The Five Digital Ready Mindsets 7/2016

Having Digital-Ready mindsets is truly about "Never stop imagining & learning, and never lose the character & curiosity to take new adventures and reach the next level of maturity. Change is about moving forward and improving. If you change people’s behaviors, more often you try to fix the symptoms; the critical step in change both at the individual level and organizational level is to change one’s mindset, in order to cure the root causes....

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CIOs as Chief Insight Officer: Three Important Things are the "Means to the End"

The business leaders and digital professionals today must clarify the “means and end,” in order to stay focus, without getting lost in the middle. The business world and human society are becoming over-complex but hyperconnected, full of uncertainty and ambiguity. There are both opportunities and risks in it. Hence, either being a digital leader or professional today, you must clear the vision, keep the “end in mind,” otherwise, you would get...

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Five Root Causes of Innovation Failures

See innovation as a system, capable of delivering organization-wide capability. Innovation is the light every forward-looking organization is pursuing. However, for most businesses, innovation is still serendipity, and innovation management has an overall very low success rate. The reasons why innovation failure occurs vary widely, but dig further, here are some root causes to fail innovation. Innovation as a lip service: For many less innovative...

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Mirror, Mirror: Who are the Brightest People in your Organization

Being bright means more about the altitude to envision further and beyond, the attitude to learn and grow, and the aptitude to solve problems. Compared to the industrial organizations, digital organizations are more hyper-connected, informative and innovative. The “aura” of the organization is reflected through its people, how people think, act, and influence surroundings. How bright future the organization has can perhaps only be read on how...

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The Insight-Driven Digital Transformation

The insight-driven digital transformation can create synchronization of all functions running seamlessly. Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, processes to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital is not just a one-time business initiative or an IT project only, it’s a journey that has to be driven via insight, catalyzed via innovation, enabled by people and for the people, with the ultimate...

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The Monthly Insight of Running a High Mature Digital Organization July 2016

Being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking digital organizations today. 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 fine tune the process of Change Management, and overcome the obstacles to managing a high mature...

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Digital CIOs’ Elevator Pitch

Digital IT has multi-faceted fitness, multidimensional intelligence, and multi-level capabilities. Digital IT plays a significant role in business transformation. CIOs as IT leaders also have to envision and convey a clear message about IT reputation. So what's the CIO's elevator pitch for getting BoDs, executive peers, and shareholders' buy-in? IT is more like the “Digital Brain” of the organization: Because information allows you to build...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 7/29/2016

The digital business and the world need more transformative visionary leaders and profound and original thinkers in dealing with the "VUCA" digital new normal. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 1.3 million page views with 2900+ 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...

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Innnvationprinciples

Practice, practice, and practice more to spur the abundance of creativity. Creativity is the high level of thinking and innovation is the light businesses are pursuing, We all just fumble around from the dark to pursue creativity and chase new ideas. Is there such a magic formula to double or triple of your innovative ability? Here is the "PEARL" principle to follow for living with creativity. Profundity: Back to the root of the word “profundity,”...

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