The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 2/1/2019

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.8 million page views with 5300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 27 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making...

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Innovativeness and Innovation

By manifesting creativity and elaborating innovativeness from an individual endeavor to a team activity and a collective effort, the horizon of creativity is expanded and the effect of innovation is magnified. Innovativeness is the capacity and competency to innovate, innovation is the act of being innovative and the result of innovativeness. Being innovative is simply about being different - think different, see things differently and figure out...

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Five Pillars of Digital Stagnation

Digital transformation is the radical change, it cannot be just another thing that needs to be accomplished. It has to be woven into the collective mentality, process, action, and communication. Either for individuals or businesses today, change is inevitable, some of us get it quicker than others. But too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, disruption, or crisis. The digital transformation is all about the rapid changes with...

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The Monthly “Performance Master’ Book Tuning: Assess the Creative Performance of Digital Organization Jan 2019

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.           The...

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Creativity and Aura

When we find calm inside, we sense the aura outside too. "Aura" is a circle or an outline of energy around us. Aura is the distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a person. Creativity is an individual activity. It is, by nature, unique to each person. Aura plays an indispensable part in building up creative energy. It is where you generate the power to be creative. The world needs creative energy, and...

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Should CIOs Become “Creative Digital Populist”

Being a digital populist doesn't mean that CIOs lack of character, acts as an order taker only. In fact, confident CIOs with strong character are in demand to rebrand IT as the strategic and trustful business partner.  Nowadays, information is permeating into every corner of the organization, technology is the driven force behind the digital transformation. IT is making an impact on almost every dimension of the organization. CIOs should step...

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The Monthly “100 Digital Rules” Book Tuning: Problem-Solving Principle Jan. 2019

Fundamentally, every work is to deal with problems big or small both from long-term perspectives or on the daily basis. The purpose of “100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal “ is to establish digital principles and update business policies that can be applied holistically and guide the digital transformation systematically. Digital rules are based on a set of fundamental beliefs behind the methodologies and...

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Build a Future-Oriented “Synthetic Board”

 A "synthetic Board" can read change sentiment with accuracy and lead change effortlessly. The directorship in the modern organization plays a significant role in business advising, strategy oversight, and performance monitoring, etc. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, BoDs should also set tones for changes and digital transformation. An effective board needs to practice synthetic...

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Leverage Systems Thinking to Understand Patterns and Drive Changes

System thinking is just a tool at their disposal to try to evaluate beforehand what will happen as they start the process as well as make the proper adjustment on the way of changes.  Uncertainty, ambiguity, unpredictability, velocity, etc, are the digital new normal. To keep up with today's changes and market disruptions requires the right people with a growth mindset and high changeability. Systems Thinking helps to understand patterns, interconnectivity...

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The Monthly “Dot Connections”: Critical Thinking Jan. 2019

Critical thinking is the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion. The effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Organization of the Future is an organization designed openly for anyone with ideas on how human organizations ought to be contrived...

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The Art and Science of Creativity: A Set of Albert Einstein’s Quotes to Explore Creativity

 The most advanced societies are diverse mixtures of peoples that can spark creativity and amplify innovation effect. Creativity is both innate and a skill. Developing creativity requires both internal motivation and self-awareness. Creativity is the high level of thinking because it evolves many thought processes, such as imagination, pattern discovery, originality, intuition, etc. There are both art and science about creativity. Here is...

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Leveraging "Sense and Sensitivity" to Experience Digital

Walkthrough “look, listen, feel, taste, and question,” stages for tuning a digital organization. Digital transformation represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. It is the radical change which cannot be just another thing that needs to be accomplished, it has to be woven into the collective mindsets, communications, processes, and actions of the organization. The goal for running a dynamic digital business is...

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