The Best “Interdisciplinarity” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2019

The purpose of managing business via an interdisciplinary approach is to ensure that the business as a whole is superior to the sum of pieces.

"Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (27+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “Interdisciplinarity” quotes in “Digital Master.’

1 Applying interdisciplinary management to gain an understanding of nonlinearity as the very characteristic of the digital organization and business ecosystem could be at the tipping point for the digital paradigm shift.

2 The border of knowledge domains is blurred and the scope of knowledge is expanded in the continual base. Interdisciplinary business insight should lead us not only understanding, but also predicting; dig into the root cause of problems, not just point out symptoms, and solve problems systematically.

3 The purpose of managing business via an interdisciplinary approach is to ensure that the business as a whole is superior to the sum of pieces.

4 Digital organizations and systems have the very characteristics of nonlinearity, adaptability, unrepeatability, unpredictability, and denial of control. At an enterprise level, digital literacy requires cross-functional collaboration and interdisciplinary knowledge sharing.

5 The linear management practices are simply not sufficient to manage the "VUCA" digital new normal. Interdisciplinary science can be applied to digital management which involves applied Science (Engineering), Art (Design), principle (Philosophy), Cognition (Psychology), Social norms (Culture) and group behavior (Sociology), etc.

6 Interdisciplinary science can be applied to management by integrating multidisciplinary methodologies, enables leaders to frame bigger thinking boxes, and manage the digital business by taking the multi-faceted approach, technically, scientifically and culturally.

7 Organizations today are at the crossroads where the segregation or silo of business units are at a need to reach across the aisles and work with each other respectively in order to understand complex business problems via the interdisciplinary lens and solve them systematically, without causing too many side effects.

8 Dealing with the significant challenge of digital transformation requires accelerated digital mindsets, leveraging interdisciplinary knowledge and insight, taking an end-to-end response and a structural approach.

9 Applying multidisciplinary management disciplines to orchestrating a digital organization is an evolutionary step to drive the next level of business maturity and harmonize our society.

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