The Monthly Book Tuning & The End of Month Debate: Is Silo the “Trick or Treat” in your Organization? Oct. 2018

Silo thinking builds the wall in people’s minds and set barriers to organizational strategy management. The "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 'gap of opportunity' between...

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The World-Class Board: How to Create Top Leadership Niche

 The leadership challenge to build a world-class corporate board is about how to fill blindspots, bridge insight gaps, and make a leap of digitalization.Compared to the business world decades ago, information is growing exponentially, the speed of change is increasing significantly, and digital disruptions are happening frequently. The matter of fact is that the changes sweeping the world are hugely disruptive, and from top-down, there...

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Three Insight of Digital Innovation

Innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. The digital era upon us is the age of innovation. The unprecedented digital convenience brought by the abundance of information and powerful technologies changes the way we think, live, and work. From a business management perspective, innovation - the practical application of creativity is essentially about...

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The Monthly Summary: “Hyperconnectivity” as the Key Word of the Digital Age Oct. 2018

Digital organizations become always on and interdependent, they are the switches in the expanded business ecosystem. Digitalization is a journey of a thousand miles to make a seamless shift from functioning to firm to delight, and reach the higher maturity of the business to get digital ready. Digital organizations arise when the scale of the interrelations, interactions, or interrelational interactions brings the new cycle of the business...

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The Popular Change Quotes of “Digital Master” Series 2018

“Change is the voyage which needs to continually discover its own landscape, avoid potential pitfalls and enjoy unique scenes of digitalization.” "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (26+ books) is to perceive the multifaceted impact digital is making to the business and our society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the digital journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” Here is the set of popular quotes...

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​Three Aspects of Running Digital IT

The role of digital IT is to identify and blend the ways that information and technology can assist and shape the future of business by linking all important business aspects and key ingredients.  With the exponential growth of information and increasing paces of changes, organizations rely more and more on technology; the IT department has more and more to overcome. The digital connectivity and IT consumerization bring both challenges and...

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The Monthly “Digital Maturity” Book Tuning: The Emotion Behind Digitalization Oct. 2018

You cannot make a true digital paradigm shift without an in-depth understanding of the digital interconnectivity and embracing the multitude of digital maturity. Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational and geographical borders in the business ecosystem....

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The Upside of Ignorance

Prioritization management is both art and science. The art is to know when to pay attention and when to ignore.  With overwhelming growth of information and continuous digital disruptions, today’s companies are so easy to get distracted, very often say yes to all the initiatives, sometimes get burn out and overloaded with short-term business concerns, cause ineffectiveness for the long run. Besides paying enough attention to the critical issues,...

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The Contemporary CIO’s Digital Innovation Agenda

The fast-paced change forces IT leaders to be proactive and get really creative about how they orchestrate and implement changes and drive digital transformation. Digital is the age of innovation. Innovation, in general, is surely a management discipline. IT shouldn’t act as a controller only, limit the business’s creativity. To keep relevant, IT has to shift its reputation from a cost center to the innovation hub of the organization....

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The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: Taking the Logical Steps to Go Digital Oct. 2018

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. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; they have...

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The Bottom-Up Innovation

Openness, transparency, collaboration, empowerment, respect, are all important perspectives for enforcing bottom-up innovation. As business competitions get more cut-throat in the hyper-connected and always-on working environment. This puts stress on the workforce that is not conducive to more creative and experimental thinking and working. Digital innovation is the right mix of art and science. The science of innovation is to take a structural...

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The Monthly Organizational Structure Tuning Running a “Boundaryless” Digital Organization Oct. 2018

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. From an organizational structure perspective, how can you fine-tune the digital dimension of your organizational development? ...

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Business Managers as Quality Champion

The business goal to run a real-time high-quality digital organization is to create synergy by harmonizing all functions to achieve digital synchronization of the entire organization. Organizational excellence is achieved by delivering qualified products or services and continuously improving business performance. Quality Management is not one department’s work, as a degree of quality is in everything people do and experience. Quality is not just...

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