51 Best Digital Transformation Quotes for all Leaders

You can’t delegate digital transformation for your company… You and your executives have to own it! Executives need to engage, embrace and adopt new ways of working with the latest and emerging technologies.

 Barry Ross

The next 5 years will be more disruptive than the last 15. This is NOT business as usual. A lot of technology that came in three years ago doesn’t work anymore.  

Saul Berman, IBM

When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a caterpillar.

George Westerman

There is no alternative to digital transformation. Visionary companies will carve out new strategic options for themselves — those that don’t adapt, will fail.

Jeff Bezos

The biggest part of our digital transformation is changing the way we think.

Simeon Preston

Innovation, creativity and an ability to solve real life problems remain the most prized skills in today’s economy.

Nicky Verd

We’ve moved from digital products and infrastructure to digital distribution and web strategy to now into more holistic transformations that clearly are based on mobile, social media, digitization, and the power of analytics, and we think it’s really a new era requiring new strategies.

Saul Berman

When the digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar. – George Westerman

One of the factors that I believe is the biggest obstacle to transformation is the fear of cannibalization.

Ganesh Ayyar

At least 40% of all businesses will die in the next 10 years… if they don’t figure out how to change their entire company to accommodate new technologies.

John Chambers

Personal disruption is the vehicle through which success and economic growth travels.

 Nicky Verd

Digital assets will be much bigger and faster you than analog assets and decentralized products will be much bigger than centralized products.

Olawale Daniel

CIOs and CISOs have such a unique opportunity right now in driving the enterprise forward. Be that through shaping corporate culture or guiding the company through their digital journey, technology leaders have a strong upper hand. It’s a great time for the enterprise but it’s also a great time for technology leaders to position themselves for space in the boardroom. This is a career-defining moment.

Hunter Muller

Digital transformation requires changes to processes and thinking – changes that span your internal organizational silos.

George Westerman

Think of digital transformation less as a technology project to be finished than a state of perpetual agility, always ready to evolve for whatever customer wants next, and you’ll be pointed down the right path.

Amit Zavery

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

If you think of the average age of most board members around the world – and, frankly, of their backgrounds as well – they are not digitally ready.

James Bilefield

In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Sir James Dyson

We’ve moved from digital products and infrastructure to digital distribution and Web strategy to now into more holistic transformations that clearly are based on mobile, social media, digitization and the power of analytics and we think it’s really a new era requiring new strategies.

Saul Berman

We should no longer be talking about ‘digital marketing’ but marketing in a digital world.

Keith Weed

Clearly, the thing that’s transforming is not the technology — the technology is transforming you.

Jeanne W. Ross

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.

Theodore Levitt 

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

Bill Drayton

We’ve moved from digital products and infrastructure to digital distribution and Web strategy to now into more holistic transformations that clearly are based on mobile, social media, digitization and the power of analytics and we think it’s really a new era requiring new strategies.

Saul Berman

Social media has totally changed the way brands and businesses use technology for marketing. 

Germany Kent

Every industry and every organization will have to transform itself in the next few years. What is coming at us is bigger than the original internet and you need to understand it, get on board with it and figure out how to transform your business.

Tim O’Reilly

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

Peter Diamandis

All predictions point to a cyberwar in the next few years, and very few businesses know how to address it, defend against it or insulate their businesses from it. That spells economic ruin.

Kristina Libby

One main key to successful business growth is digital promotion; apart from having the right team you must also use the right tools to drive your message.

Victor Vote

In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create, somebody else will replicate.

Jeff Bezos 

To effectively reduce the number of cyber intrusions, a radical mindset shift is needed. Leaders must redefine the concept of a strong cyber posture and relegate event-based security to its rightful place—as an inferior approach to managing cyber risks and threats. A more effective approach to prevent data breaches and intrusion would be an intelligence-driven approach where a proactive hunt for threats would take center stage.

Kumar Ritesh

You can’t hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.

Daryl White

Although inefficiencies present themselves in different ways, AI can be a great tool to automate repetitive and time-consuming work where human-level decision-making is involved.

 Kavita Ganesan

The Last ten years of IT have been about changing the way people work. The next ten years of IT will be about transforming your business.

Aaron Levie

Think of digital transformation less as a technology project to be finished than as a state of perpetual agility, always ready to evolve for whatever customers want next, and you’ll be pointed down the right path.

Amit Zavery

Don’t fight the Fourth Industrial Revolution, embrace it and become part of the revolution!

Nicky Verd

At this time of uncertainty and disruption, strategy design and execution have never been more important. The challenge is not simply to spend time on strategy, but to truly inject courage into strategy – by engaging in courageous conversations, sparking courageous considerations, and ultimately making and acting upon courageous choices.

Jonathan Goodman

Don’t be fooled by some of the digital transformation buzz out there, digital transformation is a business discipline or company philosophy, not a project.

Katherine Kostereva

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is creating a self-employment economy based on creativity – gig workers, freelancers, Apps, investments and entrepreneurship. It is now much easier to start your own thing than any other time in history. Don’t focus on the threats; focus on the opportunities! There’s more to sell than just labour.

Nicky Verd

Digital disruption is just a subset of disruption. There are many things in this life that are disruptive, that have nothing to do with the bloody Internet.

Nigel Marsh

There’s no better way to help a customer than to be there for them in the moments that matter.

Lucinda Barlow

Become a change-ready organization. This goes beyond being able to deploy a new tool or process — it means building a culture and communication structure that is ready, willing and able to adapt to any change. After all, the rate of change and evolution in business and technology is only going to continue and even pick up speed.

Keith Kitani

Forget the one-to-one customer vision. If you want to get better at targeting the right customers, first stop marketing to the people who will never, ever be interested in your brand.

Tony Davis

IT teams have had to pivot dozens of times since the pandemic hit. There’s little room for those who are stuck in old ways.

Lev Gonick

Digital disruption and the impact of coronavirus will bring the 2030 technological advancement earlier than predicted .

Enamul Haque

In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create, somebody else will replicate.

Jeff Bezos

The era of artificial intelligence has arrived. You, who only felt far from artificial intelligence, and the growing dream trees, are now inseparable from artificial intelligence.

Enamul Haque

The reality is, many digital transformations fail because companies aren’t integrating their business and technology strategies from the start. It’s imperative that CIOs know how to quantify their progress with AI and digitization technologies and understand how to effectively communicate this value to key stakeholders.

Chris Bedi

An integrated automation factory should ensure cost savings, stabilisation and reduced turnaround times across all services.

 Enamul Haque

Technology requires constant hands-on management to ensure that the business is adapting to the change in its DNA — and to ensure that future shifts, both internal and external, are accompanied by the appropriate flex of its tech stack.

Maria Martinez