Demystifying the Composable Enterprise: A Part of Data4Development’s Holistic Approach
In today’s digital landscape, organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of adaptability and efficiency. But what exactly does it mean to have a composable enterprise? Being composable refers to an organisation’s ability to break down its digital infrastructure – such as applications and systems – into modular building blocks that can be easily recombined and […]
Transforming Nonprofit Operations: A Journey with the Netherlands Food Partnership
Last June, we successfully wrapped up our project with the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP). We believe in learning from each project and partnership as we continue to sharpen our method and see commonalities between challenges of similar organisations. In this blog post, we’ll take you through the highlights of what we accomplished, the valuable lessons […]
Bridging the Gap between Tech and Nonprofits
Nonprofits play a crucial role in promoting sustainable development, fighting injustice, and prioritising people and the planet over profit. However, they face specific challenges that can limit their ability to drive complex change processes while continuing their day-to-day operations. At Data4Development, we understand the challenges that nonprofits face. We have 7+ years of experience […]
Streamlining Operations: The Role of Technology in Improving NGO Efficiency
A key benefit of digital transformation for NGOs is the ability to streamline operations and improve efficiency. By using technology to improve processes and manage data effectively, they can free up time and resources to focus on their core mission. Digital Solutions in Practice – some examples With the use of applications, NGOs can […]
Reflecting on the SPARK project
SPARK has the ambition to become a data driven and future proof organisation. Implementing this ambition supports them to increase their impact and accommodate their growth. The first milestone was reached with the Go live of the new financial and project management applications. D4D has been a strategic advisor to support SPARK in the implementation […]
Transformation in practice: how to make a transformation project successful
In May this year, Hivos and D4D closed the Hivos Project Change, a multi-year transformation trajectory. For D4D, this was a major milestone and finalising the project brings us to reflect on the journey we made with Hivos and how we contributed to this important transformation process. What initiated this transformation process and what were […]
Project Change! Migration complete
Can we have a single source of truth and find a way to synchronize the worlds of Finance and Project Management? This was the core question we have helped solve at Hivos. The Hivos ‘Project Change!’ involves implementation and data migration from an end of life ERP solution to a new cloud solution that combined […]
Current and previous customers about our added value for your Strategic Partnership
For the past months we have been saying we would like to be your innovation partner to think alongside you and add value to your Strategic Partnership proposal in terms of digital innovation, data drivenness and increased transparency. Today we want to give the floor to current and previous customers, whom we’ve worked with on […]
The power of innovation through digitisation
Today is the day of the Partos hackathon as part of the Spindles digital journey. One of the Joined Action Groups is working on building a platform/marketplace for digital innovations. On this platform NGOs can search for existing digital solutions, leave comments with their experience of the products and look at the reviews from others. […]
D4D best practices: user care as an essential part of implementation
For Hivos, we are supporting a major organisation change, driven by their migration to a new core application that combines financial management and project management. This has been one of our major projects for the last two years, and over 60% of Hivos’ projects are now migrated to the new system! This is a turning […]