Rajiv Gupta
September 16, 2026
The bust: Modern technology hasn't made transformation obsolete. It's made it unavoidable, and for organizations that haven't built the capability to run these programs well, that's a more uncomfortable truth than the myth.
The logic behind the myth is understandable. Cloud-native architectures deploy faster. SaaS platforms reduce implementation complexity. AI automates workflows that once required years of process redesign. If technology keeps compressing the cost and time of change, the argument goes, the era of the multi-year transformation program is behind us.
What that argument misses is that technology shifts don't eliminate transformation; they trigger it. Every major platform change, every AI capability embedded in core operations, every regulatory shift, every merger and divestiture that forces a rearchitecting of how the business runs creates a new wave of change that must be actively managed. The programs get faster in some dimensions and more complex in others. The window to act just gets shorter.
The enterprises treating transformation as a relic aren't avoiding the work. They're deferring it, while competitors that have built the internal capability to run these programs consistently compound that advantage every quarter.
Axiamatic was built for a world where transformation is continuous, not episodic, giving enterprises the early visibility and proactive control to run programs with the speed and confidence the current pace of change demands.
The organizations that thrive aren't the ones that transformed once and stopped. They're the ones that built transformation into how they operate.
