The Monthly Insight of Digital Organizational Maturity May 2016

A high mature digital organization is truly proactive and outside-in, information savvy, culture intelligent, and people-centric. Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. How to understand the mentalities behind the change as the first step, in...

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Three Questions to Assess Talent Management Effectiveness

People are always the most important business assets, but also the weakest link in strategy management. To compete in today’s hyper-competitive digital environment, businesses rely so much on their people assets or human capital, to reach their goals and succeed. However, digital leadership gap, innovation gap, IT skills gap, or overall  business talent gaps are not fictions, they are the reality, and the barriers to digital transformation....

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The “CIO Master” Monthly Tunings: IT DIgital Transformation May. 2016

IT is the business. Modern CIOs have many personas and face great challenges. It is not sufficient to only keep the light on. Regardless of which industry or the nature of organization you are in, being a digital leader will need to master the art of creating unique, the differentiating value from piles of commoditized technologies, but more specifically, what are the digital-savvy CIOs doing to run IT as a value creator and innovation engine?...

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How to Fine Tune a Digital Learning Organization

There is no panacea, no magic bullet with regards to change management. Digital means the increasing speed of change and hyper-connected, always-on businesses. Change Management in high mature organizations are no longer just a one-time business initiative, but an ongoing business capability. Change Management and Strategy Management need to go hand-in-hand. But more specifically, how to manage change effectively to improve its success rate, and...

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Digital Leadership as Harmonizer

Harmonization is the digital leadership theme to celebrate this holiday weekend. Though the substance of leadership never changes, it is all about the future. Leadership is situational, in every era, there is a different theme for leadership effectiveness. If the agricultural leadership is about surviving from the scarcity of resources; the industrial leadership is based on command and control to build a certain order from chaos, and then digital...

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Change Leadership Sum Up II

Leadership is about CHANGE! Change is inevitable, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. The perspective is often rational, an automatic cultural response; defending already existing structures, all that we take for granted, without questioning the underlying premises. But in order to make change both proactive and sustainable, which is more...

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Five Questions to Improve IT Maturity

To improve IT maturity, IT needs to change the emphasis to an “outside-in” approach with that vital focus on users. Although IT has touched almost every corner of the business right now, the majority of IT organizations still get stuck at the lower level of maturity, struggle at the stage of the business and IT alignment. IT is business, with the increasing speed of change, many think that the gap between business and IT has actually widened....

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