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The magic “I” of CIO sparks many imaginations: Chief information officer, chief infrastructure officer , Chief Integration Officer, chief International officer, Chief Inspiration Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Influence Office etc. The future of CIO is entrepreneur driven, situation oriented, value-added,she or he will take many paradoxical roles: both as business strategist and technology visionary,talent master and effective communicator,savvy business enabler and relentless cost cutter, and transform the business into "Digital Master"!

The future of CIO is digital strategist, global thought leader, and talent master: leading IT to enlighten the customers; enable business success via influence.

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Innateinsight

Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content takes time for digesting, contemplation and engaging. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing.The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 5 million page views with 6100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 28 books to share...

The Best “Conflict” Quotes of “Digital Master” Oct. 2019

The most difficult part is to transform the conflict from within to a productivity or creativity life cycle. “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 of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run...

The Pervasive Appreciation of Digital Transformation

The pervasive digital means change is the norm and happens the whole time thereby delivering faster and increasing market share. Digital is the new paradigm shift to deeply connect the business nature to the natural ecosystem with very characteristics of hyperconnectivity, nonlinearity, adaptability, unrepeatability, and unpredictability. Digitalization is not just about one-dimensional technology adoption; it has to stretch out in every business...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: The Breaking Point of CIO Role Oct. 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...

The Best “Gut Feeling” Quotes of “Digital Master” Oct. 2019

Digital professionals have to leverage both their gut feeling and analytics ability to make either business or personal decisions every day. "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 of digital leadership,...

Digital Management as Strategy- Change-Performance Management Continuum

Performance-based management requires that the communication and measurement of performance are an integral part of an ongoing process and not an annual, quarterly, or monthly event.Enterprise performance management is about how organizations manage performance at both strategic and operational level to achieve well-set business goals and objectives. There is a danger of not having a process to "develop and nurture" performance. Managing performance...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

The Monthly Communication Brief: Bridge IT Communication Gap Oct. 2019

Often, communication gaps are caused by cognitive difference, ambiguous process, or management bottleneck, etc.  The great communicators are the high-quality leaders or professionals who can communicate objectively with strong logic, clarity, and understanding; the great communicators are the great artists who are fluent in creative expression or metaphorical description. Communication is both art and science. How to bridge gaps and improve...

Shape an Advanced Corporate Board with “Digital Character”

Either individually or collectively, understanding character is very relevant and timely for those leaders who are seeking new ways to deepen leadership influence or maximize human capital in their organizations. Digital is fluid, digital is also complex. It becomes complex if things do interact, particularly in the case of nonlinear interaction and interdependent relationship. To steer the organization in the right direction, contemporary Boards...

Three Digital Innovation Practices

 At the heart of innovation is a life cycle of idea generation, interaction, learning and selection.  Digital is the age of innovation. Innovation is a management process, not just serendipitous magic. At today's modern organizations, variety, complexity, diversification, and hyper-connectivity, etc, are the characteristics of the digital innovation ecosystem. Digital innovation has a broader spectrum and enriched context. Here are three...

Monday, October 28, 2019

The Monthly “Dot Connections”: The Problem-Solving Dot Connection Oct. 2019

Problem-solving is a multi-stepped process that includes both problem resolution and solution implementation.  The effects of an increasingly digitized 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 of the digital era. The...

The Best “Persistence” Quotes of “Digital Master” Oct. 2019

Either being single-minded or persistent, grit is the very quality to keep you focused and discover a sense of purpose. "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 of digital leadership, provides advice...

Running a Listening and Learning IT Organization

With increasing pace of changes and complex nature of digital organization, from top down, middle out, inside-out, outside-in, and bottom up, if you do not listen, you will lose the goodwill of the collaborators and innovators.  With rapid change and fierce competition, IT should continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as a strategic business partner and improve the overall organizational maturity. IT needs to switch from...

Sunday, October 27, 2019

The Monthly Keyword Summary: Paradox Oct. 2019

The rate of change has accelerated, indicating that business leaders must learn how to deal with the management paradox in varying circumstances, to manage strategy and execution as an iterative continuum, From one generation to the next, the substance of leadership does not change, it’s about the future, change, and influence. However, digital leadership trends will continue to emerge. Here is a set of featured blogs to dig into the “keywords”...

The Best “Superconsciousness” Quotes of “Digital Master” Oct. 2019

Understand the people and the organization through a common lens, and then, make it possible to turn the organization into “superconscious mode” with informativeness, creativity, and harmony. "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.”...

Three Causes of Overly Narrowed IT Management

 IT leaders have to learn and do the right and real things about organizations, not just via IT lenses, but via business or customers’ lenses.  IT is impacting every business function and is becoming the very driver of digital transformation. With emerging lightweight digital technologies and overwhelming growth of information, forward-thinking organizations declare they are in the information management business to improve business competency...

Saturday, October 26, 2019

The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Minding IT Maturity Gaps Oct. 2019

"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 you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to identify and strengthen the weakest link...

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