“They either experience fatigue or cost overruns with large-scale transformations, and as a result they abandon some of those legacy technical debt remediations. That causes impact to the organization and limits the ability to truly reap the benefits of transformation.”
That discipline, she argues, is now paying dividends. With the mainframe gone and a modern infrastructure in place, Frankenmuth’s technology teams are no longer dividing their attention between legacy maintenance and forward-looking development. The company is channeling that freed capacity into geographic expansion, faster product development, and sharper risk management tools.
