Sunday, February 21, 2021

Initiation & Integration

To speed up change and spark creativity, the digital business life cycle could be viewed as resulting in emergent means of shaping a vision reflecting the objectives and soul of the company, participation, adaptability, innovation, and people-centricity.

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. 

A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum. What are digital CIO’s profiles and how to reboot IT to get digital ready and cultivate the culture of learning and innovating?

      

  Initiation & Integration 



Information & Integration Modern organization has its own sophistication- silo functions, the sea of data, and the pool of talents, etc. To run business as a holistic living thing rather than “the sum of pieces,” it’s important to “put things together, and optimize,” “process, integrate, and refine information” to gain business insight. There are different complexities at a different time or dimension and there are multilateral integration to achieve business coherence.

Initiative & Involvement Change is inevitable. Running a business today is an iterative planning-action continuum. High performance organizations take business initiatives proactively and drive continuous progress steadfastly. Change is never for its own sake, any business initiative, especially change, should be viewed as an "opportunity" for solving business problems, improving employee productivity, delighting customers, optimizing costs or improving business products/services/processes.

Innovation & Integration Nowadays enterprises are inherently and intensely complex, diverse, and ambiguous with unpredictable outcomes. There are unknown interactions and very high inner dynamics in business complexity. To become nimbler, people-centric, and more intelligent and resilient, organizations today cannot be organized using the outdated or mechanistic paradigm that resulted in silos or bureaucracies. It’s important and more challenging to design a socio-technical system, rather than form a "data-driven mechanistic system."

Idealization-Integration Compared to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented and reenergized. The magic “I” of the CIO title sparks many imaginations and modern CIOs need to wear different hats and play multiple roles. The purpose of "CIO Master - Unleash the Digital Potential of IT " is to provide guidelines for building a framework to run a highly effective, highly innovative and highly mature digital IT organization. Also, it provides the principles to reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence. Here are a set of blogs for brainstorming the role of CIOs and reinvent IT to get digital ready.

Innovation Integration & Implementation The characteristics of digital transformation are high velocity, hyper-connectivity, hyper-complexity, and interdependence. The organizations are like the switch connected to the dynamic ecosystem which is controlled by both internal and external factors. To speed up change and spark creativity, the digital business life cycle could be viewed as resulting in emergent means of shaping a vision reflecting the objectives and soul of the company, participation, adaptability, innovation, and people-centricity.

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