such as
- Multifactor authentication
- Encryption
- Network segmentation
Develop new revenues
- Redesigning technology to support new technology offerings
- Transforming vendor management and sourcing strategy
- Scaling data and analytics
Increase existing revenues
- Digitising end user experiences (see ‘Improve customer experience’ tab below)
- Enhancing IT architecture
- Scaling data and analytics
Benefit from new technologies
We identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and the Internet of Things to:
- Gain insights into customer behaviour
- Streamline operations
- improve decision-making
Improve customer experience
- We identify value drivers and financial impacts that fulfil your customer experience (CX) aspiration
- We link CX with financial growth
- We recommend a clear roadmap that puts CX at the heart of your organisation.
Increase agility
We identify opportiunities for your charity to be more agile and adaptable
- Respond quickly to changing market conditions
- Respond quickly to customer needs
Applications close 15 March 2024
£100,000 of grants
Our wish is to turn sluggish caterpillars into butterfies
The impacts of a digital transformation can be as striking as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.
However, without an integrated strategy, an organisation will likely remain a hungry caterpillar, if a little faster.
We design butterflies.
GROWING A BETTER FUTURE FOR GOOD CAUSES
Recent Positive Impacts
Rhodri Lathey, Chief Strategy Officer
” From roadmap to a developing staged solutions , TSF have grown our therapy reach beyond all recognition,.
” Their solutions mean we have scaled to manage and connect many hundreds of therapists to NHS trusts, with all the allied processes and support systems in place.“
Andy Cooke, CEO
” The customised management portal enables efficiencies across the board, from enquiries and bursary applications to outworker and case note management to financial reporting.
” Their support continues to enhance our performance across a range of KPIs. “
Our secret to digital transformation success:
Putting people and outcomes ahead of the technology
Digital transformation strategies are now critical to delivering effective processes and productivity, customer and employee experiences, managing business risk and controlling costs.
The Journey that never ends
Technology adoption is the journey of continual renewal. Budgets should only be appropriated with a complete awareness of your strategic objectives, stakeholder representations, forecast outcomes set against performance indicators, and the technologies available.
People, Strategy & Outcomes
Digital transformation is about people, strategy, and understanding the outcomes that will financially benefit and grow your KPIs.
Successful digital transformation initiatives therefore require a bird’s eye view of an organisation’s objectives and structures but also a clear understanding of all the stakeholders involved.
This is what our grant funded reviews provide.
The technology only follows the analysis of the need and the opportunity..
Why, what and how are we funding?
Why are we doing this?
We are seeking more relationships in the charity sector. It was an end of year consensus across our team to start to gear our services towards growing a better future. A grandiose design, but our team is a passionate one and we know we can make a little difference.
What are we offering?
We are funding £5,000 net of consultancy work per application to develop a digital transformation review.
The scope of this review will be scaled to that grant so it is wholly grant funded by The Software Farm.
The grants are available to all sizes of organisations registered as charities.
For larger charitable organisations seeking a review that will clearly extend beyond the grant, we will provide a costing from which the £5000 grant is deducted following the scoping meet. The project will be agreed before either party commits beyond.
How do I secure a grant?
This is a time limited offer so please take a moment to fill out the application below.
Discovery Phase
Assessment of current operational processes
Assessing and documenting the existing operational processes to understand the charity’s workflow. This step is crucial for identifying areas where technology could streamline tasks, improve efficiency, and enhance overall effectiveness.
Analysis of architecture
Evaluating the current IT infrastructure and software solutions in use. This analysis helps in understanding the technical capabilities and limitations, suggesting improvements or integrations with more efficient technologies.
Digital communications point mapping
Understanding the pattern, demands and limitation of the existing internal and external communications across a charity’s key stakeholders is critical to integrating operational and managerial functions with those of marketing, fund raising, volunteer and HR management.
Data management and security audit
Assessing and improving how the charity manages and secures its data. This helps in the considering the implemention of better data storage practices, enhancing data security measures, and ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
Review Paper
Technology strategy to improve your outcomes
Based on the analysis of current processes and system architecture, we will recommend a tailored and integrated future technology strategy.
This will include recommendations, where appropriate, for off-the-shelf products or guidance on custom software development that aligns with the charity’s specific needs and goals.
Performance measured
Our recommendations will be measured against the impact of new technology implementations to the desired outcomes, so the charity is able to make data-driven decisions.
Grant Application
Discovery, scoping & blueprinting
We work with innovative leaders to discover, scope and blueprint future proofed systems to streamline their operations, improve their bottom line and improve reporting, security and business performance.
Software development
Our agile and elite in house development team deliver and sustain transformative solutions.
Turnkey project delivery
Through our sister Farms we seamlessly fuse software excellence with creative excellence for an end to end solution.
20 years’ expertise and experience
Drawn from working with tech startups, scale-ups, forward-thinking SMEs, to blue-chip companies, governments, and NGOs.
Client testimonies speak for ourselves
We have never once advertised. Indeed, we only published a starting website for our own business this year!
Passionate and collaborative leadership
Our developments program and team is led and inspired by Dragos Perca, who joined when in his early 20s back in 2004.
Although now a co-director and arguably one of the world’s lead systems architects, he still individually recruits every member of our core development team.
We have always been of the view that to deliver the best business critical software requires at its core a trusted in-house team of calibre.
In house cherry picked team of elite developers
Born with a drive for excellence, a talent for software , an appetite to learn, and an instinct for collaborative working.
We work with leading universities to discover and mentor emerging talent, ensuring continual growth and innovation within our ranks.
Unique holistic approach
We are markedly different from most software houses, as we organically grew out of (and remain part of) both a successful business strategy consultancy and a communications and marketing agency.
This enables us to understand and effectively engage with all stakeholders to deliver systems meeting all touch points.
Integrated solutions
The hubs below channel into all Software Farm developments as one integrated end to end delivery.
BENEFITS
Substantially reduces risk
Controls client costs
Delivers better value
Improves client outcomes
” By bringing our experience, talent and expertise to the charity sector, I know we will create change for the better,
Dragos Perca
Software Director
Holistic approach We have facilities at our Gloucestershire HQ for team discovery days and team training.
Planning any specific marketing or digital projects?
We offer much more than technology transformation!
Feel free to email or call 01242 222848.
discovering & strategising
Growth strategies
Marketing strategies
Technology strategies
Digital strategies
inspiring hearts & minds
Concept creations
Branding
Content generation
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Online advertising
Public relations
Social media
empowering & developing
Digital product design & development
Websites
Mobile apps
E commerce
Online learning
nourishing relationships
Team building days
Team building retreats
Corporate training
Product launches
Staff reward schemes
Five cores of excellence.
One ambition.
To grow better futures for good causes
- Charities
- B corps
- Good causes
- Businesses seeking to deliver great CSR initiatives
Matthew Rymer
Managing Director, The Marketing & Software Farms
The Farms operate under the visionary leadership of Matthew Rymer,, whose diversity and breadth of experience in conceiving, developing and implementing business and campaign strategy is second to none.