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First steps on the digitisation journey

05 November 2021

What does the journey to digital transformation look like? What is an example of successful digitisation? How do you organise teams to support digitisation? What are the principles behind digitisation and how do you make it ‘stick’?

Kevin Grice speaks to Andrew Knight on these topics as they discuss how the property sector can successfully digitize their organisations.

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RICS Tech Partner Programme discussion with Trace Solutions - Digitisation in the built environment

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