Informative & Invaluable IT

IT allows business departments, stakeholders, and executives clearly see what is happening in the business. Though IT becomes so ubiquitous and omnipotent in organizations today, it is not an easy job to articulate IT value in business language precisely, and these are good things to have when trying to express clearly and confidently what IT actually does for a company: Keep the Lights On:  It’s basic but crucial, just imagine what wouldn't...

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The Digital Ecosystem is Beyond a Business Buzzword

A business ecosystem is just like the natural ecosystem, first, needs to be understood, then, needs to be well planned, and also needs to be thoughtfully renewed as well. Due to accelerated changes and digital disruptions, organizations today need to behave as organisms living within ecosystems. An organism is an assembly of systems working together as a whole, often thought of as a self-organizing being, to react in a controlled, agile, and measured...

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The CIO’s C-Level Thinking: Creative or Critical?

Creativity is perceived as an important part of our future and civilization, without it, there will be no technology. Perhaps CIOs have one of the most sophisticated roles to play in the modern business world, as technology in nature is both scientific and innovative, thus, it requires CIO as IT master also being fluent in different thinking processes and business dialects in order to handle business complexities. So what are CIOs’ thinking style:...

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EA’s Five Key Success Factors

Though it might be tricky to define EA success and measure (and evaluate) EA success because so many of the facets of EA are very difficult to measure. Typically EA team is responsible for strategy/planning, innovation, and governance. It should be able to provide guidance, standards, principles, and roadmaps to anyone within the enterprise. However, due to the fact that EA in nature is multi-dimensional, how and what could be used to define...

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Are 'Risk Management' and 'Strategy Management' different Concepts?

The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information. From Wikipedia: “Strategy is a general, undetailed plan of action, encompassing a long period of time, to achieve a complicated goal.”, while “Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control...

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BPM’s Best Way: Top-Down or Bottom-Up

An organization that has the ability to learn and adapt at several levels will move the whole BPM transformation forward. There’s about 70% of BPM projects fail statistically, and there are varies of causes to make such project “out of control”, so what is the best way to manage BPM? Top-down, Bottom-Up, Middle-Out, System-wide  Inside-out or Outside-In? 1.    Top Down Approach  Theoretically, you start top down as you...

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What’s your Organization’s Digital IQ?

Digital IQ is a measure of how well companies understand the value of technology and weave it into the fabric of their organization.PwC’s recently released annual Digital IQ survey of nearly 500 business and technology executives in the United States confirms that there is a fundamental transformation of how IT are used within the firm and in the marketplace. 1.    What is digital IQ?  Digital IQ is a measure of how well companies...

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Three IT Mentalities Enlarging Digital Gaps

Business Fails IT, just like IT Fails Business. Generally speaking, the job of a CIO has three parts: The first part is IT leadership. The task is to identify and recommend the latest technology trends that provide strategic value for businesses. This is probably the most forward-looking part to improve IT maturity. The second part is their representation on the executive staff, the job is to respond to requests from other executives...

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Contemplation at Copernicus’s Birthday: The Spirit of Thinking Differently

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.   Nicolaus Copernicus   With Nicolaus Copernicus being featured in today’s Google doodle to celebrate his 540th birthday,  it leads all of us to think more carefully about every supposed fact, and admire those who question the rules or challenge the authority, as Copernicus’s iconoclastic success...

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