The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 12/1/2017

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4200+ 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 weekly insight about digital leadership, IT Management, and Talent...

Read More

Gap Minding Leadership Practices in Digital Boardroom

Practicing gaping minding in boardrooms is one of the significant steps in creating the synergy for orchestrating the digital symphony. Digitalization makes the business flatter and the world smaller because of its nature of hyper-connectivity and interdependence. Competition at the leading edge of business is also becoming fiercer at the age of digitalization and globalization. Thus, successful companies need to grow and innovation is no longer...

Read More

The Digital CIO’s Profiles, Personas, and Personalities

The digital CIOs have to wear the different color of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly. Compared to other CxO positions, the CIO role is considerably new with about three decades of history. But the contemporary CIO is one of the most sophisticated leadership roles in modern businesses. Due to disruptive nature of technologies and exponential growth of information, IT leadership role also has to be continually...

Read More

The Monthly “Lesson Learned”: How to Avoid These Pitfalls in Digital Transformation Nov. 2017

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. However, more than two-thirds of Change Management effort fails to achieve the expectation, what are the pitfalls on the way?  ...

Read More

Egotism vs. Egoism

We need a well-developed ego but we have to keep it under control. The word ego means a 'sense of self,' which means that you are aware of your physical, mental, and emotional presences. Ego is an interesting world with both positive and negative connotations. Originally, Freud used the word ego to mean a sense of self... Ego-awareness is the ability to know that one is consciously making decisions. Egotism vs. Egoism vs. Ego-Strength: Egotism...

Read More

Running a reciprocal Digital IT Organization

Building a reciprocal digital IT organization is all about enforcing communication, enhancing collaboration, building trust, and bridging gaps. Today’s digital organization are not overly rigid hierarchical entities, but highly connected, highly responsive, and interdependent living things. To apply the Law of Newton - "To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" to IT management, the CIO should ask themselves: Do you have a listening...

Read More

The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: The Digital Organizational Fit Dec. 2017

Digital transformation represents the next stage of digital fit and business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem. Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high...

Read More

The Instrumental BoDs

Digital BoDs today are diversified, cogitative, proactive, and instrumental, bring different opinions and viewpoints and orchestrate change and digital transformation seamlessly. Digital means the fast pace of changes, the abundance of information, and fierce competitions. The digital business ecosystem is open, fluid, dynamic and expanding. Due to the “VUCA” digital new normal, the directorship in any organization must have the ability to...

Read More

CIOs, Are you the Fiercest Critic to Yourself?

Digital CIOs need to be the fiercest critic to themselves for improving their leadership maturity. Due to the disruptive nature of technology and exponential growth of information, the role of CIO has to be reinvented for adapting to changes and re-energized for leading digital transformation. Digital CIOs are not just tactical IT managers, they are strategic business executives and inspirational digital visionaries. To lead effectively, the CIO...

Read More