The Monthly Digital Insight: The Digital Framework and Scoreboard Aug. 2018

Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, and creativity is all about connecting the dots. The digital frameworks add value as they are implementations of the patterns to avoid having to reinvent the wheel, it helps the organization embed a digital culture into the very fabric of the business, explore digital in a structural way and laser focus on the most important things to get business digital ready. The Digital...

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Experiment with Digital Innovation Externally

Digitalization stipulates companies work together in a hyper-connected and continuously converging environment in which organizations can explore and manage innovation in a structural way. Innovation is a systematic way of applying creativity in real life and business. In general, innovation is a discipline for markets change and shift, and for each company attempting to deal with these changes, there is a different path to follow. An innovation...

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Three Aspects of Digital Management Precision

Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent, and business competency is cohesive. Digital management is responsible for designing, enabling, and enforcing a collaborative, innovative, intelligent, and inclusive working environment for engaging employees, delighting customers, unlocking business performance, and improve overall organizational quality and maturity. Quality management ensures that an organization,...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 8/30/2018

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 4900+ 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. Monitor...

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Awakening the Digital Superconsciousness to Make the Paradigm Shift

The digital leaders today need to gain the multitude of “digital awareness” and be able to look ahead and identify the certain trends in their industry. Either individually or collectively, the “consciousness” about our own potentials is changing the way we see ourselves, our roles in a community: a team or a company. Digital transformation is a journey, the increasing pace of technological advances and exponential growth of information have clearly...

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The Monthly "IT Innovation" Book Tuning: From Information Management to Innovation Management Aug. 2018

Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, and creativity is all about connecting the dots. 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 the right decisions. The value of information is qualitative, measurable, and defined uniquely by an organization. From Information Management to Innovation Management ...

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Three “S” to Digitize Boardroom

The Board is responsible for contributing to both protecting the business values and creating the business value through effectively steering, strategizing, and scrutinizing. The digital organization is a living thing with the ability to continually change as the world changes and evolves with an intersecting and interacting business ecosystem seamlessly. If a Board is to fulfill its fiduciary responsibilities to its stakeholders, it needs to take...

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The CIO’s Provocative, Sophisticated, and innovative Role in the Digital Business Future Orientation

Future orientation should help you prepare to meet what's coming! Metaphorically, a digital organization is an organism - the "cells" are its people. It is living. The blood is the information which flows. Digital transformation isn’t just an extension of continuous improvement of the current business, but a quantum leap with radical change. Digital CIOs play the provocative, sophisticated and innovative role in the digital business future orientation...

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The Monthly Digital Practices: How to Shape and Scale Digital Organizations Aug. 2018

The business practice is always a combination of people and how they are used to doing things based on the set of principles and standards for adapting to changes in the business or technology shift. Besides building a set of principles to follow, it’s also important to develop a series of best/next practice to scale up and amplify digital effects How to Shape and Scale Digital Organization Three Practices to Scale Up Digital Transformation?...

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The Popular Quotes about “Digital CIO Leadership” in “Digital Master” Book Series

“Being an innovative CIO means learning fast, being inclusive, embracing multiple viewpoints and taking calculated risks.” "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (25+ 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...

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The CIO as “Chief Innovation Officer”: How to Build a Highly Innovative Team

Select for empowerment, select for curiosity, select for progress, and select for low ego. The Digital Era upon us is the age of innovation. Innovation involves new ways of bringing together ideas and resources to create something novel and then transform those novel ideas to achieve the business value. Identification of the novel is only the beginning, the heavy lifting starts as the company starts leveraging talented people, aligns resources...

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The Monthly Insight of “Digital Quality” The Quality Attributes of Digital Organizations Aug. 2018

Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent. 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 is in everything people do and experience.           ...

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IMPOSE = OPPOSE - How to Drive Frictionless Change and Digitalization

Digital transformation as the leapfrogging change represents the next stage of business maturity and will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem, with the people at the center of its focus. The digital business is hyperconnected, you can’t separate things properly and you can’t predict the actual effect of business interactions straightforwardly. Digital organizations are complex because of hyperconnectivity, velocity,...

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The Monthly “Lesson Learned”: How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Digital Journey? Aug. 2018

The journey of digitalization will not be flat. It represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact.  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. Digitalization...

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