October 2011 ~ Future of CIO

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The magic “I” of CIO sparks many imaginations: Chief information officer, chief infrastructure officer , Chief Integration Officer, chief International officer, Chief Inspiration Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Influence Office etc. The future of CIO is entrepreneur driven, situation oriented, value-added,she or he will take many paradoxical roles: both as business strategist and technology visionary,talent master and effective communicator,savvy business enabler and relentless cost cutter, and transform the business into "Digital Master"!

The future of CIO is digital strategist, global thought leader, and talent master: leading IT to enlighten the customers; enable business success via influence.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Agile Enterprise Needs Agile Governance

9:07 PM Pearl Zhu 2 comments

Corporate governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way a corporation (or company) is directed, administered or controlled. Defined as "specifying the accountability and decision rights framework" 1. Do we really need governance? Governance will remain a difficult issue for today’s business, digitalized organizations with extended business boundary at an increasingly...

Cloud with the Chance of Nature Wins

8:44 PM Pearl Zhu No comments

Like nature thunders and lightening to warn the coming storms, the Cloud computing also signal the age of radical digitization: more creative destructions are on the way to re-imagine IT, business.Sky is like the colorful canvas, sometimes, cloud flow and print the art on it, now cloud computing also shape the business society, make a big impact on the new realm of digitization. Cloud is growing bigger, according to the reputable consulting company’s...

Three Dimensions to Shape the Great Questions

6:35 PM Pearl Zhu 2 comments

The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future. We’ve been living in such a dynamic world, change is the only constant, actually even change itself has been changed and expedite. The world is transforming from personal computing into digital computing, from globalization into globality, from knowledge limitation to information explosion, the answer about yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future....

Leadership Innovation in 21st Century

8:45 PM Pearl Zhu No comments

A leader is a dealer in hope." — Napoleon Bonaparte In today’s hyper-competitive, rapidly changing digitized global environment, the average Fortune 500 company last only fifteen years, economic turmoil and Great Recession make the last...

CIO Master: Built to Change

4:59 PM Pearl Zhu No comments

IT is interwoven seamlessly with businesses, to become a true innovation engine, strategy enabler, and change agent.Built to Last, Good to Great is every organization’s dream journey, however, the global economic uncertainty, digital information explosion, and unprecedented social and environmental changes make business facing significant challenges every day, IT on the other hand, no longer affords to be built to maintain as a cost center,...