Tuesday, October 15, 2019

The Monthly “CIO Master” Book Tuning: Interdisciplinary CIO Oct. 2019

The pace of changes in IT would force more CIOs to shift into transformation-oriented and multifaceted digital leadership roles.

Compared to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented and reenergized. The magic “I” of the CIO title sparks many imaginations and modern CIOs need to wear different hats and play multiple roles. Here are a set of blogs for brainstorming interdisciplinary leadership of CIOs and reinvent IT to get digital ready.

    

                     

Interdisciplinary CIOs 


The Interdisciplinary CIOs The role of the CIO continues to evolve rapidly in the midst of the information growth and accelerating changes in technology. The top CIOs today must have unique business insight and high level of influence on business changes and digital transformation. They should practice expert power and interdisciplinary management disciplines all the time in order to become a trusted business partner.

The Interdisciplinary Practice to Manage IT and Business Businesses today are shifting from the industrial silo fashion to the hyper-connected digital trend. The business management technique also shifts from hierarchical command and control style to holistic management practices. The Interdisciplinary science can be applied to digital management by integrating multidisciplinary methodology, it enables leaders to frame a bigger thinking box, and approach problems via multifaceted way, technically, scientifically and culturally.

Five Interdisciplinary Aspects of Orchestrating a Digital Business Ecosystem The digital business ecosystem is dynamic, nonlinear, and complex. Hence, digital management discipline also needs to be nonlinear and transdisciplinary to deal with the "VUCA" characteristics of the Digital Era. Overall speaking, trans or interdisciplinary approach can be applied to management with integrated multi-disciplinary methodology, it enables digital leaders to frame bigger thinking boxes, and approach problems via multifaceted way, technically, scientifically and culturally. Here are five interdisciplinary aspects of orchestrating a digital organization.

Three Digital Traits to Become a Sophisticated Modern CIO Due to the disruptive nature of technology and fast-growing information, and in a world where practically every aspect of nearly every business, as mundane and detached from IT either sales or accounting, is wholly dependent on IT to a high degree, the CIO role is perhaps one of the most sophisticated executive positions in modern businesses because they have to wear multiple personas to practice situational leadership, and keep reinventing IT to adapting to changes all the time. For the modern CIO, that simply means being a proper "C-level" leader to amplify leadership influence and a tactical manager to keep IT running flawlessly at the prevailing level of sophistication. Here are three digital traits to become a sophisticated modern CIO.

The Multifaceted Digital CIOs Many organizations are at the strategic inflection point of the digital transformation, it is the broader and longer journey with many leaps and jumps, bumps and curves. IT plays a crucial role in knitting all important business elements into differentiated organizational competency. The pace of changes in IT would force more CIOs to shift into transformation-oriented and multifaceted digital leadership roles. Digital CIOs, are born to change, how they overcome the digital transformation challenges depends on their ability to think, adapt, proactively plan and execute, as well as their multifaceted leadership capacities.

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