Imagining & Inventing...

The New Year ball is almost dropping. Predict what will happen and step further- control what you should do upon it; and make positive influence upon what you would like to bring to the table.

It’s the end of year, it's almost the beginning of the New Year; it’s also the time to ponder deeper about digital paradigm shift. When jumping into the digital future of “VUCA” new normal –Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, the worldview via tunnel lens is inconsistent with today’s hyper-connected, over-complex and interdependent society, as it does not reflect the interrelatedness we observe in the world now.

 It’s time to predict where the future will be, identify core competencies, light up the context of future trends and the business cycle, prioritize and practice the better ways of making a leapfrog of digital transformation.

The pace of paradigm shifts is quickening: The digital landscape has many dimensions technically, ecologically, philosophically, or psychologically, etc and the digital ecosystem is a hyper-connected and continuously converging environment that provides structural analysis and a certain extent of serendipity with increasing pace of change. You have to look into an unknown future and attempt to define the landscape with its opportunities and risks. When a new stage emerges in the progression of society and advance of technology, the continued use of the old paradigm creates ever-increasing problems. So people have to frame a new mindset, learn to use the new lens of the new era, acquire new thinking, knowing, and doing based on the new worldview. Individually, it’s critical to become learning agile and more innovative; collectively, organizations need to align their business reality with digital strategy, develop the future perspective, bring people together in a common and committed effort, and move people, organizations, and our society in the right direction.

The idea of digital paradigm shifting, starts from mind shift. It takes a lot of energy to break habits and outdated thought processes, but the pace of paradigm shifts is quickening, change is happening with accelerated speed, so the mindshift also needs to be expedited. Business leaders and professionals with systematic foresight have a future orientation that makes them more prone to shape a holistic view, overcome barriers and handle adversities, and explore possibilities of breakthrough change. Increasingly, we should see value in being mindful of, of surfacing the paradigm in question, of "we're here to engage in a structured digital transformation.”

The pace of adaptations to digital new normal is quickening, aggregating to bigger paradigm shifts in scales quicker than previously: Digital professionals become well developed when they can think multidimensionally and solve problems interdisciplinarily. Collaboratively, organizations today are nonlinear systems that keep evolving and arise when the scale of the interrelations, interactions, or inter-relational interactions surpasses the individual’s capacity to be able to do whatever it does with smaller scales. To scale up, find the leverage point to make a big impact. Organizations must begin thinking about ways with strategic planning to broaden their ecosystems and revenue streams which become highly responsive and flexible. In fact, the pace of adaptations to digital new normal is quickening. Some corrections require more drastic paradigm shifts with corresponding economic impacts and predictable ecosystem challenges.

Every journey is built through accumulated steps. Humans are vehicles of natural and cultural evolution. Consider the digital organization as the self-organized but interlaced and hyper-connected ecosystem, and self-adaptation is a phenomenon strictly linked to see learning and knowledge increases if shared and consumed. So feedback - information gained from experience that can improve future performance is welcomed. Leadership is the system wrapped in a culture of openness and emergence. It expects everyone to display leadership and hands-on responsibility for learning to be the learner, foster a learning-doing continuum, and amplify collective capabilities to achieve more values for the organization.

Foresight is an ongoing conversation: Revisit vision, test and always broaden involvement. The high mature digital organizations are highly conscious about what’s happening in their environment, with the ability to adapt to change timely, grasp opportunities, and prevent risks effectively. Transformative changes are not random efforts but take structural planning and continuous conversations. The organization needs to awaken the ecosystem consciousness, start thinking about ways for adapting to their ecosystems and create new revenue streams while becoming highly responsive and innovative. The digital leaders equipped with open, intelligent, and growth mindset, play an important role in both envisioning and participating in digital dialogues for driving long-term business transformation and organizational development.

In practice, reimagining the future and reinventing the business to get digital ready is an evolutionary journey with ups and downs, promises and perils on the way. The practice that is “best” today is almost always not "best" in the future due to changing circumstances. So individuals need to gain the “incremental consciousness” about their own potentials, practice critical thinking and logical reasoning, initiate or participate in thought provoking communication to break down conventional wisdom, manage the emotional cycle behind change and keep discovering and developing their strengths. Businesses must match the vision and tailor their own need to develop a set of next practices to scale up by adding the right ingredients and going digital internally and culturally.

The New Year ball is almost dropping. Predict what will happen and step further- control what you should do upon it; and make positive influence upon what you would like to bring to the table. Reinventing the future takes both vision and strategy; it’s about setting out goals and working at them in a systematic way for proactively disrupting outdated mindsets, processes, technologies, or cultures, etc. The new year opens the new chapter of digital transformation which isn’t just an extension of continuous improvement of the current business but a quantum leap with accelerated speed on a grand level to achieve collective progress and societal advancement.

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Innovation & Insight 1/1

 Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 7300+ 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.


Information, Innovation & Interrelationship The digital era upon us is about high velocity, data exponentiality, innovation and people centricity. Information view enhances an in-depth understanding of business flow and catalyzes idea generation. So companies across industrial verticals should transform themselves into the digital business that is based on ‎information, their ability to explore intangible assets such as information and knowledge has become far more decisive to build a competitive business advantage. In reality, information is “gold mine,” and knowledge is power, however, there are the inherent dangers of overloaded information or too much knowledge particularly because of the inconsistencies and incoherence in the body of knowledge that surrounds us. Information savvy organizations apply a framework approach to explore intangible information/knowledge assets and build competitive business advantage for the long term.

Innation With silo setting and knowledge scarcity in the Industrial Age, either individuals or businesses often become so preoccupied with bottom line performance that they lose sight of the human factors that account for it. They didn't pay enough attention to build core competencies and unleash human potential for the long run. Now we step into the knowledge economy and move into the digital era with exponential growth of information and creativity as the most desirable professional quality.

Informative The aim of modern Information Management has often been described as getting the right information to the right person, in the right format and medium, at the right time, in order to make the right decisions. The value of information is qualitative, measurable, and defined uniquely by an organization.

Innovation The digital era upon us is about innovation and people centricity. The organic organization is an interconnected “living” thing that needs to keep growing and expanding. It is recharged via organic innovation, continuous improvement and cultural evolution. An organic innovation is not serendipity, but an interdisciplinary management approach which covers information mining, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, process optimization, etc., and stands in between management, economy, psychology, technology, sociology, and neurology, etc.

IDEA Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational and geographical borders in the business ecosystem. It 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.

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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“Unbiased”

Only a balanced mind with an unbiased view can make tough decisions, be objective, and lead progressively with accelerated speed.

"Digital Master” is a 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, provides advice 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 Unbiased” quotes in “Digital Master.”

Being judgmental has more connotations of a preconceived notion based more on pure emotion, and less on an unbiased, situation-based flexible analysis.

Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become. Fairness means to be unbiased, equitable, impartial, objective, dispassionately examining, and open-minded.

Digital is all about mind open and mind flow because the world becomes so hyper connected and interdependent, it’s important to break through such cognitive limits, Continue to practice reflective thinking and empathetic thinking, and shape an unbiased mindset.

Only a balanced board with an unbiased view can make tough decisions, be objective, and lead progressively with accelerated speed.

Life offers each of us a ton of opportunities to learn about ourselves and learn from others, be unbiased, and become better people and better-integrated leaders.

Highly effective BoDs today need to leverage their “sense and sensitivity,” to look ahead and imagine what is possible for their organizations, provide invaluable pieces of advice to management on how to drive the corporate vehicle with the steadfast speed, involving unbiased policy setting, making common principles, not to make dual or even triple standards in making sound judgments and improving decision maturity.

The management needs to clarify how you can design metrics to measure what changes and how these changes are measured. What are the relevant metrics of IT performance related to changes and how can they be quantified and validated? Whatever the measurement system is, it needs to be consistent, repeatable, and as unbiased as possible.

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Book Summary "Digital Boardroom" Insight: Influence

Gaining the perspectives of the next level of digital maturity is about having a harmonized vision of overall digital management philosophy, capabilities, structures, and practices. 

With the new year ahead of us, are we entering the era of digital learning, openness, and exponential? 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. Here is a set of blog to predict new year trends and share multiple perspectives of shaping a strategic boardroom with digital acumen.

Influence

Up-level Just as the industrial revolution did a century and a half ago, the digital revolution is reshaping the way we live, we think, and we work. The digital world is dynamic, interconnected, and interdependent, with the abundance of information. A digital paradigm is an emerging digital ecosystem of principles, policies, and practices that set limits or boundaries; and also offers the guidance for problem-solving or creating something new to achieve a state of dynamic balance. Leadership is all about making directions and driving changes. Forward-thinking digital leaders: how can you predict and prepare the next level of digitalization at the end of the year?

Ultramodernism Global competency is the ability to understand and act on issues of global significance or solve complex problems which have a global impact. Collectively, at the board level, global competency represents the global leadership, mindset, knowledge, insight, expertise, attitudes, skills, and behaviors necessary to thrive in today's hyper-connected and interdependent world.

Undergo Organizations become more complex due to the accelerating speed of changes; nonlinear connectivity, the exponential growth of information, and fierce competition. Digital transformation is an ongoing journey with the updated management philosophy and practices. The digital board is diversified, cognitive, proactive, and instrumental. The BoD role sets the top leadership tone for progression and affects most through cohesive communication, congruent behavior, and continuous endorsement of the change to keep the momentum. New Year is the perfect time for digital corporate board leaders to predict, perceive and practice the better ways of leading transformative changes and amplify their leadership influence.

Ilogical In today's ever-changing business dynamic, the beauty of the newly established digital landscape is the fresh insight of the business and a holistic view of the business ecosystem. The rate of change has accelerated, indicating that business leaders must learn how to strike a right balance between managing complex issues today and be forecasting the uncertain issues of tomorrow.

Inflection Change is a fact of business and life. With the new year ahead of us, are we entering the era of digital learning, inquisitiveness, openness, and exponential? Are we opening the new page of accelerating digitalization and catalyzing innovation? Gaining the perspectives of the next level of digital maturity is about having a harmonized vision of overall digital management philosophy, capabilities, structures, and practices. To survive the fierce competition and thrive with the long-term business advantage involve planning, action, adjustment, and speed.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 7300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. 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; 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 your voice, deepen your digital footprints, and match your way for human progression.



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Understood (xi)

Let go of assumptions and stigmas we place on objects, ideas, function, practice how to perceive things differently and empty your mind of how things are "usually" understood or solved.

"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 “Understood”(xi)  quotes in “Digital Master.’

Let go of assumptions and stigmas we place on objects, ideas, function, practice how to perceive things differently and empty your mind of how things are "usually" understood or solved.

If everyone understands the part they play in achieving the company goals, and they are provided the right kind of incentives, in most part, people will do the right things and metrics/checkpoints can ensure proper management of this.

The biggest communication mistake is to assume it has occurred: Communication has occurred when the message is received and understood.

Consensus does not mean everyone agrees, it means that everyone is committed to supporting a decision and wholeheartedly, following a course of action after everyone has been heard and understood, and feels heard and understood. Everyone has a voice and every voice carries weight.

Critical thinking with multidimensional thought processes is imperative to understanding business complexity. Trans or interdisciplinary science needs to be applied to management practices.

The interdisciplinary business insight via critical thinking and system understanding should lead us not only to understanding the holistic digital ecosystem but also to predicting, and leverage interdisciplinarity to solve problems systematically. It is also important to understand how the people factor affects the business system and then, managing the complex system and the people of the complex system.

The good CIOs work very hard at investing in a positive relationship with their executive peers by first 'seeking to understand then be understood.'

Bright digital leaders and professionals are skeptical about the conventional understanding of issues so that they examine everything before accepting it for the real truth or advising it to others.

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Inference & Innovation

Inferential logic helps to weave all important business elements seamlessly for sparkling innovations and get fruitful results.

Due to the fact that innovating in today’s digital world has become increasingly complex in nature. Often, organizations can no longer rely on a single individual or team to drive innovation. Innovation is not serendipitous, there is a logic behind any innovation effort. 

Digital innovation management is a system that can be fine-tuned in a structured way to improve its success rate.

“Common sense inference” vs innovation: All the implicit knowledge of a particular social and cultural environment belongs to common sense. With common sense, we avoid complexity, pursue simplicity and intuitive problem solving. However, common sense is not equal to conventional wisdom, the mind with common sense is restructured, critical and predictive, not for keeping the status quo, in fact, true critical thinking has creativity embedded in it. The greater the knowledge of the systems in which one lives, a correct inference to be made from the use of common sense. Thus, the right attitude is that: Have common sense to make the right decision as there’s collective insight in it, but have the courage to challenge it and be innovative to create new knowledge if it turns out to be out of date conventional wisdom.

Common sense is based upon focused and coherent facilitation of logic and multifaceted value from emotional, social, and logical sets of perspectives to drive desired outcomes. Common Sense is based on levels of related skills development. There are discrepancies between “local” and “global” common sense. People may have abundant experiences in certain domains, but they do not know how to frame the right questions or how their experiences relate to useful outcomes. Then they may still lack common sense. Thus, creativity is an important skill to build bridges to gain an in-depth understanding of common sense cross interdisciplinary domains. Common sense facilitates practical needs and allows for pursuing long-term goals, making things simple.

Nonlinear logic vs. innovation: To create the new idea requires not just a single type of thought process or linear logic only, it's multidimensional thinking; not just one skill, but many, not just old experience, but the new perspective. In today’s digital world, inference and logic are often nonlinear and multidimensional, to turn on the innovation light bulb and spark creativity. The essence of innovation is made of making valuable inquiries, trying new combinations of old or new things, embracing a new concept that you may have never imagined, and connecting wider dots to come up with fresh ideas or alternative solutions. The variety of points of view or ideas directly contribute to the business value in terms of engagement, productivity, innovation and profitability.

Innovation is a nonlinear process involving non-stable processes. Especially radical innovation often brings something that was not existing before by creating or gathering technologies or nonlinear processes. If you take knowledge from one context and bring it over into a new context in a nonlinear way, you have knowledge or technology transfer innovation. Collaboratively, organizational innovation is based on the collective consensus on how to solve problems creatively, the intent of the event was to develop a tangible result that did not currently exist; the result was not something that any individual participant could have conceived independently, and the resulting innovative 'product' was more than any individual was capable of achieving. While the individual contributions provide the 'building block" of innovativeness. When innovation logic is applied broadly, creativity can manifest in a collective environment, and innovation can be scaled and multiplied collectively.

Induction & deduction as inference logic and engineering disciplines to support innovation: Innovation is a disciplined approach to discovering and building opportunities to create new meaningful sources of value to targeted users. Innovation is adding meaningful value by applying engineering practices to improve the products or processes, understand how systems work, and yield a competitive advantage. Theory- practice-theory is a logical induction-deduction scenario and a multi-disciplinary effort to improve innovation success rate.

From ideation to implementation, companies need to filter, prototype and validate their ideas. Engineering is a piece of art because it involves designing thinking, personalized observation & judgment, creativity, and intuition. There are axioms within system assurance engineering that support innovation as the result of many forms of engineering or nonlinear thinking required such as induction and deduction, temporal, abstract, etc. Innovation leaders should fill their innovation toolbox with tailored frameworks, processes, and the various engineering tools such as problem-solving tools, new products development tools, analytics, failure prediction tools, as well as the metrics to evaluate innovation performance.

Inferential logic helps to weave all important business elements seamlessly for sparkling innovations and get fruitful results. From the pre-planning stage to post-implementation check-up, innovation management should continue to take different scenarios for broadening the “innovation scope,” integrate critical components of innovation such as process, technology, culture and support all sorts of innovation efforts to maximize business potential. Focus on building a healthy innovation portfolio by taking integrated digital management practices which are based on interdisciplinarity, holism, to establish differentiated business competency and thrive on consistency and predictability.

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Initiative & Improvement

The more stakeholders can impact a change/initiatives seriously, the better chance the change will achieve or exceed the business expectations. All should be synchronized without compromising.

Contemporary businesses are overwhelmingly inundated by exponential growth of information and too many different types of business change management initiatives. Generally speaking, change is usually required when an organization is expanding its business, its mission, instilling a fresh culture, or installing/implementing some new technology. so there is no one size fits all approach to successfully managing change. 

To keep eyes on what matters, identify what generates the most value for the company and express that in strategic objectives, analyze potential pitfalls, set the right priority. Only initiatives that support the achievement of those objectives should be implemented. 

What do we need to know to achieve the purpose of business initiatives? Every business initiative is to achieve certain goals. There are two reasons to pursue change: Become better at what you do or be able to do something different. The enemy is not changing per se; it’s the change without focus or purpose. For strategic business initiatives, a vision provides the guiding light and direction. Without a clear vision, leaders often miss the big picture and become complacent or comfortable with the status quo, change either turns to be chaos or for its own sake. To lead change effectively, change leaders must think hard and make tough decisions on time, scientifically choose the number of change initiatives being launched and improve the overall success rate.

Any business initiatives especially change should be viewed as an "opportunity" for solving business problems, improving employee productivity, delighting customers, cutting costs or optimizing products/services/processes. To recognize the gap and clarify the destination, being willing and able to acquire various types of information begins with an understanding of purpose: What is it you want to achieve? Begins with an acceptance you do not know enough to achieve your purpose; knowing what questions to ask to close the knowledge gap. You recognize a gap in the knowledge you have and value in closing the gap seamlessly in order to realize positive outcomes.

Why do business initiatives produce unacceptable performance? There are various reasons for change management failure or business initiatives getting lower than expected business results, such as: Unclear goal/too many variables attached to it to make it more confusing. Fail to build cohesive and differentiated business competencies. Mismatch in requirement from a role and expertise of the candidate. Management ignoring the external environment or business ecosystem affecting the business, etc. In addition, to have sustained management support, businesses need to think hard about how their function can be performed in other ways. Organizational alignment is what is key to fully achieve corporate performance goals.

From a change management perspective, timing is critical to achieve high performance. Delaying changes can cause lots of unnecessary pains or turn a minor issue into a fatal problem. Changing too slowly will also stifle strategy execution and business growth. Change too fast perhaps has difficulty in sustaining the result - only change behaviors manually, not change the mindset behind it. To improve business performance, compelling business cases describe the initiative’s benefits and costs flow, how the initiative builds business processes that differentiate the organization from its major competitors; or how the initiative situates the organization within a growing and highly profitable product market niche.

How to ensure change meets expectations? Keep in mind, behind many critical business initiatives, there are numerous points-of-view and reference points of varying stakeholders. Any initiative, even though a very technical one should have a business objective associated with it. To manage end-to-end performance, it requires the necessity to establish clear, understandable and easily calculable metrics. There are both hard values that can be measured by dollars of cost saving or improving efficiency and soft values such as culture innovation and employee satisfaction. If these values have not been clearly identified at the outset, you cannot get the true alignment of your organization and all working toward the same goals and outcomes, and you lack clarity and purpose of direction.

For the large scale change initiatives, Business Architecture as a useful tool helps to identify gaps, assumptions, risks, etc, shape prioritization of the opportunities, level set scope, and approach. As culture, organizational alignment and communication, employee involvement and buy-in at the process are all critical elements in leading performance excellence. Ultimately, the success of the change program is measured by results that are important values to the organization, and the cultural adoption of these goals is part of that measure. ROI performance management should take into account both financial and non-financial measures, assessing internal improvements, past outcomes and ongoing requirements as indications of future performance. You must show the progress as you go along so that they can justify the investment.

Business is nowadays complex, to manage business initiatives successfully, the logical scenario and different information are needed to achieve high performance. The more stakeholders can impact a change/initiatives seriously, the better chance the change will achieve or exceed the business expectations. All should be synchronized without compromising.

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Ubiquity

To create the new requires not just one skill, but many, not just old experience, but new perspectives. Collective learning rejuvenates the organizational culture, creates ubiquitous information, and fosters innovation.

"Digital Master” is a 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, provides advice 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 Ubiquitous” quotes in “Digital Master.”

The ubiquity of information has provided both growth opportunities and increasing RISKS to organizations. Therefore, it takes systematic thinking and planning upon strategic fit, structural capability, risk intelligence and executable business model.

IT prevalence and ubiquity in public, private and business life can neither be undermined nor ignored. The crucial issue is to understand the USE of IT in the organization and in its market ecosystem.

Employers need to realize the benefits and reach of the recruitment innovation initiated on social media and mobile channels, gauged by the fact that despite the ubiquity of the mobile, social media, and app, most large companies still ignore them for their recruitment initiatives.

To create the new requires not just one skill, but many, not just old experience, but new perspectives. Collective learning rejuvenates the organizational culture, creates ubiquitous information, and fosters innovation.

Technology and communication advances are delivering an open, always connected, massively networked, and real-time world in which information is ubiquitous and instantly available.

Information is ubiquitous, IT is in a unique position to provide a horizontal view of the business and its capacities; fill in the white space on the corporate organization chart, break down the traditional silos, and have the opportunity to help companies operate with significantly more efficiency and effectiveness than they otherwise could. 

Indeed, there’re many pitfalls on the Agile journey, the organizations have to assess how ubiquitous and successful are your Agile Journey, take adventure, but well prepare themselves for overcoming the challenges, applying Agile principles to guide through, building a quality roadmap to speed up, develop the practices, but not to be too rigid, and improve business agility.

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Informative

Information view enhances an in-depth understanding of business flow and catalyzes idea generation.

The aim of modern Information Management has often been described as getting the right information to the right person, in the right format and medium, at the right time, in order to make the right decisions. The value of information is qualitative, measurable, and defined uniquely by an organization.

Informative

Information Intensive Innovation Organizations across the industrial sectors are faced with exponential growth of information, high velocity, fierce competition, and continuous disruptions. It’s important to do data investigation or any attempt at understanding the business context, refined business insight based on reliable information and advanced analysis. The goal is to improve decision effectiveness, harness innovation and achieve high performance.

Information In today’s digital dynamic, information is abundant and even explosive, the business has become over-complex and hyper-connected. What's the correlation between information and decision making? If a data-decision pair works fine to advocate analytics based culture; as information is the processed data; and knowledge is processed information, how about the information-decision pair? It's not necessarily information, but the business insight leads to the right decision making. So how to measure information accuracy as well as decision-making effectiveness?

Informative Information is the lifeblood and one of the most invaluable assets in digital business today, the corporate board as a top governance body plays a significant role in overseeing business strategy and monitoring business performance. To connect the dots, can today’s digital board become more information-driven, and IT savvy? But how?

Information & Intelligence Nowadays, information is one of the most invaluable assets of business. CIOs as “Chief Information Officers” need to gain an in-depth understanding of information value, and focus on leveraging quality information to make effective decisions and solve bigger business problems. At the end of the day, the business doesn't care about equations but insights/recommendation data-based analytics can give to the business.

Information, Innovation & Interrelationship The digital era upon us is about high velocity, data exponentiality, innovation and people centricity. Information view enhances an in-depth understanding of business flow and catalyzes idea generation. So companies across industrial verticals should transform themselves into the digital business that is based on ‎information, their ability to explore intangible assets such as information and knowledge has become far more decisive to build a competitive business advantage. In reality, information is “gold mine,” and knowledge is power, however, there are the inherent dangers of overloaded information or too much knowledge particularly because of the inconsistencies and incoherence in the body of knowledge that surrounds us. Information savvy organizations apply a framework approach to explore intangible information/knowledge assets and build competitive business advantage for the long term.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with about #7300th blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. 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 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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Innation

Either individually or collectively, discovering the hidden gems inside you is to discover who you are, the genuine self, and ensure that your voices and actions are in synchronization by combined thoughts, actions, endurance, and with the right spirit.

With silo setting and knowledge scarcity in the Industrial Age, either individuals or businesses often become so preoccupied with bottom line performance that they lose sight of the human factors that account for it. They didn't pay enough attention to build core competencies and unleash human potential for the long run. Now we step into the knowledge economy and move into the digital era with exponential growth of information and creativity as the most desirable professional quality. 

Unlike the closed mechanic system, digital organizations spontaneously self-organizes, generates patterns, structures, business activities, and above all, creates novelty over time. Digital professionals consciously discover their raw talent, nurture creativity, and strengthen their strengths. Thus, they need to take their unique path at their own pace to go digital. It is about discovering the new path to take the adventure for exploring the new possibilities, better ways to do things, refine those raw gems into the differentiated advantage.

Innate intelligence: All humans have their innate or raw intelligence, and all organizations today generate information which can be refined into their “built-in” smartness. We have some innate abilities to do certain things well. And such raw intelligence can be sharpened via continuous learning, to shape the differentiated capability for achieving goals. In fact, unleashing human potential is one of the greatest missions of modern society. In the business world, Metaphorically, Data is the crude oil of the 21st century to obtain information, information is the real asset and “raw intelligence” of the organization because it's consolidated, consistent and reliable to extract the business insight about customers, operation and future trend of business. Data is an asset so as long as it stays accurate, consistent, and reliable. Amassed data also like the forest is a resource and can be processed into information (wood) or crafted further to knowledge (goods).

With ever shortening turn-around time for product development, the only advantage you really have is the information at your disposal. Any information you can leverage from your data has the potential to be a productive asset as intelligence or operative material. So you need the right tools to make sense of raw data, to derive actionable information and business intelligence for improving business manageability. Information is raw material when you manipulate the raw material in meaningful ways that give you business insight to interpret and utilize, then you have established a value. Information will be the product of the future, your ability to produce information required in a manner will be the only product that your competitor cannot duplicate.

Innate strength: The hyper-connective nature of digitalization offers particularly fertile ground for developing dynamic and recombinant digital capabilities cross-industrial ecosystems. Individuals or organizations need to discover their “innate strength,” make an objective assessment of their capability maturity by asking: Is this capability valuable? Is this capability rare? Is this capability costly to imitate? Is this capability non-substitutable? Etc. So, the trick is to know what your strengths, either at the individual or team/organizational level, are realized or unrealized, like digging into the underground to discover hidden gems, and then polished them, strengthening your strength to build your unique set of capabilities.

Build unique business strength via a good alignment of reliable information, rigorous processes, flexible structures, efficient technologies, and talented people, etc. Do capability mapping, understand relationship/dependency between different capabilities, and make an objective assessment of their capability maturity. In practice, leveraging the unique strength and building core competencies for adapting to the unpredictable and riding above the learning curve is critical to achieving high performance. When organizations implement a capability-based strategy, they significantly improve the success rate to achieve the higher-than-expected business results.

Innate motivation: Motivation is often innate, and it is different for each one according to cognition, personality, and circumstances. Motivation is not necessarily learned, whether motivating oneself or others. It is a combination of several emotions that describes the trajectory of behavior. As such, motivation can be understood and influenced using behavioral principles. When motivating people via good communication, people can then become motivated by the conversation through listening and asking questions through the engagement process and empathetic communication. They will be delighted to do the work because they have been listened to and understand why they are doing it, they are more engaged in the work and bring up the high-performance result.

From a business management perspective, motivation is the additional urge to get something done. Effective motivation is the "cognitive momentum" that comes from consistently applying the habits congruent with the achievement of well defined goals. It’s important to develop the process of a corporate pulse that identifies where the pulse/passion/motivation/commitment of the organization lies, and who embodies it. A motivational leader is a means toward reconciling all the different factors toward a unifying and driving motivation. The greater the excess of resources and diversity; the greater the need for team structures and the greater the need to keep them motivated. The purpose is the greatest motivator; a deep desire to make businesses prosperous and the world a better place and fueled by a sense of gratitude and responsibility that compels you to stay committed.

We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of digital age, the path to the next level of professional or business maturity. Either individually or collectively, discovering the hidden gems inside you is to discover who you are, the genuine self, and ensure that your voices and actions are in synchronization by combined thoughts, actions, endurance, and with the right spirit. Different people or organizations have different strengths, capacities, and capabilities; only if we see 'human or business potential' really show itself, via the progressive lens, with the power to make the impossible possible. Building the bridge between today and the future requires vision to perceive the future, enthusiasm to take initiatives, planning to prioritize, capabilities to execute, and motivation to get the work done smoothly.

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Unknowable

Uncertainty is caused by unknowns - not identified within the scope of the plan, or unknowable - beyond the knowledge and understanding of the decision-maker.

"Digital Master” is a 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, provides advice 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 “Unknowable” quotes in “Digital Master.”


Change is a process with known/ controllable and unpredictable/unknowable variables. Change is ALWAYS happening around us at work and outside work. Perhaps the difficulty in measuring change management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing.

Uncertainty is caused by unknowns - not identified within the scope of the plan, or unknowable - beyond the knowledge and understanding of the decision-maker.

With unprecedented uncertainty, the management needs to dig through: Is the “unknown” factor not identified with the scope of the business planning or is it caused by “unknowable” - beyond the knowledge and understanding of management.

Business management needs to know which factors contribute to uncertainty in order to handle it smoothly. Is it caused by “unknown” factors -not identified with the scope of the business planning; is it caused by “unknowable” -beyond the knowledge and understanding of management? or is it caused by situations with random distributions as well as “unknown” distributions? Etc.

Within the forward-looking stories, there are some parts that you know will occur with reasonable certainty, and some that you feel you can influence, and some that remain beyond your influence, and some that matter, but are unknowable and uncontrollable.

Fundamentally, the purpose of Systems Thinking is to solve problems and create desirable futures. With unprecedented uncertainty, the management needs to dig through whether the “unknown” factor is caused by “unknowable” - beyond the knowledge and understanding of management.

From some participants' point of view in a complex system, things might be working just fine. It might be worth asking: How am I looking at this? Is there another way/another understanding? How come things are the way they are? The combinatorial details of how they got that way are often unknowable to an adequate level, but the abstracted principles may be sufficient to understand the dynamics. What does this have to do with systems thinking? It provides a starting point for investigation.

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"Unpuzzling Innovation" Insight: IDEA

An essential aspect of creativity, both at the individual or group level, is the ability to challenge assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs, to discover the new path, and experiment with the better way to do things.

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational and geographical borders in the business ecosystem. It 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.

Idea Innovation is the light every organization is pursuing. However, very few organizations can manage innovation ideas and portfolio effectively, what’re the problems. Nowadays, digital provides an unprecedented opportunity to collaborate cross-boundary and co-create ideas regardless of your location, there is the rich context of innovation and an unstoppable fountain of creativity. So if the problem is not lack of ideas, could the opposite be true: Is there such a thing as bad ideas or too many ideas?

Information When jumping into the “VUCA” digital new normal –volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, organizations that do not respond to external environmental changes timely will quickly outcompete as more nimble and adaptable companies catch up the digital trend and run at a faster speed. Organizations need to be in flow for communicating fluently and operating smoothly. Business leaders should envision where the future will be for the business in order to adapt to changes timely. It’s important to identify core business competencies, break down silos or overly rigid hierarchy, and build digital multipliers to improve business fluidity.

Involvement Digital is the age of people and innovation. An essential aspect of creativity, both at the individual or group level, is the ability to challenge assumptions, conclusions, and beliefs, to discover the new path, and experiment with the better way to do things. Innovation is change, the human element of change entails a people-centric approach to management style. Thus, empowering the workforce to embrace and anticipate change is a most effective, efficient and result-oriented management in organizations.

Implementation The digital era upon us is people and innovation. Innovation is the mechanism through which you grow and evolve to something great such as higher value-add products/services or something new or better based on a combination or modification of previous attributes or approaches. Due to the low success rate, organizations should ideally have a sustainable approach to innovation. The robust process and tools that enable any business entity to generate winning concepts on a consistent basis, is the prerequisite for sustaining business advantage and growth. Innovation leaders need to clarify the goals and scenarios of innovation by asking themselves or others’ relevant questions and take initiatives to drive innovation efforts systematically.

Ideaphoria Companies have always had the flow of information, flow of ideas, a flow sufficient for the needs of the company at that time. The point is that, with increasing pace of change, what has happened is that the flow from "before" is perhaps no longer sufficient to address the business challenges of today and future. Ideas are crucial to business innovation, and innovation is critical to the business’s survival and thriving. To build a highly innovative organization, it’s important to make sure that your company has a steady flow of fresh ideas floating in the innovation pipeline and create synergy for innovation management.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with about #7300th 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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Undergo

Mental toughness enables a person to be kind with consistency, without losing the character. This indicates the person with mental toughness can undergo high-dynamic stress, still makes sound judgment via emotional excellence, and keeps positive energy flow. 

"Digital Master” is a 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, provides advice 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 “Undergo” quotes in “Digital Master.”




The person with mental toughness can undergo high-dynamic stress, make sound judgment via emotional excellence, and keep positive energy flow. Being kind also doesn't mean you should always take orders or make compromises, being sheepy or saying yes all the time.

The outside-in view is more important because the customer's experience is about how they encounter, observe, or undergo a company's events or stages.

Resilience is a property of an elastic component of a person. This indicates the person can undergo high dynamic stress and yet he/she is able to recover smoothly to his/her original situation without much degradation of him/herself.

Studying sociology and bringing up the outside-in view is critical for nurturing people-centric innovation because you need to understand how consumers encounter, observe, or undergo their stage of experience, and then come out with innovative ideas to delight them.

The customer's experience is about how they encounter, observe, or undergo a company's events or stages. Companies lay out an outside-in digital transformation journey which is helpful, positive, and sharing experiences with customers, and evolve the ecosystem for changing and innovating.

Mental toughness enables a person to be kind with consistency, without losing the character. This indicates the person with mental toughness can undergo high-dynamic stress, still makes sound judgment via emotional excellence, and keeps positive energy flow.

Failure is very much an intrinsic part of innovating. Thus, being resilient is important because that means the person can undergo high dynamic stress and yet he/she is able to recover, they just don't let the negative experience restrict them or scare them away. Resilient people also feel hurt and pain, they have disappointments, they sense failures, but overall speaking, they can face challenges and setbacks with a positive attitude and be able to keep working and focusing, even during stress and disturbance.

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Innovation

To develop organic innovation, it is crucial to see the context, perceive invisible, identify the leverage point of the ever-evolving digital ecosystem. 

The digital era upon us is about innovation and people centricity. The organic organization is an interconnected “living” thing that needs to keep growing and expanding. It is recharged via organic innovation, continuous improvement and cultural evolution. An organic innovation is not serendipity, but an interdisciplinary management approach which covers information mining, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, process optimization, etc., and stands in between management, economy, psychology, technology, sociology, and neurology, etc.

Digital organizations are sensitive to the emergent factors: The digital paradigm arises out of new knowledge, and the emerging trends as the digital shaper reinforce the characteristics of the business such as enlightenment and people-centricity. Organic innovation management is about catching the rising tide of business or industrial trends, identifying the space of opportunity, defining the scalability of the products/services, what timescale to allow before making a go/no-go decision for growing the business organically. Technically, it’s critical to collect information and feedback, doing enough homework for planning with all necessary adjustments on the way to fit the emerging situations. Perfecting the art of innovation is about shaping a bigger box of thinking either individually or collectively. Engage with visionary leaders because they can often inform you of what is coming, what customers need and perhaps the future trend of products and services.

Foresight is an ongoing conversation. Thinking outside the current constraints and comfort zones requires a different vision and the courage to pursue it, in order to bridge between the innovations of tomorrow with the business realities of today. Information mining helps the organization align the business reality into digital strategy, develop a purpose and future perspective, shape the future of the workplace as a highly collaborative and flexible environment, with flatter hierarchy and innovative leadership. To make continuous innovation, digital leaders have to keep evolving and gaining broader views, mine the future openly, discover unexpected connections between the business and its rich environment, share their vision generously, and shape the future together to grow the company as a living thing.

Rejuvenate the corporate culture to renew creativity energy: Culture is like soil, the organization is like land, and people are like plants. Environment either encourages or discourages innovation, the ease or difficulties inherent in surviving. The more fertile the soil, the better nourishment the crop and plant products will be, and there are better opportunities to nurture organic innovations. It’s critical to develop an organizational environment that inspires positive emotions and facilitates creativity, allow ideas to flow, get protected, channeled and nurtured. It’s about rejuvenating a “culture of innovation" which incorporates multiple and diverse components to encourage idea sharing and risk-taking for reinventing a highly innovative business through collective creativity and effort. The fine principles of integrity, corporate governance, and other related good practices should never be thrown away with the cultural change.

In specific, a living organization has cultural attributes such as openness, flexibility, responsiveness, passion, engagement, relationship, resilience, inspires creativity. Increasing competition may also demand some cultural changes where rigid practices have to give ways to flexibility in the manner of innovation management. Business management keeps monitoring the pulse of inclusiveness and culture fit, and makes an assessment of the business environment by asking: What is triggering your emotions for doing innovation? What about trust? Or what about happiness? What about the right innovation climate? Your personal climate, your team climate or your organizational climate? It’s critical to foster a culture of innovation across functional disciplines and embed innovation management mechanisms into the corporate DNA. Innovation, in general, is surely a discipline to provide the creative workplace for people to exercise their talent and unlock their potential. People are both means and ends of innovation management.

Reinvent the organizational structure to catalyze innovation: Lack of systematic processes or having overly rigid processes both should be blamed for stifling innovation. An organic digital organization consists in being able to break away from static, stale, and slow patterns, and being able to make continuous adjustment and innovation. The organization of the future will be "organically" and adaptively developed, iterating and empowered by an intelligent organizational design that puts values and people before rules and roles to enforce cross-functional communication and collaboration. Within a well-designed structure and fine-tuned processes for innovation, dedication and effort will be spent on innovation rather than overcoming organizational hurdles, internal politics, and pushing against structural boundaries.

In practice, designing an organic and multidimensional organic, socio-technical business system is more difficult than designing a single-dimensional “mechanistic system." Interrelational innovation management processes are developed to help reduce tensions, frictions, and business conflicts that arise; interactive management processes are developed to help communicate objects and concepts with clarity. An ecosystem perspective as the digital shaper allows the organization to explore digital in all directions and scale up innovation systematically.

It is a continuously changing world, and no organization can afford to stick to its old ways of doing things. To develop organic innovation, it is crucial to see the context, perceive invisible, identify the leverage point of the ever-evolving digital ecosystem. It requires much more time, energy, passion, courage, experimentation, retreat, and reflection to get clear and focused on innovation in a disciplined way.

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Illogical

Problem-solving thought processes and practices will not be simple for many of today’s complex problems and it takes an interdisciplinary approach to either frame the right problems and solve them effectively. 

Digital makes a significant impact on how we think, live, and work. There is a mix of old and new, physical and virtual, order and chaos. We are in a time of tremendous change, the dawn of the digital age, the path to the next level of digital maturity, also in the era of confusion and information overload. Therefore, it’s critical to identify, understand, and avoid pitfalls, discover strategic and predictive pathways to change, increase confidence, position a brand and leverage resources to make the digital paradigm shift effortlessly.


The purpose of “100 Digital Pitfalls: How to Overcome Pitfalls on the Path of Going Digital” is to throw some light on how to identify, understand, and overcome common pitfalls on the digital journey, dig underneath the surface, and take a holistic approach to integrate both hard and soft elements for improving the long-term organizational competency and reaching the high-level of business maturity. Slideshare Presentation

Illogical

Illogical Due to fast-paced change, the exponential growth of information, hyper-connectivity, and continuous digital disruptions, the problems facing businesses today turn to be over-complex, have a very wide scope, and are difficult to solve. In fact, problem-solving thought processes and practices will not be simple for many of today’s complex problems and it takes an interdisciplinary approach to either frame the right problems and solve them effectively.

Ineffectiveness Digital leaders and professionals are all facing pressure to make either strategic or tactical decisions every day, Decision making is both art and science, this is particularly true in uncertain times. An effective decision can be defined as an action you take that is logically consistent with the alternative you perceive. A "decision" has lots of connotations of finality, there are also lots of obstacles on the way.

Inefficiency With rapid changes and exponential growth of information, businesses today need nothing less than a paradigm shift in their thinking about the fundamentals of how organizations work, predict the emerging opportunities and risks, know the varying causes of business deficiencies, to drive progress changes, with the goal to build an ever-evolving, hyperconnected and highly energetic digital organization.

Incompetency The digital organization blurs the geographical, functional, organizational, and even industrial borders nowadays. The enterprise is nothing more than a “switch” in the network lattice of the large ecosystem. Hyperconnectivity brings an abundance of opportunities for businesses to expand, also unprecedented risks intimidating their survival at any moment.

Unplanned "Digital Master” is a 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, provides advice 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 “Unplanned” quotes in “Digital Master.

The blog is a dynamic book flowing with your thought; growing through your dedication; sharing your knowledge; conveying your wisdom, and making influence through touching the hearts and connecting minds across the globe. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with about #7300 blog postings. Among 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. 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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Unavoidable

Due to the “VUCA” nature of digitalization, change is unavoidable, firms that are skilled in managing digital dynamics can gain advantages in profitability, speed, business growth, and innovation enforcement.

"Digital Master” is a 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, provides advice 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 “Unavoidable” quotes in “Digital Master.”

Change is unavoidable and digital disruption is inevitable. Businesses become complex if things do interact, particularly in the case of "nonlinear" interaction with un-repetitive activities and behavior.

Nowadays the business complexity is unavoidable. Organizations that are skilled at managing complexity can gain advantages by pushing the boundaries of a more complicated business mix that provides opportunities to create inter-business value.

There are so many things that need to be changed, and there are also so many drivers behind changes. It is nevertheless true that the change itself has become unavoidable, unpredictable and evolutionary.

Due to the “VUCA” nature of digitalization, change is unavoidable, firms that are skilled in managing digital dynamics can gain advantages in profitability, speed, business growth, and innovation enforcement. Organizations have to strike the multitude of digital balances that impact with each other in order to achieve such a state of dynamic equilibrium.

Digital transformation is unavoidable, and often the emergent digital technologies with the high degree of digital convenience are imposing forces of digital disruptions and change drivers. Thus, running a hybrid digital organization is about how to balance change and stability; innovation and standardization; existing structure and emerging digital platforms and tools

Due to the “VUCA” nature of the digital era, business complexity is unavoidable. It becomes complex if things do interact, particularly in the case of “nonlinear” interaction, complexity can be good or bad for businesses depending on their strategy and capability. There are needed complexity and unwanted complexity, the effective complexity management can provide opportunities to create inter-business value and differentiated business competency.

Change is unavoidable, dynamism is the high digital taste. Firms that are skilled at managing digital dynamics can gain advantages in profitability, speed, business growth, and innovation enforcement.

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Information, Innovation & Interrelationship

 Information is a key enabler to help you achieve strategic business objectives; knowledge is the power for generating business value to benefit your organization and our modern society in the long run.

The digital era upon us is about high velocity, data exponentiality, innovation and people centricity. Information view enhances an in-depth understanding of business flow and catalyzes idea generation. So companies across industrial verticals should transform themselves into the digital business that is based on ‎information, their ability to explore intangible assets such as information and knowledge has become far more decisive to build a competitive business advantage. In reality, information is “gold mine,” and knowledge is power, however, there are the inherent dangers of overloaded information or too much knowledge particularly because of the inconsistencies and incoherence in the body of knowledge that surrounds us. Information savvy organizations apply a framework approach to explore intangible information/knowledge assets and build competitive business advantage for the long term.

The enterprise information/knowledge management framework means a guideline containing approach or model, process, methodology, and the scope of the architect activities: Information and knowledge are the most invaluable assets to every organization and its availability, integrity, and confidentiality can be crucial to how the organization functions or maintains its competency. However, in many organizations that get stuck at the low level of maturity, their data environment is often fraught with inconsistency, redundancy, multiple, sometimes overlapping knowledge platforms, all of which make information management as one of the most difficult, but critical management disciplines. An information/knowledge management framework sets guidelines, defines architectures, models, processes, or methodologies, etc, to enforce information governance disciplines and ensure organizations do what they are supposed to do for improving information management effectiveness and return on investment of knowledge assets.

Information flow streamlines idea flow, Information/Knowledge Architecture is a useful tool to visualize the strategic perspective of information/knowledge management and focus on building information-support solutions to solve complex problems. A fine-tuned information architecture covers management and accomplishment holistically via information management lenses. It has the visual ability to “see” ideas and express them in visual terms via interactive ways. Information is the crucial ingredient of innovation management, thus, more attention needs to be placed on the conditions that allow information/knowledge to flow, connect dots to create new ideas, and generate business value by building a practical management framework, designing an interactive knowledge architecture and taking dynamic knowledge disciplines,

A information/knowledge framework provides a means of classifying various components and their relationships so they can be discussed and understood by the members of that organization: Information/knowledge assets are a blend of resources, not a single asset, and knowledge integrity, availability, and confidentiality can be crucial to how the organization functions or maintains its competitive advantage and fits the business strategy the best. In practice, functional silos, overly rigid processes, or outdated best practices are all root causes of poor information and knowledge management. A powerful information management system enables companies to integrate the critical components of a smart platform, which is “open,” allowing information exchange and participant involvement. It also involves assigning responsibility for knowledge management within the organization, both maintaining and improving knowledge flow, with the goal to improve the organization’s collective learning capabilities and decision effectiveness.

With frictionless information flow, geographically-distributed teams are connected by technology, there arises an opportunity to analyze and reuse the data they create as they go about their activities, and from that to generate valuable knowledge that can be shared to help everyone in their work and keep talent grow and shape a culture of learning and idea sharing. Set g up communities, set up discussion boards, open group conversations, and motivate people to become more informative and insightful for improving the overall decision effectiveness and organizational learning maturity. Further, the Knowledge Management culture needs to fit with the overall organizational culture. It’s like a case of surfing the wave rather than fighting it. If the company environment is very structured, then tailor your knowledge management to go with that. If it's not, go with less structure and embrace the chaos. High mature information management demonstrates the benefits to the digital ecosystem at a much faster rate with much broader impact in the digital era.

An information/knowledge framework provides the basic building block as the base for developing new applications with reusable work: It is a configurable, reusable semi built application with features designed for a specific purpose. Potential information value all depends on how information will be used in the future and this is often exceptionally uncertain. Information/Knowledge Management is the management with knowledge as a focus, involving the use of technologies and processes with the aim of optimizing the value that is generated. There are software tools that help the gathering of tacit knowledge and some are very powerful. An information management framework provides building blocks for developing applications with reusable work and information-support solutions in anticipating problems or applying third-party collaboration tools to engage in real-time information/knowledge management.

More attention needs to be placed on the conditions that allow information to flow and generate value rather than try to manage or control information. The well built information/knowledge management framework, powerful knowledge/learning software app or collaboration tools, and the synchronicity of the information management cycle improve business speed, generate ideas, catalyze innovations, make impact on the velocity of intellectual capital flow, and thus, enforce the overall business responsiveness and performance.

Information is a key enabler to help you achieve strategic business objectives; knowledge is the power for generating business value to benefit your organization and our modern society in the long run. Information systems incorporate both ends and means. When businesses manipulate information in meaningful ways which give you something to interpret and utilize, then you have established the multidimensional business value from the information you get. Information enriched and knowledge savvy organizations are continuously open to new information from the dynamic business environment and are able to circulate information within the system seamlessly and respond to changes proactively and continuously.

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