The Monthly “Problem-Solving Master” Book Tuning: A Set of “How”s to Frame & Solve Right Problems Nov. 2019

The deeper you understand the problem, the easier you could frame the problem, and the better chance you could solve it effectively.  The purpose of “Problem-Solving Master - Frame Problems Systematically and Solve Problems Creatively“ is to throw some light on how to understand, frame, and solve today’s multilayer, interdependent, and over-complex business problems effortlessly. Digital leaders and professionals should self-aware of their...

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The Best “Harmonization” Quotes of “Digital Master” Nov. 2019

 It’s important to create a business context in which people are empowered and respected to create the business synergy that is the essence of the business harmonization. "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...

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System Thinking vs. Design Thinking

Businesses today need nothing less than a paradigm shift in leveraging varying thought processes to solve business problems and generate property of constituencies seamlessly. Systems Thinking is important for the management to understand the interconnectivity between parts and the whole. It provides the tools and methodologies to define problems under uncertainty and offers a better and more accurate understanding of the overall business and its...

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The Monthly “100 IT Charm” Book Tuning: Running IT with High Impact Nov. 2019

Forward-looking organizations begin to see IT as an integral part of the business and empower IT to lead changes. 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...

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The Best “Story-Telling” Quotes of “Digital Master” to Celebrate Thanksgiving Nov. 2019

The good story is about selling today for tomorrow. It's important to use data for telling information-based stories. "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...

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The Multi-Stages of “Self Actualization” in the Digital Way

High performing and high potential digital leaders and professionals are sself-aware, elf-motivated, self-directed, self-disciplined, and self-renew.  Maslow defined self-actualization to be "the desire for self-fulfillment and being all you can be, namely the tendency for the individual to become actualized in what he/she is potentially. From the management perspective, digital leaders today should spend time on developing self and others,...

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 11/28/2019

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 6200+ 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 “Gratitude” Quotes of “Digital Master” to Celebrate Thanksgiving Nov. 2019

Sympathy feeds the hunger, and empathy connects the minds and the world. Be grateful to understand others and be understood. "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...

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How to Build a Good Enterprise Learning Strategy

The purpose of building a learning organization is to unlock the full potential of the business. Learning at the organizational level is strategic because it impacts the firm’s long term surviving and thriving. Thus, learning strategy should become an integral part of the business strategy which enables top management to identify crucial learning related issues, set guidelines, prioritize, and take actions to solve well-defined problems and improve...

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The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: The Digital CIO with Contemporary Intelligence Nov. 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 “Appreciation” Quotes of “Digital Master” to Celebrate Thanksgiving Holiday Nov. 2019

We discover our genius factors, we appreciate all good, beauty, and harmonized things at an influential level. "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...

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Five Thinking Forces Behind Creativity

We have the conditions of the environment in which we operate, with all restrictions, needs, gaps, and pressures that might push our creative minds to soar. Being creative is the kind to "think outside the box" for idea generation and problem-solving. The most important characteristic of being creative is to act without fear and let you self-conscious express itself. Being innovative is a mindset and a prerequisite to doing sustainable business...

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: The Multitude of Digital Management Gap Nov. 2019

At the high maturity level, organizations have to stretch out in every business dimension for driving the full-fledged digital transformation. "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...

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The Best “Art” Quotes of “Digital Master” Nov. 2019

It is essential that we in business operate with a full understanding of both art and science and how they can work together to create stronger ideas. "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...

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Design-Driven Digital Organization

Design lifts up the organizational maturity from functioning to firm to delight.  Modern organizations have their own sophistication with silo functions, the sea of information, and the pool of talents. Design = forming human-made products or services to be pleasing and preferred by people. Design lifts up the organizational maturity from functioning to firm to delight. Organizational design is the ultimate expression of the organization’s...

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