Digital management is a hybrid and holistic discipline with mixed management styles to manage everything that is necessary to get people to adopt new ways of working.
Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, processes to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational, and geographical borders in the business ecosystem.
Digital Transformation is like a gigantic puzzle with many misplaced pieces, you have to put them all in the right places to discover the real meaning and unleash its full potential. You cannot make a true digital paradigm shift without an in-depth understanding of the digital interconnectivity and embracing the multitude of digital maturity.
Is Digital Management More Art or Science Management is about the coordination of the activities of a business in order to achieve defined objectives. Management is often included as a factor of production along with machines, materials, and money. According to the management guru Peter Drucker (1909-2005), the basic task of management includes both marketing and innovation. Management consists of the interlocking function of creating corporate policy and organizing, planning, controlling, and directing an organization’s resources in order to achieve the objectives of that policy. (businessdictionary.com). The business world has shifted from industrial age to information age, now in the digital era, the fundamental concept of management is still the same. However, with the speed of change and advance of technology, the digital business is always on and hyperconnected, has digital management become less mechanical and more organic? Is management more art or science nowadays
Closing the Gap of Traditional Management vs. Holistic Digital Management In the industrial age, the majority of organizations have been operated with classic management discipline, which is based on a tacit assumption that organizations can be compared to machines as a mechanical system. Traditional management is inside out process-oriented and efficiency-driven. Consequently, silo functions and divide-and-conquer methodologies are promoted both in organizational design as well as task responsibility or accountability distribution. Nowadays, businesses are steadily moving into the digital era with characteristics of hyper-connectivity and interdependence, how to close the gaps between classic management and digital management in order to enforce cross-functional collaboration and improve business effectiveness and maturity?
Digital Management Styles We are living in a “VUCA” complex world in which inventions, developments, and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have complete knowledge and understanding of many complex issues today. Traditional “command & control” management style loses the steam, the digital management approaches are adaptive and flexible, applying systems thinking to gain a holistic understanding of the organization, manage business relationships and resources effectively, take a comprehensive, anticipatory, and design approach to radically advance human well-being and build healthy business ecosystems smoothly.
The Hybrid Digital Management Disciplines The digital paradigm has many dimensions, it is like solving a jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces, easy to get lost when trying to capture the big picture. Digital transformation is the journey for solving problems caused by "conflict," "out of balance," and “lack of logic.” It has to expand into every dimension of the organization with a structural approach. Thus, digital management is a hybrid and holistic discipline with mixed management styles to manage everything that is necessary to get people to adopt new ways of working such as cross-functional communication and collaboration, organizational structure design, change management, talent development, digital business readiness, and stakeholder management, etc.
Apply Holistic Management to Drive Digital Transformation Over the last couple of decades, businesses have been faced with increasingly complex and pressing problem-situations, embedded in interconnected business ecosystems operating in dynamically changing environments. In addressing these problem situations and working with their relevant systems, business leaders and managers have learned to recognize the limitations of the perspectives, methodologies, and tools of the traditional scientific orientation and management discipline. Digital implies the always-on and hyper-connected business nature with "VUCA" characteristics. Thus, management innovation becomes inevitable. Holistic management (a Greek word meaning all, whole, entire, total) is about applying Systems Thinking to manage resources, recognizing initiatives that take a comprehensive, anticipatory, and design approach to radically advance human well-being and the health of business ecosystems. But more specifically, how to apply holistic management for driving digital transformation?
The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with about #6900th 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. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating 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.
Understand the “Art & Science” of Digital Management
Is Digital Management More Art or Science Management is about the coordination of the activities of a business in order to achieve defined objectives. Management is often included as a factor of production along with machines, materials, and money. According to the management guru Peter Drucker (1909-2005), the basic task of management includes both marketing and innovation. Management consists of the interlocking function of creating corporate policy and organizing, planning, controlling, and directing an organization’s resources in order to achieve the objectives of that policy. (businessdictionary.com). The business world has shifted from industrial age to information age, now in the digital era, the fundamental concept of management is still the same. However, with the speed of change and advance of technology, the digital business is always on and hyperconnected, has digital management become less mechanical and more organic? Is management more art or science nowadays
Closing the Gap of Traditional Management vs. Holistic Digital Management In the industrial age, the majority of organizations have been operated with classic management discipline, which is based on a tacit assumption that organizations can be compared to machines as a mechanical system. Traditional management is inside out process-oriented and efficiency-driven. Consequently, silo functions and divide-and-conquer methodologies are promoted both in organizational design as well as task responsibility or accountability distribution. Nowadays, businesses are steadily moving into the digital era with characteristics of hyper-connectivity and interdependence, how to close the gaps between classic management and digital management in order to enforce cross-functional collaboration and improve business effectiveness and maturity?
Digital Management Styles We are living in a “VUCA” complex world in which inventions, developments, and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have complete knowledge and understanding of many complex issues today. Traditional “command & control” management style loses the steam, the digital management approaches are adaptive and flexible, applying systems thinking to gain a holistic understanding of the organization, manage business relationships and resources effectively, take a comprehensive, anticipatory, and design approach to radically advance human well-being and build healthy business ecosystems smoothly.
The Hybrid Digital Management Disciplines The digital paradigm has many dimensions, it is like solving a jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces, easy to get lost when trying to capture the big picture. Digital transformation is the journey for solving problems caused by "conflict," "out of balance," and “lack of logic.” It has to expand into every dimension of the organization with a structural approach. Thus, digital management is a hybrid and holistic discipline with mixed management styles to manage everything that is necessary to get people to adopt new ways of working such as cross-functional communication and collaboration, organizational structure design, change management, talent development, digital business readiness, and stakeholder management, etc.
Apply Holistic Management to Drive Digital Transformation Over the last couple of decades, businesses have been faced with increasingly complex and pressing problem-situations, embedded in interconnected business ecosystems operating in dynamically changing environments. In addressing these problem situations and working with their relevant systems, business leaders and managers have learned to recognize the limitations of the perspectives, methodologies, and tools of the traditional scientific orientation and management discipline. Digital implies the always-on and hyper-connected business nature with "VUCA" characteristics. Thus, management innovation becomes inevitable. Holistic management (a Greek word meaning all, whole, entire, total) is about applying Systems Thinking to manage resources, recognizing initiatives that take a comprehensive, anticipatory, and design approach to radically advance human well-being and the health of business ecosystems. But more specifically, how to apply holistic management for driving digital transformation?
The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with about #6900th 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. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating 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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