Which Factors should a Strategy for Change Contain?

A strategy for "change" should focus on betterment. The speed of change is accelerated, Either individuals or organizations spend significant time and resource to deal with the big changes such as radical digital transformation or small changes such as daily betterment. What’s the strategy behind the change, and which qualities or factors should such a strategy for change contain? Vision: A strategy for change calls for a clear vision of...

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CIO's Digital Agenda I

Digital is all about flow - Data flow, information flow, and mind flow. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.1+ 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. Here is the CIO’s Digital Agenda I with  a set of featured “Future of CIO” Blogs. CIO’s...

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Dynamic Capability as Resource

Dynamic Capability is the ability to reconfigure your organization in the way that has the effect of increasing its "variety." The dynamic capabilities' are defined as: "the firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments." With the increasing speed of changes and unprecedented uncertainty, dynamic capabilities thus reflect an organization's ability to adapt to changes,...

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How to Cultivate a Positive Culture

Strategy guides change and culture is the pathways for the change. Culture is "the pattern of values and behaviors prevailing in the organization or society." It’s invisible and untouchable. A company's culture helps define what a company is like. What it means to be part of the company, how to act in the company, what others in the company believe and strive for even how others see the company. So what’s your culture “expression”? Overall, do...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 10/29/2015

Leadership without influence, is just like the air without oxygen! The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.1 million page views with about #2300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. blog posting. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Here is the weekly insight of the “Future of CIO” blog. The Weekly Insight...

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Three Aspects to Manage an Emergent Strategy

Strategy Management is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture. It is for evaluating the long-term, not just the immediate, and building about agility and flexibility. In today's digital dynamic and unstable business circumstances, the evidence points to strategy emerging rather than being prescribed. The strategy should be formed on the basis of some logical intent - after all, if you have no plan, and success...

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How should GRC Programs be Approached?

 The effective GRC should sustain the transformative change in business with the right order: People, Process, and Technology. The purpose of the GRC (governance, risk management, and compliance) is to improve business performance through the creation of value to shareholders and other stakeholders. Nowadays, businesses have to deal with the unprecedented level of uncertainty and change, hence, GRC becomes more critical than ever....

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How to Overcome Data Cleansing Challenge

Good governance is essential to overall Data Management. Data is the lifeblood of digital organizations. Data Cleansing has always been a challenge. The best data-driven organizations focus relentlessly on keeping their data clean. Cleaning the data is often the most difficult and time-consuming part of data science. So what are the best principles and practices to overcome Data Quality challenge? Data left unmanaged is a HUGE liability,...

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Do you Actively Participate in your Vision?

Creative expanding cannot happen without vision. Vision is to zoom in the future as if it were closer. We always measure ourselves in terms of our vision - what we intend to be or to accomplish, and what we leave behind is our action upon those intentions. We contemplate, we reflect, we learn, we act, we perceive, and our vision evolves and leads us - the reason we usually see that what we have accomplished is always less than our potential....

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Agility vs. Quality

Agility should not be translated to sacrificing planning, management guidelines, and quality assurance. Agile has emerged as major software development and management methodology, it is a set of principles, philosophy, and mindsets to either build software or run a business today. However, from the quality perspective, Agile is one of those things that's simple in principle but may be very challenging in practice. How can you maintain quality whilst...

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