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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.

Friday, January 31, 2020

The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: Performance Fit Jan. 2020

The point is that how you know for sure that people being called “talent,” are really fit, how do you know you are putting the right people in the right position to solve the right problems. The purpose of “Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit“ is to share insight about multidimensional enterprise fit from digital characteristics, organizational structure, change, knowledge, and talent perspectives; evoke critical...

The Best “Modernization” Quotes of “Digital Master”Jan, 2020

Even "application modernization" seems to remain an elusive, fuzzy concept that can mean a host of things. Therefore, the way to do it is through some careful, painstaking business analysis. "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...

The Characteristics of Future Organization

Digital leaders should predict emerging trends, proactively influence changes and gain long-term business advantages via the lenses of technology, sociology, psychology, the economics of education, the anthropology of cultures, economics, etc. With rapid changes and exponential growth of information, the forward-looking view of the organization is to determine what the future needs to look like and how business leaders can navigate digital new normal...

Thursday, January 30, 2020

The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: The Organizational Design and Balance Jan, 2020

The purposes of the book “Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the Right Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift” is to shed some light on how to strike the right balance of stability and changes; being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to leap forward for making a seamless digital paradigm shift. Digital organizations should apply the hybrid management approach, focus on building a diverse, networked, and extended modern working...

The Best “Justification” Quotes of “Digital Master”Jan, 2020

"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 a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about...

Attitude, Aptitude, Altitude of Design

To build a design-driven digital organization, you need to understand the company’s long-term goals, business identity or brand, and the industry realities such as competition or marketing position, etc. As our digitized world becomes hyper-connected, over-complex and interdependent, digital leaders should build a design framework with multiple system perspectives, and develop a set of practices to make design a strategic goal and show how your...

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Modernist CIOs Jan. 2020

CIOs are digital modernists who lead through influence, not through brute forces. 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, crises, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear...

The Best “Navigation” Quotes of “Digital Master”Jan, 2020

On the navigation dimension, digital leaders have more antennae focused on the trends and what’s going on in the business and the world. "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,...

The Crucial Components of Innovation Management

Different types of innovation should be managed via tailored management processes and scientific resource allocation.  Information is growing exponentially and technologies are changing very rapidly, innovation is no longer nice to have, but “must-have” business competency to survive for the future. Everyone in the leadership team has a gift and digital organization is very complex. The exercise of deciding just what innovation is within...

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

The Monthly Summary: The Contextual and Philosophical Understanding of Information Management Jan. 2020

 Managing information and the information position of an organization is what ought to be called Information Management.  The aim of modern Information Management has often been described as getting the right information to the right person, in the right format and medium, at the right time, in order to make the right decisions. The value of information is qualitative, measurable, and defined uniquely by an organization. The Philosophical...

The Best “Attention” Quotes of “Digital Master”Jan, 2020

Intuition matters, but pay more attention to the unconscious bias. "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 a digital organization to unleash its...

IT Architecture & Creative Problem-Solving

 It is important to leverage the architectural perspective to experiment, explore, and encourage a new way to solve problems. understand the complexity and guide people through it. In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, problems become over-complex and interdependent. Architecture could be a problem-solving framework that consists of multiple aspects, and the multiple aspects could be architected in their own...

Monday, January 27, 2020

The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: Strategic Communications in the Boardroom Jan. 2020

 Communication, whether verbal, non-verbal or digital, is the coordination mechanism that makes business flow. lubricates changes and practices leadership influence.  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...

The Best “Orchestration” Quotes of “Digital Master”Jan, 2020

 With effective leadership and masterful design and orchestration, digital organizations can be operated as high-performance and high mature business catalyzed by diversification, versatility, and intelligence. "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...

Three Perspectives of Critical Thinking

 There are very few real critical thinkers because it is a complex type of thinking with the multitude of thought processes.  Critical thinking has been described as “reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do for making reasoned judgments.” It’s the mental process of actively and skillfully processing, conceptualizing, analyzing, and synthesizing information to reach an answer or conclusion. Critical thinking...

Sunday, January 26, 2020

The Monthly Principles Summary: Principles of Knowledge Economy Jan. 2020

 It is important to develop your own company tailored principles to inspire change mentality, motivate positive attitude and good behaviors, and to generate winning concepts for digital transformation on a consistent basis. Digital principles define why one makes a decision one way or another. Principles are statements of values. Things that define why one makes a decision one way or another. These core decision values guide the behavior of...

The Best “Toughness” Quotes of “Digital Master”Jan, 2020

 It takes mental toughness to lead today’s complex business for managing orders from chaos, staying cool under the turmoil in the dynamic business ecosystem. "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...

A Set of Questions for Shaping Strategic Decision Making

Collectively, it is critical to gain multiple perspectives, close blind spots, optimize processes and develop best practices to improve decision maturity. Making the right decision is both art and science. The effectiveness of strategic decision making directly impacts the long term business competency. It has to weigh in multiple factors and needs to search for profound business insight. The internal factors which may influence decision processes...

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