Updaterules

Strategic goals and fine-tuned rules clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization.

A business rule is a statement to set the policy or procedure under business jurisdiction. It means that the business can enact, revise, and discontinue their business rules as they see fit. 

The digital rules are not some out-of-date cliché or rigid processes to stifle innovation. Instead, they are based on the set of digital principles and philosophy behind the methodologies, to shape the mindsets behind behaviors and actions.

Linking to underlying principles when giving a rule: If you just give a rule, people will follow it blindly - because they were told by an authority or expert. If you give them a rule and explain how it relates back to principles, they will understand the subtleties of how to make it work. This works because the principle undergirds the rule, not the other way around. Once people really understand correct principles by digging into the “why,” they can manage themselves by following rules voluntarily.

Digital rules should encourage mindfulness, authenticity, creativity, inclusiveness, discourage static thinking, silo, and bureaucracy; encourage good attitude or behaviors. It’s important to show people the link between rules and the underlying principles, help to unleash human potentials and accelerate collective human progress,

Breaking down the old rules is important for transformative change or radical innovation: The complexity of life comes from the myriad of intersecting boxes you try to live within. The "box" is the set of rules you are abiding by at any moment in time. The inspiration for breaking down old rules usually comes from identifying and challenging assumptions and then generating more possibilities. By a breakdown of old rules, your mind sets free to create new ideas. 

The right level of guidance is important, but the overly rigid rules will stifle change or innovation; make good policies or set digital principles to drive changes and lead digital paradigm shifts. All great digital rules should encourage creative problem-solving. The right set of ‘rules’ is not for limiting your imagination, but for framing the system to identify opportunities and mitigate risks.

Rule-breaking or rule-making demands insight, understanding, patience, persistence, and courage, among other things: The modern business practices should be re-invented based on a good mix of the rules and theory. There is time to break down old rules; there is time to establish new rules to encourage desired changes. Sophisticated leaders and professionals are intelligent and innovative; set the guidance for problem-solving or creating something new under the updated digital rules.

Rule works to be good at "Reflect, Tune, and Adjust." The right level of guide and process is important, but the overly rigid rules or too ‘pushy’ goals will stifle innovation. There are no rules for how you deliver great benefits, but to begin the disruption, history would suggest that they must be offered, and therefore a good rule is to ensure that innovation efforts are focused in that direction.

Strategic goals and fine-tuned rules clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. Setting and breaking rules appropriately as part of the business management cycle could be viewed as resulting in emergent means of redirecting people to understand the whole, in terms of its inner processes, its interactions with external systems, its components, the specific interaction among them; reorganizing, refocusing, rebalancing resources, and etc., to ultimately achieve the seamless digital flow and high-level digital maturity.

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