Manufacturers are moving fast toward digital transformation, but many are discovering that one of their biggest obstacles is not technology at all. It is the growing misalignment between IT and OT teams. This gap quietly increases cybersecurity risk, slows modernization, and creates operational blind spots that companies can no longer afford to ignore. In this post, we break down the key insights from Automation World’s recent piece on how IT and OT misalignment develops, why it becomes so costly, and what manufacturers can do to fix it.