Tuesday, July 21, 2020

The “Acumen” Quotes of “Digital Master” July 2020

To deepen IT leadership influence, making a tough balance to have business acumen, and be fluent in technology understanding at the same time.

"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 Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of ”Acumen” quotes in “Digital Master.”



1 IT leaders need to have the technical depth and business acumen to effectively manage IT staff and supplier challenges, provide on-the-spot rough estimates to the C-team, sniff out looming technical risk/crises, and improve IT organizational transparency and maturity.

2 From the leadership perspective, besides years of experience and vertical expertise, BoDs also need to have the digital acumen for setting key tones of the digital paradigm shift and getting out of the comfort zone in driving changes and catalyzing innovation.

3 Due to the changing nature of digital technologies and the rapid growth of information, IT talent needs to have both technical and business acumen, develop a professional attitude, capabilities, skills, flexibility, intelligence, practicality, or pragmatism, etc.

4 Traditional IT organizations are perceived as an isolated function with monolithic hardware boxes, tangled wires, geek types of IT staff who speak a different language, and lack of business acumen.

5 To deepen IT leadership influence, making a tough balance to have business acumen, and be fluent in technology understanding at the same time.

6 The mindful digital CIOs have both business acumen and technological understanding, they are knowledgeable enough to participate in strategic conversations, they are insightful to see things others usually cannot and make sound judgments, they are wise to make effective decisions especially at the strategic level.

7 To broaden IT management discipline requires IT leaders to become business strategists, having high-proficient IT staff with both business acumen and technical expertise to solve business problems systematically and deepening IT influence continually.

8 IT talent today often needs to have both technical skills and business acumen for making sustainable IT-business relationships and solving complex business problems effectively.

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