Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The Monthly “Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As” Book Tuning: What’s the Top Priority of the Digital Boardroom Aug. 2018

Corporate Board plays a significant role in overseeing organizational strategy, practicing governance and exemplifying leadership disciplines. 

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals. Here is the monthly “Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As” summary of the digital board’s leadership inquiries.

        

   What's the Top Priority of the Digital Boardroom



What’s The #1 Pick of the Board Function Business management and governance are interdependent disciplines to keep businesses move towards the right direction with the proper speed. Governance is like a steering wheel, comprises different business elements such as leadership, strategy, culture, values, resource allocation, performance, and controls. The value and culture are intangible but are reflected in the choice of leadership, approval of how resources are allocated, approval of what strategies are pursued to convert those resources into stakeholder value, and controls that foster conformance with culture, values, allocation of resources and strategy. The board as one of the most significant governance bodies, if you had to choose one and only one function of a corporate board of directors, what is the single most important function/role?

Five Focal Points of Digital Board RoomThe modern corporate board plays a significant role in guiding the business in the right direction and achieve the expected business result. Due to the complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and volatility of the digital age, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build the ability to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goal. Here are the five focal points via the length of the digital boardroom.

How to Build a High-Performing Board Corporate Board plays a significant role in overseeing organizational strategy, practicing governance and exemplifying leadership disciplines. However, most of the boards still operate on a traditional approach to recruiting for expertise and executing its function; what’s the paradigm shift in building a high-performing Board, and how to create the synergy, trust, and confidence of BoDs?

A Prioritizing Board with Digital savvy BoDs? The board in a high-level leadership position plays a crucial role in business advising and monitoring, as well as setting key digital tones in leadership quintessential and talent management. The board needs to retain the ability to capture immediate and future opportunities which will enhance their shareholders’ benefit. And the board has to spread their thin time schedule on the variety of important things. Digital is about the change with the accelerating speed and the abundance of information (often the scarcity of insight), how to build a “prioritizing Board” with digital-savvy BoDs?

Conformance vs. Performance: What’s Board’s Priority Corporate Board is one of the most important governance bodies to oversee strategy and enforce GRC disciplines. Many directors think that the role of the director is conformance. The underlying question is actually fundamental: What is corporate governance, when is it necessary and how should it work? Conformance vs. Performance, which is more important for the Corporate Board? Is it possible that companies are burdening the boards with so many different tasks that the main task and focus of the board, which is to create long-term profitable companies, will be inundated by all other types of issues?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4800+ 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. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content takes time for digesting, contemplation and engaging, and therefore, it takes time to attract the "hungry minds" and the "deep souls." It’s the journey to amplify your voice, deepen your digital footprints, and match your way to human progression.




The "Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As" Slideshare Presentation















The "Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As" Chapter V Introduction: The Digital Board's Leadership Inquiries

0 comments:

Post a Comment