The New Book “The Change Agent CIO” Introduction Chapter 3 The Digital IT Change Agenda

Crafting an IT change agenda is important to ensure that IT is strategically positioned to be ahead of where the business is moving next. With change as the new normal happening at a faster pace and high velocity, IT faces an unprecedented opportunity to refine its reputation, also needs to take more responsibility as a true business partner. Change is a dance between the top management and the affected parts of the organization, the CIO needs...

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Three Aspects on How Collective Learning Fosters Innovation

A learning culture is something that must be ubiquitous in the organization, collective learning is the secret source to foster innovation and drive a company’s long-term success. We live in the information and knowledge economy, today’s digital professionals are hard workers, knowledge workers, and creative workers, who are exploring, innovating and evolving to new digital paradigm proactively in a continuous way. To create the new requires not...

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The New Book “The Change Agent CIO” Introduction Chapter 2 The Pervasive Change and Digitalization

The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitalization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization’s digitalization journey increases. The emerging digital era means the overwhelming growth of information and continuous disruptions driven by technologies. Today’s digital dynamic pushes companies to get out of their comfort zone, leverage their various environments or ecosystems, to chase growth...

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Depth + Breadth = Probability for Digital Innovation

The organizations can improve innovation success rate when they have clear leadership vision, knowledge and talent proficiency, as well as process clarity. Innovation is how to transform novel ideas to achieve the business value. Innovation has to result in something which leads us to a better state than where we are today. Innovations in the digital era are coming at seemingly much fast space, with changes and potential disruptions. With well-educated...

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The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: Shaping a Digital Organization Sep. 2018

The abundance of information and the unprecedented digital convenience brought by powerful technologies changes the way we think, live, and work. 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...

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Running IT as Business in the Business by Taking Innovative Approach

IT is the business in the business and the innovation engine of the entire organization.  The digital world is so data-driven and information-intensive. Organizations rely more and more on technology, technology needs will only expand. IT is being used more and more around the globe for revenue generating initiatives and the business is becoming IT. IT has also to be run as the business in the business by taking varying innovative approaches. Effectively...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 9/28/2018

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating the new ideas. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.5 million page views with 5000+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 25 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the...

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The New Book “The Change Agent CIO” Introduction Chapter 1 The Digital CIO as Change Agent

Digital CIOs need to be proactive, visible, and influential top business leaders. As businesses change shape, size, expansion, and transformation, CIOs have to wear different personas and master multiple leadership and management role effortlessly. The important thing is that the digital CIO as the top leadership role must have the strategic mindset, interdisciplinary knowledge, unique personality, and a clear idea of what needs to be done, yet...

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How to Keep IT “Fresh” and Get Digital Ready

To keep a fresh image, IT needs to move up its maturity level from functioning to firm to delight, to catalyze changes and orchestrate the digital transformation. The majority of IT organizations are perceived as monolithic, isolated, and stereotypical support centers with heavyweight hardware boxes, focus on “keeping the business lights on.” IT running in an industrial mode as a business controller or a restraint no longer fits in the dynamic business...

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The Monthly “Performance Master’ Book Tuning: The IT Performance Scorecard Sep. 2018

Corporate Performance Management is a management control from strategy till shop floor. "If you can't measure, you can't manage," legendary management guru Peter Drucker once asserted. Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans, and making decisions to ensure it happens. It takes multifaceted approaches from multidimensional perspectives to unlock digital performance and catalyze change.         ...

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