Three Core Competencies in Global Mindset

At the age of digitalization, ‘being who you really are as a global leader’ is more critical than ever. The business world has become hyperconnected and interdependent. Global leaders of the future sense, feel, read, imagine, and intuit possibilities on the journey of digital transformation. Global leaders articulate strategic visions, interactive designs, and navigating directions where networks of management informally communicate the possibility...

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Three Qualities of Change Leaders

Leadership is about change! Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change. Leadership is moving you and others, and evolving into what is needed next. The speed of change is accelerating, Change Leadership becomes a more critical capacity to influence others through inspiration, motivated by a passion, birthed by a conviction of a sense of purpose of why you were created. Leadership is all about the ability to take initiative...

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection How to Set Priority Right to Run a Digital IT Apr. 2016

Debating is not for stimulating conflicts, but for brainstorming better ways to do things. Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership role also continues to involve & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency. The proactive IT debates help IT leaders to brainstorm innovative and better ways to do things,...

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Digital Valley Book Tuning:IV Three Questions to Assess a Person’s Systems Thinking Wisdom

Systems Thinkers shape a worldview based on the realization of interconnectedness.System Intelligence (SI) and System Thinking (ST) are well be considered emergent properties of the complex adaptive system we call the human mind.  Systems Thinking seeks to observe a system such as the organizations from outside. It encourages the observer to see himself or herself as part of the system, to put it simply, Systems Thinking is to understand the...

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Three “Aha Moment” of an Innovative IT

IT can become a true innovation engine when it can not only grasp new business opportunities but also discover and grow more innovators to multiply the creativity effect. IT must be managed in two ways; the utility side of the house where IT constantly drives costs lower; the second being business innovation which is the only way to lift IT from commoditized service to strategic partner; from the cost center to value creator; and from the reactive...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 4/29/2016

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and sharing the new thoughts and ideas. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.3 million page views with 2700+ 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 weekly insight about digital leadership, and Talent Management.  ...

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Three Questions to Assess a Person’s Vision

A vision is a future state of being. Vision is about having a positive outlook on the future that is not predicated on the past or present. The vision needs to be a good metaphor - 'the guiding light,' so that people can see themselves and their work reflected in it. It is through identifying the "destination" for all, charting the route for all from their own respective positions toward the destination, and then guiding along the way when...

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Running a Highly Responsive IT Beyond Just Fixing Things

A highly responsive IT means a lot of things for the digital transformation: speed, innovation, agility, integration, modernization, optimization, intelligence, value creation, and maturity, etc. The majority of IT organizations get stuck at the lower level of maturity, spend most of resource and time to “keep the lights on,” play as reactive maintenance center to fix things. The bottom line IT support is still fundamental, but not sufficient to...

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