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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 7/28/2017
- CIOs as “Chief Innovation Officer”: How to Improve Organizational Innovation Maturity Many say digital is the age of innovation. Today, innovation can happen anywhere, anytime; it expands both horizontally and vertically. It’s the business’s unique capability to gain a competitive advantage in the face of fierce competitions and business dynamic. More fundamentally, it’s the state of mind to think and do things from a new angle. Innovation is no longer “nice to have,” but “Must Have” differentiated capability of the organizations who want to stay competitive on the market. However, innovation management has a very low success rate, how to manage innovation effectively and improve the organizational innovation maturity?
- Discover Three Hidden Gems to Shine Through Digital Transformation Journey: We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of digital age, the path to next level of innovation, also the era of confusion and information overload. Digital businesses nowadays are fast, always “on,” highly connected, interdependent, and ultra-competitive. They have to continue to discover their strengths, build differentiated capabilities and unleash their collective potential in order to build the competitive business advantage. Here are three hidden gems to help them shine through the journey of digital transformation.
- The “Talk the Walk” in the Boardroom: How to Communicate Well and Make Good Policies The purpose of the board of directors is to direct the organization in the right direction and monitor its performance. The modern digital board has many responsibilities, such as leadership advising, strategy oversight, governance practices, performance monitor, and resource provision. The board directors as senior directorial roles have both privilege and responsibility to “talk the walk,” communicate thoroughly via multiple channels, abstract the insight from the variety of experiences, multidisciplinary knowledge and all sorts of feedback, set digital principles and make good policies to guide digital transformation smoothly.
- Three “P” Factors for Assessing Digital Fitness: Digital fit starts with people fit. People are always the weakest link in organizations. So, part of the digital transformation journey is to prepare people for the new paradigm shift and to recognize this is a crucial step. The point is that how you know for sure that people being called “talent,” are really fit, how do you know you are putting the right people in the right position to solve the right problems? Here are three “P” factors for evaluating digital fitness.
The Digital CIO’s Scoreboard Due to the overwhelming growth of information and disruptive nature of technology, IT becomes more and more significant in driving organizational changes and catalyzing business transformation. Digital IT leaders today must have the right mindset, skillset, and toolset to lead change in a structural way. From IT performance management perspective, You can only manage what you measure, IT Executive scoreboard is an effective tool to enable executives and leadership team to improve management of IT via quantifiable and qualitative data. IT Executive Scorecard should have pre-built key performance indicators that reflect best practice measurement areas across IT holistically. But more specifically, how to build an effective IT management scoreboard and set the right performance indicators for evaluating overall IT management health and improving IT organization maturity?
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