Ring in the Year of 2016: Is Integrated Leadership the DIgital Trend?

The digital leadership is more integrated, innovative, influential, and insightful! There are only minutes away from the New Year - businesses and the world are moving deeper and deeper into the digital world of VUCA -Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, while company boundaries are blurred and the world is so hyper-connected, who leads whom? The inspiring way to characterize the types of leadership needs to dig deeper, hunt for...

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The Clarity of “Being Agile”

Agile isn't a process, it's a culture and a point of view. Business agility is an ultimate goal the organizations pursue to reach their maturity. Indeed, we want to see teams and organizations being agile rather than doing agile. However, every business is different, every situation is different, and every organization is at the different stage of agile transformation, you have to fit the solution to the problem. So is the hybrid of traditional...

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Digital Master Holiday Intense Tuning Ch VI: Three Characteristics of Digital Innovation

The essence of innovation is made of trying new combinations of known things. Generally speaking, innovation is to transform novel ideas and achieve its business value. Why is innovation more important in the digital era whereas information is abundant and technology is more advanced? Because innovation is the core activity of human evolution to changing the environment to reach high performance. And at the business scope, innovation is also expanding...

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CIO’s Digital Agenda XXV: Customer-Centricity is a Digital Theme

How to become a customer-centric business is in every forward-thinking organization’s agenda. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.2 million page views with about 2300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Digital is the age of customers. Thus, Customer Experience Management...

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“Digital Master” Holiday Intense Tuning Chap V: Three Debates about Business’s Digital Capabilities

Digital business capabilities are dynamic and complex in design, with recombinant nature. Business capability, in general, is defined as the ability to perform or achieve certain actions or outcomes through a set of controllable and measurable faculties, features, functions, processes, or services. It is the ability of the business to consistently deliver an expected result. Organizational capabilities are delivered when various resources work...

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Sharpening a Strong Digital IT Brand

 To reimagine IT, IT branding needs to be part of IT transformation effort. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.2 million page views with about 2300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. IT is no longer just a maintenance center, IT brand identity should be supported...

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A Proactive Board

Modern “Boardship” is both art and science, the boardroom culture is engendered by board leaders. Corporate Boards play a significant role in a couple of main functions such as strategy oversight (input, review, etc), governance practices (monitoring, risk management), advising (support to executives), and resource provision (opening their networks, etc.). With the increasing speed of changes and frequent digital disruptions across vertical...

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How to Overcome Three Digital Inertia

Change is the new normal, but it also becomes fundamentally difficult in most organizations due to the digital inertia. We have moved into the deep, deep digital age when information is abundant and where creativity becomes a baseline competence. The race of information against the machine is ongoing, and the knowledge life cycle is significantly shortened. Many organizations are also at a crossroad facing unprecedented change and uncertainty,...

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