“100 Digital Pitfalls” Introduction Chapter One: Thinking Pitfalls ~ Future of CIO

Saturday, June 30, 2018

“100 Digital Pitfalls” Introduction Chapter One: Thinking Pitfalls

11:19 PM Pearl Zhu No comments

The modern society is a dynamic continuum with iterative and collective human progress. Real societal progress is made through the work of progressive and foreseeable minds.

Digital makes the significant impact on how we think, live, and work. There is the mix of old and new, physical and virtual, order and chaos. We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of digital age, the path to the next level of digital maturity, also in the era of confusion and information overload. Therefore, it’s critical to identify, understand, and avoid pitfalls, discover strategic and predictive pathways to change, increase confidence, position a brand and leverage resources to make the digital paradigm shift effortlessly.

The modern society is a dynamic continuum with iterative and collective human progress. Real societal progress is made through the work of progressive and foreseeable minds. In fact, the most advancing thing in the world is neither fancy technology nor cool gadget, it is an advanced mindset and the progress it drives from one generation to other generation.

With increasing speed of change in the hyperconnected digital ecosystem, the static mindsets with “status quo” types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making are outdated, become the pitfalls on the digital journey. It is the radical digital paradigm shift which needs to expand the new thinking box, see through the wider lens, capture the tide and ride the waves to lead forward.

Key Takeaways

Critical Thinking goes hand in hand with being mindful. Critical thinkers apparently include reading between the lines, digging deeper, thinking skeptically and coming prepared.

Systems Thinking looks at things by looking at the whole, where the parts are never as important and should always work to benefit the whole.

Independent Thinking means that you do not follow others’ opinion blindly, but analyze and synthesize all sources of input and information to form your own opinion.

A mechanistic perspective is a zoom in view and works well in an already deployed/thought out system. A holistic perspective is a zoom out view and works well when deploying/conceiving /rethinking a system.