The Best “Possibility/Probability” Quotes of “Digital Master” Jan, 2020

Strategic practitioners can leverage different lenses, such as Mathematics or probability -you build the best strategy based on the circumstances that will allow the highest probability of success and control risk.

"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 ““Possibility/Probability” quotes in “Digital Master.”


1 Uncertainty is only certain and the best opportunity in business or any field to explore the "art of possibility." If there is no uncertainty, then there will be a monopoly, in fact, anarchy.

2 You build the best strategy based on the circumstances that will allow the highest probability of management success and risk controlling.

3 The ambiguity effect is a cognitive bias where decision making is affected by a lack of information (in many cases, the information cannot be obtained) or "ambiguity." It implies that people tend to select options for which the probability of a favorable outcome is known, over an option for which the probability of a favorable outcome is unknown.

4 The powerful digital platforms and collaboration tools provide unprecedented opportunities for businesses to innovate by building invaluably intellectual processes to boost the organizational innovation capacity and increase the probability of creative synthesis.

5 It’s important to gain an in-depth understanding of business issues as well as have the interdisciplinary knowledge to connect the dots for sparking innovation. Depth + Breadth = Probability for digital innovation.

6 To keep IT relevant, IT management shouldn't just practice some transactional activities or act as a controller only. It has to explore both the art and science of digital management discipline, run IT organization as the “center of possibility,” to accelerate its performance and unlock the full digital potential.

7 Strategic practitioners can leverage different lenses, such as Mathematics or probability -you build the best strategy based on the circumstances that will allow the highest probability of success and control risk.

8 If the decision-making scenario is well designed and well-executed, you have the highest probability of getting the best outcome in the state of knowledge accessible at the time of decision-making.

9 A strategic CIO is a multidimensional thinker via different lenses: Mathematics or probability -you build the best strategy based on the circumstances that will allow the highest probability of success and controls risk.

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