Welcome to our blog, the digital brainyard to fine tune "Digital Master," innovate leadership, and reimagine the future of IT.

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.

Sunday, May 31, 2020

The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Dynamic IT Competency May 2020

To reinvent its reputation from a cost center to a strategic business partner, IT needs to spend more resources on creating unique competency for driving business growth. 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...

The “Simultaneous” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2020

 Without taking a breath to look back, plowing on to the next big thing before completely pulling all resources or running multiple simultaneous changes can be risky. "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...

Close Multiple Linkages Between Strategy and Tactics

 It is critical to identify the weakest links and determine how each part of the organization, including all of the key functions must "put it all together" to be successful in implementing strategy and bring tangible business results. The strategy is not just one of the things a leader does, it is the most important thing to reach the business vision and it's about creating tomorrow's organization out of today. Sound strategy and solid execution...

Saturday, May 30, 2020

The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: Balance the “Hard” & “Soft” Elements in Digital Transformation May 2020

 There is the need to “harden the soft or intangible business factors,” as well as the demand to “soften the hard business factors” in order to lead change frictionlessly and make a digital leap effortlessly. 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...

The “Resonance” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2020

Everything about the pattern is about relationships; it’s about connectedness, resonance, feeling, forces, form following function, problems and solutions, and so on. All these are relationships or describe specific forms of relationships. "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...

Enterprise Architect as a Dialog Facilitator

Organizations generally consist of varying intersecting and interacting systems to achieve the state of dynamism, continuum, and interaction. As our digitized world becomes hyper-connected, over-complex, and interdependent, surviving and thriving in today’s business dynamic requires empathetic communication, structural flexibility, cross-functional collaboration, inter-relational process, and dynamic competency to reduce business friction and...

Friday, May 29, 2020

The Monthly “Performance Master” Summary: The KPI Promises and Pitfalls May 2020

KPIs must be aligned with the corporate goals and objectives - but should also be directly relevant to the activities that businesses are attempting to manage (process execution).  Corporate Performance Management is a management control from strategy to the shop floor. "If you can't measure, you can't manage," legendary management guru Peter Drucker once asserted. Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing...

The “Concentration” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2020

The digital world is so data-driven and information-intensive, there are so many distractions these days, digital leaders need to concentrate on things that really matter. "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...

The Digital Characteristics of Software Development

Software development is an engineering discipline with the right mix of art and science.  With the increasing pace of changes and fierce competition, many IT organizations are doing more with App development and keep IT in a continuous delivery mode, to delight customers, and adapt to changes seamlessly. Software Application development needs to bring up the most business value. Because the software has to be used in order to be valuable....

Thursday, May 28, 2020

The Insight of the Week 5/22-5/29 “Future of CIO” May 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 6800+ 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...

The “Isolation" Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2020

The value of information is not isolated. The effort of valuing information independent of its association to the value of related tangibles seems difficult, if not a futile exercise. "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...

Capture IT Management Unified Views to Drive Digital Transformation

Digital IT leaders today not just reactively look through and respond to the business ecosystem; they should actually proactively plan and architect the digital landscape. IT is the linchpin of digital transformation. The current state assessment of IT organizational maturity should bring different perspectives on digital transformation initiatives and management disciplines. This includes identification of stakeholders, understanding of their...

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Corporate Board’s “Balance” Practices May 2020

 Yin and Yang's balance needs to be considered in the boardroom in regards to making sound strategic decisions that deliver the real sustainable competitive advantage for an organization. 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...

The “Accumulation” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2020

 Transformation is the momentum from quantitative accumulation to the quantum leap. "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...

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