The Monthly Foresight: The Future of Abundance Mar. 2018

Digital is the age of abundance. There is an abundance of data, an abundance of information, and even abundance of knowledge. 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, creativity is the most wanted trait for digital leaders and professionals today, and innovation is the light every organization is pursuing....

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The New Book “Digital Maturity” Introduction Chapter IV: The Next Practices to Orchestrate Digital Paradigm Shift Seamlessly

A high-mature organization always looks for opportunities across the business to increase the usage of emerging digital technologies accordingly and charter the digital paradigm shift seamlessly. We are experiencing the majority shift from the industrial machine age to the post-industrial information/knowledge/insight era. A digital paradigm is an emerging digital ecosystem of principles, policies, and practices that set limits or boundaries, also...

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The Tide, Wave, and Ripple Effect of an evolving digital organization

The digital ecosystem provides unprecedented opportunities to strike a dynamic balance between the inner and outer elements, and leapfrog the business world up to the next level of advancement. Change is the new normal. The speed of change is increasing, to put simply, change itself changes. Change Management also turns out to be more complex. Digitalization is all about the exponential growth of information, rapid speed of changes, hyperconnectivity...

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection: Is IT a Building Block or a Roadblock to Digital Transformation Mar. 2018

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 to brainstorm better ways to do things and improve management...

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Clarify the Myth and Misconceptions for Accelerating Digitalization

Digital transformation is worth its weight because of its high impact on optimizing business performance and driving the business’s long-term prosperity. Embracing digital is inevitable as that is now part of reality. However, taking a journey of digitalization is a bumpy journey with many ups and downs. It could be misled because of the wrong focus, the wrong assumptions, the wrong ends, and the wrong means. It is important to clarify the myth...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 3/29/2018

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4500+ 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. Digital...

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The New Book "Digital Maturity" Introduction Chapter 3 Fine-Tune Organization Structures to Get Digital Ready

 Tuning the organizational design and structure to achieve the high level of autonomy is the symbol of the digital maturity. Due to the “VUCA” nature of digitalization, organizations that are skilled at managing complexity can gain advantages by pushing the boundaries of more complicated business mix that provides opportunities to create inter-business value. From an organizational change management perspective, how to fine tune the digital...

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The New Book Introduction Chapter 2 The Interdisciplinary Aspects of Orchestrating a Digital Business Ecosystem

Digital maturity requires a well-defined digital framework enabling to develop cross-functional and interrelational management processes and practices.  The digital ecosystem is dynamic, nonlinear, and complex, hence, digital management also needs to be nonlinear and transdisciplinary to deal with “‘VUCA” new normal. Digital leaders today have to frame bigger thinking boxes, and approach problems via the multifaceted lens, technically, scientifically,...

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How to Leverage the (PRY) Feedback mechanism for Improving Business Effectiveness and Efficiency

Feedback is the bridge to effectively connect our lesson-learned from the past to the future performance and potential. Running businesses today is complex as there are so many variables that determine the success of the organization. Businesses have to keep tuning those important business factors, make continuous improvement. Therefore, feedback and feedforward are important to run a successful business for the long term, because feedback is...

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How can BoDs Overcome Barriers to Get out of the “Comfort Zone”

Performance Evaluation and strategic or long-term planning should top the list in the digital board’s agenda.With the increasing speed of changes and frequent digital disruptions across vertical sectors, the role of the corporate board also becomes more dynamic and strategic. No longer are boards sitting in a room and just voting on various policies for business compliance. They need to focus on their own performance as well as the performance of...

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The New Book “Digital Maturity” Introduction Chapter 1 The Characteristics of Digital Organizations

Going digital is the gigantic puzzle with many misplaced pieces; you have to put them all in the right places to discover the true meaning and unleash its full potential.  The digital world is dynamic, interconnected, and interdependent, with the exponential growth of information and fierce competition. Organizations large or small are on the journey of digitalization, adapting to changes in faster speed and expand digital in every dimension...

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Three Aspects of Being an Innovative CIO

 IT can become the bridge between the art and science of innovation. Change is the new normal with a faster pace and high level of intensity. Ideologically, the highly effective and highly dynamic digital organizations, no matter large or small, have a multitude of digital characteristics such as information fluidity, interdependence, and hyper-connectivity. Information & Technology is the linchpin to run a dynamic digital business. IT...

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The Monthly Insight of “Digital Balance”: The Digital Hybridity Mar. 2018

Digital doesn’t mean just tear down all the old things in the previous era, in reality, digital means to strike the right balance between the new way and the “old way.” We are experiencing the dynamics of the most significant business transformation since the industrial revolution. The majority of us will work in an organization that is somewhere between old and new; at both industrial speed and digital speed; It is more critical than ever to maintain...

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