Wednesday, April 24, 2019

The Monthly “Digital Boardroom” Book Tuning: Bring Insight to the Boardroom Apr. 2019

Leadership is an influence, influence comes from progressive mindsets, profound insight, and proactive, step-wise actions.

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 bringing up insight and shaping a strategic boardroom.

           




  Bring Insight to the Boardroom  




Five Pillars of Strategic Board Businesses today are operated in a more volatile, uncertain, ambiguous and globally distributed world. You have to scan the external environment and make sure that you’re seeing patterns and trends that are going to have an impact on your company’s ability to continue to thrive and grow. Also, you need a directional guide from the top leadership team such as the corporate board to inspire, advise, and motivate. The effective functioning of a board depends on a number of factors, including the mix of knowledge and experience among the directors, diversity in thought processes, knowledge, experiences, industries, and situations are more important as a team.

How to Bridge Insight Gaps in the Boardroom Leadership is about envisioning and leading the business towards its future. Top leadership roles such as board directors are supposed to be the guiding force in the enterprise. In practice, the digital era is volatile, complex, uncertain and ambiguous. Many say that the multitude of gaps (thinking, knowledge, innovation, strategy execution, etc.) are enlarged because different industries, organizations, functions, and individuals evolve with varying speed. To lift up the board leadership maturity, minding the insight gap is challenging, but a critical step for improving leadership effectiveness. Leadership is an influence, influence comes from progressive mindsets, profound insight, and step-wise actions. Insight is an understanding of cause and effect based on the identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.

The Corporate Board’s Diagnostic View of Digital Transformation Running a digital business is a change-innovation-problem-solving continuum. Going digital is all about the rapid changes with blurred functional, business, or industrial territories, and expanded organizational horizons. Stability is not equal to stagnation. The corporate board plays a significant role in the oversight of strategy management and digital transformation. Having the diagnostic view at the board level helps the management understand where and how you can and should improve to get the biggest effect and scale up the transformation effort across the digital ecosystem effortlessly.

The Boardroom's Feedback Feedforward Practices Digital has the “VUCA” characteristics - velocity, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It implies both business opportunities and risks on the way and change is a new normal. Corporate Board as a high-level governance body plays a crucial role in business advising and monitoring, as well as setting key tones in leadership exemplification and talent development. To overcome the challenges, boards need to develop their own set of digital best and next practice to improve both the organizational performance and their own performance.

The Digital Board with Global Competency Global competency is the ability to understand and act on issues of global significance or solve complex problems which have a global impact. Collectively, at the board level, global competency represents the global leadership, mindset, knowledge, insight, expertise, attitudes, skills, and behaviors necessary to thrive in today's hyper-connected and interdependent world.

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