The Monthly Digital Principles/Practices Summary: Principles to Shape Digital View, Talent, and Business Aug. 2020

Forward-thinking leaders can follow system principles, shift their business perception from a linear system to an adaptive “purposeful” system with hyper-connected and interdependent nature.

A digital workplace is all about people-centricity, empathy, innovation, agility, and high-level business maturity. Digital organizations are always on, inter-dependent and hyper-connected, people are always the most important asset in any organization before, today, and future. 

In an ideal digital workplace, the organizational structure is solid enough to keep people or things in order; but fluid enough to keep information and ideas flow.

       Principles to Shape Digital View, Talent, and Business 

 

Principles to Shape Systematic Foresight The dynamic business environment is full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, ambiguity, fierce competition, and continuous disruptions. Forward-thinking leaders can follow system principles, shift their business perception from a linear system to an adaptive “purposeful” system with hyper-connected and interdependent nature, understand business behavior from technical or mechanical to socio-technical, in order to make a smooth digital paradigm shift.

The Rules and Logic of Digital Enterprise The Digital era upon us is volatile, complex, uncertain, and ambiguous. It is important to make a set of rules and develop the best and next practices to adapt and drive seamless changes. Business rules describe the operations, definitions, and constraints that apply to an organization. They can apply to people, processes, corporate behavior, and computing systems in an organization, and they are put in place to help the organization shape a high-performance culture, encourage desired attitude and behaviors, and achieve its goals smoothly. There are different types of rule and the business logic should distinguish between:

Three Principles of Design-Driven Innovation Design thinking reflects the emergence of an accessible thought framework, a holistic, flexible, and creative way of setting goals and putting strategies into place to achieve genuine innovation. The strategic objective of design thinking is a people-centric and iterative process to truly understand what customers need, how to improve their experience, help the business orient itself towards those needs in order to achieve strategic business goals effortlessly. Here are three principles of managing design-driven innovation.

Three Principles to Practice Expertise Power Power has many different formats; some visible, some invisible; some are earned, some are given; some are delightful, some are intimidating. There are three powers either as visible or invisible hands in an organization: Structural power (the position with the organizational hierarchy), expert power (business and technical knowledge), and connection power. Due to the exponential growth of information and the shorten knowledge cycle, expert power is perhaps more powerful than other types of powers in the digital era because brainpower can stimulate all kinds of creativity; and the knowledge power is the key for any sort of human progress. Here are three digital principles to practice expert power effectively.

Follow “LESS is More” Principle to Drive Digital Transformation The digital transformation is now spreading rapidly to enable organizations of all shapes and sizes to reinvent themselves. It represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. It needs to take an overarching approach that has to dig underneath the surface of businesses for integrating both hard and soft critical business elements into differentiated organizational competency and follow the “Less is more” principle to improve, innovate, and harmonize for reaching the next level of organizational maturity.

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