Digitalization

Stay Yourself - But More Digital - and Don't Forget Why You Started

Reshaping your business today is essential for its future success.

We’ll show you the way.

Think You Won't Experience Disruption in Your Business? Too Late. It's Already Happened.

Your customers, employees, and main competitors have already begun reinventing their digital selves. When the world around us changes at an exponential pace, we have only one option to stay relevant, and that’s to change flexibly along with it. And to start doing so today rather than tomorrow.

Think 360-digital. Think digital-business. nlmtd digital helps you.

From Surviving to Winning Like a Champion

Today, behind every great company is an intrinsic understanding that Digital is an era we live in – not a technology, field, or simple marketing campaign.

It transcends all of this…

Imagine...

We’ve all dealt with digital Web1 and Web2 disruptions and are currently in the midst of a Web3 disruption. By now, you’re using an extensive mix of digital technologies such as digital markers, fintech apps, marketplaces, gig economies like delivery services, video technology, education tech, cloud solutions, cookies, or customer portals. And for payments, without realizing it, you might be using multiple digital business models alongside freemium, loyalty cards, pay-per-use, premium add-ons, on-demand, subscriptions, and maybe even crypto payments.

All powered by ‘thick data’: Big Data, with a touch of empathy and foresight. Welcome, AI.

You Probably Don't Even Know How Digitalized You Are Yourself.

BUT. Technology Serves Your Business, and Certainly Not the Other Way Around.

For every business, regardless of size, reinventing your digital self means looking at the entire company. And thus, how all elements come together to meet new customer expectations, drive new efficiency, create new operational models, and reach new markets and the best talent.

The world is evolving too fast to not think strategically.

It's Not About Digital.

It’s about serving your customers better, faster, and cheaper…

If you don’t know what digital success looks like for your business, it will never work.

For nlmtd and our clients, strategic thinking first means exploring what digital success should look like for your business. To then get you to the desired destination by choosing the route, iterations, steps and learning moments, supporting initiatives, and solutions.

We see too many companies with aimless innovation labs, scattered digital growth departments, and a seemingly endless list of unlimited digital initiatives focusing on yesterday’s customer, KPIs, and business needs instead of tomorrow’s. All too often, we see micromanagement of ventures or – the other extreme – playgrounds without KPIs or delivery obligations. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Strategic thinking helps every company evaluate choices, make better decisions, and stay ahead: focused on where customer and business needs will be, not where they are now or have been. The world is evolving too fast not to think strategically.

What We Do

In collaboration with some of the world’s leading companies, nlmtd – Digital launches, scales, optimizes, and transforms your organization, team, product, or service to digital-ready. The experienced nlmtd team works multidisciplinary and moves quickly from idea to implementation.

We take on some of the biggest challenges in the Netherlands and help companies in their transformation to digital business while simultaneously steering towards a positive impact on society, planet, and economy.

Digital competence is essential for business success, but if we’re not all working on sustainability, it’s all virtually pointless.

Why We Do It

In the past decade, we’ve seen an increasing need for digital innovation. Additionally, both large and small organizations from the private and public sectors are embracing digital technology to achieve a competitive advantage and satisfied customers.

By setting up, building, optimizing, and scaling digital companies, we can further accelerate our mission to deliver meaningful and socially positive impact. Some of the most exciting digital transformations are taking place in the Netherlands, made possible by one of the best digital infrastructures in Europe.

With our nlmtd team, we are able to help both SMEs and some of the world’s largest companies in realizing their digital ambitions. And in doing so, we make the world a better place than when we started the project.

How We Do It

We’ve entered an era of continuous disruption, as technologies and agile working methods change the business landscape at an unprecedented speed. We believe that the world’s most influential companies also need disruptive ideas to remain relevant in the future.

That’s why we help them think and act like a startup. We master and manage three horizons of innovation through effective deployment of data, people, and infrastructure as enablers:

1. Optimization

keeping the business up-to-date. 'On the floor, as a working foreman'. Our teams are embedded within the organization.

2. Transformation

fundamental change in serving customers at top management and board level. Our teams generally apply governance and focus from the higher echelons, thereby gaining the support and understanding to achieve content, direction, and decisiveness in the organization.

3. Disruption

defining new business models. Let go of the nest completely, and learn to fly like a bird... Our teams isolate an organizational unit to detach it from daily practice, horizons, resistance to change, and KPIs that hold the unit back.

Who We Are

No one on our digital team is the same – we’ve all earned our stripes with unique skills and backgrounds. The team is led by directors Jonathan and Timo.

Jonathan is a seasoned strategy and digital consultant with a track record of working with blue-chip companies.

Timo is a seasoned digital consultant, venture-builder, and scale-up accelerator – focused on action and implementation within SMEs and Digital Natives.

Our diverse backgrounds allow us to work with different companies, phases, and with both C-level, VCs, engineering, project management, and product and growth teams.

Through cross-collaboration, agile and unique sprints, built on 12-month tactical and operational strategies, we’ve created a recipe for setting up ventures, transformations, optimizations, accelerations, and exits!

To be successful and impactful, we need to understand and approach each company from the inside out on a trusted, empathetic, and clear level.

Timo Richardson

Jonathan Joubert

Where We Do It

Digital Enterprises

Venture setup, go-to-market, and launch of digital products and sales. 'A digital business line within a year'

Digital Transformation

Future-proofing through Digital Transformation and empathy 'Flourishing in the Digital Age'. For example, digitalizing the route-to-market or end-to-end digitalization process.

Acceleration

Digital growth and acceleration. Growth through digital, data automation, and people: 'Be Digital'

Strategy

We have a passion for strategy and apply design thinking in practical ways to help companies implement their digital strategies and reach their full potential.

Due Diligence

Evaluating companies and targets for strategic or financial investors to uncover true potential,... and establishing the digital way of working for strategic or financial investors.

What We Believe In

Sustainability through Digital

We are determined to leave this planet in a better state than we found it and believe that digital technologies, practices, and business models are crucial components in achieving this goal.

Building Stronger Communities

Digital presents an incredible opportunity, not just for businesses to thrive, but also for communities to reinvent themselves, allowing future generations to fully benefit from the digital economy. Personalization today goes beyond mentioning a customer’s name in a sales pitch or having complete data ready when someone makes contact. Instead, we now expect a seamless omnichannel experience, and those who have integrated these capabilities into their business model will be the winners in tomorrow’s market.

A Strong Digital SME Ecosystem

Working with owners and management of small to medium-sized enterprises who are truly passionate and dedicated to their business, customers, and communities is incredibly inspiring. Currently, more than 99% of European businesses are SMEs, collectively employing 100 million people and generating over half of the gross national product across Europe. They have the power to offer innovative solutions to challenges such as climate change, efficient use of resources, social cohesion, and distribution in more markets. However, due to busy schedules, limited resources, and daily concerns, they often lag behind in their ability to embrace change through digital technology.

nlmtd and Digital: a Powerful Combination

Advisors Entrepreneurs Social Impact

As a dedicated digital team within nlmtd, we stimulate deep expertise, entrepreneurship, a quest for sustainable impact, and a culture of co-creation to help companies reimagine or optimize products, services, and platforms and create new opportunities.

Unparalleled Expertise, Experience, and Execution Power. From Start to Finish

We zijn strategische denkers, bedrijfsbouwers, oprichters van start-ups, innovators, accelerators en kritische denkers met ervaring in het oplossen van problemen en het ontsluiten van kansen voor onze klanten. Ons team transformeert ideeën naar een nieuw bedrijf of nieuwe business line binnen 12 maanden, met een gezonde dosis ondernemerschap en een groei focus vanuit data en experimenten. We implementeren innovatieve concepten om succes te realiseren, van begin tot eind.

Experiment, Do, Optimize. - and Repeat. Based on Years of Experience Working As and With Business Owners.

We think first, then act quickly, look beyond the horizon, and mitigate risk. By applying customer-focused and sustainable design philosophies, we create a competitive advantage.

Through co-creation and standing alongside our clients, we deliver the strongest results. In close collaboration with our team, our clients embrace new ways of working to transform their businesses from within.