Culture of Analytics: Five Management Aspects of KPIs

 A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is a strategic metric that always demands a context, indicative of a strategic aspect of the organization. We can only manage what we measure. A modern business needs to shape fact-based culture, either executive team or front line workers, measure/metrics/KPIs will help to improve productivity, more importantly, it may bring significant opportunities to optimize business process, recognize important patterns,...

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Win-Win, is Mission Possible

Win-win is possible as the pie is not of fixed size, via innovation and societal progress, the pie is created bigger enough to advance humanity.Modern business and society become more complex and interdependent than ever, there’s no any party can dominate at the negotiation table from every perspective. The "Win-Win" could be translated to mean "mutually beneficial" and should be seen as a negotiation guiding principle which emphasizes fairness...

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Airlines: From Golden Old Days into Silver Lining Future

Besides “safety first” as a motto, aviation also need to sow the seeds for culture of innovation: to bridge the world via promoting the positive thinking and actions.CNN started five-week series of The Traveler’s Psyche in late May, the first series “The golden days of air travel” shared the emotions in industry’s ups and down, from luggage styles to flight attendant fashion, air travel did come a long journey: before deregulation in 1978, airline...

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Three Perspectives on IT Mattering More Today

Whether IT matters or not may depend on the level of IT maturity. Mr. Nicholas Carr wrote 10 years ago "IT doesn't matter" spurred quite many in-depth debates in the last couple of years, the book is insightful and resourceful, however, the prediction does not come true, on the opposite, IT matters more than ever in today’s rapidly changing business environment, with the latest technologies emerging, such as cloud, social, mobile and big...

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Seven Ingredients for Future Corporate Leadership

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” ~Nelson MandelaLeadership is generally defined as "one attempting to influence the behavior or another, for any reason". And the essence of leadership is in achievement, which has not changed and will not change. However, the world we live change significantly, and the change is accelerated: the nature of work, the needs of people, and the environment is different and will...

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Three Stages of Modern Leadership

The future of leaders need to have ability & agility to adapt to expedited changes. Leadership is a timeless topic for every generation, as mankind need effective leadership to advance humanity, also make collective progress & achievement via its influence. From nature business evolution perspective, we may define modern leadership into three stages: 1. The First Stage: Leading at the Business Jungle  The period...

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Compliance & Risk Management, Sisters or Cousins

Managing compliance is a risk, it is a sub-set of operational risk. From Wikipedia:  Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risk effect of uncertainty on objectives, whether positive or negative) followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities....

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Ten Inspiring IT Elevator Speeches

IT is built to change in order for an organization built to last and from good to great.IT and CIOs are at the tipping point for transformation, with new mindset to create value center instead of cost center, move from back office to the front brain yard, and with the latest technology such as cloud, mobile, social and Big Data as silver lining, CIOs need to learn how to articulate IT value to the Chairman of the Board in 25 or less...

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Three Insights from Deloitte & MIT’s Social Business Report

MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte conducted a survey from organizations in 115 countries  and 24 industries, to understand the status of social computing: how does business leader think about it, where is the business value from it, and what kind of challenges they face today. Though many mid and large businesses just start experimenting enterprise social tools, most of leaders shows enthusiasm and confidence about the potential it can...

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From Rocket Science to Parable: Highlight is the Key

One of the big stories in last couple weeks are SpaceX  finished its journey to International Space Station successfully. Dragon is flying, it makes me think about a little parable: there was a famous painter long time ago, with a reputation of his talent and vivid, lifelike picture. One day, he was traveling, painted four dragons on the wall, but did not draw the eyes. People felt it strange, and asked him why he didn’t draw the eyes, he said:...

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