The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 10/25/2019

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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.

Three Accomplishments Imply You are Perhaps at “the End of the Beginning” for IT-Led Digital Transformation Digital transformation is a long journey, and the path for digital transformation can be iterative, evolutionary, revolutionary, or disruptive. Information Technology is often the driving force behind digital transformation as IT continues to grow in importance to organizational growth and as a competitive advantage. IT-driven digital transformation inspires growth mindset, catalyzes innovation, and unleashes organizational potential. It’s a long journey, here are three accomplishments imply that you are perhaps at the “end of the beginning” for digital transformation, and reach the inflection point to accelerate transformative changes.

Three “G” Practices in Corporate Boardroom With rapid change and exponential growth of information, how successfully organizations can handle continuous digital disruptions depends on how fast and capable they can adapt to the ever-changing environment. The senior leadership of the organization such as BoDs, like the steering wheel, needs to navigate companies through uncharted water, to ensure their ships are moving in the right direction.

Systems Thinking and Problem-Solving Systems Thinking is about understanding interconnected relationship between parts and the whole. The business problems today usually have many causes and can be very complex. Leveraging Systems Thinking to problem-solving includes framing the right problems, understanding the interconnected relationship between different problems, as well as figuring out potential solutions.

Digital Workforce as Learning Master People are often the weakest link but one of the most critical success factors of the organization. Modern digital technologies bring unprecedented convenience for people to learn and collaborate, improve their productivity, learning agility, and innovativeness. Digital workforce is a technology savvy new breed and learning master.

The Best “Differentiation” Quotes of “Digital Master” Oct. 2019 "Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + 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, provides advice 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 “Differentiation” quotes in “Digital Master.”

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