The Book “CIO Master” Quote Collection (Part III)

Digital CIOs Rise for Change!

The purpose of CIO Master - Unleash the Digital Potential of IT is to provide guidelines for building a framework to run a highly effective, highly innovative and highly mature digital IT organization. Also, it provides the principles to reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.

• Rebrand digital CIOs with multiple personas
• Reinvent IT to unleash its full digital potential
• Reenergize change as an ongoing digital capability
• Refine talent management to bridge IT skills gap
• Remaster multidimensional IT to create multi-level business value
• Renovate strategy execution continuum to improve effectiveness

• Reimagine IT as an innovation engine to catalyze business growth
• Reshape IT via leveraging “3P”s: Principle, Portfolio, Performance
• Retool IT agility to adapt to changes

Digital IT Management Quotes

• Innovation per se is like composing a symphony, a lot of planning, but the music will come from the musicians, not the conductor.

• Innovation is the specific phenomenon and strategic imperative of the knowledge-based economy.

• Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.

• The customer is the center of innovation management.

• Innovation has to result in something which leads us to a better state than where we are today.

• Creativity is the core of what makes IT strategic in any company.

• IT agility is a mentality, culture, process, and perspective.

• The intersection of information, technology, and people is where innovation happens.

• Guiding IT principles let the organization know what to expect when dealing with IT.

• Principles are statements of values.

• KPIs need to have both high impact and high information context.

 

• IT projects are business projects. IT project priority should reflect the business priority.

• Agility within and of itself is a strategy.

• Agile is better at adapting to changes and ensuring quality.

• Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end.”

• The overall organizational health needs to be measured via culture readiness, business agility, and customer centricity, etc.

• The overall goal of adopting a more “Agile” approach is “resilience,” in essence.

• Agile is about doing the right thing before doing it right.

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