The CIO’s Digital Agenda: Digital IT Best/Next Practices

Besides building a set of principles to follow, it’s also important to develop a series of best/next practices to scale up and amplify digital effects. IT is the foundation of data, information, and modern knowledge. The biggest misnomer regarding IT is that it is "just technology." The most powerful and differentiating tool in all of today's businesses is INFORMATION and that is provided by IT systems. How to continually fine-tune IT and get...

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"Leadership Master" Book Tuning: Three Traits of Transformational Leader

Transformational leadership is moving you and others, from mindset to behavior, and evolving to what is needed next for radical changes. Fundamentally, leadership is more about future but starts at today. Leadership is about creating a powerful future that is compelling in the present, utilizes the best talents, capabilities, and resources of their people and organization to drive changes and produce meaningful and valuable results. Change is...

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The Noble Purposes of IT Performance Management

Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with business performance. IT organizations are at the cross-road to either ride above the learning curve of the digital transformation or become irrelevant as a support function. IT metrics has to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator. It’s dangerous to impose metrics just because the focus on what’s measurable is manageable. The only way to do this is...

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The Monthly Mind Tuning: Five Anti-Digital Mindsets Oct. 2016

Diagnose the problems and lead changes at the mindset level. The right mind is the foundation with which to build competitive capabilities and drive the right attitude. From talent management perspective, you need to evaluate how people think, why they think that way, and how they approach problems and solve them. So you can easily and consistently differentiate future high performers from those with a mediocre mindset in your organization. ...

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Five Pillars in Building Decision-Making Capability

Decision-making is a solid business capability to improve business responsiveness, agility, and competency. Digital business is becoming complex and uncertain, decision making is more often a complex scenario, especially for the large, strategic decision making. Therefore, it is crucial to take a systematic approach for improving decision effectiveness, leveraging both gut-feeling and analytics, logic and intuition, interdisciplinary knowledge...

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CIOs as "Chief Improvement Officer": Three Practices in Achieving IT Management Excellence

IT management excellence is one of the most important pillars for running a high-performance digital IT organization. With the fast pace of changes and overwhelming information nowadays, Information & Technology are permeating to every corner of the business, often IT can either make or break a company almost overnight. IT strategy is an integral component of the business strategy, as more often than not, technology is the driving force behind...

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The CIO’s Digital Agenda: Leverage Critical Thinking in Digital Transformation Oct. 2016

With the increasing speed of changes, many organizations are inundated with tactical tasks and daily operational duties, they don’t spend enough time on scrutinizing the long term strategy and identify disastrous blind spots in order to make a smooth business transformation. Indeed, there are both blind spots in strategy formulation and execution. So how to identify and close those blind spots in order to accelerate digital transformation.      Leverage...

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