Thursday, May 9, 2019

The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 5/10/2019

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing.

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 Masterbook 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.

Perfecting the Art of Innovation Creativity is an innate process to generate novel ideas and innovation is a management process of transforming those ideas to achieve their commercial value. That is what the innovation all about - getting the result in something which leads us to a better state than where we are today. You begin the innovation with well-aligned structure and process, but those processes or structures are not perfect, it’s actually necessary to have a certain degree of chaos to breakdown some old rules or outdated processes for playing the innovation oddball with the free spirit. Innovation is both art and science. Fundamentally speaking, innovation management is a scientific discipline with a set of best or next practices to perfect the art of innovation through progressive thinking and continuous improvement.

The Corporate Board Director’s Digital Profile IV Digital boards are like the steering wheel of the organization, leading the business to step into the deep "VUCA" digital new normal with uncharted water and blurred territories, in order to reach the final destination. Board directors as the top business leadership and directorship role need to build the solid thinking blocks; have sufficient expertise and unique insight to understand the business and its ecosystem via the multidimensional lens, technically, scientifically, economically, holistically, and culturally. Their knowledge must be updated and their viewpoint should be objective, otherwise, the outdated perceptions could enlarge leadership gaps and stifle business progress. Building the best fit board depends on the board’s current makeup, culture and which "gap" needs to be filled. Here is a set of board director’s digital profiles.

Trending the Digital Path via Bold Experimentation The emergence of potential opportunities for exploring digital is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern with the faster speed and pervasiveness of information technology. Going digital is about discovering the unique path to take the adventure for reaching a well-defined vision by exploring new possibilities, experimenting with better ways to do things, refining information into business insight, and developing the unique business competency.

The Monthly “Unpuzzling Innovation” Book Tuning: Take a Step-Wise Approach to Manage Innovation May 2019 Digital is the age of innovation. And innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; at the individual level, Digital Masters are those cross-generational digital professionals who are equipped with the advanced digital minds and build a unique set of digital capabilities. Talking about innovation is not new nowadays, everybody, every organization now is talking about innovation. It's been at or near the top of the business or economics agenda for a long time. However, there are a lot of confusions about innovation and there is no magic sauce to guarantee its success. Innovation is not serendipity, but a discipline.

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

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating the new ideas; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content takes time for digesting, contemplation and engaging, and therefore, it takes the time to attract the "hungry minds" and the "deep souls." It’s the journey to amplify diverse voices and deepen digital footprints, and it's the way to harness your innovative spirit.

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