Building a Practical Digital Roadmap in 2 Weeks

Mar 11

Written By L B

You don’t need a six‑month strategy project to get moving. In two weeks you can align leadership, benchmark maturity, and prioritize a 6–12 month plan that funds itself with quick wins.

TL;DR

Start with a light assessment focused on workflows, not vendor lists
Pick 3–5 initiatives with clear ROI and owners
Sequence enablement, then integrations, then analytics

Week 1 — Assess and align

Day 1: Kickoff with leadership, define objectives and constraints
Day 2: Map 5 core workflows office ↔ field (RFIs, submittals, daily logs, change orders, closeout)
Day 3: Score digital maturity across people, process, data, and tools
Day 4: Identify duplicative apps and license waste
Day 5: Draft opportunity backlog with rough effort/impact

Week 2 — Prioritize and plan

Day 6: Build value cases for the top 8 opportunities
Day 7: Select 3–5 initiatives for the next 90 days
Day 8: Define owners, milestones, and KPIs
Day 9: Integration plan for the 2–3 systems that matter (ERP, PM, storage)
Day 10: Publish the roadmap and a one‑page executive brief

Example 90‑day sequence

Standardize daily logs and submittals with templates and SOPs
Integrate accounting cost codes and commitments into the PM system
Launch an executive dashboard with leading indicators

Metrics that prove ROI

RFI response time, submittal cycle time, log completion rate
Rework incidents per month, schedule variance on critical paths
License consolidation savings and reduced manual entry hours

Governance

Monthly steering cadence with a 30‑minute decision meeting
Change requests tracked in a simple log
Versioned template library and naming conventions

Common pitfalls

Starting with analytics before process cleanup
Spreading effort across too many projects
Confusing “platform replacement” with transformation

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