Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Insight of the Week 4/11-4/17 “Future of CIO 2020

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The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 6600+ 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 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 Competitive Differentiators of Digital Organization Digital transformation represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. Organizations today face overwhelming growth of information, continuous disruptions often driven by technology and fierce competition. It takes strategic differentiation which is one of the many strategic options in generic business strategies available to overcome challenges.

The Monthly “Digitizing Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Ultra-Modern Corporate Board Apr. 2020 Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

The Root Causes of Unnecessary Complexity of IT Organization Due to the changing nature of technology and an abundance of information, the IT organization has to leverage design thinking for reinventing itself to get digital Not investing enough time in common IT design issues would cause more unnecessary complexity and make IT suffer from the busyness and lower customer satisfaction; even cocreate the disconnect between IT and the business, and decelerate organizational performance

Apply Business Architecture to Solve Wild Problems As we learn and understand more about this interdependent and hyper-connected digital world, which is a lot more complex than we realize, there’s an imperative need for systematic problem-solving. Fundamentally, running a business is an iterative problem-solving continuum. Problem-solving has a very wide scope today, digital leaders and professionals can leverage Business Architecture (BA) as a problem-solving framework and practical tool for taking multifaceted disciplines to solve problems effectively.

The Monthly “Performance Master” Summary: How to Measure Organizational Maturity Apr. 2020 Corporate Performance Management is a management control from strategy to the shop floor. "If you can't measure, you can't manage," legendary management guru Peter Drucker once asserted. Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans, and making decisions to ensure it happens. It takes multifaceted approaches from multidimensional perspectives to unlock digital performance and catalyze change.

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking about the new ideas; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content takes time for digesting, contemplation and engaging, and therefore, it takes time to attract the "hungry minds" and the "deep souls." It’s the journey to amplify diverse voices and deepen digital footprints, and it's the way to harness your innovative spirit.

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