Today’s rapid digital evolution has resulted in the transformation of M&As. Traditionally, M&As focus on four core aspects: global expansion and increasing operations in foreign markets; expanding product offerings and acquiring new technology; retaining talent during the M&A process (a time often fraught with high employee churn); and preventing security breaches when both companies face high risks (since neither has visibility into the infrastructure of the other). But increasingly, M&As are also part of a company’s innovation strategy, used as the catalyst for digital transformation within the enterprise. The CIO’s role in this is therefore more prominent than ever. This is the focus of a recent IDC Perspective report, Mergers and Acquisitions: Part 2 — The CIO Role in the Age of Digital Transformation, which explores how executives that lead M&A IT projects must now focus on digital transformation as well. As the report explains, in order to remain.