Performance Checkpoints in the Boardroom

Corporate governance at the board level indicates relationships with the management and the variety of stakeholders. If all these parties would perform to the vision and mission of the organization, it would increase the multithread performance significantly. With the high velocity and fierce competition, there is no doubt that the board only fulfills its role to shareholders and the management team when it is focused on performance. At the...

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Nostalgic Touch to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Day

The wax and wane of the moon imply the different stages of life with all its bends and rapid speed.Tonight moon is -lucid and fluid,touch our minds and soften our hearts;evoke the nostalgic feeling, deep inside.The moonlight tonight is -pure and clean,soak us up -in solitude;enchant us with- her charming;and allure us to -ponder life meaning.Isn’t life like the moon river, flowing in the sky tonight?the waves pushing forward,with the curvilinear...

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Incoherence Syndromes - How to Fix Them Smoothly

The digital organization’s long-term advantage is based on its unique strength which can be built and stretched through the combination of talent, resources, processes, and technologies to perform a set of business activities and achieve high-performance business results. The digital organization blurs the geographical, functional, organizational, and even industrial borders nowadays. The enterprise is nothing more than a “switch” in the network...

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The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Knowledge Power of Change Agent CIO Sep. 2020

Due to the exponential growth of information and the shorten knowledge cycle, expert power is perhaps more powerful than other types of powers in the digital era.Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a 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 via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change...

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“Re-learn” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2020

"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...

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Creativity with Multifaceted Truth and Myth

Nurturing creativity is a journey, with a connected world image, global consciousness, and cognitive intelligence, etc.Creativity is an innate process to generate novel ideas. It is often metaphorized as “Out-of-Box” thinking, sometimes it is misunderstood as less thinking or gut feeling. Creativity today asks for a new mindset, it has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge, and incredible imagination. Creativity and...

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The Monthly Communication Brief: Deal with Misinterpretation Effectively Sep. 2020

Due to an unprecedented level of uncertainty, velocity, and complexity, misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or miscommunication are the big causes of many human problems.The great communicators are the high-quality leaders or professionals who can communicate objectively with strong logic, clarity, and understanding; the great communicators are the great artists who are fluent in creative expression or metaphorical description. Communication is...

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“Update” Quotes of “Digital Master” Sep. 2020

"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...

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Outstanding CIOs’ Leadership Traits and Qualities

An outstanding IT leader inspires, works closely with their executive peers to digest information, understands opportunities and threats, and builds the trustful relationship for leading business transformation proactively and progressively. Organizations large or small are on the journey of digital transformation with IT as the linchpin. Digital power is the combination of the power of knowledge, the power of information and technology, the...

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The Monthly Foresight: Corporate Capability Portfolio of the 21st Century Sep. 2020

 The enterprise consists of a set of capabilities with the right mix of competitive necessity and competitive differentiator.The effects of an increasingly digitized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, creativity is the most desired trait for digital leaders and professionals today, and innovation is the light every organization is pursuing. Which...

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Science is an “Objective Thing”

No knowledge is - truly 'known'; no learning is - truly 'finished.'Science from Latin scientia, means "knowledge"; it is inquisitiveness to- know about our being, who are we, really?answering- “what” and "how" of thingsin a logical way.If the world is a piece of art, science is -the design, construction, and operations, based on the principles of- logic and the patterns of nature. Science is the “secret source”- behind the modern world;from industrial...

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Hidden Paradoxes Behind “VUCA” New Normal

The more complex the situation is, the more different approaches and role gaming is needed to reach for insightful understanding of hidden paradoxes and effective pattern-finding. The hyper-connectivity of the digital business blurs the functional, organizational, industrial, geographical, and knowledge domain borders. Change is significantly speeding up, the business strategy can no longer stay static, and the business goals can no longer be...

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The Monthly “100 Creativity Ingredients” Book Tuning: The Art and Science of Creative Disruption Sep. 2020

Creativity doesn’t live inside a box, but a type of out-of-box thinking. All humans are born with raw creativity ability. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge, and multidimensional insight. Creativity is the wings of our mind and the tempo of our heartbeat. Creativity is a constructive disruption, not so bad addiction, and a sensational phenomenon. The purpose of “100 Creativity Ingredients...

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Complexity is an “Inevitable Thing”

All the intelligent beings are complex at a certain level.Watch the night sky full of -shining stars;dive into- the deep blue ocean, observe creatures,swimming around;walk in the urban city with-great architecture design;we admire-design complexity-for its elegant style,seamless integration,and frictionless flow.All the intelligent beings are -complex at a certain level.People are complex; nature are complex; the universe is complex,Things become...

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Aiming organizational Design and Transformation via Business Architecture Lenses

Neither business architecture nor design are "events" of creativity but are in fact, creative and thoughtful activities that extend overtime to create the structural and aesthetic themes for enforcing business interconnection.The digital business today is dynamic, continuous, expansive, interdependent, and interactive. It has to keep evolving, sustaining, and self-renew for adapting to high velocity. The linear system perception needs to be replaced...

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The Monthly “Change Insight” Book Tuning: Navigate Change with the Right Order: "Why precedes what proceeds How" Sep 2020

Change Management is no longer just a one-time project or business initiative, but an ongoing business capability. 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. Digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management,...

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Kindness is a “Thoughtful Thing”

kindness unifies both heart and mind to become a better being.Kindness is -a state of mind;flowing from within, permeating into -the surrounding.Think kindly,talk kindly,and act kindly.Kindness is -a thoughtful thing.If kindness is a plant,it’s rooted in -a thoughtful mind, blossom with-deliberate actions, having enough of it, it becomes -a delightful scene.You plant an apple seed, you're not going to- get an orange tree. Kindness is -exactly the...

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Build a "Smart Organization" via Intelligence Amplification

There are always different complexities at a different time or dimension, business intelligence is an effective tool to improve business-value creation. With “VUCA” digital new normal, often the answer to many business questions is not just “right,” or “wrong,” but there are many shades in between. Business intelligence is about managing information to gain insight into the organization in making effective decisions and achieve information value...

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