The Digital IT Manifesto

IT Transformation is an integral part of the business transformation. In short, it means (whatever the driver) understanding the "As is" position of the business and the role IT plays in it, and identifying the desirable "To be" state. The next step is to build and execute a strategy. IT Transformation is the journey to pursue business agility, enable operational excellence, new service/product innovation, customer experience optimization and employees satisfaction.
“Built to Change” over “Built to Last”: IT Transformation seeks to change. The word "transformation" in itself means change and change for the better - new ways and methods of doing things, new structures, new relationships etc.
“Doing more with innovation” beyond “Doing more with less”: IT digital transformation focuses on goals of innovation. A transformation might need work cross boxes instead within the box. IT transformation means doing more with innovation, transparency and discipline.  
“Being effective -Doing the right things,” before ”being efficient - doing things right”:  IT Transformation means doing the “Right” things. A Transformation needs strategic guideline & policy. It takes greater transparency, trust, and collaboration leveraging repeatable process, expectation management and support from C-Level peers and buy-in from staff is also equally important.
“Being a business’s strategic partner,” not just “the support center or service provider”: IT transformation means rationalizing current IT department, and planning to partner with the business to provide business solutions in new ways. IT as a ‘Solutionary’ to understand how the organization works and then give solutions that will increase the functionality to lower cost: IT provides progressive technology-driven business solution, from business enabler to digital  transformer, helps to shape up the high-performance organization at today's hyper-competitive environment.
“Focusing on building core business capabilities,” not just “fixing the symptoms to keep the bottom line”: IT Transformation leverages business “core capabilities.” Transformation is a strategic organizational alignment leveraging "core capabilities," to achieve business goals with clear ownership and accountability at all levels.
Transformation is simply a popular battle cry of change agents (leadership, business case, habit etc.) to fix a supposed or real problem with the current state of an IT area or department. Transformations are generally associated with high-cost projects around risk, availability, business enablement, or sourcing. The key driver is often dissatisfaction with current IT performance or cost. IT needs to build up the new set of core capabilities in transforming itself and business as a whole. IT helps to integrate/optimize/orchestrate business processes to facilitate the business outcome, and build a effective digital ecosystem.
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