The Agile “Simplicity Principle” - How to Dig it Through

One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle. “Agile principle -Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done” is essential for Agile project success. Simplicity is also a general principle to run the digital business today. Contextually, how do you define and apply it to run project and business more successfully? Simplicity enforces agile values: In general, it’s a call...

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Digital Master Tuning #80: Does UX Fit in Strategy Team or Creativity Team

UX works best if it is part of the company's culture as a whole. Being customer-centricity becomes the mantra for the forward-thinking digital organization to out beat competitors. But how do you equip with the set of new digital minds to incorporate UX at both strategic and design level to present great business value, improve the bottom line and build company brand cohesively? Does UX more fit in strategy team or creativity team? UX is...

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The Digital Theme of Board Room: An Engaging Board

A heterogeneous board with cognitive difference outperforms organizations with homogeneous boards. The corporate board is one of the most important governance bodies in modern organizations to oversight strategy, manage and accept the custodial responsibility of managing shareholders’ benefit. There is a lot that can and should be expanded upon regarding board selection and strategy. In a world with so many over-complex problems, directors...

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Five Capabilities of Digital IT

IT is the digital brain of modern organizations. Embracing digital is inevitable as that is now part of the reality... IT is no longer that island or back-office as a silo specialist function, businesses need IT as a strong partner who is passionate about exploiting information enabled by technologies to work at the heart of the enterprise. IT needs to transform itself from a service provider to business solutionary, from a cost center to an...

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Strategy-Execution as an Iterative Continuum

Digital strategy and execution are no longer linear steps, but an iterative continuum. Making a good strategy is difficult, Executing a strategy is, even more, challenge. There is still a very large disconnect between having an idea, creating a solid strategy, and implementation of strategy at many organizations. All are vastly different things. Although someone may have great ideas, there isn't a strategy behind it; or although strategy looks...

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Digital Master Tuning #79 Hiring Mindset - Will it Be a Next or Best Practice for Talent Managers?

Talent managers today should have the "wise" eyes to peek through talent at Deep Mind level. From industry survey, more than 90% of hiring managers say they prefer the candidate who has the 'superior mind set'." Unfortunately, only very few walk the talk. Although, they made the better choice, they could not really act on it; otherwise, they won't be stereotyping or be too strict on following the conventional recruiting technique. Many hiring managers...

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Three Aspects of Change Management

Change Management is not a one-time project, but an ongoing business capability. Change is everywhere and it happens every moment in the workplace, but unfortunately people rarely recognize that; people go in and out; sales rise and drop, new technology continues emerging and out of date, competition becomes fierce, and opportunities are arising and fading away rapidly, Change Management has become an important discipline often going hand-in-hand...

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An Anti-Digital Mind: A Binary Mind

When technology has long ago shifted from analog mode to digital mode, it's the time for the mind shift as well. The digital world is nonlinear and ambiguous, also multi-dimensional and colorful. However, many leaders and business professionals still keep the old silo thinking habits at the industrial age, for many of them, people are either good or bad, friend or enemy; things are either right or wrong; win or lose; the state is either blue or...

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Data or Process, Which is More Critical in Decision Making?

Data without process has no meaning; process without data gives no meaning. Decision making is a daily challenge for most business leaders because organizations become over-complex, hyper-connected, uncertain and ambiguous. What is more important to effecting good decisions within your organization? A sound process? Or the "best" (reliable and relevant) data? What’s your best scenario to make effective decisions? Data quality is important....

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Digital Master Tuning #78: What is Cultural Fit

More often, you need the "Misfit Mind" to Innovate Culture; and you need Cultural Fit for Harmonization. Culture is invisible, but it's one of the most critical factors in business success. If you ignore it, "culture will eat strategy for lunch." From talent management perspective, how one would define the culture prior to determining if someone is a fit for that culture. Is that definition based on a rigorous scientific study of exactly what their...

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Is Digital Boundary a “Sharp Line” or a “Fluid Wave”?

Digital boundaries are not "sharp" lines; they are fluid to adapt to changes. Digitalization means hyper-connectivity, over-complexity, and interdependence; it blurs the functional border, the organizational border, the industry vertical border and knowledge domain border, it blurs the border between professional life and personal life, the local and globe, the art and science, etc. So does digital still have a boundary, what does the digital boundary...

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