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The New Book “The Change Agent CIO” Quote Collection I

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Change is never for its own sake; it’s about making improvement and creating synergy in the multitude of its impact across the organization.

The purpose of this book “The Change Agent CIO: The CIO’s Dynamic Role of Leading Digitalization“ is to share insight into the multifaceted CO leadership disciplines and multidimensional change agenda of IT. The digital CIOs are in demand to “disrupt,” inspire changes and accelerate digital transformation. They are change agents to reinvent IT as the business growth engine, optimize business processes and structures, rejuvenate the corporate culture and communication, and raise their intellectual voice to lead change interactively, innovatively, and relentlessly.

1 Digital CIOs have both vision and passion, capability and capacity for entering into the new world of change and innovation.

2 The digital era upon us is about changes with increasing velocity and speed.

3 To earn their stripe as transformative digital leaders, CIOs have to become more visible, proactive, and innovative.

4 When the CIO’s voice gets heard by the broad base of audiences, that will improve visibility and transparency of IT.

5 Change Management has a very wide scope and is a relatively new area of expertise.

6 Digital transformation is an arduous journey with long jumps, and it takes time and a real commitment to getting the higher level of digital maturity.

7 To survive the fierce competition and thrive with the long-term business advantage involve planning, adjustment, and speed.

8 Change Management is a journey, not just a one-time project, riding ahead of change curve takes both strategy and methodology.

9 Businesses today need less than a paradigm shift in their thinking about the fundamentals of how organizations work to build an authentic culture and an engaging workforce.

10 It’s the multifaceted effort for running digital IT, broadening IT outlook, envisioning the bigger picture of digitalization, and re-imagining the art of possible.

11 The digital IT is no longer an isolated support function. IT should be integral to and knowledgeable of the business, aligned with enterprise objectives, as an enabler, a facilitator, and a digital conductor.

12 IT needs to have its own sheet music. You can always change the tone of an old song, rearrange and make it better.

13 Digital IT creates a paradigm shift in role, responsibility, attitude, and aptitude.

14 When IT moves beyond commodity management and begins to show a higher level of strategic value and dedicate more resources to innovation, IT is on the right track to improve its performance and maturity.

15 Organizations of the future are increasingly exhibiting digital characteristics in various shades and intensity.

16 The digital ecosystem provides unprecedented opportunities to strike a dynamic balance between the inner and outer elements, and leapfrog the business world up to the next level of advancement.

17 Crafting an IT change agenda is important to ensure that IT is strategically positioned to be ahead of where the business is moving next.

18 With change as the new normal, people’s intelligence is tested by their changeability and their quality is proved by their changeability.

19 Closer to reality is that change is continuously happening in such a dynamic environment of a company.

20 The planning fallacy is common inside and outside of the business at both strategic and operational management level.