Few people would debate that companies need to pick up the pace of digitalization to remain competitive. But although they make financial investments in digital transformation, they may underestimate the importance of technology talent in successfully executing such a shift.

Digital transformation will fundamentally change your company’s mission-critical processes and operations. Done right, it changes the way your company, works, thinks and addresses challenges. If you want to change the game as CIO, you need a change management plan that addresses culture as much as technology.

One of the core challenges for many organizations in today’s digital world is that they must create powerful customer experiences. But this is simply not possible to do so in isolation. Third-party integrations are often what distinguishes your product or service from the competition — whether that’s integrating real-time weather data or processing payments.