The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” May 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...

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The Best “Advancement” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2019

The most ADVANCING thing in the world is an advanced mindset. "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 organization to unleash its full potential...

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Three Causes of Business Vulnerability

We live in an era, full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, and ambiguity, the result is the higher risk of priority conflict, change inertia, resource limitation or business vulnerability.  Digital organizations are organic, complex, informative and hyperconnected. Closer to reality is that change is continuously happening in such a dynamic environment of a company. The inevitable range, breadth, depth, and pace of uncontrollable factors...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 5/30/2019

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 5700+ 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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Three Perspectives on Being an Innovative Leader

Innovation leaders are versatile with open-mindedness and learning agility. By etymology, "innovare" signifies "to germinate seeds," knowing that, go ahead and innovate by inventing your future, and the one of your company’s. Business success today depends on innovation. Business innovation depends on innovation leadership. Highly innovative leaders need to have a clear vision, effective communication and make a commitment to roll the imagination...

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The Monthly Keyword Summary: Holism May 2019

“Holistic thinking" refers to a big picture mentality, and understand that the whole is often greater than the sum of the parts. From one generation to the next, the substance of leadership does not change, it’s about future, change, and influence. However, digital leadership trends will continue to emerge. Here is a set of featured blogs to dig into "Holism" as the keyword of the 21st century to brainstorming the future of digital leadership and...

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The Corporate Board Director Digital Profile VII

Great boards consist of outstanding directors who are able to “rowing together in the boat,” toward the destination via a clear vision and strong governance practices.  The purpose of the governing body, or board of directors, is to direct and control the organization to accomplish its judiciary duty -corporate governance and steer the business in the right direction. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity and...

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"Continual improvement" as the Mantra to Run Digital IT

Effective IT leaders are excellent at articulating the benefits of making business improvement and how IT can make these changes happen.  Digital transformation is an arduous journey with the long jump and it takes time and commitment to reach a higher level of digital maturity. IT plays a crucial role in the digital paradigm shift because IT can drive and orchestrate transformative changes by integrating to and knowledgeable of the business...

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The Monthly Foresight: Reimagine and Reinvent the Future of Digital Organization May. 2019

Reimaging the future of business is exciting, but investigating the different path for unlocking business performance takes strategy, methodology, and practice. The effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, creativity is the most wanted trait for digital leaders and professionals today, and innovation is the...

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The Best “Improvement” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2019

Continuous improvement goes hand-in-hand with one of the digital principles, "to learn constantly so we continually improve." "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...

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Design a Digital Organization from Multiple System Perspectives

The high mature digital organizations are highly conscious about what’s happening in their environment, with the ability to adapt to change timely and unlock their performance continually. Running a digital organization is to connect the old and new, mix the solid and fluid to enforce digital confluence, foster innovation, and achieve people-centricity. Organizations generally consist of varying intersecting and interacting systems. But the strictly...

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The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Board’s Best and Next Practices May 2019

 Boards need to develop their own set of digital best and next practice to improve both the organizational performance and their own performance. Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt...

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Reinvent Digital Organization and Step into the Future by Building Three Bridges

The organization of the future will be organically and adaptively developed, highly adaptive, flexible, fast and innovative. The emerging digital technologies make a profound impact on businesses across industrial sectors, from specific functions to the business as a whole. Reimaging the future of business is exciting, there is more than one road to lead the digital way, and there are many opportunities the organization can explore and a lot...

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