The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 6/21/2019

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The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 5700+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 28books 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.

How to Deal with the Fuzzy Front End of Change and Digital Transformation We live in the “VUCA” digital new normal with higher volatility, uncertainties, complexity, and ambiguities The digital paradigm arises out of new knowledge; the emerging trends are the digital shapers to reinforce the very characteristics of the modern business such as enlightenment, “always-on,” and people-centricity, etc. There are opportunities and risks, confusions and frustrations on the way to going digital. How to deal with the fuzzy front end of the digital paradigm and make a smooth transition?

The New Book “100 IT Charms” Introduction Chapter V: IT as the “Center of Possibility” With the overwhelming growth of information and pervasive technology, to keep IT relevant, IT management shouldn’t just practice some transactional activities or act as a business controller only. IT management has to explore both the art and science of digital management discipline, run IT as the “Center of Possibility,” accelerate its performance and unlock its full potential. Slideshare Presentation

The Board Director's Digital Profiles In today’s “VUCA” digital new normal, it is not an easy task to direct the business especially the large business ship to the uncharted water and blurred business territories. Digital leadership is a unique combination of leadership mindsets and behaviors that develop and achieve high quality and meaningful results over a sustained period of time. The modern digital board has many responsibilities, also gets a lot of distractions. It needs to laser focus on the most critical perspectives to steer the business in the right direction.

The Monthly “100 Digital Rules” Book Tuning: Setting Principles to Drive Digital Transformation June 2019 The purpose of “100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal “ is to establish digital principles and update business policies that can be applied holistically and guide the digital transformation systematically. Digital rules are based on a set of fundamental beliefs behind the methodologies and they help to shape mindsets behind behaviors. Digital rules encourage mindfulness, authenticity, creativity, inclusiveness, and discourage static thinking, silo, and bureaucracy, help to accelerate collective human progress.

Three Hidden Dimensions to Explore Business Growth In the “VUCA” business new normal, the abundance of information and the lightweight digital technologies play a crucial role in forecasting emerging trends and bring significant opportunities for companies to solve business problems through the methodical examination of alternative ways and renovate traditional organization to reach the next stage of the business growth cycle. Here are three hidden dimensions for companies to explore the “art of possibility,” pursue growth, increase revenue, accelerate performance, and achieve the long term business results. 

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