Breaking the bottleneck: Overcoming legacy architecture to build future-ready digital ecosystems

Digital transformation has reached a point of diminishing returns. Despite trillions in global spend, most large-scale organisations remain tethered to what Gartner describes as “Digital Drag”, the structural inertia created by technical debt that consumes up to 40% of IT’s time and 30% of its budget. For the modern CIO or CTO, the challenge is no longer just innovation. It is the high-stakes navigation of building a modern future while handcuffed to a legacy past. This isn’t a call for a radical “rip and replace”, which IDC benchmarks suggest fails in 70% of enterprise cases, but a strategic pivot toward a Composable Enterprise.

The real bottleneck: Decision latency and organisational drag

Most leaders misdiagnose legacy architecture as a maintenance cost issue. In reality, it is an agility tax. When core systems are brittle, every ...