Refresh CIO Leadership to Accelerate Digital Transformation

Refreshing IT leadership is to keep the digital tempo for creating the business synergy and accelerating digital transformation. The CIO role is considered a newer top executive role compared to other business executive positions. At the static industrial age, IT was perceived as a cost center, and CIOs were labeled as the technical geek and tactical manager, and the majority of IT organizations get stuck in the lower level of maturity.  However,...

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The Monthly “Thinkingaire” Book Tuning: Avoid Those Anti-Digital Mindset Pitfalls Jan. 2017

Leadership is the state of the mind. With the increasing speed of change in the hyper-connected digital ecosystem, some industrial mindsets with “status quo” types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-make, are outdated, turn to be a "dragger" of the business innovation and a laggard of the digital paradigm shift. More specifically, what are those anti-digital mindsets, and how to shift them to digital thinking styles? Avoid...

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The New Book “Decision Master” Conclusion: Five Pillars in Achieving Decision Excellence

Decision masters are people; neither data nor process. Decision-making is both science and art. Decision making is the art only when decision makers understand the science. Decision power is mind power. From the scientific perspective, decision-making is not an event, but a capability underpinned by a series of interrelated processes or steps. And there are five pillars in achieving decision-making maturity.   Perception: A selection among...

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CIOs as “Chief Inquisitive Officer: A set of Q&As (X) Dealing with IT Innovation Paradox

Modern CIOs face many challenges, it is not sufficient to only keep the lights 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, differentiating value from piles of commoditized technologies and take advantage of the emergent digital trend as well; digital CIOs also have multiple personas, “Chief Innovation Officer,” “Chief Insight Officer,” “Chief Improvement...

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The New Book “Decision Master” Introduction Chapter 5 Decision Maturity

Decision wisdom is multidimensional, and decision-making takes a multidisciplinary approach. Making a decision is one of the most significant tasks for leaders, managers and digital professionals today. There are many variables in complex decision making, there are tradeoffs you have to leverage, and there is no magic formula to follow. So, what are some effective decision-making mentalities, which tools should you apply, and what processes are...

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Measuring Up for Running a High-Thriver IT

It is not the measurement that is important; it is what you do with the data obtained from the measurement. IT plays a significant role in building business competency and driving digital transformation. IT needs to continually assess its own capabilities and evaluate overall performance via multidimensional lenses. There are many great things about metrics. Metrics are part of transparent visual management allowing pulling. But how to measure...

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The Popular Quotes Collection IX of “Digital Master” Book Series

"Digital Master" book series intend to apply the holistic digital philosophy to envision digital transformation systematically. “Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (15+ books) with five pillars to perceive the multifaceted impact digital is making to the business and our society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the digital journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” Here is the set of popular quotes...

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