Initiatives

The new year is around the corner; step out of the routine transactional activities for a while, renew yourself with new thoughts, deep understanding.

The year almost passed by, what did we learn and what have we accomplished? It’s the last day of the year, it’s also the time to look back and gain lessons learned.

 People always say you shouldn't live in the past; but looking back allows them to learn invaluable lessons, encourage themselves via accomplishment they have achieved, and become well-prepared for the journey ahead in the New Year.


Learn invaluable lessons to draw on, in the past from time to time to prepare for the upcoming new year: Lesson learned is what you learned from what you did in the past year, and that could be what you did right or what you did wrong. If we do not accept our choices and mistakes in the past, or learn from errors/mistakes/shortcomings or whatever we can call, we can never really move forward.

We are what we constantly think and do. It’s important to capture the lessons learned as you go along, together with the decision process that led you to make the choice you did since that provides context for learning, understanding, and improving, capture the fresh perspectives on things that matter, and take the new approach to make improvement.

Learn to understand yourselves and how to know who you are and your own style of thinking, responding, and interacting with surroundings: It’s the end of the year, to create a positive change tomorrow, you need to start today understanding yourself. Not knowing yourselves as best as you can, how can you do any change and aim for a positive change? Changing, understanding, and leading is only possible when you truly know yourself. Who you are and why? Daring to start to find an answer to this question enables anybody to lead oneself and possibly others, renew creative energy and take the journey of change progressively.

People are different, with their subjective perceptions. Some perceive the world as black and white, others see the full spectrum of color. It further reflects into their inner world. So, understand more and more about yourself every day, and be authentic and objective, to become better people or better-integrated leaders.

New Year's Eve is the time to break down some old, let the new emerge, constructively: It’s the end of the year, we need to see what is behind us; it’s the time to break down some old things in order to embrace the new year. Break down the old school of thoughts; break down stereotypes, break down silos by understanding the views from others and improving cross-boundary communication and collaboration.

Breaking down old and reinventing new demands insight, understanding, patience, persistence, and courage. Questioning, challenging long-held beliefs is hard work and is often met with resistance, but isn't that how transformative change comes about. Let go of “the voices from the past,” or the “shadow from the past experiences” and reprogram people's minds with new thinking, beliefs, norms, and attitudes to renew humanity progressively.

The new year is around the corner; step out of the routine transactional activities for a while, renew yourself with new thoughts, deep understanding. Life offers each of us a ton of opportunities to learn about ourselves and learn from others. It is important to look back, then look forward, recharge with fresh energy; have an open mindset to new ideas and perspective, stimulate positive emotions, develop empathy to understand people, show the passion to explore, present optimism for things getting better, and explore the new possibility in the upcoming new year.

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Initiativesofleadership

New year is the time to rejuvenate ourselves and renew leadership innovatively.

Leadership is complex yet simple: Complex in that there are so many traits and characteristics that are considered when evaluating a leader. Simplicity in that the substance of leadership never changes, it’s all about the future and change; direction and dedication; influence and innovation.

The purpose of the book: Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity is to convey the vision of digital leadership, share the insight about leadership maturity, and summarize five emergent digital leadership trends Here is the monthly tuning of digital leadership.

                    Initiatives of Leadership 

Initiativesofleadership Leadership is about change and direction. Leadership is a principle, but often you have to break down the outdated rules in order to lead forward effectively. Far too often the term "leadership" is thrown around loosely and without any regard to true meaning.

Innovateleadership Compared to the industrial era with static information and overly restrictive boundaries in the last century, the information-based global world has become over-complex and hyperconnected; with blurred geographical, functional, industrial territories and the very characteristics of hyperdiversity, knowledge abundance, economic interdependence, culture enrichment.

InitiativesofleadershipLeadership is about direction and change; it is more about the future but starts today. "Leadership" is something that needs to be believed in and embraced at every level of an organization.

Initiativeofleadership Leadership is about the future and direction; it is the capacity to influence others through vision birthed by a conviction of a sense of purpose, motivate the team by a passion, and lead teams by professional competency and example, steer their organization in the right direction.

Initiavesofleadership Leadership comes in many shades of character. The substance of leadership never changes, it’s all about a clear vision, an attitude of the free mind with both confidence & humility, risk-taking spirit, and exemplary behaviors.

The “Future of CIO” blog has reached 10 million page views with about 10100+ blog postings 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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Illuminatelook-2022

The old year is - fading away, gradually; the new year is - coming, at the right timing; shall we look behind, insightfully.

An old year is-

almost behind us,

the new year start-

emerging…

can we leave-

those outdated knowledge,

negative emotions,

irrational arguments,

unhealthy struggling,

behind us, completely?


Behind complex change,

there is -

a deep learning curve;

behind every problem,

there is -

a relationship dynamic,

out of alignment;

behind breakthrough innovation,

there is -

inspiration, dot-connection,

genius factor, hardworking;

are you able to -

perceive the invisible behind-

the visible,

reinvent -

“lagging behind mindset,”

recognize -

connections & interdependence,

gain sufficient knowledge,

unique insight to -

drive changes, proactively?



Behind an advanced society,

there are-

forthoughtful thinking,

unlimited imagination,

collective wisdom,

collaborative effort,

abundant human potentiality,

unbelievably.


Doubts are-

the driving force behind -

artistic creation;

questions are-

the clue behind-

various answers;

benevolence is -

the virtue behind-

fairness, true freedom,

collective evolution.


The old year is -

fading away, gradually;

the new year is -

coming,

at the right timing;

shall we look behind,

insightfully,

in order to -

move forward,

confidently?

Can we-

look around, inquisitively,

in order to-

look beyond, holistically,

for taking the journey of-

change ahead,

inspirationally?

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Initiatives

It is critical to put a stronger emphasis on empowering people, refining information & knowledge, and optimizing business processes/capabilities/capacities for achieving innovation excellence.

Forward-looking organizations across boundaries are on the journey of change and innovation; they manifest connection, trust-building and influence to accomplish strategic business goals. 

Global leaders and professionals can view complex problems objectively, engage with multiple internal and external stakeholders worldwide effectively, gain universal understanding of crucial problems and overcome common challenges we all concern about, and drive paradigm shifts for accelerating innovation.

Lead radical change; share global insight, and orchestrate structural innovation at the global scope: With a sense of urgency, innovation will truly enforce communication, solve business problems and enable business growth. High-innovative companies are able to orchestrate breakthrough innovation which requires cross-functional senior leadership commitment and holistic management discipline. Only in an open trusting space, creativity can flow smoothly and innovation can be catalyzed effortlessly.

How collectively creative the working environment is depends on the individuals composing that collective and depends on the rationale for the gathering of people. Interrelational innovation management processes are developed to help reduce tensions, frictions, and business conflicts that arise. Digital leaders today need to be highly intelligent and creative, innovation will happen when people are given free space to be creative without overly rigid rules or structures for holding them back, independent thinking is encouraged and collective insight can be shared to achieve innovation excellence.

Innovative leaders and professionals look at the global economy with an innovative tone and creative potential around the world: Business leaders and professionals can develop global cognition, share the well-blended insight and foresight from a global lens, develop their expertise and be put in the right positions to solve problems innovatively. Innovation leadership is not just about winning, but about harmonizing to unleash collective human potential and orchestrate a scalable innovation symphony. Leadership team must broaden their perspective of innovation, deepen understanding of tough issues, especially at global scope, create a corporate culture where innovation thrives, and set a directional guide for solving complex problems in a structural way innovatively.

In practice, continuous engagement, with clarity and transparency in communications to build organizational strength for improving innovation competency. Global leaders articulate strategic visions, enhance interactive designs, and navigate directions, to integrate global knowledge, cultural heritage, talent diversity into a holistic global innovation system for scaling up innovation efforts across the boundaries. They are able to catalyze leadership innovation and improve leadership maturity.

An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment: An effective innovation system can “smell” the right ideas at the right time and place. Good ideas nearly never emerge spontaneously; we need to keep seeding and maturing ideas constantly. Good ideas and expertise are correlated, often emerging from interactions, and need to be selected, prioritized, and implemented to generate unique value. Fostering cross boundary collaboration is the key to creating an innovative organization in pursuit of innovation excellence.

Innovation is a discipline that if practiced well and understood fully, reads more like a blueprint than science fiction. Enterprise innovation management is an incremental-radical innovation continuum. There will be ups and downs on the journey of innovation and you need the resilience to fail forward. An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment with a sort of "professional philosophy" for innovation management. It’s important to embrace the holistic ecosystem view of innovation capability development, spur creativity, accelerate change, and leverage systems wisdom to improve innovation competency.

All innovations are disruptive to something or some behavior to some degree. The management team can gain a huge advantage for their organization if they seek and utilize innovation in equipping their organization to build and maintain cultures of creativity and connect all the right dots to catalyze innovation. It is critical to put a stronger emphasis on empowering people, refining information & knowledge, and optimizing business processes/capabilities/capacities for achieving innovation excellence.

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Illustratelogic

 Logic is a thinking process in which a result is derived from a thought. 

Logic is a thinking process where a result is derived from a thought. Logic the sequence of how to get things done. Logic is part of language; logic could be either scientific or philosophical.

 Logic is the hidden clue of human society. We have a predisposition to seeking patterns, or potentially in the pursuit of logic. Logic is crucial, but don’t ignore creativity, or sometimes gut-feelings. If logic and reason were the only keys, all problems would have been solved long ago.

                            Illustrate Balance Logic 

Initiativesoflogicizing The business world is diverse, nonlinear, and ambiguous today, the multifaceted perspectives unfold into a wider multi-dimensionally enhancing business growth & balance continuum

Illustratelogicintelligencerelationships"Intelligence" is from Latin word “intellego” -Inter-lego: Bind together, read between the lines, or connect the dots. Creativity is an innate thought process to connect the dots and generate innate ideas. Logic is a thinking process in which a result is derived from a thought.

Innovativelogic Complexity, ambiguity, uncertainty are the reality today; it’s important to deal with the nonlinear, hyperconnected situations in today's digital dynamic. The most important capability of the cognitive mind with coherent logic is the willingness and ability to seek out knowledge, gain an in-depth understanding of people or things, identify problem areas, dig into root causes, make effective decisions and come up with novel solutions for moving forward.

Incorporateinterdisciplinarylogic The business world is complex, there are confusion, contradiction, or conflicts existing in the multiple components such as processes, structures, people, culture, etc. So it’s important to apply the interdisciplinary logic to deal with complex issues and a variety of management disciplines.

Illustrategovernancelogic Corporate governance has a great impact on corporate performance. Governance controlling and enforcement needs to become more agile, intelligent and innovative. Business leaders need to clarify logic behind governance - the sequence of how to get things done: How governance rules can be enforced; how governance processes can be optimized, etc.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10+million page views with about #10200+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. blog posting. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom, to inspire critical thinking and spur healthy debates. 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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Initiativesofbods

An effective board enables and directs management towards good outcomes, and monitors performance.

Complexity and uncertainty are part of reality. The real BoD’s dilemma is that driving the business forward is extremely difficult, because you need to look into an unknown future and attempt to define the landscape with its risks and opportunities.

 As going digital is a “paradigm shift” - a fundamental change in thinking at the board level is required to tackle challenges. There are so many issues the boardroom has to deal with; this implies that Boards of the future will need to work much more closely and collaboratively, to guide the senior management team through effective questioning, advising, coaching, and assessment of the business strategy and the organization's execution.

It takes transformational leaders to repeatedly address the future regularly: Corporate boards oversee business strategy management and monitor performance. However, many BoDs are under-educated about their role and responsibility while the business change is accelerated across the global scope and knowledge cycle is shortened significantly. The real-time business insight can help corporate board leaders make effective decisions timely, make reasonable inquiries and connect all critical dots for diagnosing the problems and fine-tuning performance smoothly.

Business foresight and sound judgment become more imperative when uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity, and doubts are major hindrances to decision making. Insightful BoDs are able to sense that the digital transformation is multifaceted and highly volatile, helping the top management identify blind spots, optimizing manageability. The corporate board with strategic resilience can sense failures, overcome challenges, develop risk intelligence to improve resilience. They are able to deal with setbacks with a positive attitude and be able to keep working and focusing, even during stress and disturbance, rather than reacting to stressful situations, in order to steer the business in the direction with calm and confidence.

The boardroom culture is engendered by board leaders who set the tone and govern boardroom mindset and behavior: With high complexity and uncertainty, ignorance of the unknown is the huge pitfall for decision-making or problem-solving. In the context of the desirability of diversity in the boardroom, choosing someone based on only one criterion may limit the board's performance and potential, and there are quite a lot of qualifications that need to be considered. Effective boardrooms are heterogeneous, with complementary mindset, knowledge, professional competencies and personalities. So they can set the tone to advocate a culture of inclusiveness.

In fact, culture must be fostered from the board of directors downwards; otherwise, no real sponsorship takes place, encouraging autonomy and innovation. Teams of any kind will follow only if the leader is accountable. Accountability goes hand in hand with the delegation of authority or power, that starts from the corporate board. Accountability needs to be well embedded in the organizational culture, with values that need to be organized and nurtured to improve overall business competency for the long run.

Corporate boards must recognize the importance of principle-setting or policy-making: Policies are communication from the top. There are correlations between policy, leadership and commitment. Policy should be updated to enhance the change you would like to see. If not, then the policy is irrelevant. Corporate boards play a significant role in setting and monitoring policy compliance as a governance activity. Good policies lubricate the business value chain and streamline business logic, so people crossing the boundaries will pull in the same direction to drive progressive change.

Effective policies shouldn’t enhance the “we always do things like that” mentality and stifle change. When circumstances change, policies need to be updated to ensure people continue to do the right things. To be effective, the boards should develop policies and practices to ensure ongoing evaluation and education of current directors. BoDs must also advise and delegate the management team to keep reinventing their organizations by improving problem-solving competency. By following a right set of policies with flexible management disciplines, the digital workplace can be provocative, passionate, from letting go of the current reality to allowing an unknown future state to emerge, and solve problems proactively.

An effective board enables and directs management towards good outcomes, and monitors performance. If the results are lacking then the board effectiveness must be questioned. As the top leadership team, the corporate board just has to step into the digital vision, exemplify digital leadership effectiveness, and walk the talk in driving the business transformation effectively.

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Initiategapanalysis

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 Analysis

Initiategapanalysis Nowadays, businesses become hyper-connected and interdependent; they are steadily moving into the digital era with over-complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity. High performance organizations have a very clear vision and understanding of why they exist and the value they bring to customers.

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.

Innovation Gaps There are many forms of innovation - technology, application, product, design, business model, process, communication, or customer experience, etc; there’re also many ‘flavors’ of innovations, systematic innovation, customer-centric innovation, open innovation, design-driven innovation, or management innovation., etc, but fundamentally, what are the innovation gaps, the gap differentiation helps delineate the problems and opportunities for innovation, and through identifying such gaps, business can manage innovation portfolio more effectively.

Identifyanalyzegaps Business 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.

Identify Gap between Business: IT is better integrated with the business than ever before. However, IT remains quite distinct in terms of performance metrics, structure, career path, etc. there are still numerous debates about “He said, She said” in CIO forums, Is the gap between business and IT shrinking?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #10200th 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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Conclusion: Bridging Gaps to Catalyze Digital Maturity

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Illustrate"beforenewyear"

Before you know it, you are changing, are you changing, progressively?Can you make- positive influence, bring more people into -the circle of -change, over time, innovatively?

Before the first light emerges from-

the further horizon,

the darkness start -

fading away,

another fresh day is coming;

isn’t the new year -

only a day away?


Before telling,

always listening,

carefully,

observe deeply,

understand comprehensively;

frame the right questions before-

answering them,

making analysis, synthesis,

before conclusions.


Before you know it,

you are changing,

are you changing,

progressively?

Can you make-

positive influence,

bring more people into -

the circle of -

change, over time, innovatively?


Look out of problems before -

looking into the problems;

doing the right things before-

doing things right;

understand yourself first,

before understand others, the surrounding,

our world, insightfully.

When you become self-aware,

when you know the triggers to -

the emotions,

you are able to -

overcome negative psychology,

become optimistic to welcome-

the new year with prosperity, freshly.

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Initiatives

It takes truly strategic foresight to run a high-performance business by making long term planning, learning the lessons from the past, and building differentiated competency for the future.

We are living in a complex world in which developments and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have complete knowledge and understanding of many issues facing the business today. 

The traditional management discipline based on silo thinking, linear logic, and reductionist approach is outdated somehow. Insightful leaders need to be sophisticated enough to deal with “VUCA” reality, intelligent to make effective decisions, and nimble enough to drive changes promptly.

Let go of the current reality for allowing an unknown future state to emerge and manage changes dynamically: Digital organizations are all about information savvy, expanding both horizontally and vertically, across all business dimensions to voyage into “VUCA” dynamic with speed. Building a change vision is often difficult as it requires a link to the overall strategic imperatives of the company. Business leaders need to reimagine the future of the business, keep their eyes on the higher horizons and focus on what matters the most, identify what generates the most value for the company and express that in strategic objectives clearly. It’s also important for the leadership team to mitigate the impact of uncertainty or risk by enabling a team to encounter uncertainty and deal with them strategically.

Digital businesses imply people-centricity, business intelligence, and speed. Leveraging the pragmatic view and taking the approach to deal with uncertainty and unpredictability also include planning in a short time and taking incremental effort. Leaders need to constantly share vision, enabling others to share it as well. Take a wide look around at what's going on outside the organization; identify opportunities and threats. Take a hard look at what's going on inside the organization, including its strengths and weaknesses. So they can make strategic decisions more objectively.

Let go of accumulated traditional wisdom, apply nonlinear logic and creativity to solve complex problems in an optimal way: Increasing speed of changes, frequent disruptions are often led by information exponentiality, emerging technologies, digitization, consumerism, and many other factors are creating new challenges and opportunities for enterprises. Traditional silo views and command & control management disciplines are perhaps outdated to overcome unprecedented levels of uncertainty. The fresh insight not only has enriched context but also is an attitude to share and grow; ask questions, become part of solutions to complex problems facing organizations.

Business leaders need to unfold systemic relationships, solicit feedback, listen to different opinions to avoid falling into linear management traps, apply creative analysis skills to challenge assumptions, common beliefs, too soon conclusions, and to be able to contemplate multiple, even conflicting views of situations. Keep people awake, engaged, and informed, in that order, make ongoing communication, and take structural efforts to change.

Let go of assumptions and stigmas we place on business objects, function, ideas, and have a vision of purpose besides what is already obvious: The future state is very fluid, it can be defined in the present moment but will change while we are trying to reach it. The way to attain wisdom is to have an open mind with multidimensional thinking skills. Let go of assumptions and stigmas, be open-minded to learn fresh ideas, be aware you could be wrong; be aware yours is not the only valid worldview, learn to see the world from different angles.

Capturing multiple views to describe the future state of the business enables business management to lead forward confidently. Vision statements are really what you see at the moment, and may change over time as you grow and learn. The current vision needs to be the principal guide to coherent decision-making and resource allocation. Build a clear vision statement. Be brief, be succinct, be essential! A vision needs to adapt over time since the world and competitive environment doesn't stay still, but keep evolving. Empowering people to contribute ideas generation and implementation is crucial to make vision a reality.

The successful business achievement is a complex fabric with numerous variables, contextual nuances, and human sensitivities. In reality, too many organizations operate in reactive mode and get stuck at a lower level of maturity. When the speed of change is accelerated, organizations have to improve structural resilience for speeding up products/services deliveries and improving business agility. It takes truly strategic foresight to run a high-performance business by making long term planning, learning the lessons from the past, and building differentiated competency for the future.

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Illumination

Isn't a tough journey to- celebrate #10,200 blog postings - to pursue- the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, motivating, story-telling?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 10,100+ blog postings in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. 

The “Digital Master” book series includes 29 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 innovation leadership, IT Management, and Talent Management.

Initiativesoflogicalreflection It’s time for holiday celebration, it’s also the time to review what has happened, what we can learn from the past; boost creative energy for the upcoming journey; it’s the moment to clarify the logic of enforcing mutual understanding, to believe that people can change and start to think about the greater good.

IngredientsofleadershipThe world has become much more complex and smaller all at once due to blurred territories, enriched knowledge, culture, intriguing relationships. In order to unify and advance human society, leadership needs to present the virtue of benevolence, value of innovation, and versatility of professional competency.

Innovation With the increasing speed of changes and continuous digital disruptions, businesses today face fiery competitions and rapid paradigm shifts either technologically or economically.

Initiativestoupperlevel The digital era upon us is about people-centricity. Self improvement is about inspiring authenticity; growth mind, engagement, and innovation. Improvement cannot happen without change, and change should not happen without improvement.

Insight It is the holiday season, it’s also the right moment to recharge energy, bring an optimistic view about the future, set the fresh tones in pursuit of true wisdom. In reality, it's so easy to see faults and mistakes; make negative thoughts & messages pervasive.

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking of new ideas; sharing and innovating. 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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Initiatives

It’s always crucial to shape multidimensional viewpoints, tell compelling stories, keep the big picture view interactive and dynamic to lead organizations forward steadfastly.

With an unprecedented level of uncertainties and interdependence, digital leaders and professionals have to frame a growth mindset, learn to use the new lens of the new era, acquire deep thinking and fresh insight for gaining multidimensional views of business context, understanding where you are, where you want to be, understanding interconnectivity of things,

identifying the key business problems or issues, predicting the behavior of the whole from the behavior of the parts; in order to shape a clear view of the future and run a successful business.

It’s great to apply multiple views to understand the future state of the business; thinking of the best view is likely to be less confusing: People often talk about change as though it was uni-dimensional, or a universal commodity, but the type of change makes a huge difference, particularly change that follows vs. change that leads to progression or innovation. To envision and drive effective changes, try to have multiple views to describe the future state. 

The future state is very fluid. It can be defined in the present moment but will change while we are trying to reach it. The visionary view can be unconstrained by your current situation and need not be granular in detail. Try and put the current state into a far corner of your mind and focus on defining what would appear to be the goals of the business in the longer term and how the organization would be structured to meet that smoothly.

It is important to tell the story; and also invite people to tell their own unique story about change as well: In order to inspire people for changes, tell a story; the picture is worth a thousand words; having a story in mind for either static or dynamic visualization is critical to business change success. Science and philosophy are wrapping around with each other, refining human history both theoretically and practically. A good story is philosophical to uncover the truth; scientific to persuade the audience; motivational to drive progression. 

The creative human interpretation process is needed to tell a most likely story about business transformation. It also helps to achieve the maximum visibility of ideators & contributors and showcase success stories to help keep up the motivation level of the audience. Such story-telling improves mutual understanding, creates new knowledge, stimulates innovative ideas, harnesses communication, cooperation, coordination, and collaboration.

It’s great to make the change view interactive, if the picture is dynamic: The interactive view provides contextual insight into the emergent properties, appreciating the interaction and interrelationship dynamic, and making it simple but also visually compelling; leverages an interdisciplinary lens to get the “scope” of the problem, see a bigger picture with interactive pieces and conflict goals; understand the interdependent pieces, what contexts it is used in and which mentalities or behaviors are evoked.

People are able to take an immersive digital scenario for problem-solving in the whole flow of work, and create an interactive environment to inspire change. The interactive view helps to understand the interrelationship dynamic, diagnose the root cause of problems, and ensure that the business as a whole is superior to the sum of parts.

Now with uncertainty around and increasing pace of changes, as well as business variables such as volatile market situations, fierce competition, emerging digital technology trends, overwhelming growth of information, etc, today’s business leaders are capitalizing and operating on digital ecosystems that are expanding. At times, when you only want to see things from your own point of view, see what you want to see, or hear what you want to hear, often you miss the point to holistically understand the real problem and how to solve it systematically. It’s always crucial to shape multidimensional viewpoints, tell compelling stories, keep the big picture view interactive and dynamic to lead organizations forward steadfastly.

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Initiateguidance

Innovative global professionals should shape their perspective of value proposition, life experience, world view; culture quintessential, as well as education viewpoints.

The effects of an increasingly digitized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Digital is the age of creativity and innovation, creativity is the most desired trait for digital leaders and professionals today, and innovation is the light every organization is pursuing. Which themes shall you set to advocate digital transformation? How to lead toward the digital future effortlessly?

                       

 Initiatives of Guidance

Initiateguidance We are in the age with the mixing of old and new, physical interaction and virtual collaboration; abundance of information and scarcity of insight; the birth of new technologies and legacy infrastructure, etc. It’s always important to break down silos or outdated concepts, set clearly defined guidance to shape fitting mindsets, desired behaviors, for making continuous improvement, encouraging innovation, leading business transformation, reinventing knowledge and creative economy.

Initiateleadershipguidance The multidimensional digital effects provide impressive advantages in terms of the business speed, the abundance of information, and the quality of the workforce. If running the business in a transactional mode only can cause digital ineffectiveness in the long run.Today’s business leaders must be forethoughtful to read business sentiment with clarity, set guidance to drive changes, catalyze innovation, and solve problems effectively.

Illuminateguidance A digital paradigm is an emerging ecosystem of principles, policies, and practices that set boundaries and offer guidance for problem-solving. The challenge is to prioritize what you know about and keep an eye open for signs of things you don't know about.

BuildingImpactBoard The fast-paced changes and overwhelming growth of information bring both significant opportunities for business growth and unprecedented risks businesses have to deal with. Organizations today are not mechanical systems that keep spinning in a static business environment, often go nowhere.

Initiate Guiding Principles for an IT Organization Principles are statements of values. Things that define why one make a decision one way or another. These core decision values guide the behavior of individuals within an organization. Thus, guiding principles need to be defined as core decision values, "why we make decisions the way we do."

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #10200th blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 29 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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Illuminatebelonging

Doesn't the future belong to- those fast learners who can- test and run, walk the talk, become change agents, ultimately.

The world belongs to us;

we belong to the world;

If we are truly connected to-

the world around us -

our surroundings,

interactions with others,

we are able to see-

further, deeper, for-

making meaningful movement.

cross-disciplinarily.



Digital professionals belong to-

different generations;

with diverse growth experience,

historical background,

People belong to different communities,

with their set of common senses;

customs, traditions,  

can they learn from -

each other,

breakdown -

stereotypical perception;

bridge cognitive difference,

shape advanced mindset,

with deep insight,

empathy, influence?


Information is growing,

exponentially,

change happens, rapidly;

can you integrate -

inside-out & outside in viewpoints;

balance top-down & bottom up approach,

understand & be understood, smoothly?

Doesn't the future belong to-

those fast learners who can-

test and run,

walk the talk,

become change agents,

ultimately.

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initiativesofriskintelligence

And effective risk management needs to be dynamic and holistic in adapting to the increasing pace of change, improving organizational agility and maturity.

With “VUCA” digital new normal, risk management should be an integral business discipline and a crucial component of the business transformation approach. There are many out there that simply don't understand, or appreciate the benefits of risk and opportunity management.

Digital leaders today need to shape the risk intelligence (RI) mindset, build a solid roadmap, and develop a culture of accountability for improving organizational agility and maturity.


It’s important to build a strategic roadmap for risk management: Business disruptions are inevitable, and digital transformation is unstoppable. There are different types of organizations and they are at the different stages of the business development cycle. There are strategic and operational risks. Strategic risk indicates high reward and high risk proportionally. Operational risks impact business reliability on a daily basis directly.

A good strategic roadmap for risk management improves business effectiveness - doing the right things and steering the organization in the right direction; and then, doing things right. Such a planning and roadmap are not static, but need to be dynamic; any adjustments should be made to the plan for adapting to the emerging changes accordingly.

Organizations have to shift from risk-avoidance to risk management & risk intelligence: Most risk managers control risks, but great risk managers see that risk can provide very exciting opportunities for unleashing business growth potential. Risk management must be woven into the fabric and aligned with the business culture and process. Organizations need to have the right dose of risk appetite, set the right appetite for risk management, the risk mitigation processes and practices need to be integrated into a variety of management disciplines, to improve high risk intelligence.

It’s important to integrate corporate risk management into strategy management, so conditions of known risk are amenable to constructing alternative scenarios. Risk management is important, but should be handled and prioritized in such a way that business quality and reliability are part of normality, risk control doesn't negatively impact business flexibility to deliver clear solutions.

Build a culture of accountability and monitor risk management effectiveness: Risk management permeates across organizations and should not be a separate function at all. All people must support it if they need to create risk management effectively in organizations, and improve employees' awareness of short and long-term strategies and objectives. Accountability needs to be in place and understood and reporting then in place, make clarity of individual accountability for business objectives and enhance employees' understanding of policies and risk.

In essence, the underlying themes and balance in risk are centered around cultural and organizational transformation. The top leadership team needs to to increase risk intelligence; not only predict and prevent risks, but also identify opportunities for business growth and improve business maturity.

It’s important to gain a holistic understanding of the business value of risk management, look at the effectiveness of the risk management strategy, methodology, and practice. It’s crucial to enhance risk management logic, enabling the business to shift from risk control to risk intelligence. And effective risk management needs to be dynamic and holistic in adapting to the increasing pace of change, improving organizational agility and maturity.

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Innovation

It's a holistic view that sees the world as an interconnected, interdependent and integrated system in which people can grow freely, organizations function seamlessly, societies become more advanced steadfastly.

With the increasing speed of changes and continuous digital disruptions, businesses today face fiery competitions and rapid paradigm shifts either technologically or economically. 

Organizations are complex systems, which are composed, in part, of people who are also complex living systems. All such business systems function, grow and prosper by continually: learning, capability-development, and innovation. In fact, we are moving from the industrial era to the knowledge economy towards the creative economy, more and more innovation is a matter of survival in the long term for any organization and global society.

Organizational knowledge is the power to generate corporate value: Fundamentally, knowledge is the product of the brainpower, the power of knowledge can be released only when it’s used to create value and allows the intellectual organization of the sum total of collective knowledge. Many traditional organizations aren´t yet in the knowledge economy, they continue to act as expected in the economy of scarcity and live in the silos, continuing “we always do things like that” practices. Data, information, knowledge, insight and wisdom are the different stages of the knowledge cycle that organizations need to manage more effectively, organizing personal knowledge mastery and engaging with others collectively to build an intelligent organization, smart workforce, and reach the next level of knowledge economy.

Knowledge cannot be managed like other hard assets. Knowledge does not stand still, it needs to flow and transfer for achieving its business value. Knowledge is not an isolated fact but path-dependent. It means to discover an opportunity, you should have previous knowledge in the field to be able to get recognized for producing more knowledge. It take a holistic approach to process and update knowledge and use it to improve decision effectiveness, problem-solving competency. The value of knowledge assets directly impacts the value and competitiveness of the entire organization.

Learning agility is the prerequisite to knowledge fluency for building integral capabilities either individually or collaboratively: To survive in the information exponential digital era, learning becomes a knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs, knowledge it acquires, and the capability it builds. People who are learning agile continuously seek new challenges, embrace feedback, self-reflect, and get the work done resourcefully. Solving complex business problems requires learning agility, leveraging interdisciplinary knowledge and insight, taking end-to-end structural and iterative approaches.

From information management to capability development, a systematic knowledge management solution needs to be explored; evolving working with knowledge, refining information, capturing insight, winning foresight, and gaining perspectives, plus setting a new behavior expectation for active knowledge participants. In the organizational level, learning agility directly impacts on the top line of growth and the strategic capability development such as change and innovation. Organizations can work toward a knowledge ecosystem view that incorporates the holistic aspects of the knowledge management to improve organizational learning agility and build differentiated business competencies.

In order to move forward from a knowledge economy to a creative economy, keep recycling knowledge, recirculating imagination, and reinventing the future innovatively: In the ever-evolving knowledge economy, creativity and analytics actually are the “hybrid truth,” to disrupt the “we always do things like that” mentality. Knowledge boosts imagination, imagination challenges the limitation of knowledge, rejuvenates creative energy, the right combination of imagination and knowledge helps you understand how and what forces you are dealing with on the journey of innovation or transformative progress.

We are in the knowledge economy, but many people try to close the information, as they have difficulties to share ideas, different thoughts & opinions. Organizations should build a creative working environment, enabling people through knowledge sharing in the process of generating new ideas and great value, facilitating and amplifying collective creativity. Business leaders and professionals are creative workers who should enjoy learning, sometimes, putting aside all those trained thoughts and boxes, embrace diverse viewpoints, and be resourceful to catalyze innovation.

Due to fierce competitions and information exponentiation, innovation is the only way to build the long-term business advantage. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. We are at the intersection of knowledge economy and creative economy; it's a holistic view that sees the world as an interconnected, interdependent and integrated system in which people grow freely, organizations function seamlessly, societies become more advanced steadfastly.

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Initiativesofbods

Corporate governance is about how well an organization is being run, whether it is in the right direction, as well as its overall problem-solving competency.

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 are the multiple perspectives of shaping a strategic boardroom with digital acumen.

              Initiate Oversight

Initiativesofoversight Organizations are complex with overwhelming growth of information, strategic oversight is crucial to identify and strengthen the weakest link in business management, laser focus on the most critical perspectives to steer the business in the right direction.

Initiativesofbods The digital paradigm shift is inevitable. Keeping digital fit means the fitting mindset, fitting attitude, fitting structure, and fitting speed. The corporate board's main work is to oversee business strategy management and make an objective assessment of the organization's fit from different perspectives such as business information savvy, agility, innovation, resilience, etc.

InitiateBoD'sOversight The modern digital board has many responsibilities, and also gets a lot of distractions. The corporate board’s strategic oversight is crucial to identify and strengthen the weakest link in strategy management, laser focus on the most critical perspectives to steer the business in the right direction, and ensure business success in the long run.

Initiateboardgrcoversight Governance is like the steer-wheel to ensure organizations are running in the right direction and head to the destination. Good governance is less about structure and rules than being focused, effective and accountable, with a great impact on corporate performance.

Initiatecorporateboardoversight In the face of “VUCA” reality with dynamic change and fierce competitions, the open digital paradigm is not just about opening your technology, processing your information; it's a new paradigm shift from process driven industrial economy to people-centric innovation era.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 10200+ blog postings 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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Illuminatealike

Are we becoming -more alike or different, as -intelligent human beings?

Not all westerners think alike;

not all Easterners think alike.

not all youngsters think alike,

not all seniors think alike,

we perhaps like -

similar-minded people better,

but we can learn from-

those who-

can think,

differently.

Isn’t digital fit -

less about-

looking-alike,

thinking the same;

more about -

mind fit,

spiritual-like?


From one generation to-

the other;

there are -

constructive disruptions,

creative disobediences,

initiated via advanced mindset,

energetic brainpower, to drive-

changes, progressively.

Isn’t being innovative -

less about thinking alike,

more about thinking,

differently?


All happy things are alike to -

delight our well-beings;

all unhappy things are unhappy,

with different cause-effect;

there is -

a continuous strive for-

betterness,

in human world;

can we apply -

critical thinking to-

break down-

thinking-alike patterns,

challenge conventional wisdom,

overthrow -old models,

discover better ways,

to shape an advanced society,

collaboratively?

Are we becoming -

more alike or different, as -

intelligent human beings?

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Ingredientsofleadership

Isn't a tough journey to- celebrate #10,200 blog postings - to pursue- the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, motivating, story-telling?

The world has become much more complex and smaller all at once due to blurred territories, enriched knowledge, culture, intriguing relationships. In order to unify and advance human society, leadership needs to present the virtue of benevolence, value of innovation, and versatility of professional competency. 

There is no single initiative, program or the "theme for the year" that will suffice to improve leadership development effectively. We are in a period of uncertainty & ambiguity, it is about the time to define new processes, the new capabilities, and the new effective leadership. We need to take a continuous journey of leadership renewal and maturity. Isn't a tough journey to- celebrate #10,200 blog postings - to pursue- the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, motivating, story-telling?

Leadership & Respect: Respect is based on being trustworthy, authentic, and accountable. Sound judgment and decision maturity gain respect. When a leader or a professional consistently makes effective decisions, and is perceived to be fair over the longer term, she or he earns the respect. People respect those who can bring fair value, share fresh insight; take more responsibilities, and solve large scale problems which make a significant impact. People respect those who have courage to do things the majority of people can't, either break the old or overcome the bias, etc. Leaders who earn respect are able to set a clarified vision, deepen mutual understanding, inspire benevolence, encourage authenticity and innovation, and build trust for the long term..

Leadership & Nature: Leadership is both natural and nurtured; leadership authenticity is based on their natural talent and uplift spirit. Nature leaders create synergy via empathy and wisdom. The innate talent is natural, but the leadership quality is nurtured. The qualification of leadership can only be achieved via the combination of character, knowledge, learning agility, professional/ life experiences, and recombinant professional capabilities. Not only do you need to have hard capabilities and soft qualities, but also you should build a full set of coherent leadership core competencies.

Leadership & Insight: It takes insight to pull the world together, and it takes vision to push the world forward. Insightful leadership is like a valley, with the depth of their view, the objectivity of their perception; profundity of their understanding. It is not the acquisition of knowledge that will make the leader, but the desire to apply it and transform into fresh insight and ultimate wisdom that will make the leader. Insightful leadership should be built on the foundation of the moral competencies –benevolence, wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance, etc, in order to build strong influential competency.

Leadership is about developing people, not managing them. Leadership development starts from the mindset level, following with a set of exemplary behavior. Not being afraid to fail is a liberating experience for innovative leaders. Although leadership has many facets, at its core, the foundation of leadership is based on authenticity and vision. Great leaders think logically, act professionally, solve problems innovatively. in all aspects of their role and beyond.

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