Kick Off Fresh 80/20 Business Habits in New Year

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.  ~Spanish Proverb New year bell is ringing, new year resolution is already sizzling up in the air, it takes good habits to make it stick, for individuals, positive habits can shape you to become more healthy and effective; for businesses, it’s also the time to kick off fresh enterprise habits, to amplify collective human capabilities, and to create business synergy.  1. Business Synergy  Reality:...

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The CIO’s Tough Choice: Be Proactive or Reactive, and When?

CIOs' proactive in trying new things shall not get confused with spontaneity or do things without a plan. Organizations large or small on the journey to digital transformation, IT plays a critical role as an enabler to drive changes. From IT leadership perspective, why are some CIOs reactive, rather than proactive in trying new technologies? Are they just reluctant to change a working system, or are they not empowered enough? 1....

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IT Spending Benchmark Debate: Ideally what should be percentage of IT spent of an organization relative to its revenue?

IT spending is an investment, but it is very difficult to quantify the ROI. A quick search of "IT spends by revenue by industry" gets some interesting data. The Fortune 500 average is slightly above 4%. Most industry IT spending is less than 3% of revenue! The median is 3% to 5%. So ideally, what should be the percentage of IT spending of an organization relative to its revenue? Seriously, the answer to this question depends on the industry, the...

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The CIO’s Five Leadership Traits

Being Authentic is Influential. Like any other senior executives, CIOs have varies of personalities and unique leadership strength, no matter you are character-based leader or charismatic executive; a transformational strategist or a transactional manager, effective CIOs should share some common leadership traits, these traits of CIOs have a significant effect on culture, mood, motivation, aggressiveness, innovation, helpfulness, business mindset,...

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Ten “Cloud” Perspectives with Sunny View

Cloud computing is the provisioning and consumption of virtualized computing resources using a self-service, elastic motif in order to meet fluctuating demand. Cloud Computing is a set of best practices for building an elastic and dynamic set of compute resources to be delivered as a service.  Cloud computing is an architectural deployment model that leverages on-demand provisioning and management of compute, network,...

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Ten Insights of Leadership Substances vs. Styles

“The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one’s center.”      --Lao TzuLeadership is both art and science, leadership need both hard discipline and soft touch; leadership also has both substance and style; though everybody talks about style, not so many people understand the meaning of the word in the business environment. If leadership substance is about...

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Christmas Carol: Ho, Ho, Ho of Leadership Influence

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.    --Benjamin Franklin  Christmas Eve is peaceful and cheerful, from Santa Claus’ workshop in North Pole to Charles Dicken's Chrismas Carol, Christmas is filled with history, fairy, joy and theme. And it's also the moment to learn some leadership influence:  1.    Power of Positive It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and...

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Three Questions Haunting in the Cloud

The disruptive technology, distributed processing, lower costs of adoption were ultimately balanced by the higher total cost of ownership (TCO) including costs of management complexity. Cloud computing, in some form or other is a paradigm shift for the consumer to use computing service, for organizations to run business or for technology companies to provide service, there’re still numerous changes need be made to consumers, as customers or...

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BPM Book & Website Collection

Business process management (BPM) is the management discipline can transform an entire organization. BPM is a holistic management approach to aligning an organization's business processes with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. BPM attempts to improve processes continuously. It can therefore be described as a "process optimization...

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