Information-Inspection-Insight

IT and the business must be partners, must be able to speak the same language, finish each other’s sentences, and solve the well-defined business problems.

This book “12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence. The important thing is that CIOs as the top leadership role must have a strong mindset, a unique personality, and a clear idea of what needs to be done, yet creative enough to not hold the company back from growth. Regardless of which personality they have, digital CIOs need to be both transformational and situational, innovative and tactical, business savvy and technology insightful, communication-effective and operation-efficient.

Inspection-Insight

“Chief Inspection Officer” The quality check of IT management is to ensure IT is the enabler and even a game-changer of digitalization. IT plays a significant role in digitalization, as more often technology is a major digital disruptor and information is the lifeblood of the digital organization. The purpose of digitalization is to embed digital technology into key business processes, to improve the business capability and compete for the future. CIOs as “Chief Inspection..

Have you Misread the Business Requirement? IT and the business must be partners, must be able to speak the same language, finish each other’s sentences, and solve the well-defined business problems. Digital IT organizations play a crucial role in enabling business growth and building organizational competency. IT doesn't exist to do everything it is asked. Nor does it exist to implement without business justification. IT is there to manage a scarce and expensive resource for the business....

Perspectives upon Software Quality Software quality begins with the quality of the requirements. Every company desires to have quality software.' But the challenge is that many people struggle to provide a definition or rationale. It is an age-old adage that you can't nail software quality down to a single definition. And perhaps we try too hard to come up with one-size fits all into a single sentence. In fact, there are quite a few perspectives on quality software.

Is Bug Free Software the Goal What makes a project Agile' is adherence to Agile values and principles. The widely-popular Agile methodology provokes quite many debates upon software quality issues such as: Is it better to release code quickly ... or release clean code? Is bug-free software the goal? Does Agile mean poor quality delivery? As IT leader, what's CIO's strategy and methodology to balance quality and speed; flexibility and discipline; best practice and next...

IT Management Quality Check IT management quality checkup is important for improving IT and the entire business performance and maturity. Organizational excellence is achieved via delivering qualified products or services and continuously improving business performance. Quality is defined by a number of factors such as efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility, innovation, or maturity, as a degree of quality is in everything people do and experience. IT management quality directly..

Modern organizations have their own sophistication with silo functions, the sea of information, and the pool of talent. The CIO is an inherently cross-functional role, to bridge the business and IT; the data and insight, the business’s today and tomorrow. The digital CIOs have to wear different personas and master multiple leadership and management roles effortlessly. They need to lead at the strategic level for conducting a complex digital orchestra; they should be handy managers to plumbing information and keep it flow smoothly; they also have to be like diligent gardeners, to build a unique IT landscape via tuning technology, removing waste, nurturing culture, and empowering people.

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