Staying relevant means transforming faster

Vision and strategy to scale

To keep up and stay relevant, organizations must digitally transform faster than ever before. At Highberg, we help you turn digital ambition into tangible action—combining vision, technology, and people to create lasting impact. Digital transformation touches every corner of an organization: how you engage customers, design processes, manage performance, and even define your business model. We work with you to make that transformation purposeful, balanced, and sustainable. 

A strong digital strategy starts with clarity. Together, we define your digital vision—a clear perspective on how technology will drive your future growth and resilience. From that vision, we build a strategy that connects your business goals with practical enablers such as AI, data, cloud, automation, and new ways of working. It’s a roadmap that doesn’t just point the way forward, but brings alignment and confidence to every step of your transformation journey. 

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Digitalization to change and lead

We help you move from strategy to execution, guiding the design and delivery of the programs that bring your digital goals to life. Whether that means realizing your cloud or sourcing strategy, setting up AI and data-driven processes, or governing large-scale transformation programs, we ensure that every initiative serves your broader purpose. 

At Highberg, digital transformation is never just about technologyit’s about people. We work side by side with your teams to build digital capabilities, foster collaboration, and create a culture ready to adapt and innovate. The result: a digital organization that doesn’t just keep pace with change, but leads it. 

How we do it

  • To gain control over technological and organizational changes, a clear and ambitious vision and strategy are essential. This vision and strategy maps out how you envision the future of your organization and provides direction for achieving your objectives, supported by the right application of technology and data. Highberg helps your organization realize this vision and strategy by developing your digital strategy and architecture, as well as creating a portfolio for implementation, with ownership rooted within your organization.

  • Architecture must contribute quickly and efficiently to organizational goals. Our vision is that the architecture function must deliver architecture “just in time” and “just enough.” The key for architects is to prioritize today’s demands to address pressing issues. The design and implementation of architecture requires a development-oriented approach, because every company is different. When implementing architecture, whether setting up the architecture function or supporting projects and programs Highberg always looks at the needs of the organization and which methods, techniques and best practices fit. In large agile organizations, it is important to organize architecture across teams by providing frameworks, guidelines and support.

  • Making the right choices in IT sourcing and governance enables organizations to realize their strategic goals and achieve long-term success. Digital transformation is built on sound decisions around make-or-buy, cloud services, service integration, ecosystems, and gain-sharing. Highberg supports organizations in developing sourcing and cloud strategies aligned with their digital strategy, architecture, sourcing principles, and organizational context. These strategies form the foundation for effective sourcing and robust IT governance.

    Highberg also supports the realization of the sourcing strategy by leading and coordinating (European) tenders to select the right vendors. We believe a good supplier agreement goes beyond price alone. Together, we identify the partner that best fits your IT services and organizational needs. Within regulatory frameworks, we help establish agreements that work for your internal customers, your organization, and the suppliercovering what matters most, such as reliable delivery, quality, and access to innovation

  • Effective management of supply and demand is essential to ensure IT supports organizational goals. Clear IT governance and direction provide the foundation for this. Highberg supports organizations in assessing, designing, and temporarily implementing IT governance structures. Clear roles, structures, and processes enable employees, departments, and suppliers to take ownership and contribute effectively. Drawing on established standards and governance models, we design governance that fits your organizational culture and dynamics—and supports your strategic objectives.

  • Highberg supports organizations in realizing the value, objectives, and benefits defined in their digital and sourcing strategies. We drive impact through experienced portfolio, programme, project, and communications managers. Our professionals work with proven methods and frameworks, including SAFe, Agile Program Management (Agile PGM), Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Risk Management, Benefits Management, Stakeholder Management, and strategic programme communications.

    We always work from the organizational context, recognizing that goals and ways of working differ per organization. Highberg delivers measurable results in digital transformation by continuously tracking benefits realization, safeguarding organizational change capacity, and adjusting the business case based on actual performance. Acting as an independent critical conscience, our professionals review complex ICT programmes, identify key risks, and define mitigating measures—strengthening delivery, reducing risk, and ensuring sustainable and responsible transformation impact. 

Want to know more about Digital Strategy and Execution?

Ed is a Partner at Highberg with over 25 years of experience in driving successful digital transformations. He serves as an independent critical advisor for large ICT and change projects, including assignments for the Dutch Tax Authority, UWV, and Kadaster. He also has extensive expertise in developing sourcing strategies and successfully delivering multiple European tenders. With more than 25 years of experience as a Program Manager and Independent Critical Advisor, Ed specializes in implementing complex change projects involving ICT in politically and organizationally challenging environments. He has a wealth of experience in auditing strategic ICT projects. For instance, he developed the AVP program plan for the Dutch Police in 2014, reviewed the FMS, and conducted periodic efficiency and feasibility risk analyses for the core system of Kadaster as a quality reviewer. Within Highberg’s consulting practice, Ed ensures that complex ICT projects meet the standards of the Advisory Board for ICT Assessment (AcICT). Ed also leads Highberg’s experienced team of program managers and communication professionals. He has a decade of experience advising and delivering complex ICT and change projects in politically sensitive environments, including projects for the Dutch Police, UWV, Municipality of Amsterdam, Rijkswaterstaat, KPN, CMG, ProRail, NS, and SVB. Want to know more? Connect with Ed on LinkedIn.
  • Ed.vandoorn@highberg.com
  • +31 (0)6 542 882 76
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Ed van Doorn
Partner Digital Transformation

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