Leadership Wisdom: Trust is a Two-Way Street

Trust is a two-way street, which plays a key role in the effective functioning of both society and organizations.Modern business and human society become over-complex and inter-dependent, therefore, companies that foster a trusting culture will have a competitive advantage in attracting talent & harmonizing business relationship. No matter what kind of organization you manage, trust is an integral component of your brand. Trust-based management...

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Is Private Cloud More Cloudy?

Think defining business cases, modifying change control to meet automated demands and a general shift in management strategies. Cloud becomes mainstream: majority of businesses no matter large or small, have stepped in Cloud, especially public cloud service, to share computer resources, and improve business agility; However, security,  privacy and service availability., etc are still main concerns to adopt to public Cloud, that’s why private...

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A Tale of Two Surveys: What Matters in Boardroom

Strategic planning topped the board’s “wish list.”The prestigious consulting firms and media companies published many good white papers and industry surveys regarding what matters at board level now, especially economies are not completely recovered from recession yet, businesses from the top down are looking for innovation as a new light, strategy as GPS, and IT as a new catalyst. A recently released annual corporate director survey from...

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Five Steps IT Customer Satisfaction Surveys Go Beyond Routine

 Customer survey works but needs to be done more strategically, creatively and flexibly. Most of the CIOs think IT customer satisfaction surveys help them to listen to users, adjust IT roadmap &  plan to accommodate changes customers need, and help evaluate IT performance; But some IT leaders may argue such survey is just a routine, won’t help IT from out of touch, ivory tower service, the survey result may not be objective to capture...

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Three “S” Questions to Contemplate for Future of Talent Management

Because now the business environment becomes more dynamic, talent with the non-linear skill set or learning agility to master S-Curves may help boost the culture of innovation There are many transformations facing businesses today, from disruptive to incremental changes, one of the biggest challenges facing companies all over the globe is how to build and sustain a solid talent pipeline, what’re the new criteria to evaluate talent, do organizations...

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Future of EA: Framework or Frameless

Framework is an attempt to unify approach, grammar and process diagrams, to help communicate decisions among multiple practitioners in different domains. From Wikipedia: Enterprise architecture framework is organization of the structure and views associated with an enterprise architecture. Frameworks add value as they are implementations of the patterns to avoid having to reinvent the wheel for every project.  However, there are more than...

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