Initiatives

Forethoughtful organizations are highly conscious about what’s happening in their environment, with the ability to grasp opportunities, and prevent risks effectively.

Organizations today are like the organic living system which keeps evolving. Just like those plants in the natural world, they seem to be still when we see them frequently, but they grow strong organically. 

Business management needs to improve organizational capacity, to reduce the burden on the company while trying to stay current with an ever-changing ecosystem environment. That includes optimizing costs, streamlining processes and continually developing people and optimizing processes.

Information empowered management can improve the effectiveness of the business initiatives based on predictions and measurement: Information can be refined to enable and fully support the business objectives, generate idea flows; running a real-time organization starts with providing real-time information management solutions to conquer dynamic digital management challenges. It helps to gain an in-depth understanding of the past and the future so far as information permits, it has the ability to view the whole ecosystem with all its dependencies and interconnectivity.

A healthy Information Management cycle makes information available and useful, exerts lots of intelligence, and captures business insights. Linking information management to the multiple business domains within the enterprise and their business partners for decisions, and charting of accounts will create a multifaceted value return from the enterprise transaction data and improve the overall business effectiveness.

Business management should have a process-oriented and people-centric perspective to improve organizational agility: There is never “enough” to optimize business operations. The process oriented perspective enables the business management to make continuous improvement such as system optimization, process streamlining, or cost reduction, etc. They can seize the opportunity to take a fresh look at relevant information, processes; tie all important things together in order to develop actionable plans, hypothesize interventions; identify key leverage points where the non-proportional impact can be made, evaluate their management approach, and take optimized actions.

People need to be intentional about how they enter the role, focusing on understanding and respecting the organizational relationship, culture, and history. People-centric perspective is important to capture customer insight and evaluate people and problems objectively. In the context of people-centric processes where a team of knowledge workers are collectively working on achieving shared goals, dynamic processes will overtake hierarchical control to increase business effectiveness and efficiency.

Both people and processes need to be orchestrated via the efficient information technology to move up from risk mitigation to risk intelligence: Assuming the risk is highly likely to occur, most of today's risk management is reserved for huge and costly endeavors. The efforts on managing risk in a more integrated fashion are critical for the long run. Strategic risk management is knowingly assuming a risk that is worth the effort to predict, analyze, because it is believed that the potential reward outweighs the potential downside. Risk management needs to be integrated into information technology management in a complementary fashion for leading organizations forward by avoiding barriers and pitfalls on the way.

The optimal risk management is multi-dimensions of planning, intelligence, and integration. The risk-management needs to ponder: "What can go wrong? And, what can we do about it?' The secret to risk management effectiveness is the degree to which delegation can be leveraged in "processing" risks. As long as risks have been identified and agreed with stakeholders as per business needs, then you can design the risk models which effectively predict, optimize, and consider a continual and sustainable approach.

 
Forethoughtful organizations are highly conscious about what’s happening in their environment, with the ability to grasp opportunities, and prevent risks effectively. By understanding things from multiple perspectives, you can always gain insight and empathy to see things from the other angle, figure out alternative solutions and better ways to do things, take an evolutionary path of pursuing the next level of collective human progress

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Innatelogic

Reinventing business is an evolutionary journey which requires much more time, energy, passion, courage, experimentation, retreat, and reflection, with logic as hidden clue and people as a powerful force.

Organization of the future is designed openly for anyone with ideas on how human organizations ought to be contrived in the face of challenges. To move forward from an industrial economy to a knowledge economy to a creative economy, people need to keep refreshing knowledge and recirculating imagination for generating novel ideas and improving organizational intelligence. 

They have a predisposition to seeking patterns, or potentially in the pursuit of logic for twisting and reconnecting dots to turn the spark into an expressible idea, and achieve its value.

In pursuit of hybrid logic: In face of “VUCA” reality, the organization as a complex and dynamic system needs to be elaborated in a well-organized effort, take a structural approach to develop differentiated business competencies The viable businesses are solid enough to give some sort of form and meaning; and open enough to its environment allowing the movement of information, ideas, and people in and out.

If the organization understands itself in relation to its context, it should be able to determine whether it requires changing something to become viable. The organization of the future is designed openly for anyone with ideas on how human organizations ought to be contrived in the face of challenges - fluid, viable, always on, interconnected and hyper-competitive, and build a creative workforce to maintain viability.

Applying objective logic: People misunderstand or mistrust each other because of pre-conceptual assumptions or cognitive biases. It creates varying problems even though their intentions are to solve problems. Hence, business leaders and professionals need to broaden their outlook, envision the bigger picture, identify emerging digital forces, develop a comprehensive, objective understanding of the business environment, refine their knowledge for the problems they intend to solve, and make logical choices all the time in order to lead desired changes.

Understanding gap, misbelief, or conventional wisdom, etc, disconnects many things which are supposed to be interconnected and becomes the barrier to objectivity. To be objective and discover the truth, we must think critically, removing the “old box” shaped by conventional wisdom or group thinking. Being objective means we are not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or preference, but make judgment based on unbiased fact by having a humble attitude, objective logic and reasoning.

Applying holistic logic: Oftentimes, conflict occurs when there are discrepancies in perceptions, and real issues are not clarified thoroughly. It’s important to update knowledge, gain insight; do dispassionate analysis and make logical reasoning. The opposite of holistic thinking is silo thinking which is the root cause of many business problems today. Leverage holistic logic for problem-solving is important to fix real problems, rather than just symptoms.

In practice, after identifying the real issue, process refinement often goes hand-in-hand with organizational structure management; it helps to establish early buy-in and support through a holistic analysis of how the business initiatives fix real issues, impact the people in the organization. Organization as a hyperconnected and interdependent system is not scalable so easily; holistic logic helps business management to think of a bigger picture, expanding change into every dimension to refine business agility.

Logic is the hidden clue of human society. Business logic could be either scientific or philosophical. Logical reasoning is the aim of scientific investigation: gathering evidence, qualify data, to confirm or refute hypotheses about the world of changes and understanding. Reinventing business is an evolutionary journey which requires much more time, energy, passion, courage, experimentation, retreat, and reflection, with logic as hidden clue and people as a powerful force.

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Innateabilities

In today's work environment, it takes a lot of energy to break down old habits, outdated thought processes, get out of the comfort zone, and be able to do all things necessary to move forward.

Change is part of a new normal, a coherent company has a deliberately close alignment among the organization’s strategic direction, its most distinctive abilities to understand, plan and act. 

The business growth cycle could be viewed as resulting in emergent means of clarifying a vision reflecting the “mind and soul” of the company to accelerate business execution via continuous balance cycles of participation, expansion, innovation, and optimization.

 
Be able to step outside of conventional understanding, explore the full cognition spectrum: Individually, the mind with self-discipline should be consciously trained so that they don't get disturbed too much and keep learning to expand the horizon with a growth mind. They are able to let themselves think not only of what exists (subconscious), how they exist in this world, being in the world (conscious), but also how one could possibly apply themselves in this world to change things for the better as they could be (superconscious).

Business professionals are able to listen and find out their own purpose, the purpose of their organization, the others' purpose, identify and respect, whether they agree with it or not, be non-judgmental, then they can connect, talk about it, discuss it and many times, they will get more insight and will look at it differently and be able to fine-tune their own purpose. Business leaders are able to step back from details and see patterns, generalization, standards, context, and a bigger picture. They are able to identify their own emotions and those of others; be more optimistic and open, and be able to step outside of conventional understanding, explore the full cognition spectrum.

Be able to execute-demonstrable evidence that the business is actually doing something to build differentiation: Businesses are becoming complex and uncertain, to survive and thrive. It is incumbent on the organization to prove its ability to create a unique and differentiated experience consistently. Organizations need to allow time for a number of creative activities or opportunities to suit different types of people. They are able to create an “integrated whole” by utilizing correct processes and harmonizing the underlying business relationships while creativity can be harnessed on how a novel object/event was materialized into the fresh reality.

When problems or organizations become overly complex, people get frustrated by not being able to achieve their tasks easily, they get stuck in their comfort zone, the business gets stagnated. Organizations should be able to rejuvenate creative energy, keep building differentiated abilities, be able to execute, solve problems alternatively. Once the staff appreciates their objectives and with a purpose of unity, all the staff should be able to implement their strategic planning appropriately.

Be able to make assessments of strategic flexibility, as well as the overall organizational maturity: Every business is different, and they are at the different stages of business maturity. Nowadays information technology is highly powerful but nimble and lightweight, like the “superglue” to weave all necessary business elements into the building blocks of the organizational competencies. This allows them to experiment with new business models, keep business flowing, lubricate processes, and digitize the touch points of the customer experience with speed.

Organizations can self-adapt and self-renew, being able to reconfigure its own structure and change its own behavior in adaptation to environmental changes dynamically. Organizations achieve strategic flexibility by developing module design architecture and capabilities with quality and reusability. An optimized business with structural flexibility helps to empower people, enforce mutual trust, enhance cross-functional collaboration, to respond to change fast and get things done smoothly.

In today's work environment, it takes a lot of energy to break down old habits, outdated thought processes, get out of the comfort zone, and be able to do all things necessary to move forward. The management style should shift from “command and control,” out-of-date disjointed top-down management paradigms to a large dash of “freedom to manage,” with fluidity and some “soft touch.” Translating strategic intent into meaningful action and making the needed changes stick can be difficult. But doing it frequently and at a fast pace, even more so, worth the effort.

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Illuminatelikewise

Fear of consequences stifles- creativity; likewise, fear can paralyze you to -maintain the status quo..

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Initiativesofinformation

The ultimate goal of running an information savvy organization is to keep tapping their innovation potential.

Information is permeating everywhere in the business, and impacts every perspective of human society right now. It has become the "nerve system "of organizations. Information potential directly impacts the business's potential of the organization. In fact, the ability to explore intangible information assets becomes far more decisive to build competitive business advantage for the long term.

Abundant Information today must become the lubricant to fine-tune business continuum: Information does not stand still, it has to flow in and out of it, flow to customers in terms of products or services delivery. Information is an important lubricant to keep business flow, ensure the right people get the right information at the right time to make the right decisions for solving right problems at the right time. The challenge for organizational leaders and professionals is whether they can provide quality information, how to discern information they trust from information overflow.

Quality information is used to innovate and optimize. It is important to keep trimming wastes and redundancy, otherwise, over-complexity in business would hide simple and innovative ways to achieve high performance. With information fluidity, hyper-connectivity of the organization enables the business to approach the flow zone for lubricating business relationships and improving business accountability.

Information flow can streamline ideas flow and stimulate collective creativity: Business problems are complex, intuition only cannot solve those problems without sufficient information. Information can be transformed, aggregated, derived for various business needs, each business party captures it with possibly their own views on what the expected quality of the data should be. Information-based business initiatives provide the greatest return; and should be invested in the future. 

The quality information has evolved significantly in providing customized solutions, running a high-performance business today. Information-led innovation is about how to manage information- knowledge- insight- wisdom cycle in generating fresh ideas and solving problems creatively. Information as an innovation catalyst will enable business agility, new services/products delivery, workforce innovation, and customer experience personalization.

Information as an optimizer for business processes and capabilities: Information technology should be seen by any business as the business optimizer which continues trimming the wastes and tuning the cost to achieve business efficiency, workflow optimizations. It enables the organization to identify additional revenue opportunities for the entire company and improve business competency.

Information management is in a unique position to have an oversight view of enterprise processes; become a highly visible integrator, optimizer, and orchestrator of the digital business. Information management needs to use refined business insight to identify, sell, and pilot new processes and platforms that can give business leverage in its domain and sector; keep optimizing the company’s processes and competency.

We live in a world with abundant information, but scarce insight. Do not get saturated with information, but be obsessed with learning, insight, and innovation. Information potential directly impacts the business potential of the organization. The ultimate goal of running an information savvy organization is to keep tapping their innovation potential, have the ability to reshape innovative products, services, and customer engagement, build a information savvy business systems to reap innovation fruits.

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Asking good questions demonstrates intellectual curiosity, to understand the point of view of the other side, gain objective observation of circumstances, and frame a common-agreeable approach.

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. 

Initiate BoD Inquiries

Inquisitiveboard Due to the “VUCA” characteristics of business dynamic, overloading information, and continuous disruptions as the new normal of business expansion, corporate boards should leverage multidimensional lenses to provide an “outside-in” view of the organization and steer the business in the right direction.

Inquiriesofbods Nowadays, it is increasingly difficult to run a successful business due to various factors caused by rapid changes, fast growth of information, and emerging technologies. Building a high-performance corporate board requires multifaceted thinking, dot-connecting, asking insightful questions, taking a balance of multiple perceptions in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieving expected business results.

Initiateinquiries With rapid change and frequent disruptions, the ecosystem environment becomes complex. To explore the emerging horizon and lead forward solidly, it’s important to understand what it means to the business and get to know the external changing connected environment or the entire business ecosystem.

Initiateinnovativeinquiries Our world is full of uncertainty, change, and complexity; the art of questioning is to discover truth, spark imagination, and provoke comprehensive answers; the science of questioning is to clarify logic, dig into root causes, and figure out better solutions. Asking good questions demonstrates intellectual curiosity, to understand the point of view of the other side, gain objective observation of circumstances, and frame a common-agreeable approach.

InquisitiveBoard Generally speaking, Boards have a couple of main functions such as strategy oversight, governance practices, providing advice to executives, and resource provision, etc. So the Board should be knowledgeable enough to set broad strategic goals. They need to educate themselves by hearing different views about the organization, its environment, and strategic alternatives. Even the majority of BoDs are senior executives, they need to break the “status quo,” present learning agility and show the inquisitiveness to ask the tough and right questions. The board represents the ownership and they really cannot do a good job if they don't have the courage and knowledge to question and challenge and set the broad strategic goals, culture tones, and the digital theme of the boardroom itself. As an inquisitive BoD: How do you ask the tough questions?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 10700+ 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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Illuminaterhythm

Each one of us has-a different rhythm to -think, act, respond, to-surroundings; shall we listen to- our own pulse, periodically; recognize patterns, speed up, or slow down to -drive change, synchronously.

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Initiativesofreinvention

Reinvention of organizations need to integrate the organizational design into business process design and organizational re-engineering.

As nowadays, there are so many things happening in the business ecosystem, the speed of change is increasing, information is growing abundantly. Given the complexity and uncertainty of the dynamic business world and given the challenges of hyper-connected and interdependent business ecosystems, organizational leaders need to align resources with strategic goals, put the right people in the right position, to handle interdivisional tensions and harmonize cross-functional relationships, continue integrating, innovating, optimizing in a structural way.

Unshackle the overly rigid organizational hierarchical chain, apply systems principles to introduce different concepts of hierarchy: In a world that has been transformed by technology, many old and powerful hierarchies became commoditized. Dysfunction, silo, bureaucracy, etc, are often caused by overly rigid organizational structures or static processes. Within traditional hierarchical structures, mechanical “command-control” management mindsets and hierarchical structure appear to be the norm. To improve agility and speed, organizations today cannot be organized using the outdated or mechanistic paradigm that resulted in bureaucracies. 

All structures are a result of some sort of compromise in achieving the “line of best fit” as one size and shape does not always fit all. In an ideal digital workplace, the organizational structure needs to be solid enough to keep people or things in order; but fluid enough to keep information and ideas flowing. Thus, delayering becomes a lens through which it is possible to examine and fix many other issues including organizational bureaucracy. By following systems principles, business managers demonstrate effective communication skills, collaborative problem-solving capability, learning agility, and team-working to overcome common challenges.

Navigate through difficult changes and achieve strategic organizational goals smoothly: Listen to people, listen to the needs of the company, help people achieve the goals and objectives by overcoming barriers. Business leaders set digital guidelines to help people navigate through difficult changes, guide the business with a clear vision, spend their time with business teams, clarify which direction is progressing. Business managers fine-tune organizational structures, and manage a healthy application portfolio in shaping differentiate business competency. They deliberately make the close structural alignment among the company’s strategic direction; enforce accountability, guide changes and transform the company’s underlying functions, processes, structures, cultures, with adjusted digital speed.

Organizations need to move so quickly that the talent needed tomorrow is very difficult to determine today; they should also keep tuning business processes and capacity to accelerate performance. The evolutionary business architecture helps to navigate the business transformation journey from “as is'' to “to be” state step-wisely, clarify the direction of the company, bring up a long-term standpoint, and orchestrate the organizational interrelationship between people and process, interdependence of process and technology, etc. Forethoughtful organizations explore untapped talent pools, to navigate the employees’ potentials, develop employees’ professional competency. So collaboratively, they can solve complex problems and achieve strategic goals effectively.

Quality is assessed in the combination of the explanation of business variances: Quality is everyone’s business, revealed via what people act. Quality check includes making an objective assessment of organizational effectiveness, efficiency, scalability, flexibility, resilience, etc, or the overall digital fitness of an organization. Beside hard numbers or numerical success indicators, leaders should get informed of the qualitative information that is crucial to understand the health and well-being of the company’s efforts to go digital and being digital.

Quality management starts with building a high-quality workforce. Quality assessment is to evaluate both individual and team performance on how effectively they can put abundant knowledge, robust processes, and efficient tools actually used in actions. The quality check of the teams is to evaluate both individual and team performance on how effectively they can improve the quality of products/service, their level of skill, capability, competency, their unexplored potentiality, as well as their learning agility to bring organization to the next level of maturity. Through quality management and integration, the enterprise is easily combined with assets for orchestrating a high-performing business.

Reinvention of organizations need to integrate the organizational design into business process design and organizational re-engineering. Business management practices need to be informative, interactive, and intelligent, being able to reconfigure its own structure and change its own behavior to become more viable, and improve organizational agility and maturity.

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Illumination

Isn't a tough journey to- celebrate #10,700 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 10,700+ 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.

Influencing In the hyper-connected and interdependent global society, with overwhelming growth of information and shortened knowledge lifecycle, in order to reach the state of knowledge proficiency and spread expert influence, it is important to identify and close the gap between knowledge and insight.

Innovation Today innovation can happen anywhere and anytime. It expands both horizontally and vertically. It’s the state of mind to think and do things from a new angle. Nowadays innovation requires iterative and integrative approaches; there are creative people who can think differently; there are robust processes and tools that enable organizations to generate winning concepts for innovation management on a consistent basis and improve innovation excellence.

Illustratepolicy Organizations across the industries set their own pace for leading changes, catalyzing innovations, and accelerating business transformation. Setting policies is both science and art. Insightful policymakers should have a clear vision about the future of organization or society,

Initiatevaluegeneration As today’s digital business environment is unprecedentedly dynamic, complex and uncertain, differentiation is not the end game, forward vision, value creation are. To keep organizations relevant and adequate, creating an organizational strategy-capability mapping helps to prioritize goals for business capability deployment and reputation building, divest non-core capabilities, and free up resources.

Illuminatelogic The global world is complex and enriched, we are encouraged to look for an experience of truth, the unfolding of wisdom by those who have gone beyond traditional thinking and conventional wisdom. Philosophy in the 21st century is an interdisciplinary pursuit to better understand human society evolution and harness the power to fulfill the purposes of humanity.

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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Innovation

Innovation management has a broader spectrum, addressing the innovation agenda forged by seamless alignments.

Innovation is about moving forward. In any business, if you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. Organizations need to get deeply immersed in designing, developing, and delivering innovative solutions to make their customers happier and people smarter, give people an impression on how organizations can meet their needs to solve problems and achieve higher-than-expected results consistently.

Nature of how implementation of the idea has to follow a logical path for the innovative solution: It takes the right people -those who share fresh insight, and have the requisite professional skills to develop fresh ideas. It takes effective processes that are valid and evolving to implement ideas; and it takes advanced technology that maintains and expands capabilities to support strategic priorities of innovation. The real challenge for organizations is to understand your priorities, and know where and how you can and should innovate, leverage available resources, provide a great opportunity for managing innovation, and keep improving products/services to delight customers.

People should be the center of innovation management and they are the major focus for innovation process and accomplishment. Innovation management needs to involve customers and different stakeholders, listen to their feedback, involve them in both idea generation and process implementation, focus on the most important things, boost the energy and excitement to achieve ultimate results better than expectation.

Appropriate key performance indicators for innovation management are more activity and directionally oriented: When managing innovation, reward and recognition systems that aim at promoting engagement and creativity are more important. A good key performance indicator is judged both by its connection to the business innovation objectives and by the mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors it reinforces. Innovation is risky; pay more attention to the dark side of KPIs, which discourages you from making mistakes.

An innovative business should establish key performance indicators and use business intelligence tools such as predictive analysis, 'what if' analysis and customer sentiment analysis to determine how changes to a process might negatively or positively affect the business innovation; use balanced scorecards to assess innovation performance, inspire creativity and encourage alternative solutions.

Orchestrate a broader ecosystem innovation beyond functional or business borders: Innovation often has a lot to do with external circumstances, and management tends to focus on internal circumstances. Companies today need to understand the dynamic competitive landscape, proactively look for ecosystem partners that can harness business innovation, orchestrate a broader ecosystem beyond functional or business borders, and demonstrate the benefits to the ecosystem with much broader impact.

The business economic environment plays an important role in sparking creativity and catalyzing innovation. Innovative companies leverage enterprise collaboration platforms or tools to develop innovation clusters or hubs that cross boundaries for enabling people to exchange ideas and catalyze digital innovation. Having close alliance and strong relationship management harnesses innovation competency and improves products/services reliability and adoption. Different shareholders get involved in various business activities and play significant roles in catalyzing innovation for unlocking business potential.

Innovation happens frictionlessly in an open environment. Innovation management has a broader spectrum, addressing the innovation agenda forged by seamless alignments. The multi-thread innovation management involves aligning initiatives, talent, resources, performance with the goals to achieve high performance outcomes. The business management needs to see the “big picture,” take a holistic view of the innovation management and lift innovation management to the next level.

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Initiatives

Organizational management needs to provide coherence between actual capability and the objectives that have been defined for business initiatives management, and addresses in outline how the objectives will be achieved.

As uncertainties are a common occurrence in any walk of our progress, the business leaders and their team cannot afford to be unprepared for the challenging task of facing the “VUCA” reality. Identifying what generates the most value for the company and expressing that in strategic objectives help managers keep their eyes on what matters. 

Planning and implementation are complementary processes that only balance each other and can produce great outcomes consistently.

Frames effective constraints which are not only a facilitator but a requirement to value-driven business management: There are resource constraints, knowledge constraints, talent constraints, or overall capacity constraints for running a high performance business. Having constraints provides guidelines for change by providing anchors to explore from. It also frees you up from having to do a lot of base research on topics that don't add a lot of value but are necessary to move forward. Breaking down conventional thinking constraints is one of the significant steps in driving transformative change cognitively, etc. Knowledge is imperfect about multiple choices and the related outcomes; the knowledge constraint is a critical issue during the decision process. People are often the weakest link, so talent constraints need to be broken down to unlock organizational performance.

Assume any inputs are incomplete from a holistic perspective and are filtered from the silo's functional view. Where the values differ, let people negotiate and agree upon something, and if required things escalate up their lines of management. Teamwork, negotiation, and collaboration matter to overcome constraints and unlock performance. Having constraints provides guidelines to build a creative environment to nurture and incubate great ideas, and access the maximum number of potentially good ideas for developing innovative products, services, business models and solutions.

Logical steps, processes, and efficient tools that organizations use to effect the transformation from planning to deployment need to be scrutinized and tracked to ensure high performance results: Among the many reasons why companies fail to hit targets set is simply because during the year they fail to activate periodic target reviews. There are quantifiable elements such as inefficiencies which can be brought to light by leveraging effective management discipline. There is no way to guarantee the achievement of strategic business objectives.

Different stakeholders such as peers, subordinates, co-workers, clients, and vendors all have their various observations. Their respective viewpoints can indicate useful areas for further exploration and confirmation. There are both tangible and intangible factors such as process, technology, culture, etc, which should be scrutinized by top business leaders via applying systematic views and disciplines. So they are able to diagnose the real issues, fine tune key business success factors and improve organizational performance.

It’s important to develop the process of a corporate pulse that identifies where passion, motivation, and commitment of the organization is located, and who embodies it: Let people explore where their energy is and then, align the energy to work at hand. Motivation can come and go easily, if it is not the heart desire. Encourage true passion, authentic expression. so people become highly engaged to achieve high performance results. From a talent development perspective, what you can and should do is to provide the opportunities for people to hone their talents and develop their skills, train them well and align the employee’s professional goal with the strategic business goal,

Due to rapid changes and dynamic business environment, organizations will lag behind if they are unable to build momentum and increase the tempo of implementation; wasting time, emotional energy and other resources invested in work, etc. Companies need to explore the emerging opportunities, bridge capability and culture gaps. If they don't take risks, try new methods and challenge the traditional approach and follow innovative leadership, then the task gets boring and not effective, the business gets stuck.

Complexity, uncertainty, disruptive changes, and interdependence are the realities facing organizations today. Business management needs to provide coherence between actual capability and the objectives that have been defined for business initiatives management, and addresses in outline how the objectives will be achieved. They should work proactively to dismantle business bureaucracy, continue consolidating, integrating, and optimizing processes, to enforce business alignment, enablement, and collaboration, and navigate management blocks for driving high performance results, coherently.

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Forward-looking organizations experiment with different types of organizational structure design to enforce business alignment, enablement, communication, collaboration, and harmony.

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. 

From an organizational structure perspective, how can you fine-tune the digital dimensions of your organizational development to harness innovation?

Initiatives of Realignment

Initiatives The beauty of the digital landscape is the fresh insight of business. An intelligent organization always looks for opportunities across business boundaries to improve value-generation, identify & prevent risks for increasing business agility, reinvent organization for unlocking performance, harnessing innovation by building cohesive, agile, and intellectual capabilities.

InnovatingfutureviaalignmentThe black and white boundaries continue to diminish due to the occurrence of increased economic integration among industries, nations, and people movement across cultures. Heralding a dynamic organization needs to leverage the holistic perspective to emphasize communication, participation, relationships, collaboration for unlocking business performance and potential continually.

Initiatealignment Running a business is an iterative cycle of problem-solving for achieving clearly defined business performance. There are both hard components such as process, technology, resource, people, and soft elements such as leadership, culture, communication, which need to be aligned or integrated into differentiated business competency.

Inneralignment Contemporary organization is the product of the past. So we need to understand it, know the facts and more importantly the underlying patterns. The radical digital brings organizations dynamically into the full spectrum of transforming an organizational mixture of information intensity, strategic alignment, organizational structure pathologies across individuals, teams, groups, functions, enterprises, and holistic digital ecosystems to build business competencies and improve organizational responsiveness, intelligence, and maturity.

InitiatealignmentAs boundaries today are fluid and cursive to streamline information and idea flow for adapting to changes constantly. Cross-silo collaboration is crucial to building dynamic digital capabilities. In fact, collaboration, teamwork, and unity bring strength. Every collaborative team will be different, with different strength and varying competency, hence, produce different results. The management needs to clarify via asking insightful questions, build a conductive organizational climate to achieve high performance results with consistent results.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #10700+ 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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Illuminategravitas

Gravitas isn't- something you have all; it is something, you work towards, a series of - destinations, continuously.

Gravitas is-

a mindset;

not about acting,

but about -

how you are able to-

generate specific energy,

in yourself to-

create authentic impact,

you choose,

consciously.




Gravitas can be defined as -

substance, seriousness,

consistency, persistence,

steadiness, confidence;

dignified demeanor,

both for-

those who aspire to lead,

and those who allow others to-

lead them, influentially.

It takes -

breadth of -

understanding of situation;

depth of cognitive insight upon -

circumstances to-

possess gravitas,

innately.

Gravitas is -

neither defined by -

external environments;

nor external pressures,

but defined by -

inner character traits

to achieve desired outcome,

regardless of the situation,

at hand, ultimately


Gravitas isn't-

something you have all,

it is something,

you work towards,

a series of -

destinations,

continuously.

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Initiatevaluegeneration

Looking to the business capabilities for introducing beneficial change into their business models to improve strategic performance.

As today’s digital business environment is unprecedentedly dynamic, complex and uncertain, differentiation is not the end game, forward vision, value creation are. To keep organizations relevant and adequate, creating an organizational strategy-capability mapping helps to prioritize goals for business capability deployment and reputation building, divest non-core capabilities, and free up resources. 

That can be used to accelerate the business development cycle and achieve the primary objective for building long term organizational advantage.

Generating differentiated value: Value is multi-dimensional and perception-based. In most organizations, “value realized” is based on enhanced competitive advantage. It is usually measured in financial terms, But performances are not just numbers with metrics, they are numbers in context, results related to your business goals at strategic and operational level. The guiding principles are statements of belief that reflect the values, culture and business concerns of the organization to generate multifaceted corporate value. They should cover people, process, performance, and quality from a holistic business management perspective, for either engaging employees or delighting customers, improving business agility and maturity.

Every business initiative is to solve a certain problem and achieve a certain value. Business values are multilateral, including employee value, customer value, supplier value, channel partner value, alliance partner value, managerial value, brand value, and societal value, etc, from the lenses of varying stakeholders. Business management integration and quality management are the keys to ensure that the business application ecosystem offers real value and also is necessary for future business agility.

Being unique: By nature, we are curious beings, and we have different lenses-the unique perspectives in the way we look at the world. People need to take their unique path at their own pace to stretch their strength and build a unique set of competencies. Being unique means you develop yourself in your own way to differentiate yourself from others. People need to be enthused to participate and achieve goals with greater emotional determination courageously. It's very necessary to remain focused, mindful of the present and consciously develop a profound spirit of appreciation.

Be unique, fresh, and innovative, get out of the created mental boxes. Express yourself totally through whatever means. The critical step for discovering professional uniqueness is investigating what’s your strength, your passion: defining your tasks, things you want to do and do better than others, to achieve more. Stop creating boundaries, take long leaps, wide jumps, have a curious mind and discover eyes, stretch your limitations. In the organizational setting, gain an in-depth understanding of what capabilities are critical to build the unique competencies for the business's long-term prosperity.

Being difficult to imitate: In order to survive fierce competitions and rapid changes, individuals or organizations need to not only have capability necessities to “keep the lights on,” now; but also build differentiated core competency, which is valuable, rare, and difficult to imitate. Business management needs to identify where the gaps in performance lie. Create a comprehensive capability map to bridge capability gaps and clarify business objectives; re-purpose well-designed components and systems for designing and configuring dynamic business capabilities. It is important to look at dynamic capability from different perspectives for making holistic investment decisions, expediting the capability development cycle, and building differentiated company advantage.

In today’s hyper-competitive environment, either business or professional, more often than not, have to build multiple core competencies. A set of capabilities is unique, not easy to replicate; improves resilience when getting a setback, and laser focused on long-term vision and value generation. Companies continue deploying their business assets and resources, disentangle dynamic capabilities in clusters of processes and managerial orchestration, realign and reconfigure a set of differentiated business competencies to achieve high performance.

Organizations across boundaries are on the journey of business transformation. Enterprise leaders are increasingly looking to the business capabilities for introducing beneficial change into their business models to improve strategic performance, achieve operational excellence, enforce customer satisfaction and build differentiated business advantages.

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Illuminatelogic

Philosophical logic is always important to challenge the known, ponder the unknown, pursue the truth, better understand evolution and harness its power to serve human purposes.

The global world is complex and enriched, we are encouraged to look for an experience of truth, the unfolding of wisdom by those who have gone beyond traditional thinking and conventional wisdom. Philosophy in the 21st century is an interdisciplinary pursuit to better understand human society evolution and harness the power to fulfill the purposes of humanity. 

Philosophy is broader, abstract human knowledge into deep wisdom. By taking a philosophical lens, people can gain insight about themselves, their organizations, as well as the ecosystem they live in for advancing human society.

Philosophical logic is a sort of abstract logic or conceptual logic: Philosophy is methodical and has deliberate processes for identifying questions, clarifying understanding, identifying faulty reasoning, and thinking outside the box. Philosophy is the compass for us to pursue truth and a foundation to develop a thought framework for inferential reasoning of deep questions or complex problems at the abstract level.

Abstraction is the foundation of insight by being able to step back from the details, seeing patterns, context, and a bigger picture to spread the truth. There are transformational concepts that may be seen by a majority as a departure from logic. Forethoughtful professionals apply conceptual logic, appreciate their value, make deep inquiries and logical reasoning, keep abstracting fresh insight to uncover myth and pursue truth.

Philosophical logic is a type of judgmental or argumentative logic: Philosophy is about learning the rules of logic, proof, and the mathematics required to judge a valid argument from an invalid one. Without the ability to reason well, philosophy is no more insightful or useful than imitating and repeating. We should be open to new information or a different view. What if our stance is wrong? Beliefs, perspectives, common sense, etc, are those things that we personally hold to be true, but which cannot be conclusively proven.

The gray area is because there are serious philosophical differences regarding what proof consists of. Philosophical logic enhances clarity in communication, openness towards viewpoints of others, and humility in attitude to learn and conclude. People with judgmental logic are inclusive and tolerant of the differences; learn how to shape an objective view without cognitive distortion or unconscious biases.

Philosophical logic is a kind of linguistic logic or symbolic logic: Logic is a significant part of the language. Languages have so many different intricacies and facets, which make it difficult to define which aspect is actually the differential aspect. Language with strong logic can unify and harmonize. Without clear linguistic logic, people get divided because they don’t know each other deeply, and sometimes their communication gets “lost in interpretation.” Apply logical techniques to attain conceptual clarity and that philosophical logic should be consistent with the success of modern science.

Analytical philosophy is called linguistic logic which is nonlinear and pattern led. It is not only the ability to converse with another culture that makes multiple languages important; it is the ability to understand philosophy and look past the invisible walls that surround us, and deepen understanding human society anthropologically. The more languages you understand and communicate, the more dots you can connect to generate fresh ideas; and the better opportunities you can converge the divergent thoughts to develop creative intelligence; and shape a contemporary society.

Philosophy is simply in pursuit of a holistic understanding of the hyperconnected world and discovering the hidden patterns underneath complexity. Philosophical logic is always important to challenge the known, ponder the unknown, pursue the truth, better understand evolution and harness its power to serve human purposes.

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Illustraterules

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

From the knowledge-scarce industrial age to information abundant digital era, organizational change is part of business new normal; principles and rules are statements of belief that reflect the values, culture and real-world concerns of the organization.

 Rule-breaking or rule making demands fresh insight, cross-disciplinary understanding, courage, persistence, and risk tolerance, among other things to inspire change. To really add value, business rules need to be grounded in the context of the organization expressing them; clearly understood, articulated, and commonly shared, they are the genetic code of any contemporary organization and modern society,

Reinventing an open organization by breaking down outdated rules: The very characteristics of digital organization are openness, responsiveness, innovation, fluidity, hybridity, quality, and great design, etc, with a broad vision of transforming to an open, high-performance organization Rules can either protect or restrict business operations; encourage or demotivate certain human behaviors. It’s important to break down outdated concepts or rules, encourage the desired behavior, and shape the culture (learning, inclusiveness, innovation, etc.

Increasing organizational flexibility via bending over the existing rules: As the business ecosystem is dynamic, forward-looking organizations explore the new arena to speed up by balancing stability and fluidity; pushing and pulling, centralization and decentralization, etc, and manage the “shade of gray” effectively. Organizations achieve strategic flexibility by bending overly restrictive rules or procedures, increasing business agility, developing the Lego-like module design architecture and capabilities with quality and reusability,

Setting up new rules to encourage desired mindset, attitude, behavior: In face of information abundance , fierce competitions; organizational change has become a common practice within an organization. To break down the old and establish the new, organizational management should set up new rules to encourage desired changes and constrain negative behavior. People with a positive attitude continuously seek new challenges, solicit direct feedback, and unleash their potential.An organization can approach the flow zone when the positions in its hierarchy have clear and accountable tasks, an established optimized organizational structure, and update rules to enhance interdisciplinary practices. The business growth cycle could be viewed as resulting in emergent means of reestablishing business rules, reorganizing organizational structure, refocusing on strategic goals, rebalancing business resources, and redirecting people to implement goals.

Business rules are not some out-of-date cliché or rigid processes to stifle innovation. Instead, they are based on the set of philosophy behind the methodologies, to shape the mindsets behind behaviors and actions. There is the time to break down the outdated rules, there is the time to bend over the rules, and there is the time to set up new rules. The more sustainable and productive business management is, the better chance organizations can reap the benefits and unlock the full business potential.

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Initiatives

Science of management is to create a structure and fine tune the logic to enable business transformation smoothly. 

Organizations are inherently and intensely complicated. These changes do not happen in isolation from each other in predictable ways. Many businesses are at the crossroads where the silo of business functions are at a need to reach across the aisles and work with each other respectively to understand complex business problems holistically and solve them systematically, 

 It’s important to involve all stakeholders right from the beginning; take an optimized business approach to improve expectation management/perception management etc, and run a high performance organization.

A complex and dynamic business system needs to be elaborated in a well-organized effort with a variety of shareholder involvement: Digital boundary is not static, but dynamic, organization becomes "unconscious" when it is no longer responding to the external environment and it’s seemingly detached from their business ecosystem. Building strong relationships with stakeholders makes the listening process simpler and any adjustments in approach easier to execute. Understanding the interconnectivity of systems and relationship dynamics are also important for both identifying the real issues and solving them smoothly.

From content, to context, to insight, follow this order to deepen your understanding. Leveraging a wider thinking box enables business leaders and professionals to understand cause-effect, manage business complexity holistically. Innovative problem solving is a deliberate mental effort involving disabling some of the old “wirings,” and making new connections. It's critical to recognize patterns, perceive invisible behind the scenes, be able to reframe circumstances, alter the frame of reference to create previously unconsidered business solutions.

It's important to build tremendous trust and user-focused engagement and show Respect, Relevance, Intelligence: We all bring different perspectives and our boundaries could change based on open dialogues. It’s important to set up a heterogeneous team with cognitive differences, and its team members can proactively stimulate the creative energy and their collective psychology shapes the culture of innovation. In reality, we can have brilliant ideas, but too many of them dissolve into nothingness because they are not noticed and acknowledged for their relevance. Using cooperative effort rather than relying on fully self-generated effort in an open atmosphere of communication among people across organizational hierarchy, can have deeper and longer impact on organizational performance.

There is an ever-greater ability for businesses to create engagement around specific goals. The most effective way in confirming senior management's buy-in is to show how the information, directly and indirectly, affects productivity, performance, and profitability. When managing the innovation life cycle, customer involvement at all stages often elicits highly valuable information.

It needs to connect interdisciplinary management dots to involve development, enablement, and enhancement: Running a high-performance business is about gaining the necessary knowledge to understand and manage holistic business ecosystems. It is also important to understand how the people factor affects the business system, and then, managing the complex system and the people of the complex system. The interdisciplinary business insight should lead us not only to understand, but also to predict; dig into the root cause of problems, not just point out symptoms, to solve them systematically.

Talented people with cognitive differences can understand things from different angles and bring new perspectives to the table, tell the full story with the business context, and unleash collective potential. It involves the multidimensional analysis and multistage processes. Interdisciplinary science can be applied to management by integrating multidisciplinary methodologies, enables leaders to frame bigger thinking boxes, and manage the digital business by taking the multi-faceted approach, technically, culturally, systematically.

To bring order into the world of complexity means truly pushing harder and pulling resources together and making the business information-savvy and performance driven. The art of management is to reimagine, let things “loose” a bit, to evolve flowing; the science of management is to create a structure and fine tune the logic to enable business transformation smoothly

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Innatelogicalfluency

Seamless business interactions enable the business to flow and accelerate its performance and growth, ultimately transcending into high-intelligent business.

The world is moving into the deep, deep digital new normal with wide, wide digital connectivity and tall, tall digital pillars. Agility is one of such powerful pillars to leap digital transformation and enable the business to unleash its full potential. 

Organizational agility is about to create and react to changes. It is about to take into account any change in the environment and transform the organization to survive, grow, and transform. It is about to respond to emergent events proactively.

Innate Logical Fluency

Initiatelogicalfluency With rapid changes and continuous disruptions, the less friction for the changes and the more seamless business interactions enable the business to flow and accelerate its performance and growth, ultimately transcending into high-intelligent business.

Influentialability Business environment becomes more complex, uncertainties, changes, disruptions are part of reality. Capability enabled strategic goals will have a significantly high success rate. Either individually or organizationally, the "development, enhancement, and coaching" cycle of capability improvement focuses on shaping fitting mindset, updating knowledge, capturing both the individual's development needs and organizational strategic perspectives, taking logical steps to achieve capability based goals smoothly.

Initiativesofagilellearning There is no growth without change; change increases its pace in the business ecosystem environment. Growth is not possible unless people are willing to move out of their comfort zone, demonstrate learning plasticity to grow and innovate continually. If your organization is going to survive through change, it would better be a listening and learning organization. If not, its growing horizon will not be high enough; so growth loses its steam and businesses possibly become irrelevant gradually.

Initiateagile Agility is the ability to "pivot" and change direction in response to market pressure or to create market opportunity. Companies crossing the industrial boundaries are at different stages of organizational agility. Doing Agile is only an engineering practice, but being agile is the interdisciplinary challenge from top-down and bottom-up, to build a truly holistic organization.

Initiateagility Agile is both philosophy and methodology; mindset and framework; it means to explore alternative value creation approaches with agility. The organizations and teams just need to experiment and learn; run and adjust; interact and improve; with the end business goals in mind, to achieve high performance results with customer satisfaction and value creation.

The blog is a dynamic book flowing with your thoughts; growing through your dedication; sharing your knowledge; conveying your wisdom, and making influence through touching the hearts and connecting the minds across the globe. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #10700 blog postings. Among 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. 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 the 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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Decision Master Introduction

Decision Master Chapter 1 Decision Intelligence

Decision Master Chapter 2 Decision Principles

Decision Master Chapter 3 Digital Decision Styles

Decision Master Chapter 4 Decision Pitfalls

Decision Master Chapter 5 Decision Maturity

Decision Master Conclusion Five Pillars in Achieving Decision Excellence

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Initiativesofarchitecture

Business architecture is used as a collaboration instrument to create a solid planning, information-based dialogues, and decent capability map.

Business architecture is the visualization of the organizational strategy, competences and structure and how they fit together to explore the macro-environment. There are many things that have to be taken into account such as business goals, ecosystem landscape, the maturity of the company, etc. 

Business Architecture contains the organizational context and is strategic in that it gives direction to the large-scale business transformation to reach the “to be” state of the business.

 

Business architecture is a form of systems thinking which elevates both design and construction: Business Architecture's role in designing and planning future enterprise is about setting up the environment for implementing business solutions and elevating business evolution. Business architecture relates to its alignment with a particular set of characteristics; whereas the design is the composite of drawings and associated specifications. Neither architecture nor design are "events" of creativity; but are in fact deliberate, creative activities that extend over time.

Business Architecture plays a critical role in facilitating digital dialogues on how human organizations of the future ought to be designed openly and contrived in the face of upcoming challenges and drive collective progress effortlessly. Enterprise architecture seeks to aid the improvement of an organization by assisting in reconciling the varying dimensions which can be changed; the relationships between the various elements, leverage design tools to fine tune organizational structures, and interrelationships for reaching the next level of organizational agility.

Business Architecture is a great tool to streamline information flow, enforce cross-functional collaboration, improve business maturity via rationalization and optimization: Business Architecture is a good tool that helps to look at the multitude of complexity from a business impact perspective as well as from a solution perspective. It’s important to apply architectural lenses to decode complexity, seek to reduce complexity through abstraction and separation of concerns, make continuous optimization, and improve business performance. The goal is to share enterprise knowledge and recognize the rationalization, integrity, reusability, optimization point, and expand the optimization from project to organization.

During volatile or dynamic market reality, the business architecture must define a very flexible blueprint, but it is the management's responsibility to reorganize the corporate structure to make it equally flexible. Business Architecture is a useful tool to capture a holistic picture, play the bridge role between business and technology, and simplify a multitude of complexity. It’s an effective tool to diagnose the root causes of complexity, analyze what the impact of complexity is on a system (a process, business, economy) as well as manage them effectively, in order to untangle complexity systematically in search of simpler concepts and methods.

Business Architecture is a management tool to make proactive movement by orchestrating a self-development, self-renewing organization: Every situation has unknown unknowns, the only way we get to understand these is by not giving up and using a higher level of thinking and practical tools such as business architecture to fully understand the current situation, and guide the business to the future in a structured way. An architect’s mindset is abstract, critical, coherent, and persuasive to lead business change proactively, avoiding the kinds of problems that "order-taker" organizations run into all the time. You’ve done everything you could do to make your organization resilient, innovative, and accountable as it could be.

Business management leverages Business Architecture to orchestrate dynamic planning processes, explore macro-environment and navigate critical business activities to manage uncertainty and deal with complexity smoothly. They should pay continual attention to current changes in the organization and its external environment, orchestrate an organic organization which keeps evolving, enforce multidimensional business values and ensure organizations are sustainable to build the long-term business advantage.

Business architecture is used as a collaboration instrument to create a solid planning, information-based dialogues, and decent capability map. A business architecture view helps to increase business transparency through a comprehensive understanding of the business, identify true cost savings, fine-tune the premium business model and ensure that business ecosystems not only function as expected but also achieve business performance coherently.

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Illuminatefluency

People are -intelligent creatures, do they know how to- trigger creativity, generate innate ideas, fluently?

Fluency is -

a sort of flow-

mind flow,

information flow,

idea flow;

knowledge is -

in the box;

insight is-

thinking into the box after -

thinking out of the box

fluency enables us to-

refine knowledge into-

insight seamlessly.


Communication fluency harnesses-

trust;

skill fluency increases-

quality;

innovation fluency changes-

the world, significantly;

cross-boundary fluency does not mean-

you only master-

one language,

but multiple;

only be skillful in -

one domain,

but interdisciplinarity;

not just see things from-

a single dimension,

but through different angles…

People are -

intelligent creatures,

do they know how to-

trigger creativity,

generate innate ideas,

fluently?

The interaction between -

what is within us,

how we project to-

the exterior world is-

the bridge to -

achieving wholeness,

fluently;

our voice and actions are in -

synchronization by -

combined action, endurance,

with the right spirit, fluently;

a willingness to-

explore,

unimaginatively;

an ability to -

innovate, fluently,

to make influence on -

changing the better world,

impactfully.

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