“Digital transformation is more important now than ever, but some organizations are more difficult to change than others. Digital transformation is more important now than ever, but some organizations are more difficult to change than others.

Brian Solis: Digital transformation means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I’ve been covering it for the better part of a decade now. Originally, digital transformation really was about migrating to the cloud and modernizing a lot of business infrastructure to essentially allow companies, or organizations, to be more agile and scalable as new technologies come and go. But I think that, in and of itself, was limiting, it was an initial hurdle because it didn’t necessarily give digital transformation a sense of purpose. It just gave it a sense of a roadmap, essentially, of technologies to adopt and test and then scale. But I’ll tell you that, more often than not, one of the biggest challenges I hear are two things. One is, legacy infrastructure is really difficult to update and upgrade. A lot of these systems are so old but so integrated into the organization that trying to update those with a rip and replace is essentially going to cause havoc. And that’s what a lot of companies are worried about, so they’re trying to take it a little bit slowly, a little bit more strategically.”

The article: Digital transformation: Business modernization requires a new mindset