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Digital enlarges the thinking and capability gaps because different organizations, functions, and individuals evolve with varying speed.

“Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. 

Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the gap of opportunity between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to identify and strengthen the weakest link and take a stepwise approach to make a leap of digital transformation.

           Gap Bridging 

Initiate Gap-Minding Practices for Shaping an Innovative Organization Nowadays, businesses are steadily moving into the digital era with the very characteristics of hyper-connectivity and interdependence. The path to building an innovative organization won’t be straight or flat, there’s bumps or curves, roadblocks and pitfalls on the way.

Innovateleadershipviagapminding Leadership is an influence. Effective leadership differs by level, the type of organization, the stage of organizational evolution, the mindset of stakeholders, and collective competency. Leadership is about the future and change, innovation, and collective progress, which are all based on a clear vision and profound insight.

Identify, Analyze, Fill Skill GapsBusiness environment today is dynamic and uncertain, with exponential growth of information and increasing pace of changes. The challenge is about applying digital management philosophy, building differentiated capabilities, tuning flexible structures, and developing the best and next practices in running a holistic and high-performing digital organization.

Initiate Gap Closing for Problem-Solving We are living in the era with “VUCA” new normal, the problems become more complicated in this ever-complex world. Problem-solving is about seeing a problem and actually finding a premium solution to that problem. Often people are busy fixing symptoms while the real problems continue coming back. In fact, ineffective problem-solving is, unfortunately, pervasive and caused by quite a few factors.

Uncertainty Management to Fill Opportunity Gap The emerging digital era has many dimensions and demonstrates very characteristics such as options, sharing, empathy, and personalization. To deal with the new normal, knowledge is no doubt important but more than that is complete awareness of what is happening in the business context. Once you do that, you use your ability to classify the elements and know their linkage.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #10000th 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 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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"Digital Gaps" Introduction, Slideshare


"Digital Gaps" Chapter 1 Cognitive Gaps


"Digital Gaps" Chapter 2 Leadership Gaps


"Digital Gaps" Chapter 3 Management Gaps


"Digital Gaps" Chapter 4 Capability Gaps


"Digital Gaps" Chapter 5 Professional Gaps


Conclusion: Bridging Gaps to Catalyze Digital Maturity

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