Leadership Like Bridge: To Celebrate Golden Gate Bridge 75th Birthday at Memorial Day Weekend

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.” – Strauss by Joseph P Memorial Day reminds us of veteran’s leadership lessons: the courage, the sacrifice, the commitment and the disciplines., etc. We also celebrate Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th birthday on Sun., what can we learn from this man-made miracle, the most beautiful bridge in the world? 1. Leadership...

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Seven Deadly Sins of “Culture So Yesterday”

Culture is a habit. Habits can be changed with understanding and strong will. Every organization has its unique style of working which often contributes to its culture. Culture is a blend of core values, belief, myth (how people think and do things) that translates to the overall success of any company. it becomes the most invisible, but powerful fabric surrounding in modern business (micro-culture) and society (macro-culture) today, as the old...

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CIO’s Next Practice: De-Learning, Re-Learning & Learning Agility

A programmable mind embraces mental agility, to practice “delearning” and “re-learning” all the time. Technology becomes pervasive in modern enterprise today, CIO plays one of the significant business roles; on the other side, the rapidly change business climate also makes CIO feels like to live in the tropical jungle, facing many attacks, in the danger of getting dismissed as techies without business savvy by their executive peers, or getting...

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BPM ‘s Mighty Waters

Companies are using Business Process Management to support new ways of interacting with customers BPM walk through the rocky road, and start climbing the value trails, through recent surveys, that BPM is increasingly becoming a part of mainstream management thinking, though only 16% of respondents believe that their organization’s processes are currently at the “optimized” level knowledge and practical experience of the topic, 82% believe as...

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Three Perceptions of Global Diversity Ranking Report

Recently released Globaldiversity ranking report, commissioned by Forbes Insights and conducted by Oxford Economic, based on a weighted composite index to compare and benchmark employee diversity across countries, industries and occupations. The index is comprehensive and takes into account many different types of diversity. Three separate indexes compose the composite index: a country index based on 50 nations, both developed and developing;...

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EA & BA: A Tale of Two Roles

"In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."  -David Ben-Gurion Est century: enterprise visionary and business solutionary. The diverse understanding of the two roles may also depend on the maturity of EA, the maturity of IT and overall maturity of enterprise, Here are five key differences between the two roles: A-Enterprise Architect and BA-Business Analyst are two interesting business roles that cause a lot of debate, it may...

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Five “C” Words at C-Suite

Either culture change or business transformation, change is the only constant today.Modern business executives may inundate with numerous meetings, sometimes they get over-optimistic about blue sky strategy, or get lost in business details, or get limited by their official title,  what does big table conference need focus on, which roles C-Level should play: movers & shakers, innovators or thought leaders? 1. Customer:  the “Center”...

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Five Myths of Business Architecture –Blue Print or Stove Pipe

As an emerging domain, enterprise architecture plays a significant role to help shape contemporary enterprise, as today’s businesses become over-complex, hyper-connect, and always on. However, the high percentage of EA project failure rate is a good cause to revisit its fundamentals, refresh its knowledge, debunk its myths, and make continuous improvement. BA as part of EA via Wikipedia definition also has the same mystery: attractive...

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Three Big WHEREs to use Big Data

By deploying Big Data’s WHY, WHAT, HOW, WHO, consequently we come to discover Big WHEREs need Big Data insight: 1.   Decision Point Both academic and industry research suggest that companies use data and business analytics to guide decision making are more productive and experience higher ROE -returns on equity than competitors that don’t. Big Debate: There are many interesting debates to brainstorm Big Data potential...

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Strategy in One Sentence: Ten Creative Insight

“He who fails to plan is planning to fail" - Winston Churchill  1.  The strategy is like GPS, with zoomed in vision as a destination, lead organization in the right direction, leverage resource, and execute effectively. 2. The strategy is like a 'Kite on a String,' it's about projecting and balancing variables on the business continuum to achieve that goal further away in the distance. 3. Good strategy is a funnel...

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Three Principles Modern IT Needs to Practice

Every IT Project is a Business Project! Information is like blood, and technology is like a backbone for any modern business today. However, most IT organizations have a reputation as a cost center than a value creator, a controller than an enabler,  a tool than magic. With the new wave of latest technology trend such as cloud, mobile, consumerization and social, the contemporary IT leaders need to refresh the innovative mindset, embrace the...

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Three Big “WHO”s to Master Big Data

Big Data is big deal & big distraction as we put in Three Big “WHY” for Big Data.  There are three challenges Big Data presents.: Ocean of data amassing with departmental silos; The second is the old “needle in the haystack” problem; The third is making use of the information by developing framework and methodology to find meaning in it.. At series of blogs, we also explored: Three Big “WHAT” about Big Data; and Three Big “HOW”to Tame Big...

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