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The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Here is the weekly insight about digital leadership, IT Management, and Talent Management.
- Three Stages to Reach The Maturity of IT Digital Transformation IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage. IT also plays a critical role in driving changes and leading digital transformation. IT has to reinvent itself to exemplify proficiency in planning, designing, innovating, and building a new business model or optimizing information management. Digital CIOs need to take the risk above the status quo, take on a new set of activities that are involved in defining, developing, and differentiating their organization to reach the high level of digital maturity.
- How Can Digital Characteristics Brighten the Shadow of Bureaucracy Traditional organizations have a pyramidal hierarchy and overly rigid organizational structure and processes, which often enforce silo thinking and business bureaucracy. Generally speaking, bureaucracy is a system based on a hierarchy of authority and division of workforce functioning in a routine manner. Bureaucracy is criticized by its inflexibility, inefficiency, silo, stagnation, unresponsiveness, lack of creativity, etc. It is correlated with a mechanistic view of the organization and reductionistic management discipline. With increasing rate of changes and fast growing information, the organization needs to be adapted in a digital way that it can respond effectively to the dynamic changes and to the variety in the environment. But more specifically, how can emergent digital characteristics brighten the shadow of bureaucracy to improve management effectiveness and organizational maturity
- Board Directors as the Digital Provocateur Digital transformation represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. In order to lead today’s hyper-connected digital organizations with the hyper-diverse workforce, board directors should become the digital provocateur to drive changes and set the leadership tone for digital transformation; and the board composition should be synchronized with the digital perspective of the business, to advance its leadership maturity.
A “Thriving CIO”: How to Run Digital IT Effortlessly? IT organization is making a shift from transactional mode to transformational mode. It goes beyond the stage of IT-business alignment and moves up to the level of integration and engagement. Nowadays, a digital-ready IT organization is a threshold business competency and catalyzer of business changes. CIOs should also shift their leadership mentality from “struggling to keep the lights on” to “thriving to run digital IT effortlessly.”
- How to Spot your Innovators? Creativity is an essential building block for innovation in business. And innovation is the light every business is pursuing. Everyone possesses a certain level of creativity, but how does creativity manifest itself in the workplace? What's the best work environment to stimulate creativity? And how can digital leaders spot their true innovators and improve innovation success rate
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