“100 Digital Pitfalls” Introduction Chapter One: Thinking Pitfalls

The modern society is a dynamic continuum with iterative and collective human progress. Real societal progress is made through the work of progressive and foreseeable minds. Digital makes the significant impact on how we think, live, and work. There is the mix of old and new, physical and virtual, order and chaos. 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...

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The Monthly “Leadership Master” Book Tuning: Practice Digital Leadership by Inquiries June 2018

People who innovate are change agents and digital pros and not afraid to challenge the status quo, they have unlimited curiosity to ask questions. 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...

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The Digital Kaleidoscope: What are Emerging Digital Management Views and Hybrid Patterns

Digital kaleidoscope shows the ever-evolving dynamic view, hybrid digital patterns, and mixed cultures.  The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization's digitization journey increases. The digital ecosystem expands when the business community broadens its scope and consumes all sorts of resources. The digital paradigm shift has many dimensions...

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The New Book "100 Digital Pitfalls" Introduction

Organizations rise and fall, not on the quantum of plans and resources, but on the capabilities to lead and the ability to avoid pitfalls and overcome barriers on the way. Digital makes the significant impact on how we think, live, and work. There is the mix of old and new, physical and virtual, order and chaos. 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...

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The Emotion Life Cycle Behind Digital Management

The emotion behind the change is the catalyst - to make our “visions” reality.  Human history is an evolutionary journey to keep advancing economically, technologically, and sociologically. Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that simply adopting the new digital technology may be insufficient. The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in term of the business speed, the abundance...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 6/28/2018

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 4800+ 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 Management. Three...

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A Distinctive Board

A distinctive board exhibits a creative tension and unique leadership strength, that hard to define, but you know it when you see it.  The purpose of the governing body, or board of directors, is to direct the organization in the right direction and monitor its performance. Corporate governance is to challenge the management and make sure that management is doing its job properly. In a world of well-defined problems, directors are required...

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A “Digital-holic” CIO

Digital-holic CIOs think of digital day and night, advocate digitalization as the top priority for their organization. Digital disruptions are inevitable, and digital transformation is unstoppable. Due to change nature of technologies and exponential growth of information, IT leadership role also has to be continually refined, refreshed and reenergized. Should contemporary CIOs become the “digital-holic” to reimagine the art of possible,...

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The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: The Digital Tastes of the Organization June 2018

Every forward-thinking organization is eager to build a creative workplace, but being innovative is the state of mind. 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 digital organizations today.  The...

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Walk, Talk, and Make a Leap of Digitalization

Organizations of the future are increasingly exhibiting digital characteristics in various shades and intensity.  Digital makes a profound impact from the specific function to the business as a whole. The purpose of such radical digitalization is to make a significant difference in the overall levels of business performance and organizational maturity. However, organizations are different, they have different strength, they have different cultures,...

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The Digital “Flavors” of Innovation

Innovation has to become your business routine, corporate culture to renew creative energy.  Digital innovation has a broader spectrum and the hybrid nature. It comes in the variety of flavors and there are many opportunities in an enterprise to taste it. The companies who get the most from innovation effort have the right ambition, good leadership, and culture quintessential. The purpose of innovation categorization and differentiation is...

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Running a Business-Driven Digital IT Organization

Running a business-driven digital IT organization means that IT can demonstrate its performance not from IT lens, but from outside-in business and customer perspective. At today’s information-driven business dynamic, IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage. To reinvent IT for getting digital ready, the IT organization has to move from a reactive order taker and a back office support...

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The Five Perspectives on Innovators

Innovators are among us and within us, spot them by how they think and do things differently.  Either for individuals or businesses, creativity is a long-term endeavor. It must be cultivated. Why can innovators find more view spots than others? Why can innovators think differently and connect unusual dots effortlessly? What fuels creativity? Creativity is a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Here are some perspectives on being...

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