“Understanding” Quotes of “Digital Master” (VI) Nov, 2020

It is important to understand the multitude of business effects digital leaders might need to deal with, and take the logical steps for reaching the next stage of digital management fluency.

"Digital Master” is the 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, advises 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 “Understanding” quotes (vi) in “Digital Master.’

It’s important to navigate uncertainty, gain a comprehensive understanding of real issues, develop effective frameworks, or deduct digital formulas to solve problems smoothly.

Try to be "objective" is to try to let go of one's bias, systems understanding of truth is one gateway to overcome the variety of biases to improve decision effectiveness and coherence.

Ad hoc means on-off, narrow and tactical, reactionary, or unplanned, etc. At this level, it’s a fairly immature organization architecturally, with limited understanding of the value and role of architecture.

It’s important to harness the different experiences, perspectives, and ideas of people, look at the wider aspect around any problem, and dig deeper to understand the effect of imposing boundaries within that space in order to overcome the challenges.

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,

Pre-planning, planning, prioritizing, adjustment, alignment, and oversight; do all the time; partnering with the business to understand entry, exist, risk permanence, and value generation strategy, use of new technology, business process, partner, business model, joint product development, supplier integration, and use of real-time, accurate, or predictive information, etc.

The organization has to continuously understand its customer needs and business requirements, develop a customer-centric architecture, and have a clear understanding of how customer-centric approaches enhance the business model and extend profitability.

It is important to understand the multitude of business effects digital leaders might need to deal with, and take the logical steps for reaching the next stage of digital management fluency.

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