The Copernican Revolution in Enterprise Design: Digital Enterprise Reference Architecture

'…if the prognoses are even remotely accurate, more than half of the largest, most successful companies that we know today will be entirely replaced in the next ten years because of their inability to undertake successful digital transformations. In other words, the digital transformation will be so deadly that by providing companies with the platform to agilely innovate and quickly respond to market changes, it will in fact introduce an irreversibly competitive gap that would surpass competition and it will become a race for survival. In this case, this will be a survival test not only for companies, but also for networking professionals. The odds against the networking professionals, however, seem to be fixed.'