The Monthly Quality Master Book Tuning: Who are Your Quality Champions Mar. 2019

In digital organizations, quality management is not the job of one department, but an overarching management approach.  Digital organizations arise when the scale of the interrelations, interactions, or inter-relational interactions surpasses the silo-based organizational capacity. Quality management ensures that in an organization, products or services are consistent to meet customers’ satisfaction. Digital Quality management needs to take...

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The Best “Perception” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 2019

Perception is the way one's eyes see the world and one's mind interpret it. “Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (27+ 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 how to run a digital IT organization to unleash...

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Running IT as Innovative Problem-Solver

 Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems” timely.  In the digital era with “VUCA” characteristics, IT has many to offer but also needs to overcome a lot of challenges. To improve its organizational maturity, IT has to transform from a supporting center to an innovative business solver, helps the company develop the differentiated competency, predicts upcoming opportunities or risks, meet customers’...

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Closing the Multitude of Blindspots Mar. 2019

There’s knowing unknown, there’s unknowing unknown, so it's not a new topic about “Blind Spots.”  "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 where...

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The Best “Nonlinear Thinking” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 2019

To deal with “VUCA” digital new normal, we have to leave our old mechanistic view of the world behind us and look at the world through new eyes as a world of nonlinear systems. "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (27+ 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...

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Running IT as a Digital Solutionary for Information Management

Information Management is a key differentiator between digital leaders and laggards, high-performing organizations and mediocre companies. Information grows rapidly and it is one of the most invaluable business assets of modern organizations. Information does not live alone but permeates into everywhere in the business. Thus, the value of information is not isolated.  Information Management is a scientific management discipline for effective...

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The Monthly “Dot Connections”: Digital Best Practice Dot Connection Mar. 2019

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. 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 in the face of the strategic imperatives...

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The Best “Strategic Thinking” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 2019

Strategic Thinking is the ability to think on a temporal plane: where you are, where you want to be, identify gaps, and take alternate approaches to anticipate and provide solutions. "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (27+ 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...

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Leverage Design Factors to Reinvent IT

Due to the changing nature of technology, the IT organization has to continue to re-imagine and reshuffle itself for adapting to changes. A digital organization starts with a transcendent purpose that leads to a unique natural design, a design most fit to achieve the purpose of businesses. IT is the linchpin of the business’s digital transformation. It could be necessary to reinvent IT by applying Design Thinking and asking tough questions: What...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 3/28/2019

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 5500+ 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...

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The Strategic Evaluation of Corporate Board

Strategic evaluation is important because the Board of Directors are required to exercise influence over volatility, manage uncertainty, simplify complexity and resolve ambiguity to lead confidently. Leadership is all about change and directorship is about steering the business in the right direction. The matter of fact is that rapid changes sweeping the business are hugely disruptive and there is nowhere to hide. The corporate board just has...

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Riding Three Curves to Reach the Potential Waves of Digital Transformation

 Curve awareness, contemplation, strength finding and building, practices, and measurement are the logical steps in reaching potential waves and making a seamless digital paradigm shift. We are living in a dynamic business environment in which inventions, developments, and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have complete knowledge and understanding of many issues facing the company and market today. The business...

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The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Improvement Officer" Mar. 2019

The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly. This book “12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence. The important thing is that...

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The Best “Pattern Thinking” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 2019

If you look at patterns, you will find that they are containers for describing relationships because that is what gives them their sense. "Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (27+ 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,...

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