The CIO’s Leadership Footprint

“One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. Modern CIOs have one of the most paradoxical but significant executive roles, as information technology becomes so pervasive, they craft their organization’s architectural blueprint; they shape their business’s digital footprint; they are responsible for their enterprise’s information footprint, they shape the fresh cloud footprint, they also work hard to reduce the data center’s carbon...

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Mirror, Mirror, What is the Best Strategy

The strategy is about shaping the future, and the future is more about progress and evolution. A strategy is a set of choices following with a series of action designed to achieve a vision and compete for the future. There’re so many good strategy theories from ancient to contemporary time, from eastern to western philosophy, today’s strategist may just wonder: what is the best strategy?  1. The Origin of Strategy To...

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Earth Day Pondering: Three Pillars of Sustainability

Sustainability leaders embed real, measurable, ongoing commitments to sustainability practices as a strategic differentiator, going beyond the immediate benefits of compliance, obligations, and efficiency.  Earth Day has its mission: “to raise support for a more sustainable future as climate change continues to wreak havoc across the globe. A sustainable society will only come about through the accumulated actions of billions of individuals. Essentially,...

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Three Wonders of Wisdom

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.      Robert Frost 1. Cleverness is not wisdom.     Euripides Wisdom is on how to dig into root cause or hunt for essentials; Cleverness struggles at the surface, takes a shortcut to reach the comfort zone; Wisdom is the guide for the purpose, progress and change the world for better; cleverness puts emphasis on styles or fashions, compete to win...

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Five Principles of Carl Von Clausewitz's Strategy

The truth is: we are part of a wider system that controls us more than we could ever know. Von Clausewitz's book On War is classic, he had a career in the Prussian army, and served in a number of major campaigns, he was a thinker and philosopher who studied war to with in-depth knowledge that no one else had ever done before. He also believed that war was more like a business. As he points out, both war and business involve the clash of interests,...

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Talent Master: Insight via A Photo, A Parable and A Painting of Race Horses

“Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.” ~― Ken Robinson   1. A Photography of  Race Horse On 4/8, Google has celebrated the 182nd anniversary of the birth of Eadweard J Muybridge, the British photographer, by creating a "doodle" based on his ground-breaking...

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Three Big HOWs to Tame Big Data

Big data is data that is too large to process using traditional methods. In its May 2011 report on big data, the McKinsey Global Institute projected a 40 percent annual growth in global data—a doubling of data volumes every two years. Much of this data is complex, unstructured data that doesn’t submit readily to analysis. In fact, big data refers to the volumes of mostly complex, unstructured data whose analysis could yield significant dividends...

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Three Big WHATs to Identify Big Data Challenges

Big data means both big opportunities and big risks for organizations, at Three Big Why for Big Data, we clarify why Big Data is such a big deal, also why Big Data may cause big distraction, here we further describe the three big WHATs to identify the potential challenges facing organizations when manage Big Data. 1. What are characteristics of Big Data? From wiki, Big data has the following characteristics: Very large, distributed...

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Three-Step IT Investment Strategy

IT investments are more effective in improving profitability by increasing revenue than by decreasing operating expenses. From the variety of IT industry surveys, the investments companies make in IT increase profitability more than investments in advertising or R&D do. IT investment now is a strategic imperative for a forward-looking business to pursue the growth, but how to do it wisely, what’s your holistic IT investment strategy? 1.   ...

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