The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 3/22/2019

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The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.8 million page views with 5500+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 27 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the businesses and society. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Here is the weekly insight of digital leadership, IT Management, and Talent Management.

Leveraging Systems Thinking for Managing Learning Cycles With the increasing pace of changes and cutting throat competitions, to effectively respond to the digital dynamics, either individually or collectively, continuous learning becomes an important skill for skill building and prerequisite of developing changeability. Either individually or collectively, we can define learning through the knowledge it builds, and the capability it develops. Organizations are learning through individuals and teams because businesses and their teams are made up by human beings. In fact, leading strategists were arguing that the only sustainable advantage was to learn faster than your competition and unleash your full digital potential. But more specifically, how to leverage Systems Thinking fo developing learning practices and managing learning cycles systematically?

The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: Shaping a Strategic Boardroom Mar. 2019 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 are the multiple perspectives of shaping a strategic boardroom.

Three Aspects of Digital Multiplicity? The digital transformation is now spreading rapidly to enable organizations of all shapes and sizes to reinvent themselves. Consider digital organization as the self-organized but interlaced environments, there are many emergent digital characteristics. It is a self-adaptive and self-renewing system which is able to reconfigure its own structure and change its own behavior during the execution of its adaptation to environmental changes. There are multidimensional management discipline, multi-layer business relationships, and multigenerational and multicultural workforces in making digital business both dynamic and complex.

The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: Growth Fit Mar. 2019 Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. But what are digital organizational traits, how to define digital fit and take a structural approach for digitalization?

Running Design-Led Digital IT  IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage, it plays a pivotal role in orchestrating the business’s digital transformation. Design Thinking is a unique path of pursuing innovation. Digital CIOs need to wear their design thinking hat to tap the creative side of IT. The strategic objective of design thinking can fundamentally change organizations, build a strong brand, improve the overall organizational maturity and make the societal impact.

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