Digital transformation rarely fails because of technology. It stalls because of execution debt: the unfinished decisions, unclear ownership and quiet workarounds that pile up between strategy and the shop floor.

Drawing on 22 years across manufacturing and software organizations, Pushkar Kale shows where transformation programmes lose momentum, in plants and in the acquisitions and partnerships meant to fix them. He gives leaders a practical way to find the debt, price it and pay it down before the next initiative starts.

For CEOs, COOs, plant heads and transformation leaders who are tired of pilots that never scale.