In order to best understand a subject or a problem, digital leaders and professionals today need to define it, shape multidimensional views and perceptions.
Leverage Multiple Views to Drive Digital
The “Profound” Views of Simplifying Complexity and Driving Progressive Changes We live in a complex world with hyper-connectivity and interdependence, people often complicate the simple things when they don't have the answers. In order to best understand a subject or a problem, digital leaders and professionals today needs to define it, shape multidimensional views and perceptions such as diagnostic, strategic, structural, interactive, or design, to name a few, eliminate the unnecessary complexity, not just reactively look through the real problem or react to the business ecosystem; they actually proactively plan and architect the change they want to see and solve problems elegantly.
The “Zoom In, Zoom Out, & Diagnostic View” of Digitalization Organizations’ digitalization is surely a transformation journey, as it has to permeate into business vision, strategy, communication, culture, and processes. etc. Before taking action, start a deep observation to understand your business by capturing a multifaceted view. Cognition, resources, information, motivation, or complexity of each dynamic affect the pace of transformation and the timing of subsequent progress. Here is the “zoom in, zoom out, and diagnostic view” of digitalization.
Shaping a Holistic View -Seeing both Forest and Trees Holistic thinking involves understanding a system by sensing its large-scale patterns and addressing the big picture. In terms of a holistic viewpoint,' one does often need to integrate different stereotyped or mechanistic viewpoints; it is the integration and searches for new viewpoints that are holistic. At times, when you only want to see things from your own point of view, see what you want to see, or hear what you want to hear, often you miss the point to understand the real problem holistically as well as how to solve it creatively or systematically. Here are three aspects of shaping a holistic view of digital transformation.
What’s your System View of the World Both business and the world become over-complex and interconnected, the linear thinking often applied in the industrial age seems to be too limited to see the intriguing and interwoven picture of the world. When we do linear thinking, we do not see the impacts and consequences of our thinking and actions socially, environmentally, locally and globally. The systems thinker looks at their business as being part of a larger system, the socio-economic system, which is part of a larger system - the natural environment. So is a systems view of the world needed? How can this kind of thinking and perception become mainstream and promoted in such a way that it is adopted as a serious alternative to linear thinking?
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