CIO as Chief Influence Officer: Seven Points of Key Influences

 The strategic role of CIOs is more based on the influence made across the organizational boundary, from innovation to sustainability, from talent management to cultural transformation. The CIO role by nature is fraught with paradox, the modern CIO need be both business strategist and IT manager, innovator and cost-cutter, visionary and situation-driven. Chief influence officer is one of the most pertinent personas for CIO in the 21st...

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Five Fingers of Tao: Pointing Out 21st Century Leadership

1.     Tao Means How"To see things in the seed, that is genius." -Lao Tzu  Tao is synergy of principle & creation, and it’s a process, about how and what. All process reveals the underlying principles, the Tao leadership convey a sense of harmony, create the synergy between business nature and human nature, and link strategy & execution via observation, communication and principles. . 2.    ...

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CIO’s Crown Jewel: Data

According to the IT analyst firm IDC, 15 petabytes of new information is generated every day (one petabyte equals one million gigabytes). That’s eight times the amount of information that resides in all U.S. libraries, and industry analysts place the growth rate closer to 100 percent annually. Data growth becomes one of the biggest challenges in modern organization, beyond the chaos, it’s the 80% of organizational core asset, and it’s DNA of digital...

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BPM’s Value Trails

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.   -Lao Tzu quoteLast month we’ve got quite positive feedback about discussing BPM’s Rocky Road, to summarize BPM from the definition to confusion, from pitfall to best practice, from today’s reality into future’s perception.  Last generation’s BPM more focus on document-centric process, application & IT integration, or structured human activities. From BPM perspective,...

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Innateagilewings

The Agile process, methodology and technology we discussed above may flatten out the organizational structure and breakdown the traditionally hierarchical pyramid.Today’s digitized and decentralized global economic environment not only proves “Change is the only constant” even more true than ever, but also the speed of change has been accelerated exponentially, agile imperative is  strategic priority for every progressive, forward-looking organization...

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