It includes a summary of the key actions for your business, a clearer action plan so you can more easily maximise the online opportunity for your business and a comparison with others in your industry.

The success of our Digital Journey assessment with NZ businesses means we have been able to make some exciting new changes to the assessment. We have listened to your feedback and have made a number of changes to improve the plan and add more value to the service it provides. 

Version 3 of the assessment is due for release in December. The action plan will include a priority page, which identifies the top four or five actions that will give your organisation the greatest benefit. In addition each recommendation is broken down into the recommended action, an explanation of why this action is important for your business, and how to get started. 

We have also be working hard on the resource section of our website. It is being updated regularly with more tips and tricks, templates and advice on how to help your business make the most of digital opportunities. 

But the big change is that we’re introducing a worldwide first!  At the end of your Digital Journey assessment a ‘Digital Maturity’ calculation will be made to give you an indication of how your business compares to other organisations in your industry when it comes to using the Internet as a business tool. We hope this will clearly show how your business compare to others and provide you with the supporting evidence and motivation to implement your Digital Journey action plan. 

But wait, there is more. We are also planning version 4 which will hopefully be released early next year. Version 4 will enable partner organisations to embed the assessment on their website. They will even have the ability to add questions relevant to their customers or their industry. We have had so much positive feedback about this free business tool that we want as many NZ businesses as possible to use it to grow their business digitally.