Setting Principles to Run a Digital IT

Principles guide you through. Principles are general rules and guidelines, intended to be enduring and seldom amended, that inform and support the way in which an organization sets about fulfilling its mission. The style of the principle should be short and recognizable. Its definition describes "what" the principle means in the language understood by stakeholders. The motivation describes "why" the principle is important to achieving the organizational...

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How to Avoid Pitfalls in Innovation Management

Innovation is the change, change management needs to be an integral part of innovation management. Innovation is both art and science. Innovation is a systematic way of applying creativity in the real life and business. In general, business innovation is a management discipline, and innovation management has an overall very low success rate. The reasons why failure occurs vary widely, it is no wonder why many leaders are reluctant to act on bold...

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Three Questions to Assess a Person's Critical Thinking Skills

Critical Thinking is a crucial thought process to see underneath the symptoms and dig into root causes. Critical Thinking is the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion. There is only a very small fraction of true Critical Thinker because Critical Thinking is complex. So what are the characteristics of Critical Thinking, or how to...

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CIOs as Chief Improvement Officer: How to Leverage DevOp to Improving IT Agility

DevOp is the IT management instrument which  brings in a cultural shift to an organization to not only develop but also to maintain the application with continuous changes in place. IT plays a significant role in building the organization’s change capability to adapt to the digital new normal. Need for agility arises due to changes in underlying assumptions. Every CIO may ask self: Is IT responsive and proactive enough to find answers and...

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Three Big “WHAT”s in Change Management

Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent. Everything changes continuously and the rate of change is accelerated. Change is no longer just a one-time initiative, but an ongoing capability. Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency, effectiveness to agility and maturity. Besides...

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Five Focal Points in Running a Digital IT

Digital IT keeps the digital flow from top-down to bottom-up; from branding on the surface to tuning the processes underneath. Many IT organizations are accelerating from the industrial speed to the digital speed, it also needs to sharpen its image from a back-office support center to a front yard of digital innovation. IT-business alignment is also shifted to IT-business engagement. But what are the emergent trends to run highly-effective digital...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 1/29/2016

Blogging is the dynamic journey of continuous growing and innovating. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.3 million page views with 2500+ 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's also about the journey of continuous growing and innovating. Here is the weekly insight of the...

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How to Earn and Practice “Expert Power”

The expert power has the foundation of in-depth knowledge, profound insight, and abstract wisdom, to connect the minds and win the hearts. We step into the knowledge economy in which digital provides the new way to learn, the new possibility to explore unknowns, and the new perspectives to lead and work. Today’s digital workforce is hyper-connected and sophisticated with digital fluency. So are today’s business leaders or managers really “powerful”...

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Five Aspects of Digital Strategy Management

In practice, digital strategy is a living process with iterative steps and a dynamic continuum. The strategy is what you intend to do or accomplishes in terms of managing both resources and constraints to having the critical success factors in place and achieve the set of strategic priorities. In the strategy-making process, one must also assess the environment, competitions, and other threats and opportunities and devise contingencies accordingly....

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