digital transformation
How this channel uses the term
In the channel's coverage — especially the conversation with Box CEO Aaron Levie — digital transformation refers to the earlier, cloud-era wave of companies moving their operations to software and the cloud. Levie treats it as a contained historical shift, and uses it as a contrast point: AI transformation goes deeper, because rather than just changing where work happens or what tools are used, AI changes the labor itself — software that behaves like labor, agents that take over tasks, and individual contributors becoming managers of agents. Understanding the digital transformation era as a bounded, manageable change helps explain why the AI era demands a more fundamental re-engineering of how companies work.