Digital transformation conversations inside enterprises have changed dramatically over the last few years. A decade ago, cloud migration itself was considered innovation. Moving workloads out of aging data centers and into the cloud felt like a massive leap forward. Leadership teams celebrated successful lift and shift initiatives because they reduced infrastructure headaches and improved scalability. But today, that approach alone is no longer enough. Organizations are discovering a painful reality: migrating legacy systems without modernizing them often transfers old inefficiencies into expensive cloud environments. The infrastructure changes, but the operational complexity remains. Technical debt survives. Slow release cycles continue. Data silos persist. Innovation still struggles.…