Initiateitsourcingstrategy

Flexibility and the ability to be drive radical business changes in pursuit of competitive advantage will define successful businesses in the future.One of LinkedIn CIO discussions about the survey: "outsourcing takes big turn back in last two years and insourcing increased 35%. What are you seeing?” spur many quality comments about IT sourcing strategy, the other IT survey also shows: now most of customers, large or small, prefer to have...

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Three Trends of Future of Leadership

It takes three C essentials: character, creativity, capability to shape up transformational leadership.Leadership is both art and science, there are numerous great books and articles every year to decode it, but nobody can completely solve leadership puzzle yet, though we brainstorm the seven ingredients for future of leadership, it seems always to have some missing ingredients there, as leadership is so dynamic,  some prestigious...

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DevOps: The New Muscles in Business’s Agile Wings

Modern business now embraces SMAC technologies: cloud, mobile, social and big data, business needs to grow agile wings to balance wind power, to become more flexible and elastic. Agile software development practices iterative & incremental methodology, where requirement and solutions are based on collaboration between selft-organizing, cross-functional teams, it intends to keep software project with its practical business goals;...

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Five Reasons CIO Falls into Scapegoat

Today's CIO has to be an excellent salesman, a visionary, a fantastic motivator/manager to collaborate with “C” level to get the resources required to do their work systematically. Enterprise CIOs, like shepherds, take care of their business’s technology/information assets, however, many pitfalls ahead may make a dedicated, responsible CIO a falling scapegoat. There are many WHYs need be asked, many Hows need to be experimented, in order...

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Three Leadership Lessons from Aviation/Space Heroines Amelia Earhart & Sally Ride

It takes purpose and courage to overcome obstacles, endure hardship, keep calm under pressure, streamline procedure and process, to make achievement.Google marked the female pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart birthday with a doodle on 7/24, the other space heron, the first U.S woman astronaut Sally Ride also passed away yesterday. There are many leadership brainstorming forums these days, spur divergent thoughts about characters and charisma of authentic...

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Modern IT: From 3 Small “s” to Three Big “S”

 IT needs to get fellow business peers’ support,  transform shadow IT into the full spectrum of IT.  Modern IT is pervasive, permeating into everywhere in contemporary business today, however, IT’s “mindset” hasn’t completely shifted from a controller into an enabler, from infrastructure into innovation, from back officer into brain yard yet, there’re both crucial points and s-curves on the journey, IT needs to overcome some small...

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Enterprise Architecture: 3D Abstraction in Metaphors

EA must recognize the broader ecosystem and encourage creative thinking, in order to frame the future of business. Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides greater visibility to the current and future position of an organization and enabling the relevant designers and decision-makers to act in a more informed manner. The biggest pitfalls for achieving EA value may include a lack of focus or lost in translation, due to the scope of architecture...

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3P to Demystify Business Complexity: Perception, Parable, and Prescription

Simplicity does not precede complexity but follows it. Alan Perlis From Wikipedia, the complex is a “complex” word with various perspectives.  In general usage: Complexity tends to be used to characterize something with many parts in intricate arrangement; In a business context, complexity management is the methodology to minimize value-destroying complexity and efficiently control value-adding complexity in a cross-functional...

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