Are We Entering the Digital Inquisitiveness Era?

The Age of Inquisitiveness Stimulates Imagination; Amplifies Influence and Accelerates Improvement. We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of digital age, the path to the next level of innovation, also the era of confusion and information overload. Can we participate peacefully, look forward optimistically and engage constructively for mutual benefit? Are we entering the inquisitiveness era to stimulate imagination momentarily? Clearly,...

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Innovation Mantra: Fail Forward

Fail fast and fail forward!At the age of innovation, failure is seen as a fruit full of experience. Failure is part of innovation. It depends on how you read failure: A way to improve until you find the wonderful solution which will suit market or simply a waste of time. It depends on what you learn from it. It follows common sense: you learn more from failure than from your success! There's an old saying goes, "there's a million ways to fail...

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Top Fifteen Posts with Hot Keywords to Trend the New Year!

New Year Day is not just Another Day, it's the Moment to Look Back, and then Move Forward. New Year is around the corner, it’s not just another new day, but the transformational moment to look back and then move forward, what’re the hottest topics continue to attract fierce debates? What are the keywords to highlight the future trends? What is the dream weaved to be realized? What are the positive influences should you bring to the future. Here...

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Customer-Centric Innovation

One of the key characteristics of digital business is customer centricity. One of the key characteristics of digital business is customer centricity. Thus, the customer is absolutely a vital part of the overall innovation process. Customer-centric innovation accomplishes far more than incremental product improvement, it can also build evolutionary business models, as well as path-breaking products and services that establish new categories,...

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Big Data vs. Business Intuition

Data is data, it may make one smarter, but not wiser.  Digitalization drives the massive cultural shift that is taking place at an increasing velocity, variety of data. Does it mean Big Data will make gut-feeling intuition irrelevant? Data is always management tool, and not leadership tool. Intuition still plays crucial role in decision making. The former drives efficiency (doing things right), the latter drives the effectiveness and vision...

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The Characteristics of a Good Innovation Strategy

An innovation strategy is a subcomponent of business strategy. A good innovation strategy, either as a key ingredient of corporate strategy, or a separate subcomponent of strategy,  is an inspiring mental model shared by the key stakeholders of a firm. It sets the direction and defines the broad boundaries of the creative space, within which these stakeholders can be inspired to generate new ideas and implement them to create...

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Can Change Management be a Strategic Process?

Change Agents as ‘Programmers’ of an Effective Strategy. Change is the only constant now, and even the speed of change is accelerating. Thus, the change should be part of a company’s culture and should be stimulated by the top management, it is resulting in a flexible and dynamic organization able to adapt to new and unexpected situations and market demands. In doing so, can change management be a strategic process? Change Management starts...

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Top Trends to Shape ‘World-Class’ Talent Management

People are always key pillar of the business, and Talent Management is Human Capital Management nowadays. With continuous digital disruption and highly dynamic business environment, now more than ever, top executives and talent practitioners need to design and implement a much more holistic, strategic approach to talent management. With the New Year around the corner, it’s the time to identify the top trends in reshaping the future of talent...

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Innovation via Social Collaboration

If culture is a collective mindset;  and then innovation is collective imagination, inquisitiveness, improvement, inquisitiveness, and inspiration. More often than not, innovation is a team work, not an individual effort, and the effective approach to foster innovation is through talent engagement and social collaboration. Collaboration does create a sense of belonging. Collaboration is a fundamental part of what ultimately fueled inspiration,...

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Data Scientist Mindset: Scientific Data Artist or Artistic Data Scientist

Data is Art at the eyes of artist; and Science at the eyes of scientist; and vice verse.  Data presentation is meant to communicate information in a way that resonates singularly with its intended audience, and it may require technical/artistic skill to pull that off visually. Perhaps an interesting question upon Big Data talent is: Do you need a scientific data artist or artistic data scientist? The data scientist must be an effective...

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Digital Shift: A Hyper-Connected Enterprise

Digital organization Enforces the Dot-Connecting Culture. Command-and-control came about through the Industrial Revolution with the perspective that everything, including organizations, can be viewed as mechanical in nature. In the "Birth of the Chaotic Age" with explosive information abundance, it makes a very strong case that command-and-control organizations are inherently incapable of handling, processing, managing the sheer volume of information...

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How to Build Change Capability within an Organization

Change capability is strategic for digital businesses today. Change is the most significant characteristic of digitalization, the pace of change is accelerating,  therefore, organization’s change capability is crucial for its surviving and thriving today, but how to build such capability within an organization? Leadership: Leaders can use various techniques to obtain feedback from the organization regarding a critical change effort, use...

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Merry Christmas with Poetic Wisdom

“Poetry is that which arrives at the intellect by way of the heart" -R.S.Thomas Christmas Eve may not always see the stars, but poem goes down the page like shooting star; Christmas Day may not always be covered by snow white; but the thought can dance like snowflake; Christmas Day may not always be full of joy; but your heart shall fill with Sunshine;  Christmas Day may not always be so poetic; but we can always enjoy some...

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