Key themes from the research
Leaders of all types have a role to play in delivering digital transformation, but the sector is crying out for more inspirational change-makers at the top to help guide the sector through the next few years of change.
Don’t be fooled by the word ‘digital’ in ‘digital transformation’ - this is a culture change process at its heart. This theme explores how to achieve the new culture needed to thrive in this new reality.
After years struggling with legacy IT, a new generation of infrastructure tools is emerging. This theme asks: What kind of relationship with technology do we want for our organisations? And what kind of people do we need to deliver that?
This theme offers three models that non-profits can use to experiment with technology-enabled ideas for the future, and explains why organisations who are not investing in R&D risk major disruption in the next 5 years.
This theme explores what’s holding organisations back from both getting and giving investment to support tech-enabled transformative work, and reviewing the available options put forward by the New Reality’s contributors.
Our vision of digital to date has been heavily focused on digital fundraising and marketing. Whilst valuable, the real prize is in using technology to deliver social impact through digital services - a journey that we’ve only just begun.