Final report

Top 5 

OBSTACLES 

in further 

implementing digital 

technologies

(Q12)

Lack of finance

Current technology 

level is sufficient

High training 

costs

Rapid pace 

of technological 

change

Cost of high 

speed broadband

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Summary of key issues 

Drawing  together the difficulties and obstacles 

identified by respondents in the survey, a semantic 

analysis was undertaken

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 based on the qualitative 

text data  contained in open response question 

Q4.1. Semantic analysis examines the structure of 

phrases, sentences, clauses and words to gain an 

understanding of their meaning in context.  In this 

analysis, five main clusters of challenges emerged 

from the data contained in the open ended 

question 4.1. The value of this analysis is that it 

transforms the tangible issues listed as difficulties, 

to also provide information on how these difficulties 

are clustered, interpreted and given meaning  by 

SMEs. 

1.