India, June 21 -- It's a steamy 92 degrees in Austin, Texas, as I write this. The only thing more predictable than another really hot summer in central Texas is that digital transformation is coming to your organization.

Digital transformation (DX) is so hot that more than eight in 10 respondents to a McKinsey survey say their organizations have undertaken it in the past five years.

However, DX's path to success in many companies hasn't been a sure bet. According to the same McKinsey study, only 16% report that these efforts have been successful, and 7% say that while performance improved, it wasn't sustained.

Chief information officers and other C-suite executives can't simply ignore the DX imperative. Not at a time when innovative us...