Digital Transformation: Think Big. Start Small.

Digital transformation is challenging, with only a third of major IT implementations considered successful and nearly one-fifth deemed failures. Large organizations often struggle to balance business expectations and deployment reality due to their extensive portfolios of applications. John Dillon suggests a strategic approach based on the Pareto Principle, focusing on deriving knowledge from 20% of data and moving it to the edge for quick value capture. Instead of attempting massive projects, IT teams should build simple systems adjacent to legacy ones, pushing knowledge to the edge for high success probability and learning opportunities.