The Monthly CIO Debates Collection & “Digital IT” Book Tuning: The CIO’s Innovation Inquiries Sep. 2019

Debating is not for stimulating conflicts, but for brainstorming better ways to do things. Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership role also continues to involve & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency. The proactive IT debates help IT leaders to brainstorm better ways to do things and improve management...

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The Best “Bottleneck” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2019

The business needs to define strategy, profitability, and relevance at any given time to break through bottlenecks and avoid pitfalls on the path to innovation. "Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + 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...

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Incorporate Both Ends and Means to Build a High Mature Digital Organization

The journey of digital transformation is a bumpy journey with many ups and downs. It could be misled because of the wrong focus, the wrong assumptions, the wrong ends, and the wrong means. The digital paradigm shift is multidimensional expansion and interdisciplinary management practice. The information technology, process, capability and culture tuning, etc, are all tactics to expand both horizontally and vertically, get the organization from...

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The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: The CIO as “Chief Insight Officer” Sep. 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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Learn from Failures

The value is how you respond to failure; and how you respond is dependent upon what you learn from it. No one likes failures, but failures knock our door sometimes. Either individually or at the organizational level, there are some failures perhaps you can control. But others seem completely out of control. The reality of failure is that it is also a way to learn. You can make a transition from failing bitter to failing better only if you learn...

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The Monthly Best Practice Summary: Innovation Principles Sep. 2019

It's important to set principles and manage innovation in a structured way across the organizational scope and digital ecosystem. Generally speaking, principles are general rules and guidelines, intended to be enduring and seldom amended. It is important to develop a set of principles to inspire creativity, encourage positive attitude and innovation to generate winning concepts for digital transformation on a consistent basis. Here is a set of innovation...

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The Best “Originality” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2019

Original thinking is independent, creative, original, special or different. This world needs more of an original thinker than ever to handle the ever-increasing complexities, "Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + 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...

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Build Digitally Competent Organization

It takes a structural procedure to drill down the critical success factors and develops differentiated business competency to unlock the business full potential. With “VUCA” digital new normal, organizations today have to adapt to continuous changes, the exponential growth of information, and frequent disruptions. Digital management is fundamentally an iterative cycle to design, develop, scale, and optimize business competency for integrating, optimizing,...

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The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: Adaptability Sep. 2019

What makes a board adaptive and effective has to do with cognition, skills, and attributes of BoDs. 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 to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire...

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The Best “Problem-Framing” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2019

Framing the right problem more often needs to step back or get out of the box, in order to look at the problem from a different angle or understand the issues holistically. "Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + 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...

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Three Aspects of Shaping a “Self-Driving” Digital Organization

Digital organizations have to adapt to the continuous changes via self-adaptability, self-renewal, and maintaining the digital balance. Digital organizations are like living systems keep evolving. Living systems are self-organizing, self-organization allows you to adapt to current circumstances and emerge the next most useful evolutionary change to get where you think you need to go next. Therefore, organizations today need to keep improving how...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 9/27/2019

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 6000+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 28 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 Best “Growth Mind” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2019

To deal with fast-paced changes and continuous disruptions, growth mindset and cognitive intelligence are in strong demand to ride learning curves and make the progressive movement. "Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + 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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