The Monthly Decision Making Insight: The Decisive Minds Nov. 2016

Decision making is the arena across the art and science; gut feeling and data driven, confidence and humility. Making a decision is one of the significant tasks for business leadership, however, the high ratio of strategic decisions have been made poorly and cause the catastrophic effect. What are multidimensional thought processes in making effective decisions both strategically and tactically? A Mind with Multidimensional Intelligence?...

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The New Book “Unpuzzling Innovation” Introduction Chapter 8 Innovation Measurement

It takes innovation to measure innovation performance. Innovation is about how to implement the creative idea and achieve its business value. It is the management discipline. Peter Drucker, the modern management guru, was credited as saying, “We can only manage what we measure.” It is also true for innovation management. Innovation measurement and tools can help companies think systematically about business innovation and raise its success rate...

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CIO Master" Book Tuning: Running Digital IT to Harness Business Competency

At a higher level of maturity, IT is the key differentiator, rule co-maker, and business driver. At the dawn of the digital era, innovation threatens to tear down legacy systems and practices just as it generates new opportunities, IT organizations are nonetheless resistant to change. It's natural to fear the unknown, question the unproven, be skeptical of the latest digital trends and be paradoxical about digital disruptions. However, change...

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection How to Run Digital Ready IT Organization Nov 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 and shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and drive digital transformation. Many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency. The proactive IT debates help IT leaders to brainstorm innovative...

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The New Book “Unpuzzling Innovation” Introduction Chapter 7 Innovation Gaps and Pitfalls

Don’t be afraid of the failure, but you have to learn something from your failure.  Innovation is the light every forward-looking organization is pursuing. However, for most businesses, innovation is still serendipitous, not so many people like innovation, because innovation stands for risk, and that associated with trouble, and innovation management has an overall very low success rate. It is crucial to examine the causes of failure in innovation,...

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How to Run Digital IT as a Revenue Rain Maker

The payoff of IT digital transformation is not just for the quick win, but to build the long-term business competency. Traditional IT organizations are perceived as the cost center, running in an inside-out operation driven mode. Nowadays, with the exponential growth of information and lightweight digital technologies, forward-looking organizations across industrial sectors claim they are in the information management business, and there is a high...

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The New Book “Unpuzzling Innovation” Book Introduction Chapter 6 Innovation Paradox

Innovation Management needs to take a balanced approach to deal with innovation paradoxes smoothly. Innovation is to transform the novel ideas and achieve their business value. The purpose of innovation management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation in a structural way. However, for the majority of organizations today, innovation is still serendipitous. To improve innovation effectiveness, what’s the best approach to understanding...

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