“Unpuzzling Innovation - Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way“ Tuning: Innovative Culturist

Culture is defined as "the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another."Digital is the age of innovation. And innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. The purpose of the book “Unpuzzling Innovation - Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way“ is to demystify innovation...

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Abilities of BoDs to Handle the "Shade of Grey"

BoDs need to develop a shared view of crucial issues, promote a deeper understanding of core systems, advise the business management to build transformative competencies, and improve the organizational maturity.The corporate board directors assume the dual role of guidance and governance steering, whilst leaving the day-to-day leadership/management processes and practices in the hands of the C-level executives and holding them accountable in achieving...

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From information Savvy to Innovation Blossom

The power of information management is to deal with the mountain of information with both technology and human know-how, converting information into invaluable knowledge and catalyze innovation.The most powerful and differentiating asset in all of today's businesses is information. Information does not live alone but permeates into everywhere in the business. Thus, the value of information is not isolated. In fact, all forward-looking organizations...

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“12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” Summary: Innovator & Intrapreneur

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 is...

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"Ignore" Quotes & Thoughts

"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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Paces of Digital Transformation

The digital transformation is likely to follow non-linear patterns, with high intensity and hyper diversity. Change is a fact of life. Nowadays, change is intensive, shouldn’t be just some random business initiatives, it needs systematic planning, it has to enable cohesive teamwork and build coherent business competency. Human society is forced to "grow out" of a paradigm because of dynamic changes in the physical world or other major shifts such...

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“100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity Inspiration": Innate Creativity

Creativity is indispensable because it’s about thinking beyond conventional wisdom, and creating new knowledge. 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...

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"Upfront" Thoughts and Quotes

The business knows what good ideas are, what has been done before, and can evaluate the ideas. Also upfront (pre-ideation), you need to agree on next steps and who will be responsible for the follow-up."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...

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Innovation, Improvement, Investment Indicators

The well-selected performance indicators should be based on the alignment of strategy management and performance management as well as the comprehension of decision-management and performance management continuum.Performance management is not an isolated management practice, but a holistic discipline to evaluate multidimensional business value. Managing business performance means translating strategy into operational terms, and mapping collective...

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Critical Success Factors

Digital management is fundamentally an iterative cycle to design, develop, scale and optimize business competency.The digital business today is not just working within the industry, but permeating a cross-ecosystem which is dynamic, continuous and interactive. An information-abundant, hyper-competitive economic environment makes the world more complex than ever, businesses can no longer perform better without deliberate planning and dedicated implementation. An...

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Irrelevant, Inconsistent, Incoherent

A viable digital organization can deliver impressive business outcomes and improve its performance by taking continuous digital practices to keep things relevant, consistent, coherent, improve manageability and develop business competencies.It is a continuously changing world with hyper-connected and interdependent “VUCA” new normal. No organizations across vertical sectors can afford to stick to its old ways of problem-solving. If the organization...

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Book “Digital Capability - Building Lego-Like Capability into Business Competency “ Insight: Innate-Integral Capability

The value of contemporary business is multilateral, the value-based management needs to be driven by concepts like multidimensional collaborative value or collective advantage and multi-layer ROIs.The purpose of the book “Digital Capability - Building Lego-Like Capability into Business Competency “ is to provide an insightful understanding of assessing, developing, and managing organizational capabilities in a structural way. The organization’s competency...

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Quotable Thought: "Urgent"

“Delegate”: The decisions should be made for the whole team. The remedy is to question why it is urgent and dismantle that. Unfortunately, Urgent/Unimportant tasks are often political."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...

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Characteristics of Initiatives

Developing a compelling strategic business case which describes the initiative’s benefits and costs flow is especially critical when an initiative is difficult to monetize. Digital enterprises are inherently complicated nowadays, with rapid changes and fierce competitions, organizations have to continue to build new business capabilities and “keep the lights on” by taking business initiatives and making solid deliveries consistently. Every...

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"Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” Analysis: Illogic & Ineffectiveness

Soft gaps often generate the deepest chasms and hardest challenges to drive people-centric digital transformation. "Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the gap of opportunity between...

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"From-To" Digital Paradigm Shift

Digital transformation is a journey. There should always, at every turn, be a taste of better days, of continual improvement of retrospective action planning, incremental goal achieving, creative idea brainstorming, and effective change management. Complexity, velocity, ambiguity, etc, are the business new normal, leading business forward is extremely challenging because there are many distractions or disruptions on the way and there are so...

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