The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: Stretch the Strength to Keep “Digital Fit” June 2019

 The digital organization’s long-term advantage is based on its unique strength which can be built and stretched through the combination of talent, resources, processes, and technologies.

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?

Stretch the Strength to Keep “Digital Fit”

Building the Bona Fide Strength of Digital Business With rapid changes and overwhelming growth of information, neither business nor life is linear or static these days. The digital organization’s long-term advantage is based on its unique strength which can be built and stretched through the combination of talent, resources, processes, and technologies to perform a set of business activities and achieve high-performance business results. Here are three efforts to build the bona fide strength of the digital business.

How to Build Organizational Innovation Strength Today, innovation can happen anywhere, anytime; it expands both horizontally and vertically. But it’s common that many companies tend to focus on their core competencies and often forget about the value of innovation management. Without innovation, organizations would be upstaged by the competitors that are creative because disruptive innovation will happen no matter you prepare well or not. Every organization has the capacity to innovate both as one of the initiatives or in a sustained way; both at the individual level and organizational level. How to build organizational innovation strength by taking a logical scenario?

Inner Strength Comes from Mind or Heart Life is a journey. Stress and extreme circumstances will test us. Hopefully, we will survive. And in the surviving get stronger. Until you begin to look inside self to value the strength you never knew you had, you would ponder around: where does such inner strength come from your mind or your heart? inside-out or outside-in; should you focus on practicing the strength; or strengthening the weakness? From individual strength to collective strength, how to build a strong team?

Creativity Strength Creativity is clearly a competency at both individual and corporate level; the question is how to identify and build your creative strength, and how does it become the competitive differentiator and bring the financial benefit?

Three Questions to Assess a Person’s Strength Every person is unique and we all have our own strength and weakness. Knowing who you are or being self-awareness, allows you to become a better person or a higher quality professional. Knowing who you are and how you react and respond in different situations can help you understand and improve the cognitive, relational and assertive actions you take on a day to day basis, understand your strength also helps you to unleash your full potential and better manage your career path and professional life in the long run. What are insightful questions to assess your (or others) strength, not for making a pure self-judgment, but to understand yourself (or others) in profundity?

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