The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 5/31/2018

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 of digital leadership, IT Management, and Talent...

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Avoid Pitfalls to Run Digital IT

Organizations rise and fall, not on the quantum of plans and resources, but on the capabilities to lead and manage, yet most important to execute. The nimble digital technologies and abundance of information change how we think, live, and run always-on and always connected digital businesses today. The world is becoming smaller every day and as the consequence, every successful business has to sooner or later step into the uncharted water and blurred...

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The Monthly Digital Debate Collection: Five “HOW”s to Fine-Tune Digital Organizational Structure May 2018

Highly mature digital organizations have the high-level digital capability not only to build a digital business with people-centricity, but also to catalyzing enterprise-wide transformation via self-aware leadership, self-adaptive systems, and self-disciplined and self-motivated people.  Five “HOW”s to Fine-Tune Digital Organizational Structure How to Run a Digital Organization with Autonomy The business world is moving from a static,...

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Five Senses of Digital Board

The board's ‘deep common sense” leads toward ”Effective Judgment," which has been defined as leveraged sense and sensitivity to make sound decisions.  The corporate board oversees strategy, monitors performance, sets policies, advises management, and plays an instrumental role in leading business transformation seamlessly. The digital-savvy board has to gain digital awareness, shape the digital mindset, leverage five senses, and exercise creativity...

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The Duel Forces to Run “Balanced” IT

 To stay competitive, businesses today have to gain a deep understanding of duel forces, manage digital balance cycles and reach the next level of organizational maturity. The journey of digital transformation is all about weighing the key business elements impacting change such as people, process, and technology, blend coherent business ingredients, and balance the multiple duel forces, to create the business harmony and make a solid...

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The Full-Color Spectrum of Creativity

Creativity is full of colors and has many dimensions, with multifaceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge and incredible imagination. Creativity has many faces, the creative thinker is unique. Creative personality seems to be more colorful and paradoxical. Analogically, creativity is like a color spectrum, there are commonalities that are relevant to all colors which reflect the spectrum of light. Such a metaphor connects the dot back to the nature...

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Strengthening Digital By Synergizing, Personalization, and Serialization

A digital transformation is an overarching approach that has to dig underneath of the surface of businesses and takes a holistic approach by synergizing, personalization, and serialization. The digital paradigm shift has many dimension, it is not a single dimensional technological upgrade, companies need to embed digital into the very fabric of the business and explore digital management practices in a structural way. There is no magic formula,...

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The Monthly Insight of Information Management May 2018

 Information is the lifeblood and knowledge is the power of modern businesses. The aim of modern Information Management has often been described as getting the right information to the right person, in the right format and medium, at the right time, in order to make right decisions. The value of information is qualitative, measurable, and defined uniquely by an organization to maximize its full digital potential.  The Long Journey...

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The Aura of Digital Hyperconnectivity

 Digitization amplifies the progressive business effect into modern society, unleash the great potential, and demonstrate the beautiful aura of hyperconnectivity. Digital blurs geographical, functional, organizational, and even industrial borders nowadays, it is all about hyperconnectivity. Digital organizations become always-on, interdependent, and they are like the switches in the expanded business ecosystem, to keep information flow, knowledge...

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The Monthly Insight: Digital Profundity May 2018

Now we live in a hyper-connected and over-complex digital ecosystem, digital flow changes the landscape of communication, collaboration, and connection, With "VUCA" characteristics of digitalization, digital profundity is in demand; a profound mind is deep, but not depressing; sophisticated, but not complicated; knowledgeable, but not arrogant; creative, but not naive; critical, but not negative; and mature, but not aged.           ...

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IT Innovation and Intrapreneurship

Innovation is a mindset and a prerequisite to doing sustainable business these days. The digital organization is technology driven and information intensive, IT needs to become the linchpin to integrate people, process, and technology into differentiated business competency such as innovation. The art of innovation is to connect wider dots for creating new ideas; the science of innovation is to take a structural approach to innovation management....

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The Monthly “Dot Connections” Connecting Dots for Catalyzing Innovation May 2018

Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, and creativity is all about connecting the dots. 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 via connecting dots and spreading the knowledge. Connecting Dots for Catalyzing Innovation Systems Thinking vs. Creativity? The purpose of Systems Thinking is to solve...

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CIOs as the “Change Agent”: Three “Never” Practices to Manage Change Seamlessly

It is nevertheless true that the change itself has become unpredictable and evolutionary, as compared to treading through carefully.  Change is a volatile subject, just like change itself. Compared to the business world decades ago, information is growing exponentially, the digital ecosystem has also become more complex and dynamic. Everything changes continuously by following the laws of evolution, and the rate of change is accelerated....

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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection & “Digital IT” Tuning: How to Run IT with Differentiated Competency May 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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