How to Manage IT Budget Effectively

IT is facing pressure to prove that they are the most effective route.   It states that in the typical enterprise, 70% of their IT budget is being spent on “keep the lights on” activities, leaving only 30% available for innovation. Generally, these numbers do not get any pushback. With the accelerated digital speed, IT faces the pressure to transform from a cost center to a value creator, corporate IT has no choice but to embrace transformational...

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Digital Mind Tuning: An Anthropological Mindset

Holistic wisdom is the hallmark of the holistic mindset. The hard science such as math, engineering,  and soft science such as philosophy, anthropology, psychology continue to converge into an interdisciplinary domain or holistic science that digital leaders and professionals have to be masterful, for managing complexity, velocity, uncertainty, interdependence and ambiguity of today’s business dynamic. Regardless of your major and expertise,...

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IT Governance Approaches and Practices

 Governance is like a steering wheel, to keep business toward the right decision The emerging digital IT trends such as Cloud, Moble, Social and Big Data bring unprecedented opportunity for business growth, and also expose business to the higher risks than ever, so what is the best approach to begin implementing formal IT Governance specifically aimed at improving the quality of demand? How can the "competition" for finite dollars be structured...

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Business Leaders’ Strategy Execution Mentality

The strengths of a highly effective leader include zest, optimism, intelligence, and humility. Strategy-Execution continuum is perhaps the most significant business activity life cycle in modern business today. Crafting a fine strategy is an easy part, the real challenge is how to execute it and achieve the high-performance result.  So how can a leader foster the right set of values and qualities in order to form an execution mentality? ·        ...

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Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change. KPIs are indicators to identify if the adopted strategy, operation, and process, etc are working toward the objective. As such, you don't "adopt" a KPI to "achieve an outcome," you adopt a strategy or operational workflow to achieve the outcome, and you define KPIs to monitor the progress and performance. That’s the name KPI –Key Performance...

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Digital Mindset Tuning: A “Fearless” Mind

Fear is the human nature, overcome it if it drags you down to the negativity and diminish your leadership influence, and dig it through if 'only the paranoid survives' in such a complex and ambiguous world. Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior. (Wikipedia) This is a subtle point about mindsets and their impact on one’s thinking...

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Excellent Customer Service as the Differentiator

Every touch point of customer experience become the potential growth opportunity for business. Being customer centric has become the mantra for many forward-looking businesses, as digital is the era of customer empathy. And excellent customer service is the differentiator and competitive advantage for organizations to compete for the future. Digital consumers do expect to be treated personally. The hyper-connective nature of digitalization...

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Initiativestocloud

Each initiative should carefully weigh all factors before assuming that cloud based is the way to go.The transition to on-demand cloud solutions is inevitable. We're hitting an inflection point where businesses are moving from traditional industrial IT environments to digital cloud-based environments. But how can IT leaders embrace the opportunity and prepare for such challenge? What's your inflection point to cloud and how to take initiatives...

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A Problem-Solving Mindset

The problem-solving mindset has synthetic nature with multi-level thinking processes involved, such as strategic thinking, system thinking, critical thinking, creative thinking, and empathetic thinking. etc. The lack of problem-solvers is a problem for this world. Problem-solving has no equal in the development of intellect and becoming more human. What’s the problem-solving mindset though? It takes big picture type of strategic thinking and...

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Business-Savvy CIOs

 It takes creative IT pros to make the business really grow.  Nowadays, IT has permeated into every core process of businesses and is the key component of differentiated business capability. CIO as an IT leader, how can you become more business savvy and strategic cognizant? CIOs have to become business savvy. Like any C-suite members, they have to participate in forming the organization's strategy, its implementation, and...

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The Top Reasons for Software Project Failure

Every IT project is a business project.  The success story is perhaps similar, but in terms of failure, there are so many influencing factors (large and small) on negative project outcomes, what’re the aspects of analyzing the top reasons for software project failure.   Communication: Speaking the common business language, not the domain dialect gives executives the foundation for better strategic conversations. If they have a better...

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