An Alternative Organizational Structure

Digital favors the hybrid solutions-the delicate balance between solid and flow. Digital is the age of options. The option to build business physically or run virtually; the option to serve customer via traditional counter or digital channel; the option to work in the large building or the remote office; the option to be the titan industry leader or the fitting niche player? How about organizational structure, what’s an alternative organizational...

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The CIO’s Personality profile

Modern CIOs have enriched personas and unique personalities.  Modern CIOs wear multiple hats and take different roles, they need to be both business strategist and IT manager; customer champion and talent master, so is there a desired “personality profile” for CIOs? Leadership is an important part of the making up of a CIO. Can you make the influence on the corporate culture, what are your leadership substance and style, are you self-aware?...

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A Harmonized Board

A board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility. Corporate Board plays a significant role in business strategy oversight, practicing business governance, shaping effective culture, and perceiving talent trend. First of all, the board itself has to be harmonizing and highly-effective. Do you think that Directors are by nature pretty strong and candid people, or what...

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Big Data, Quality Data

There is quality data, but there’s no “perfect” data in Big Data world. Big data has big potential, also face big management challenges, from understanding three 'V's: Volume, Velocity, Variety of Big Data characteristics to mastering three 'W': WHY, WHAT, WHO on how to handle Big Data. First things first, Quality Data is the desired data status: By “quality data” –it means clean, organized, actionable data from which to extract relevant...

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A Candid Culture

A candid culture is not built in one day, it takes innovative leadership, decoded human psychology and collective corporate habit.  Culture is the collective mindset and habit, it is invisible but powerful to either “eat” your strategy or disrupt your execution. It is fundamental to influence on “who you are” as a company, your brand, and reputation. Today’s digital age is full of uncertainty, ambiguity, and complexity, how to enforce clear...

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Is your Data Analytics isolated from the customer reality?

Big Data is the means to the end, not the end. There are many big perspectives of Big Data; customer insight is surely one of the key arenas Big Data can make big difference. There are plenty of examples that show the analytics is really working. However, in many organizations, the fact is that the data analytics is isolated from the customer reality, what’s the root cause, and how to truly bridge the data analytics and business/customer perspectives? The...

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The Insight about Quality Management

"You can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make a dream a reality" ~Walt Disney Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent. It has four main components: quality planning, quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvement. Quality management is focused not only on product and service quality but also the means to achieve...

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Inneronnectionofdominoeffectvsbutterflyeffect

Inspirational butterflies flap the wings to make big Impact; the Dominos accumulate the energy to release the power. The domino effect is a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby, which then causes another similar change, and so on in linear sequence. The term is best known as a mechanical effect and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes. It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where...

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Design Thinking: A Useful Myth

The design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process... maybe even a strategic differentiator. Before it acquired a name, design thinking started as a rare activity that exceptional individuals did, it wasn't documented as a way of thinking, and it was completely mysterious to most others. Today, rather than being a mythological trend, the invention and popularization of the term "design thinking" reflect the emergence...

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Top Three Benefits of BPM

The merit of BPM needs to focus on solving business problems, not just conquering technical challenge. BPM as an abbreviation can mean Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Monitoring or Business Performance Monitoring. Wikipedia recognizes Business Performance Monitoring, Business Process Management and Business process Modeling, all under "BPM"- Business Process Management. BPM is indeed more strategic...

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How do Businesses Perceive CIOs

Competence, vision, communication, and enthusiasm for the business are superior.  Contemporary CIOs wear multiple hats and play different roles in information-abundant organizations today. So should a CIO have the ability to understand the mechanics of what they are the chief of - their information flows and processes, the knowledge representation effort, and key additions from there. How do businesses perceive CIOs? And what are the arena...

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