If we scroll through the annual reports of Fortune 500 companies during the last decade, many of them detail some version of a digital transformation. While such transformation efforts have come to be expected by shareholders, most organizations either haven’t completed them or have failed to achieve their desired outcomes. So, why do organizations persist with this treacherous multi-year, multimillion-dollar journey? And, what are the alternatives?

At VMware Tanzu Labs, we take a systematic and product-centric approach to organizations’ transformation goals–one that focuses on quickly delivering return on investment (ROI). Any investment that doesn’t generate a return is not a worthy investment.

Our three-stage approach helps customers realize ROI faster than any traditional large-scale transformation because we focus on delivering value and driving the business forward rather than simply processing change.

Click here for VMware Tanzu Labs’ Venkatesh Arunachalam’s explanation of the three stages. Arunachalam, Leader, Product Management and Consulting, also provides insight into the work VMware Tanzu Labs undertakes to understand organizations’ needs in detail before embarking on the transformation process. This includes understanding the organization’s landscape, what’s driving its need for transformation, its mindset leading up to transformation, and the outcomes the organization is expecting against what it observes.

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