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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.

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The Monthly “Performance Master” Summary: The Goals and Definition of KPIs June 2020

The well-defined measures and KPIs are important factors to map strategy & execution and manage performance effectively. 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 plans, and making decisions to ensure it happens. It takes multifaceted...

The “Manifest” Quotes of “Digital Master” June 2020

How creativity as an innate process to generate ideas and manifest itself in each of us is unique, and then such interlinks often fuel new thoughts, perspectives, creativity, and imagination to spark the abundance of creativity. "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...

Learning Intelligence

The shift from the reactive learning mentality to a proactive learning attitude enables individuals and organizations to look forward and enhance their learning intelligence.  Learning intelligence refers to a person’s ability to learn with meta-cognition (learning how to learn). We live in the digital era of rapid and relentless change, today’s workforce is knowledge workers, intelligent workers, and hard workers. Even though each one of...

Monday, June 29, 2020

The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Business Driven IT Transformation June 2020

 A digital CIO has to have great leadership traits, understand the business context, oversee processes, envision the latest technology trends, and motivate the IT team to do more with innovation. 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...

The “Confluence” Quotes of “Digital Master” June 2020

Running a digital organization is to connect the old and new, mix the solid and fluid to enforce digital confluence, foster innovation, and achieve people-centricity. "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...

Unpuzzling IT Complexity

Companies that are skilled at managing IT complexity can gain advantages by pushing the boundaries of a more sophisticated business mix that provides opportunities to create inter-business value. Information is growing exponentially and the nature of technology is complex, there is a multitude of complexities in the organizational scope. The emergent digital complexity includes hyper-connectivity, hyper-diversity, and hyper-dynamism. The goal of...

Sunday, June 28, 2020

The Monthly Summary: Knowledge/Information Architecture & Structure June 2020

 Information is one of the most invaluable business assets which can create or multiply the business value and maximize its return on investment. 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 “Alternative” Quotes of “Digital Master” June 2020

Thinking creatively about a problem requires being close to the problem, having context for understanding the problem from different angles, and figuring out the alternative ways to shape better solutions. "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...

A Happy Organization with a “State of Pleasant”

It takes both bold leadership and strategic planning, time, and effort to develop "their people" for investing in not only the employee's future but also the company's future. The digital era upon us is about people. One of the very goals for running a digital organization is to engage employees and delight customers. People define the “state of pleasant” - happiness at work as being derived from an engaged, active interest in the work, “deriving”...

Saturday, June 27, 2020

The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: The Balance Practices and Logic to Go Digital June 2020

Organizations of the future are increasingly exhibiting digital characteristics in various shades, extensiveness, and intensity. 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 shift. Digital...

The “Innate” Quotes of “Digital Master” June 2020

Creativity is both innate and a skill. Developing creativity requires both internal motivation and self-awareness. "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...

Critical Thinking & Innovation Management

Shaping a truly innovative company is challenging because of the sophisticated management skills needed and the potential risks involved. Innovation is a process to transform fresh ideas for achieving its business value. Every innovation pursuit has risks in it, and every risk has opportunities in it. Often, innovation initiatives that ultimately break new ground frequently are fraught with uncertainty on many dimensions such as technical, market,...

Friday, June 26, 2020

The Monthly “Digital Maturity” Book Tuning: The Corporate Ecosystem Planning & Expansion June 2020

The digital ecosystem is dynamic, hyper-connected, expansive, and interdependent.  It provides unprecedented opportunities to strike a dynamic balance between the inner and outer business elements. Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational and geographical...

The “Transition” Quotes of “Digital Master” to Celebrate 6900 Blog Posting June 2020

 Transition States can be realized without waste or false starts by characterizing the rate of change or "volatility" of various components. "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 “Highs & Lows” of IT Digital Transformation

IT management has to work both in IT and on IT, understand the “highs and lows” factors, deliver the best solution to the business problems which meet the business’s requirement. With robust digital technology and pervasive information influence, business initiatives and digital transformation, today nearly always involve some form of technology implementation and information facilitation in order to solve problems efficiently and improve the overall...

Thursday, June 25, 2020

The Insight of the Week 6/19-6/26 “Future of CIO” June 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 us is...

The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Strategic Oversight of Corporate board June 2020

The corporate board’s strategic oversight is crucial to identify and strengthen the weakest link in strategy management. 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 must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities...

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