Thursday, April 18, 2019

The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 4/19/2019

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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.

The “Soul” of Digital Organization We are experiencing the major societal transformation from the industrial machine age with information scarcity to the digital era with knowledge abundance. Consider digital organizations as the self-organized but interlaced environment, going digital is the fundamental shift from the mindset to behavior. It is the movement from static to flow, silo to holistic, and mechanical to organic. To dig deeper, what is the “soul” of the digital organization, how to design, nurture, and renew a highly energetic and high-performance digital business?

The Corporate Board Director’s Digital Profiles With the fast speed of changes, the exponential growth of information, blurred business borders and hyper diversified digital workforce, the composition of Boards should reflect approximately the profile of the company' stakeholders, shareholders, employees, customers, and suppliers, etc. To improve leadership effectiveness and governance maturity, BoDs need to do some check up such as, which challenges do you face, when and how do you tackle the issue of change in the boardroom? Do you have corporate board directors with the digital fit profile to steer the business in the right direction and drive changes effortlessly?

Design Thinking and Innovation Digital is the age of options, it provides the opportunity to think the new way to do things. It forces digital leaders to get really creative on how they could leverage design thinking to architect and implement changes and how they handle the investigation of developing innovative business solutions in a structural way. Design becomes a strategic business driver equal to business and technology. In practice, many legacy businesses come with a legacy mindset, the old way to do things, lack of vision, passion, motivation, and talent to stimulate design thinking and spark innovation. In reality, very few companies can arrive at the top level of design maturity. To digitize businesses and unlock business potential, it's important to leverage design thinking for improving business maturity from functioning to firm to delight.

The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: Knowledge Fit Apr. 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?

Three Roles to Make CIOs Stand Out "Due to the exponential growth of information and continuous technology-led disruptions, it is increasingly important to run a business-driven digital IT organization for dealing with “VUCA” digital new normal and driving digital transformation proactively. CIOs today need to be dynamic people with multidimensional intelligence, multi-faced personas, multilayered professional competencies and have a multitude of leadership qualities in order to lead IT as a trustful business partner and business growth engine.

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