The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Inspection Officer” July 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...

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Creativity is the Wing of Our Mind

Creativity is the flower seed- the more you sow, the more you harvest.All humans are born with raw creativity. Creativity is the wing of our mind and- it’s the color of our soul. Creativity has many dimensions-with multi-faceted truth and myth,- manifold knowledge,-and multidimensional insight. Creativity needs encouragement as food- and conflict to spark it.Creative’s spirit dances with -passion and imagination. Creativity is the...

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Information vs. Process

Information Management cannot become mature, without decent attention to process management and vice versa.All forward-looking organizations claim they are in the information management business. Information is the lifeblood of the business, process management is to manage known from flows. Besides people, information and process are key success factors of the company. In fact, they are two sides of the same coin - it is unwise to consider one...

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The Insight of the Week 7/25-7/31 “Future of CIO” July 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 7000+ 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 making...

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Knowledge vs. Imagination to Celebrate #7000 Blog Posting

Knowledge is useless- unless you could use it to create something new. Imagination is delusional  unless you can roll it into reality.Knowledge is what is and what has been; imagination ponders what it could be-and creates new knowledge.Knowledge helps to frame the picture of imagination; Imagination breakdowns the little box of outdated knowledge.Imagination and knowledge are intertwined-Without imagination, knowledge is tedious; without knowledge,...

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Change Management Logic and Methodology

Upon the increasing pace of changes, the reality is that there are a lot of things that can go wrong and it is not always easy to identify what is important.With rapid change and fierce competition, the organizations that have hit the heights of success in the digital world aren’t those that have determinedly followed the old models and ways of thinking; it’s those that adapt to the business dynamic, and have forged a new path to solve problems and...

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The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: The Workplace Fit July 2020

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 and paradoxical thinking about digital “fit vs. misfit,” spark healthy debates on how to define and develop true digital fit, and build a fitting working environment to inspire creativity and accelerate...

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BoDs as Interdisciplinarians

Corporate BoD is a sophisticated leadership role with many responsibilities, such as leadership advising, governance practices, and resource provision. We live in a world in which change is the norm and if we don't embrace it, accept it, roll with it, or make it happen, we're not going to be successful. The digital enterprises with hyperconnected and interdependent nature are breaking down the functional, geographical, or even organizational...

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Harness Systems Perspectives to Drive Digital Paradigm Shift

From a system perspective, the most basic principle is that every system is a construct of the mind.The contemporary companies today are the ever-evolving digital dynamism that consists in being able to break away from being static, and becoming proactive to changes. It’s not so effective to use linear logic to understand highly complex, nonlinear cause-effect relationships and interdependent business functions and structures. Fundamentally,...

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The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: The BoD’s Leadership Psychology, Philosophy, Methodology July 2020

The function of the corporate board, as the top leadership team and governance body, should like the digital compass to steer the business in the right direction.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...

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Art vs. Design

Art is the language for “self-expressing.” Design is an instrument to craft functional art.Design and art are different, but they are also interconnected...Art looks inward; design looks outward.Art Invokes the “deep thought,” intends to express “unexpressive.” Design engages logical thinking, tries to implement the “art of possible.”Art symbolizes creativity; but design makes the art functioning..Art enriches the world; design embraces life...Art...

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Growing Performance Management Tree with a Couple of Main Branches

The issue of Performance Management measurement isn't about accuracy, but of validity and reliability.Corporate Performance Management is management control across functional domains and disciplines. It’s not an isolated management practice, but a multidisciplinary approach with a well set of scientific principles, methodologies, and practices. Strategic/Operations/Risk Management are the main branches of the performance management tree. The...

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The Monthly Organizational Structure Tuning: Corporate Organizational Structure & Architecture July 2020

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 new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. From an organizational structure perspective, how can you fine-tune the digital dimensions of your organizational development...

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Our Thoughts are Strange Things

Our Thoughts are strange things; invisible, but powerful; colorless, but brilliant. Our thoughts are -strange things, shapeless,colorless; but-permeating everywhere, endlessly。Thoughts wrap around -the thoughts,like flower buds, blossom up; smell fresh. Thoughts push over -thoughts;like a tidal wave- splashing up, in the turbulent sea.Thoughts chase with -thoughts Like snowflakes- dance around,touch the ground.Thoughts...

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Abilities and Skills of Corporate “Strategic people”

A strategy is the organization's competitive "logic" manifested through organizational actions. The business strategic logic is acquired through a learning process involving discourse within the context of an organization's culture. You can call a plan or a course of action to have pre-defined results only when “strategic people” are involved. “Strategic people” are those who have decision-making authority or who can veto a decision. They...

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The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: GRC Reinvention July 2020

Governance needs to focus on effectiveness-to ensure business doing the right things, and many times, management is about doing things right. The important characteristics of digitalization are over-complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity. Hence, GRC (governance, risk management, and compliance) becomes more critical than ever.  Here's the context; how should GRC programs be approached? Should technology be a driver? Can you achieve any...

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