An Inquisitive Board: How to Ask the Tough Questions

The board's role is to pull management out of the trees to see the forest! Generally speaking, Boards have a couple of main functions such as strategy oversight, governance practices, providing advice to executives, and resource provision, etc. So the Board should be knowledge enough to set broad strategic goals. They need to educate themselves by hearing different views about the organization, its environment, and strategic alternatives. Even...

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Five Barriers to Change Management Success

Managing change is no longer a one-time project, but an ongoing business capability. Change is inevitable, and organizational change becomes a common practice within an organization, but more than two-thirds of change effort fails to achieve the expected results. What’re the barriers to cause the change failures, and how to make Change Management tangible rather than fluffy? Not investing enough time to discover the root cause of issues: People...

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How to Rebuild Trust between IT and Business

Organizational success comes when IT and business act from 'IT vs. business' to "IT is Business" - A true partnership. IT plays an unprecedented role in modern organizations today, information is the lifeblood of business; and digital technology is often the innovation disruptor. However, there is still a lack of trust relationship between business-IT, within IT or between IT and vendors. Is it because most of the businesses still perceive their...

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Data Scientist vs. Data Algorithm

Analytical algorithms and data scientists are not mutually exclusive, but they are absolutely complimentary. An algorithm is a procedure or formula for solving a problem. An algorithm is a model of the real world. A data scientist is a job title for an employee or business intelligence (BI) consultant who excels at analyzing data, particularly large amounts of data, to help a business gain a competitive edge (whatis.com). Is a data scientist...

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What’s your Favorite Terminology for “Performance Management”

Performance development is to focus on positive, rather than negative aspects. The core of "Performance Management" is to create goals that are aligned with organizational strategic objectives, and to provide reflective feedback to the person moving the particular project along. Goal alignment and performance feedback, are the heart of the approach. However, in many organizations, traditional performance management has many negative aspects: reactive,...

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Innovation from Systems Thinking Perspective

The foundation for innovation has to be grounded in the “vision” which is linked to “hope” and seeking justice or "truth." For many organizations, innovations are still serendipitous. However, serendipity can be planned as a management discipline. Serendipity is not a lucky accident, and it can be planned and worked upon. Creativity is about connecting the dots, and Systems Thinking is about to discover the patterns underlying these dots. How can...

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To Celebrate 1,000,000 Page Views of “Future of CIO”

 The Blog is a dynamic book flow with your thought. It's not about writing, but about conveying the vision. The blog is a dynamic book flowing with your thought; growing through your dedication; sharing your knowledge; conveying your wisdom, and making influence through touching the hearts and connecting the minds across the globe. The pen is more powerful than the sword! The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1 million page views today...

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How to Learn Systems Thinking in Understanding the Holism

Systems Thinking is a sensibility, with the subtle interconnectedness that gives living systems their unique character. Ordinarily, people do not inquire into the matters, they are too much a slave to the conventional way of thinking or follow the mainstream thinking, they just accept what is instilled into their minds, mainly even through the indirect experiences, one side of story or unverified information; for to accept is more convenient and...

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