In 2019 an estimated $900 billion of the money spent on digital transformation was wasted because most of those efforts failed to achieve their digital transformation goals. It is predicted that global spending on the necessary technologies and services for digital transformation will reach $2.3 trillion by 2023, and it is anticipated that more than $1 trillion of that funding will be effectively thrown away with nothing to show for it. Over the last several years there have been thousands of studies and publications that all sought to understand and explain this continuing trend of failure and waste. Many provided their thoughts and recommendations on how to make digital modernization and transformation initiatives successful, but the rate of failure has not changed. Clearly there are pieces missing from this puzzle. Finding the Missing Pieces presents a practical method that challenges the current thinking and provides a new alternative that can solve this puzzle once and for all.