Room to Read is a literacy charity that has impacted 32 million children in about 20 countries worldwide. It has been a Sage Intacct customer for eight years and undergone digital transformation in that time. Grant Gevers, senior solution consultant at Sage Intacct, spoke to Third Sector acting editor Andy Ricketts at the Tech Summit about how the charity has used digital technology over the years to grow and help achieve its mission. There are three pillars to digital transformation: platform, technology and partnership. It’s vital for any organisation embarking on a journey of digital transformation to get these three pillars right. If any one of these pillars isn’t working correctly, it leads to inefficiency and ineffectiveness. How Room to Read was able to respond to the demands of remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic is a great example of the first pillar in practice, which is platform. As Sage Intacct is a cloud solution, there was no disruption to the system and staff were able to access it easily from home. During the pandemic, the charity moved their India office on to Sage Intacct, which led to big cost savings as they eliminated a lot of manual processing […]
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