The Insight of the Week 4/23-4/30 “Future of CIO 2020

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating, and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 6700+ 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 “Discrepancy” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr, 2020

There is often a difference between what organizations say and what organizations do -the discrepancy between “talk the talk, and walk the walk.” "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,...

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An Organic Digital Organization with Systematic Characteristics

An organic digital organization with above systematic characteristics is able to break away from static, stale, and slow patterns, and be able to make the continuous adjustment, improve organizational responsiveness and manageability. Compared to the traditional organization as the mechanical system to keep spinning, digital organizations today are more like the organic living system that keeps evolving and growing. To deal with today’s business...

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The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Corporate Board GRC Practices Apr. 2020

The corporate boards, as one of the most critical leadership pillars in modern organizations, play the crucial dual role of guidance and governance, to make a high impact on the digital paradigm shift. 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...

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The “Unusual” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr, 2020

Creativity is an innate process with multidimensional thinking that generates unusual combinations of ideas or insight. 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 Aspects of Outcome-Driven Innovation

An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of "professional philosophy" for innovation.  In the rapidly evolving businesses and economic systems, the creation of new innovations is very complex but critical for the survival and thriving of companies across industries. Innovation is the development of a new combination of available resources, in a way that solves problems in alternative ways. Customers...

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The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: The Pervasive Digitalization via Continuous Balance Cycle Apr. 2020

It’s important to understand that digital management is multifaceted and holistic. Balance, growth, and harmony are not fixed, they are flowing. The purpose 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...

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The “Frictionless” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr, 2020

To break down silos and run a frictionLESS organization, organizations can build a highly integrated business platform, fine-tune organizational structure to enable business flow, idea sharing, harness cross-functional communication, and collaboration. "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...

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IT GRC Framework and Disciplines

The ultimate goal of IT governance is to ensure the business making the right decisions and steer the organization in the right direction. Framework means the structural skeleton which defines building blocks and how these blocks relate to each other at the conceptual level; IT plays a critical role in strategy, data/IT governance, and risk management in the digital era. IT governance and risk management must be integrated with overall risk management...

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The Monthly "100 IT Charms" Book Tuning: Running People Centric IT Apr. 2020

Digital IT needs to be run as a people-centric organization to enchant customers, empower employees, evolve business partners, and invite all sorts of business partners for feedback. 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...

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The “Variable” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr. 2020

The digital ecosystem is complex and volatile, being digital is the state of interconnectivity. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. "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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Apply Balanced Scorecard Approach to Measure Business Architecture Performance

The role of Business Architecture is to design and manage the digital business that can respond to multidimensional factors impacting business model, operations, and reputation.  As the digitized business ecosystem becomes hyper-connected, over-complex, and interdependent, organizations all face fierce competition and an ambiguous digital environment with "VUCA" reality. Business Architecture (BA) should play a critical role in designing...

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The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Inquisitiveness Officer” Apr. 2020

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...

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The “Impulse” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr, 2020

A combination of conscious and unconscious factors allow us to follow through our initial creative impulse; the idea generation process is also the capacity to focus. "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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Business Model, Business Strategy, and Business Architecture

Dealing with dynamic business reality is a strategy’s job from “Why Business Models Matter” to “How to leverage Business Architecture as a facilitation tool” for implementing strategy, driving change, and orchestrating digital transformation. Today, “business model,” “business strategy,” and “business architecture” are among the most sloppily used terms in business; they are often stretched to mean everything and end up meaning nothing. Business...

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The Monthly Organizational Structure Tuning: Reinvent Digital Organizational Structure Apr. 2020

 To keep the digital fit, the organization has to keep optimizing its functional or structural design and management pyramid to achieve a high level of autonomy and the state of digital equilibrium. Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, processes to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in, and customer-centric is the...

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