The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 2/5/2016 The Art & Science of Digital Management

Digital is to connect, innovate, and transcend business and society.

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. Here is a collection of digital leadership, IT Management, and Talent Management presentations.

The Presentation Sum UP: The Art and Science of Digital Management

13 Digital IT Styles Slides, Blog, Video: Many IT organizations are accelerating from the industrial speed to digital speed, make a significant shift from monolithic technology driven to lightweight information focus; from IT-business alignment to IT-business engagement, integration, and optimization. It also needs to reinvent and sharpen its image from a back office support center to a front yard of digital innovation with the variety of digital IT styles.

• CIO’s 12 Digital Profiles Slides, Blog, Video:  The magic “I” of CIO sparks many imaginations: Chief information officer, chief infrastructure officer, Chief Integration Officer, chief International officer, Chief Inspiration Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Influence Office etc. The future of CIO is entrepreneur driven, situation oriented, value-added, she or he will take many paradoxical roles: both as business strategist and technology visionary, talent master and effective communicator, savvy business enabler and relentless cost cutter, and transform the business into "Digital Master"!

• Talent Management Brief: See Through Talent from Different Angles Slides, Blog, Video: People are always the most invaluable asset in businesses. “Hiring the right person for the right position at the right time,” is the mantra of many forward-thinking organizations. The question is how would you define the right people? How do you define wrong, average, mediocre, good, great or extraordinary person? Or put simply, for what should they be right? Traditional Performance Management focusing on measuring what an employee does (mainly being told to do) in a quantitative way is not sufficient to identify high performance or high potential, should we see through talent from different angles?

• Future of CIO” 2500 Blog Posting Sum Up Slides, Blog, Video: In the industrial age, CIOs are the second class executive who often does not have a seat at the big table to make strategy, and who spends most of time and resource on “keeping the light on.” However, digital means the increasing speed of changes, data abundance, and hyperconnectivity, technology is often the very disrupter of innovation, and information is the lifeblood of organizations, many forward-thinking organizations empower their CIOs to be the frontrunner, digital transformer, recognize CIOs as communication hub and change agent due to the unique position they hold to oversight business processes, and interweave business capabilities.

• Digital Master One-Year Anniversary Sum Up Slides, Video, Blogs: The purpose of “Digital Master” is to envision the multidimensional impact that digital philosophy, technology, and methodology will have on the future of business and human society. It is the guide book to debunk the enterprise digital maturity, a bridge book to connect the industrial age and digital era, a playbook to craft digital mindsets, and a framebook to orchestrate digital symphony and to practice digital innovations.

• 2016 Digital Mind Crafting Slideshare, Blog Sum Up, Video: We have moved into the deep, deep digital age when information is abundant and where creativity becomes a baseline competency. The pace of change is so rapid that no one can rest on a static mindset, past accomplishments, or the wishful thought that everything is perfect the way it is. Indeed, the mindset is far more important than talent. Talent can always be developed by those with an open and right mindset.

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