Three Ingredients in Creativity

Developing creativity requires both self-awareness and self- motivation.  Creativity is the flow. It’s about breaking down the convention thinking box, connecting wider dots, embrace broader viewpoints, and come out novel ideas. Creativity has many “ingredients,” and creativity is the high-level intelligence. Intuition: Intuition is often called “gut feeling,” sometimes, not just the emotional side of the mind, it’s an inner calling. An intuitive...

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Winning Digital Dynamic in a Structural Way

Running a dynamic business needs to practice dynamic planning, develop dynamic teams, and build dynamic business capabilities.  Digital is about fast-paced change, the exponential growth of information, high business intensity, and velocity. Closer to reality is that 'change' is continuously happening in such a dynamic environment of a company. The leading businesses across the vertical sectors are the ones that can manage change fluently,...

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The Monthly Book Tuning “100 Digital Rules”: Enforcing Digital Principles to Accelerate Changes Jan, 2018

The inevitable range, breadth, and pace of uncontrollable factors acting on any organizations mean constant fine-tuning is essential. Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change...

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The Reflection, Reinterpretation, and Reinforcement for Reinvent IT to Get Digital Ready

To improve IT maturity, IT needs to develop their own set of best or next practices, change the emphasis to an “outside-in” approach.  The purpose of digitalization is to make a significant difference in the overall levels of organizational maturity. The IT organization needs to be reinvented to achieve its own potential and help the business maximize its overall performance as well. Besides the disruptive digital technology trends and overwhelming...

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The Monthly Digital CIO Spotlight: CIOs as Chief Insight Officer Jan., 2018

Modern CIOs have many personas and face great challenges. Modern CIOs have many personas and face great challenges. It is not sufficient to only keep the light 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. Information is the lifeblood and knowledge is the power of modern businesses. All...

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Running a High-Performance Digital Organization with Digital Rhythm

Every digital organization perhaps has a different rhythm (rock, pop, or jazz, etc), and needs to monitor its own digital pulse periodically. In music, rhythm is the movement with the harmonized or patterned recurrence of a beat. It is the combination of melody and rhythm makes the music theme recognizable. In business, digital organizations today must adapt to changes and stay focus; the digital rhythm is the business’s progressive movement with...

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The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: The Digital Organizational Traits Jan., 2018

With “VUCA” digital new normal, to survive the fierce competition and thrive with the long-term business advantage involve more planning, adjustment, and speed. 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...

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Three Linchpins for Connecting to the Digital New Normal

Digital organizations need to keep tuning structures and processes, become more adaptable and innovative. Running a digital business represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem, with people at the center of its focus. To break down silos and overly rigid hierarchy, businesses need to emphasize communication, participation, relationships, and realize that they will...

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The Monthly "Digital IT" Book Tuning: How to Sow IT Innovation Seeds via Asking Open-Ended Questions

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 & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency. The proactive IT debates help IT leaders brainstorm better ways to do things, and improve management...

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How to Improve IT visibility as the Strategic Business Partner

 The highly visible IT can elevate its maturity from “controlling to change to innovate,” from "surviving to striving to thriving," Even though IT permeates to almost every corner of the business, many traditional IT organizations are still perceived as an invisible back office maintenance function. Thus, to improve IT visibility as the strategic partner, CIOs should have both business leadership skill and technical knowledge to understand...

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: How to Bridge Digital Leadership Gaps Jan., 2018

“Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps via multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to bridge communication, knowledge and insight...

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Digital Reinforcement Management Practices

Organizations are moving from doing digital via experimenting some digital technologies to going digital via expanding to all dimensions for a holistic digital transformation.  Many organizations are on the journey of digital transformation which represents the next stage of business maturity and will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its digital ecosystem, with people at the center of its focus. However, every business evolves...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 1/25/2018

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4300+ 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 Management. Three...

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Three Digital Competencies Differentiate IT Leaders from Laggard

Running a nimble and innovative IT as a great business problems-solver enables the business building differentiated competency and accelerating change and digitalization. Organizations rely more and more on information and technology. It is simply not sufficient to run IT as a commodity service provider. IT organizations have more and more to offer, but also have more obstacles to overcome. A clear understanding of what services or solutions are...

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