Innovating via blogging

Isn’t it a tough journey to celebrate 8000 blog postings - to pursue the digital way of brainstorming, innovating and sharing.Blogging is just like you are designing and making your own jigsaw puzzles, to symbolize your professional journey. There are so many pieces with blended colors and shapes. You have to take a guess, discover the hidden clues, find missing pieces, rearrange it, paint it and glue it up. Blogging is a creative activity...

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initiate Information Management

Information is one of the most critical pieces in the innovation puzzle. Given this assertion, there is no limit to the value of information in running a high mature digital organization.Information is permeating into every corner of the business and every perspective of human society right now. Data is physical, information is mental. The information system as the backbone of the varying business management helps to optimize the usage of information...

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Cycle of Dependency

The tough work for an organization today is to manage its portfolio of relevant cross-border strategic synergies and organizational dependency-interdependency cycle with the appropriate mix of enabling organizational elements."Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity” is the new normal of the digital era, within this context, the organization must stay compatible and evolve in a compatible manner with its environment. There is the...

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Creativity

An essential aspect of creativity is authenticity - discovering who you are, having the ability to challenge assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs. Creativity is an innate process to connect the dots and generate novel ideas. Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness. Creative people define and create their own convention that they live by with intellectual curiosity, and idea flow.Creative minds discover...

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Completeness in Solution Strategy

For every existing or emerging problem, we need to contemplate the varying causes behind it; for each problem that is worth the effort, we should ponder multiple solutions to solve it elegantly. Given the complexity and uncertainty of the digital business world and given the challenges of hyper-connected and interdependent dynamic ecosystems, business strategy management today is usually dynamic and has a lot of moving parts; you cannot pre plan...

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Capability Development

Developing talent and building capability should be ongoing practices for professionals today. Professional capability is an individual’s ability to perform certain activities and deliver high quality results. Knowledge workforces change each day, they learn, grow, develop their unique set of capabilities, and improve professional (emotional, intellectual) maturity. Perhaps many will ponder: What is the thing referred to as talent, skill, experience,...

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Corporate Board with Philosophy

Corporate board directors are wise advisors and top leadership roles who need to shape their philosophical perspectives all the time and share their vision and insight consistently. The very characteristics of business new normal are nonlinearity, adaptability, unrepeatability, unpredictability, and denial of control. The corporate board as one of the most crucial governance bodies in the modern enterprise is less about control, more about steering...

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Respect (II)

There is a blend of multiple elements to get respected, some are hard competencies; some are soft human touch.Respect is based on being trustworthy and authentic. The liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect. Whether getting respected or not depends on how you follow principles, make fair judgment, or make certain accomplishments. There are quite a few ways to get respected and there are many reasons we need to respect each other...

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Innovation via Knowledge Transfer

Innovation implies growth and change. It’s more organic than mechanic.If you take knowledge from one context and bring it over into a new context, you have knowledge or technology transfer innovation. The border of knowledge domains has a blurred scope and knowledge is expanded in the continual base. If information is the most time-intensive piece of the innovation puzzle, then knowledge - the refined information, is one of the most dynamic...

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Culture perspective via “HOW”s

If your culture embraces the future, inspires others, being a customer fanatic, then it forms a dynamic digital environment and creates business synergy.Culture is how the organization thinks and does things collectively. Good culture can lift up a so-so strategy; but an ineffective culture will screw up a great strategy. Thus, organizational leaders should do research and validate a culture assessment instrument that measures culture from different...

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Perspectives of Global Leadership

The substance of leadership is about innovation and unleashing our collective human potential.Contemporary leadership is sophisticated because there are many variables in it, and there is a delicate mix of expertise, interpersonal skills, along with a lot of different attributes. In brief, leadership is about making change and catalyzing innovation. We live in a hyperconnected and interdependent global society, what are emergent traits to bridge...

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Trust As Leadership Trait

Creating and nurturing that trust is one of those precious things that takes chunks out of our diminishing currency of time in the world of work. Despite that knowledge and sincerity, mistrust continues to flourish in our personal and organizational lives. Trust is vital for the betterment of human existence and providing a competitive advantage for business. The key to trust is to establish trustworthiness as a character trait and the culture.Trust...

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Innovativeinsight

Isn’t it a tough journey to celebrate 7900 blog postings - to pursue the digital way to brainstorming, innovating and sharing….The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 5 million page views with 7900+ blog postings 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...

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Innovate Governance

In an organization with agility, the effectiveness of governance is to encourage, actually orchestrate change, and enforce accountability. Upon the digital paradigm shift, we are experiencing at the moment, with the new characteristics such as hyper-connectivity and interdependence of the digital world we live in. The shift of governance is to focus on enterprise change. More organizations will make a bold step—reengineer or redesign the old...

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System

The system as a whole is more than the sum of its parts.A system is the part of the world which has to be of interest for us on the basis of a certain purpose. A system is only a system in relation to a purpose and that purpose is not inherent in the objects and processes you build and create. A system is open to information: The system is open so that information or energy flows in and out from the environment and circulates the information within...

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Attitude

Behavior is a manifestation of attitude, attitude results from the thoughts and mind.Attitude is an individual's personal action navigated by habits, and it's basically -how we react to any situation that comes up?' The simplest definition of attitude would be one's “Settled Mode of Thinking.” Behavior is a manifestation of attitude, attitude results from the thoughts and mind. Having a positive attitude makes us feel better, improves productivity,...

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Unified Framework Approach

Framework as an ontology, or formal vocabulary is used to describe the relationships of strategy, systems, processes, functions, and roles within an organizationThe digital frameworks add value as they are implementations of the patterns to avoid having to reinvent the wheel, it helps the organization embed a digital culture into the very fabric of the business, explore digital in a structural way and laser focus on the most important things to get...

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Leadership as Open System

Leadership is an open system, too often the whole system is not considered when measuring values and success.We are living in a complex world with continuous changes and disruptions, the companies don’t exist in silos but within systems, especially global ones. To develop sophisticated leaders with business acumen and global perspective, the soft leadership discipline needs to be dug through scientific angles, with systems perspective. As leadership...

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Autonomy

Through autonomy, people can relate to themselves and to their experience of the environment and others around them.Consider nature and culture as self-organized but interlaced environments, and humans are vehicles of natural and cultural solutions. The contemporary perspective of individualism is to enforce autonomy and advocate self-development. High level of autonomy is the symbol of maturity at individual, team, or organizational level: Let individuals...

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