The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 10/18/2019

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The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 6100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 28 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.

The Building Blocks to Bridge Digital Transformation from Here to There There are no change for its own sake, including the large scale digital transformation. Transformation starts with the realization that where you currently no longer can deliver the business objectives and vision of success for your company and your shareholders. It’s important to determine what the future needs to look like, and what the transformation must look like. Does your strategy remain valid in the time it takes to actually transform? Can you clarify a clear vision and develop the necessary building blocks to bridge digital transformation from here to there?

Develop the Corporate Board with Digital Acumen Digital organizations are complex systems that are dynamic, self-evolving, self-adaptable, and self-perpetuating. Digital dynamic with “VUCA” characteristics create many blind spots in decision-making and generates quite a few gaps for change and digital transformation. Thus, digital corporate board directors with strategic acumen are in strong demand for helping the business in strategy development and performance monitoring..

Develop Breakthrough Business Models by Trending Emerging TechnologyWhen we jump into the digital future of “VUCA” new normal –volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, organizational leaders should be able to envision and determine what the future needs to look like, what the transformation must look like? Can information technology help to design new business models? Is the business model scaling the right way to achieve the strategic objectives? And how to take the wise steps for evolving the emerging digital information technology to develop breakthrough business model and innovation?

Three Questions to Clarify Digital Workforce Fit Digital is the age of people-centricity. Going digital is an evolutionary path of pursuing the next level of organizational maturity and collective human progress via empowerment and democratic meritocracy. In practice, how to put the right people with the right capability in the right position to solve the right problems?

The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Take a Logical Scenario to Drive IT Change Management Oct. 2019 Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change life cycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum. What are digital CIO’s profiles and how to reboot IT to get digital ready and cultivate the culture of learning and innovating?

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