The New Book “Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As” Quote Collection II ~ Future of CIO

Saturday, August 19, 2017

The New Book “Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As” Quote Collection II

10:53 PM Pearl Zhu No comments

The deeper you can perceive the holistic digital impact, the further you can reach the digital vision and pinnacle.

The purpose of the book “Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As “is to share 100 insightful questions for rejuvenating the boardroom to get digital ready. It is important for boards to make invaluable inquiries and take proactive approaches for leading digital transformation seamlessly. Here is a set of quotes to convey the vision on how to build the digital ready boardroom.

22 Digital boards are the strategic advising role, they are also the “mastermind” behind the digital transformation.

23 A good digital strategy should identify the business challenges, make options, and take stepwise actions based on a clear roadmap to achieve the well-defined business goals and objectives.

24 You have to collect enough information, listen to different POVs, as everything has more than one side and you have to master them all.

25 Each functional leader owns their piece of sub-strategies, but they have to work collaboratively to ensure the cohesive strategy management.

26 In practice, even in the simplest organizations, the industrial “speed” is not homogeneous across the enterprise.

27 Organizations should both develop the updated digital practices to manage performance and the digital methodologies to unleash the business potential.

28 Accountability and oversight are all part of the game changes that boards must address.

29 The corporate board plays a significant role in making the judgment on and assurance of corporate action within a framework of practical knowledge.

30 A solution is nothing if the problem is not perceived.

31 The digital board needs to know when to push the gas pedal to accelerate the business speed, and when to push the brake to practice governance discipline.

32 To overcome the business vulnerability to changes, new competitors or a new breed of customer behaviors, digital organizations today should have a degree of variability.

33 From the boardroom to the front line, you need to believe that, the customer is the lifeline of the business.

34 The deeper you can perceive the holistic digital impact, the further you can reach the digital vision and pinnacle.

35 The corporate board can help to make an objective assessment of the maturity of digital capabilities as well as how further and how deep your digital transformation can reach.

36 It takes a lot of energy to break old habits and outdated thought processes.