Thursday, January 4, 2018

The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 1/5/2018

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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.

The Digital CIO’s Three “ALWAYS” to Make IT COOL again and Get Digital Ready Traditional IT organizations are often perceived as the cost center or support function only. Although technology is more often than not, the disruptive force for business and industry innovation, IT organizations seem to have a tendency to align with the slow changing parts of the organization. With continuous digital disruptions and exponential growth of information, the business needs IT to deliver services or solutions that drive business productivity and effectiveness, the business also needs IT to provide better information to achieve improved profitability and build the organizational competency. In reality, different companies evolve digital with varying speed, how do you view the role of your IT organization today? Is it a service provider, a solution provider, or a game changer? How can CIOs make IT cool again to get digital ready?

Three Views to Keep Board Directors Evolving in Exponential Digital Age The corporate board as one of the top leadership pillars plays a crucial role in overseeing strategies and leading changes and digitalization. Adopting a different paradigm is like changing the glasses and new possibilities continue to emerge. Those who look through the lens of the previous industrial era see their own reality very differently from those who leverage the lens that the new era has crafted. Thus, the board directors need to learn and master the multitude of digital views of the business and understand the exponential digital age profoundly.

The “Digital Master” Book Series- The “100 Series” of “Digital Master”
Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (21+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; they have both clear digital vision and well-crafted digital strategy; they are courageous to be in the vanguard of digital transformation with a quantum lead. At the individual level, Digital Masters are those cross-generational digital professionals who are equipped with the advanced digital minds and build a unique set of digital capabilities. "100" elements imply the holism of digital masters.

The New Year Celebration: Close your Eyes and Open your Mind on New Year's Eve
The holiday season is not just the time to open gift boxes, but also the perfect time to open your thinking box for practicing creativity. The effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, take a break in the holidays to recharge your energy, and boost creativity via connecting dots and practice “out-of-the-box” thinking.

Digital CIO’s New Year IT Effectiveness Checklist
IT organization continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage. Forward-looking IT organizations move from a technology-driven back-office function to become an information-oriented digital engine. IT needs to shift from an order taker to an order shaker, from inside-out operation driven to outside-in customer-centric. Do right things to run an effective IT before doing things right to make IT efficient. So, what should be put on the digital CIO’s IT effectiveness checklist at the beginning of the New Year?

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1 comments:

Great post!! you have shared effective ways in your post. Also I would like to share my thoughts on CIO Email List

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