The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Transform IT from Change Laggard to Change Leader June 2019

Contemporary CIOs should be capable of evolving leadership skills to not only match the pace with changes in technology but also proactively drive digital transformation. Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via...

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Five-Pillar Framework to Develop the Platform Business

 In order to succeed in today’s fast-changing digital business dynamic, organizations must begin thinking about ways with dynamic planning and leverage the platform approach to scale up and broaden their ecosystem impact. The digital organization is a dynamic system which needs to continue evolving and adapting. It can expand and amplify its influence with the ability to create new business models, run a platform business in a hyperconnected...

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Transforming IT via Multiplying, Intensifying, and Maximizing

IT needs to be working hard to transform from a cost center to a value center by demystifying the IT investment puzzle, developing and presenting the measurable IT-driven business value. Digital IT is a paradigm shift in role, responsibility, attitude, and aptitude. There are so many things IT can help the business accomplish, but there are also many obstacles IT has to overcome. Forward-looking IT organizations experiment with different management...

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The Monthly “Performance Master’ Book Tuning: The Principles and Practices to Achieve Stellar Performance June 2019

Enterprise performance management is about how organizations manage performance at both strategic and operational level to achieve the well-set business goals and objectives. Corporate Performance Management is a management control from strategy to the 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...

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Shaping Digital Organization via Contextualization, Synchronization, and Harnomization

The more effortlessly you can contextualize business understanding, synchronize information flow, harmonize business relationships, align, integrate, and optimize the important business factors inside an organization, the closer you can accelerate performance and lead transformative changes seamlessly. Organizations all face fierce competitions and continuous disruptions. How successfully the organization can handle “VUCA” digital new normal depends...

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The Monthly Foresight: Future-Driven Digital Management Practices June 2019

Digital leaders today should be able to navigate through the future of the workplace and workforce management by sharing a clear vision, providing directions and advancing leadership influence. 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...

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The New Book “100 IT Charms” Quote Collection V

Running proactive IT goes beyond business and IT alignment, more about IT-business engagement. The purpose of the book “100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready“ is to articulate different flavors of digital IT organizations and brainstorm the best and next practices for running highly innovative and high-performance IT. Digital charm is not based on the style presented on the surface but on a set of unique competencies to make IT...

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The Business "Problem Framer": Where to Start

There are often multiple and inter-related dynamics behind complex problems and it’s critical to leverage effective tools, methodologies, or practices to frame the right problems. We live in an era full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, and ambiguity. The result is a higher risk of business conflicts and change inertia, etc. Organizations shouldn’t just respond to the dynamic digital environment in a reactive way. They need to have a deep insight...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 6/27/2019

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 5800+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 28books 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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The New Book “100 IT Charms” Quote Collection IV

IT has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as a strategic business partner and an innovative game changer. The purpose of the book “100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready“ is to articulate different flavors of digital IT organizations and brainstorm the best and next practices for running highly innovative and high-performance IT. Digital charm is not based on the style presented on the surface but on...

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The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: Stretch the Strength to Keep “Digital Fit” June 2019

 The digital organization’s long-term advantage is based on its unique strength which can be built and stretched through the combination of talent, resources, processes, and technologies. 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...

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The New Book “100 IT Charms” Quote Collection III

 IT plays a significant role as a linchpin in knitting all critical pieces of the business into innovation competency. The purpose of the book “100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready“ is to articulate different flavors of digital IT organizations and brainstorm the best and next practices for running highly innovative and high-performance IT. Digital charm is not based on the style presented on the surface but on a set of...

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