ROI is the secret sauce for sustainable digital transformation

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ROI is the secret sauce for sustainable digital transformation

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Mar 12, 2021

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Zachary Burke, Radix Engineering and Software, provides the five levels of digital maturity and how they should focus on the key variable to make these stages sustainable: return on investment.
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