The Monthly “Leadership Master” Book Tuning: Innovative Leadership Apr. 2018

Leadership is complex yet simple: Complex in that there are so many traits and characteristics that are considered when evaluating a leader. Simplicity in that the substance of leadership never changes, it’s all about future and change; direction and dedication; influence and innovation. The purpose of the book: Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity is to convey the vision of digital leadership, share the insight about...

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The Digital Board’s Digital Inquiries

The digital boards ask tough questions, collect invaluable feedback, update digital principles for harnessing communication and enforcing governance effectiveness. The digital era is hyperconnected, volatile, complex, uncertain and ambiguous. It is the digital paradigm shift. Adopting a different paradigm is like changing the glasses and new possibilities might emerge. The corporate board plays an important role in overseeing digital strategy, advising...

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The Best Practices to Shape the Digital Fitness of IT

Running IT takes an interdisciplinary approach and keeping IT fit is a systematic approach. Information and technology nowadays make the impact on every aspect of the business, IT can no longer just be about numbers and algorithms; it has an opportunity to be a significant catalyst for business growth and a tool for encouraging questing and connecting the innovation dots. In the face of vast areas of uncertainty and unprecedented complexity, it...

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The Popular Quotes of “Digital Master” Book Series

A living organization is flexible, responsive, and resilient "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (23+ 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, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises on how to run a digital IT organization to unleash its full potential...

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Systems Thinking vs. Inclusiveness

Amplify the voice of Systems Thinking and create harmony via the diverse thoughts and perceiving diversity in unity.  Systems Thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes, and understanding the relationship between the parts and the whole. The relationship is everything. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than isolated things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static “snapshots,” to perceive diversity in unity. In management...

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The CIO’s Tough Choices for Running High-Performance Digital IT

Nowadays, there is a lot of stuff on the CIOs’ plate, they just need to learn how to spin them skillfully. Contemporary leaders in modern businesses have to make many tough choices in the growth-maturity journey, either making decisions in strategic planning, talent management or innovation exploration. Forward-looking organizations are at the tipping point to see IT as an asset, capital, and source of competitive advantage. Still, there are...

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The Monthly Insight of “Digital Quality” Apr. 2018

Quality is not just the specific task of one single business department or function, it is one of the management disciplines which needs to be taken in a systematic way.  Organizational excellence is achieved via delivering qualified products or services and continuously improving business performance. Quality is defined by a number of factors such as efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, innovation, or maturity, as a degree of quality...

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Accelerating Digital By Taking a Strategic Pathway

 if you are not different, you are a commodity. This is the foundation on which brands are built. The shift to digital paradigm cuts across sectors, geographies and leadership roles, the digital transformation is now spreading rapidly to enable organizations of all shapes and sizes to reinvent themselves and reimagine the “art of possible.” Still, for most organizations, from doing digital to going digital and being digital is the bumpy road....

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The Monthly “100 Digital Rules” Book Tuning: Digital Management Rules Apr. 2018

A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance and guide through changes and digital transformation. The purpose of “100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal “ is to establish digital principles and update business policies that can be applied holistically and guide the digital transformation systematically. Digital rules are based on a set of fundamental...

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How to Spot Your Change Champions

Intelligence is tested by changeability, and quality is proved by changeability.  The increasing speed, velocity, as well as the fast pace of technological advances have clearly impacted the nature and scope of opportunity as well as the risk involved. When you stop changing, you've already lost. A changeable organization is to creating organizations where change is the norm and happens the whole time. Change the game is a mindset, people are...

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Can CIOs Wear the New Thinking Hat to Run IT as the Business

Although the mind shift is challenging, it is a crucial step to bridge the chasm between IT and business. Information is now permeating into every corner in the business, and technology is often the disruptive force of digitalization. The general expectation from IT has changed. Not only are they being seen as an enabler, they are now mandatorily required to give ROI for the investments. Forward-looking organizations also empower their CIOs to...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 4/27/2018

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.5 million page views with 4600+ 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...

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The Digital Readiness of Organizations

 It’s critical to discover the strategic and predictive pathway to change, increase confidence, position a brand and leverage resources to make the digital paradigm shift effortlessly. We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of digital age, the path to the next level of digital maturity, also in the era of confusion and information overload. Most organizations have a mix of old and new, physical and virtual, order and chaos, the old...

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Gap Minding Leadership Apr. 2018

 If you are not taking steps now to shrink that leadership gaps, you will not be prepared to lead the digital business in the future.  "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 with the multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still, bridging the...

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