Six barriers to digital transformation; CIO strategies to conquer them

That led to an aggressive pace of change over the past few years, said Merim Becirovic, Accenture's managing director of core infrastructure and business operations. Consider, for instance, this measure of success: Three years ago, Accenture had only 10% of its infrastructure and compute needs in the cloud, but now it has 90% in the cloud. Such gains didn't come without challenges, Becirovic said. Accenture leaders discovered a number of potential barriers to digital transformation, ranging from new skill requirements to security to just how fast the organization can keep changing. Accenture is far from alone in its quest for transformation.