Initiatives

It’s critical to leverage nonlinear disciplines, increase structural flexibility, take holistic approaches, nourish creativity, with the goal to pursue no-nonscense solutions, create business synergy and achieve performance excellence for the entire organization.

The pace of change is increasing, information is growing overwhelmingly. We are experiencing a paradigm shift from information scarcity in the industrial age to knowledge abundance in the digital era. We live in a diverse global society with a multigenerational workforce, multipolar knowledge centers, multi-cultural understanding, and multidimensional disciplines, etc.

 In order to run a successful business, the organizational management needs to ponder: How to understand the nonlinear business logic of the company based on contextual business knowledge? What is the no-nonsense solution for the businesses’ requirement, offering added value? How to nourish a creative workforce, grow fresh knowledge, look for an experience of truth, the unfolding of wisdom in order to make a seamless paradigm shift collaboratively?

Nonlinearity: Nowadays we live in a dynamic ecosystem which is complex, interrelated, and interconnected. The emergence of potential opportunities and risks facing organizations is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern. A small error, inconsistency in a system can sometimes decrease business performance significantly. So practicing lateral, nonlinear thinking, could be evolutionary for understanding dynamic circumstances from different angles.

First, gain contextual knowledge to understand the holistic business ecosystem; secondly, understand how the people factor affects the business, and then manage the nonlinear business system and the people of the system. Organizational leaders should be inclusive to appreciate cognitive differences and diverse points of view; understand the interconnectivity of things; integrate interdependent capabilities, and apply interdisciplinary management to run a high performance organization.

No-nonsense: In many companies, there are so many things going on, often they get lost in the overloaded activities and daily busyness that are not so essential. Inevitably, they lose their true business purpose, get stagnated, and become irrelevant sooner than what they thought about. Business leaders should review policy, procedure, and communication within the organization to ensure solutions are designed to not only solve certain problems, but also bring up great value, constantly.

To initiate no-nonsense understanding and management practices, thinking holistically about issues on hand requires being close to the problem, understanding context and intangible variables, digging into the root causes, pondering different value-added solution scenarios and walking through them from generalization to specification, analyzing cost and benefit, paying enough attention to sequence and consequence; putting emphasis on delivering “no-nonsense” solutions.

Nourishment: Business environment either encourages or discourages innovation, the ease or difficulties inherent in surviving. In general, it is surely a discipline to provide a creative workplace in which people can exercise their talent and unlock their potential. An integral global innovation system enables organizations to recognize challenges, understand boundaries, deal with constraints, frictions, bridge a variety of gaps seamlessly.

Innovation is surely a discipline to provide the creative workplace for people to discover and develop their talent and unlock their creative potential. If the organization is like the garden, the more fertile the soil, the better nourishment the plants would be. Innovation is rarely an individual action; rather, it is a team effort. In fact, nourishing a creative workplace and building trust is an ongoing and never-ending endeavor.

As the world becomes more hyperconnected, interdependent, and the industrial boundaries are blurred, people are both means and ends of business management. We have to deal with constant ambiguity, increasing complexity, rapid change, unprecedented uncertainty. It’s critical to leverage nonlinear disciplines, increase structural flexibility, take holistic approaches, nourish creativity, with the goal to pursue no-nonscense solutions, create business synergy and achieve performance excellence for the entire organization.

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Innovation

It’s important to balance the art and science that goes back and forth between innovation capability design and integration.

Digital is the age of innovation, innovation is no longer “nice to have,” but “must have” unique business competency. However, companies have very limited budgets, resources. The realities of corporate life don't allow those companies to spend all their resources on radical innovation. 

Business management has to focus on learning-experimenting, and keep improving innovation competency.

Innovation management is an iterative innovation and standardization continuum: Innovation becomes more customer-centric; you need to hear what your customers and product specialists say the customers want. It’s important to empower customers, get them to choose the ideal solution for their work. 

Innovation teams should engage the end-users, let them make the decisions regarding what customized applications they would like to use; what application standards they wish to establish, what regulation rules they need to follow, and have the responsibility to streamline the application portfolio with the right mix of incremental innovation and radical innovation.

Innovation as a key strategic differentiator and the lifeblood of any business operation, and place it on top of a business management pyramid: There are so many things going on in the organization today. It is difficult to make the decisions in which order to do the changes and prioritize between changes. Innovation is the differentiated business competency to ensure organizations not only survive today, but also thrive to create a better future. So business management should set innovation as one of the top prioritized “to do” list of the business, with customer relationships and human capital in the middle, then operational excellence and at the base.

Innovation is not for its own sake, but to create value, benefit stakeholders of all stripes. The "right" answer about the highest strategy priority is that it depends on which of these areas are most in need of improvement in the organization in question. It’s crucial to embed prioritization mechanisms into the multitude of management to unlock performance and unleash business potential.

Open innovation is about ensuring that business has access to the maximum number of potentially good ideas for new innovative products: In a field of activities and form its content as an innovation management discipline, open innovation is that the challenge is put out for anyone to apply or contribute. Open innovation can improve idea generation, increase interaction and increase learning. It always intends to produce knowledge that leads to some value for those involved. Therefore, it can be a good thing.

Open innovation can be either an incremental innovation or radical innovation. Radical innovation is out of the box thinking where incremental innovation is still inside the box thinking. Incremental innovation is what is used after the breakthrough to "touch" things up a bit, optimizing business processes to innovation implementation, and build a balanced portfolio/program management.

It’s important to balance the art and science that goes back and forth between innovation capability design and integration. The purpose of innovation categorization is not about siloing different management disciplines, but how to best link them together - focusing on core activities to develop innovation competency. It is important to leverage a systematic approach with robust processes and tools that generate winning concepts on a consistent basis to improve innovation excellence..

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Influence

Influence is the cognitive ability to understand; communication skill to inspire and persuade, or “can do'' attitude to motivate.

We live in a diverse global society with a multigenerational workforce, multipolar knowledge centers, multi-cultural wisdom, and multidimensional innovation, etc. 

Global professionals today have to continue sharing their viewpoint about things or events happening in their surroundings, their perspective of future global society; their roles on making desired changes, their professional strengths & weakness, as well as how to team up for building competitive global team for co-solving common problems at the worldwide base and developing professional competencies.

                           Influence

Influence Interdependence and hyperdiversity are the very characteristics of the organization. To unify common beliefs, bridge differences, and explore the emerging trends, the management needs to embrace diverse viewpoints, open up the tensions to ensure that things can be resolved, and take an interdisciplinary approach to drive changes, for reaching a state of unity and harmony.

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.

Influence The fierce competition and continuous disruptions are part of the new normal. The new paradigm that is emerging is organic, holistic, vibrant, energetic, fluid, and innovative, in relationship with its environment, and above all enhances the dignity of the creative human spirit. Leadership is not controlled by command structure or overly rigid organizational boundaries. Being an influential leader means giving people confidence on where to go and how to get there, supporting them and also stretching them to unleash their full potential.

Influencing Global world becomes over-complex, information is growing exponentially. The business world we live in is in the paradigm shift to global advancement. The boundary of knowledge domains is blurred, cross-disciplinary knowledge is powerful to solve many of today’s over-complex and interdependent problems.

Influence Influence is the cognitive ability to understand; communication skill to inspire and persuade, or “can do'' attitude to motivate. Regardless of which stage you are at the professional growth cycle, forethoughtful leaders or professionals should continue to learn, innovate or coach to deepen their influence.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about 11,000+ 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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Initiativesofreinvention

It’s always crucial to enforce mutual respects between organizational design and business process management to lead effective business transformation.

Given the “VUCA” ecosystem dynamic, today’s organizations are often operational in crisis and conflict environments. They have to work proactively to dismantle business bureaucracy, break down silos, overly rigid processes, experiment with different types of organizational structures and frameworks, design for trust, improve agility, and take cross-disciplinary efforts to reinvent the organization for unleashing their full potential.

Initiating underlying business structure and processes optimization to drive immersive business transformation: Due to convenience brought by emergent digital collaboration platforms and tools, the physical organizational structure, relationships, and virtual platforms and connections wrap around each other to enforce responsibilities and seamless alignment across the organizational hierarchy. The right mixed structure is the one that allows the right mentality and culture to bloom; balance process and flexibility; customization and standardization.

The organizational structure carries inherent business capabilities as to what can be achieved within its frame to enable clearly-defined business goals and expedite business transformation. Organizational structure needs to be solid enough to keep people or things in order; but fluid enough to keep information or ideas flow; enforce cross-functional business alignment, enablement, communication, collaboration, and harmony.

Integrate organizational design into business process tuning and reengineering activities to enable employees to do their work productively and innovatively: In order to adapt to changes and increase agility, it is transformational for business management to “step outside” of the organizational hierarchy for gaining different perspectives and deepening understanding of the business dynamics.

Organizational design needs to be understood holistically; apply “simplicity” principles to architect and design an ecological organization; take an integral approach to flatten the overly restrictive hierarchy; enable cross-functional communication & collaboration, and improve business flexibility. The premium organizational design should be fluid enough to streamline information flow, talent mobility, build up dynamic capability via a unified platform, process integration and solution-driven deliverable.

Organizational reinvention would be to build the “best” mix of organizational elements that improve business agility and innovation: As you receive new insight & vision from various business units; what works and what doesn´t, depends on the nature of the organizational interdependence that needs to be enabled. It’s important to put the effort into organization reinvention. The team is able to organize itself on how it will address the problem that has been presented to it. The entire organization needs to constantly fine-tune collective mindsets, behaviors, structures, processes, to ensure that the business as a whole is superior to the sum of its parts.

Organizational structure should be reinvented to influence the emergent properties of the environment and enable emergent changes in its own consciousness, behavior, functions, and processes toward strategic agility and structural flexibility. Business management needs to do the needful adjustments without hesitation, encourage people to think and do things differently, and build dynamic business capabilities.

To speed up change and reach a clarified vision, it’s a worthwhile effort to reimagine the future of business and consider designing the organizational structure model to embrace change. It’s always crucial to enforce mutual respects between organizational design and business process management to lead effective business transformation.

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Initiativesii

A lot of parameters, correlations, and context should be taken into account as business management and measurements are complex today.

A digital strategy is cross-functional effort, multidisciplinary, multidimensional planning; it brings up new functions, roles, collaboration, demand for intuition and emergence, complementarities, philosophy, neutron sciences, and trans-disciplinary businesses. And digital strategy execution is not linear steps, but an iterative continuum.

       

Initiatives for Implementation

Initiatives In face of increasing pace of changes, fierce competitions, the enterprises today need to become more open and responsive, increasing agility and influencing societal progression. In reality, today companies very often get stuck at the daily busyness, with the consequent lack of focus on getting the most critical work done effectively.

Initiatives Organizations no matter large or small, all face uncertainty, and frequent disruptions. Different people and organizations have different inner strengths, capacities, and unique strengths. Information can flow frictionlessly and a variety of stakeholders such as employees, vendors, and customers should work cooperatively to generate multilateral business value, lead business growth.

Initiatives In a world where change is significantly speeding up, business leaders couldn’t predict the future with a high degree of accuracy. Always keep the end in mind when walking through the journey of organizational growth and innovation. It requires in-depth understanding, learning agility, and dynamic business capabilities, to ensure endurance, persistence, resilience of business management, with the goal to keep the business responsive, innovative, and make continuous improvement.

Initiatives It is a continuously changing world with “VUCA” new normal, no organization can afford to stick to its old ways of doing things without progression. Running a successful business requires maintaining a delicate balance between solid and liquid, “old experiences” and “new ways to do things,” innovation & standardization; process & flexibility.

Initiatives We live in an era, full of uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, the result is the higher risk of priority conflict, change inertia, resource limitation or business vulnerability. A lot of parameters, correlations, and context should be taken into account as business management and measurements are complex today.

The blog is a dynamic book flowing with your thoughts; growing through your dedication; sharing your knowledge; conveying your wisdom, and making an influence through touching the hearts and connecting minds across the globe. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #11,000 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 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

Sometimes right and wrong mean correct and incorrect; sometimes they mean accurate or inaccurate; sometimes they mean morally/ethically good or bad.

In face of overwhelming growth of information, fierce competitions, and frequent disruptions, many organizations are on the journey of business transformation which represents the next stage of business growth, organization agility. 

Raising the right questions, setting the right policies, identifying the right people and taking the right approach of doing the right things in the right way are all important disciplines to improve the overall business influence, resilience, and maturity.

Right inquiries: Businesses become more dynamic, managers today need to ask more insightful questions to facilitate transformative changes. Motivation can come and go easily, if it is not the heart desire. Asking the right questions helps to trigger your emotions for running a high performance business.

What about purpose, trust, the right set of goal-development? What about psychology and methodology behind innovation? How to unleash unlimited potential to drive organizational progress by synchronizing thoughts, actions, and endurance? If you are clear about what you are trying to achieve, then you can think about the questions to which you need answers; verify assumptions to pursue truth, and lead change confidently.

Right information: Information Management is to connect people with the right information at the right time & location, to ensure that accurate information is accessible and shared to improve problem-solving effectiveness. Different information is required at different points in the decision and operational delivery chain.

Information Management includes a set of integrated management processes and services that enable and support the capability to store, retrieve, refine, and transform data, allowing it to become the right information in the right form and of adequate quality to satisfy the demands of users in the organization. If you don't have the right level of information management control in place, it is substantially harder and less likely to be an information savvy, high performance company for the long run.

Right approach: Contemporary management approach is both art and science. Good policies should be communicated frequently, and followed uncompromisingly, to ensure the right things are easy to do, and bad behaviors are discouraged. When the organization lacks a set of cohesive policies to guide through, people are running in the dark, to make decisions blindly, or walk around the problems helplessly. It causes silo, conflicts, and business ineffectiveness.

Find the right people through what they think and how they act, and integrate talent management, culture management, change management, and performance management into a holistic management approach to run a holistic organization to achieve high performance coherently.

Sometimes right and wrong mean correct and incorrect; sometimes they mean accurate or inaccurate; sometimes they mean morally/ethically good or bad. Business transformation is a multidirectional business exploration to improve organizational competency via an iterative planning-implementation continuum, improve collective performance, achieve operational excellence, and gain business advantages for the long term.

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Influentialforethoughtfulness

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?

                                 

Influential Forethoughtfulness

Influencing Global world is becoming over-complex, information is growing exponentially. The business world we live in is in the paradigm shift to global advancement. The boundary of knowledge domains is blurred, cross-disciplinary knowledge is powerful to solve many of today’s over-complex and interdependent problems.

Illuminateforethoughtfulness Nowadays, with the increasing pace of changes, unprecedented uncertainty and complexity, driving business forward is extremely difficult. The wrong direction will no doubt lead to the wrong destination. Leading organizations can look into the future clearly, proactively planning, evolving, and co-creating in the dynamic digital ecosystem.

Influence We live in such a diverse world with unpredictability, uncertainty, hyper-diversity, frequent disruption, and fierce competitions. Regardless of differences in mindsets, methodologies, and practices, people like to learn and grow for their own benefit. There are many ways to influence and there are all different types of influencers. To influence is to instill passion, recharge energy, and reimagine the future courageously.

Initiatelevelsofinnovation Human society as an integral component of the natural world is dynamic, diverse, and keeps evolving and progressing. If the knowledge-scarce industrial age means a steep pyramid or silo mentality; then the information-abundant digital era implies a fluid knowledge cycle and transcendent up-levels.

Initiatebodoversight The digital world is dynamic, nonlinear, uncertain, and volatile, emergence becomes apparent. The beauty of the digital landscape is the fresh insight of business. Corporate boards deepen their understanding of the organization, share a holistic perspective of business growth, harness innovation and enhance a healthy cycle of performance-conformance to improve organizational maturity.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #11000th 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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Illuminatefrictionlessly

The friction to- change decreases - productivity, diminishes passion; decelerates speed, unfortunately.

Information abundant era is -

about flow;

data flow,

idea flow,

process flow,

talent flow;

the voyage of -

progress is -

still full of frictions;

when different people hold-

their set of common beliefs,

conventional wisdom,  

pull in-

 the different directions,

change gets stuck,

innovation is stalled,

inevitably.

The friction to-

change decreases -

productivity,

diminishes passion;

decelerates speed, unfortunately.

can we peel back -

layer after the layer of-

thoughts, attitudes, behaviors,

to discover why-

we think, feel, operate -

the way we do,

how we get set back,

enlarge gaps;

create obstacles,

ignore the world of difference?

Shall we change -

the belief that -

shapes the thoughts,

fluctuates emotions,

to lubricate relationships,

streamline change,

understand people,

empathetically;

make a transition from -

silo to-holism, frictionlessly;

Being frictionless is-

a state of flow, fluency;

calmness; lucidity;

break the journey of-

change down into -

multiple stages, logically;

take up -

meaningful activities on-

 multi-sided platforms,

correspondingly to -

form a stepping stone for-

the next big leap of humanity,

boundarylessly.

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Illuminate”what-if” II

An innovator asks- “what if” to challenge- “we always do things like that,” mentality, set an untaken path to -reinvent human society, impressively.

What if -

we can light up,

at the deep night,

break through-

 the darkness,

see through -

the upper level of-

open space, 

inspirationally?


What if-

we can rise up,

go beyond -

human limitation,

free up imagination,

to reach up-

the new horizon of-

 innovation, courageously?

What if -

we can clean up-

the mess,

the residue of -

outdated views,

the dirt of the past;

to rejuvenate change,

refresh creative energy, 

enchantingly?


What if-

we can voice up,

articulate our concerns,

share diverse perspectives, to

amplify influence, 

embrace -the next generation to come;

tap collective potential, 

impressively?

What if -

we can grow up,

without losing -

our innocence,

innate curiosity,

keep our eyes fresh,

our ears unclogged,

look outside the box,

see beyond obvious,

create freshness, novelty, 

fluently?


A visionary asks “what if” to-

step into -

unfolded future,

reimagine emergent possibilities;

uncover truth from myth, unbelievably.


A change agent asks-

“what if,” to-

instill passion,

fuse enthusiasm,

ride ahead of -

learning curves,

make a leap, 

transcendentally.


An innovator asks-

“what if” to -

 challenge “we always do things like that,” mentality,

set an untaken path to -

reinvent human society,

influentially.

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Innovativeness

Innovators define & create their own convention that they live by in comparison to everyone else who just accepts or inherits their convention to live by.

Nowadays, creativity is the most desired professional quality. The most advanced societies are diverse mixtures of peoples who can spark creativity and develop talent. You cannot wait for some “aha moment” to happen, keep curious, always think profoundly, learn fresh knowledge, and acquire new capabilities.

Innovativeness is a state of being quiescent, fluent, transcendental, etc. Being able to engage in the creation of novel ideas or unique insight does include a lot of observations, inquiries, unusual connections, and potential discoveries.

Inner calmness: Creativity often happens at the intersection of consciousness and subconsciousness. If you learn to create an inner space of calmness in the storming mind of thoughts, emotions, sensations, imagination, ideas can come to the mind, insights could be perceived suddenly. Conflicts or unhealthy competitions perhaps stir up irrational thoughts or negative emotions. Make calm inquiries to help find out what is really happening. Continue to see the importance of dealing with tensions by learning how to be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, to achieve inner calmness.

Being quiescent isn’t the same as being compliant, instead, you need to criticize, be objective, without blindly following the conventional wisdom or preconceived opinions. Innovative companies encourage open-mindedness, inclusive workforce, create the right innovation climate to increase opportunities to reach the growth trajectories and reap the fruits of innovation.

Hidden influence: There is no limit to human potential; however, it’s the individual, culture, circumstances, and society that sets a limit on the unlimited influence to advance human society. Discovering the hidden talent inside you is to discover who you are, the genuine self, ensure that your thoughts, voices and actions are in synchronization, with the right spirit.

From an evolutionary perspective, this is what we humans have always done and will continue doing – exploring our minds and physical potential for the latent powers inherent in our species to generate creative energy. It is all about having freedom to explore who they are, what they want to accomplish, that gives immense joy to anyone when it is exercised. Leverage great tools to help people think differently, take creative activities, assess problems and come to solutions in novel ways, and ultimately influence people to become more innovative.

Quiet fluence: Space and silence are keys to listening from the heart and refreshing the mind with creative energy. If in fact, we can empty the thought, and have less confusion, there comes the knowledge of the universe. There is also the time to calm down and dispassionately analyze and synthesize in order to break things down, and bind things up, reinvent the old, and reimagine the new possibilities. In fact, the quietness of mind comes from self-discipline and abundance of imagination that ensures thoughts followed by thoughts to trigger creativity.

To engage in creative thoughts, we have to go to the natural state of our mind, which is to follow the unique path to a solution. With quiet influence, we are able to keep thoughts flowing frictionlessly and connect dots seamlessly, to create conditions so that the creative potential can manifest, and innovative ideas can be incubated.

Innovators define & create their own convention that they live by in comparison to everyone else who just accepts or inherits their convention to live by. They see things from different angles and connect unusual dots to come up with fresh perspectives and great ideas. This is the non- limiting power of an innovative thinker.

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Forethoughtful organization needs to develop customized innovation principles, methodologies, and practices; leverage effective technologies, tools or methodologies and apply them wisely with the expertise to really add value.

Businesses are different, they have different cultures, different structures; they compete in different markets, they have a different strength and scale to achieve organizational purposes. 

To reinvent business, you need new technology, new processes, new customers, new knowledge, new talent, even a new business model. All that makes them very risky but on the other hand, you will get very great chances and opportunities for radical change and business innovation.

It’s critical to bring a holistic understanding of relationships, connections between related business functions, dynamic ecosystems for growth: The emerging trends bring significant opportunities for companies across vertical sectors to pursue growth through adventurous innovation and methodical revolution. Growth is associated with phases and iterations or other important points and it could be related to progress tracking of how you interact with the environment, deepening understanding of people, businesses, and surroundings, practicing information/knowledge/expert power fluently. It’s important to understand interfaces and interactions associated with complex business, create a cross-disciplined understanding, engenders new perspectives, fresh ideas as part of the process; and building dynamic business competency.

In order to achieve business purposes discover growth opportunities, it’s the importance of understanding how relationships, ecosystems, market dynamics, and the connections between business units, Forward-looking organizations encourage change, search for meaningful business relationships both within these subsystems and between them; and inspire innovation, recognize, filter and deal with great ideas for producing great products and services. By applying holistic approach, monitoring and observing links and feedback systems, business management can become more effective to harness cross-functional relationships and collaboration, increasing the overall business innovation capacity.

It’s important to facilitate creative idea brainstorming , new business models continually, etc, to increase business growth agility: To disrupt, you must hear the whispers of customers, contexts, inner worlds and outside worlds. Business Modeling is structural and can be both created and changed very quickly. Business leaders should envision the future of the business, identify core competencies, and support the development of the alternative business model to reach the next level of the business growth cycle. They encourage people thinking out-of-the-box, make people feel involved in the design and implementation of radical changes.

Business reinvention needs to base on business’s core capabilities, either through providing new value-added service or product to current customers or exploring the new customer need. Many innovations can arise from combining diverse ideas, developing hybrid structures, building robust business processes, and embedding feedback mechanisms into every aspect of the business.

It’s crucial to achieve situational balanced compromise or trade-off, suggesting implementable solutions to business reinvention: To survive in the fast changing business environment, the toughest part of the strategy management is the trade-offs. The more you can front load and truly define the current state, the easier the business reinvention journey moves ahead. Cross functional communication and collaboration are imperative. You need a more holistic approach for complex problem-solving. There should not be any imbalance between the solution communicated and what the technical team understood it to be.

Rather than try to deal with elements in piece-parts or sequentially, insightful business management keeps the whole of the problem in mind while working on the individual parts, striving for a creative resolution of the tension rather than simply accepting the choice in front of them. Rather than limiting the possible causal relationships to simple, linear, one-way dynamics, they discover the possibility that the causal forces may be multi-directional, and complex. Take business initiatives that can explore emerging opportunities, explore different paths for accelerating business growth and unleashing organizational potentiality.

Forethoughtful organization needs to develop customized innovation principles, methodologies, and practices; leverage effective technologies, tools or methodologies and apply them wisely with the expertise to really add value. They encourage growth, inspire innovation and develop the organizational level of core competencies for reinventing business constantly.

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Initiativesofhybridity

It is critical to apply hybrid management disciplines to break through the industrial constraints and limitations, strike the right balance of reaping quick wins and focusing on the long-term strategic goals, to accelerate business performance coherently.

The purpose of the book “Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the Right Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift” is to shed some light on how to strike the right balance of stability and changes; being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to leap forward for making a seamless digital paradigm shift. 

Digital organizations should apply the hybrid management approach, focus on building a diverse, networked, and extended modern working environment in which the powerful digital platforms and computing technologies enable seamless conversations, delayer overly rigid organizational hierarchy, inspire idea sharing and brainstorming, and engage employees and partners to achieve the high-performance result.

Initiatives of HYbridty

Initiatives The effects of an increasingly digitized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Companies across industrial sectors are in face of hypercomplexity and frequent disruptions. Organizational management shouldn’t lose sight of the long-term or “big picture"; but take balanced efforts, and align resources effectively on achieving either strategic or tactical goals to improve business competency.

Initiateholism The shift to digital cuts across industrial sectors, geographical locations and business personal roles, now spreading rapidly to enable organizations of all shapes and sizes to reinvent themselves. The increasingly dispersed nature of organizations and the growing workforce are two factors that break down the traditional hierarchy, harness collaboration both within the enterprise and with external stakeholders.

Illuminatehybridity The rate of change has accelerated, the most effective workplace is the hybrid environment with energy flow and all sorts of diversity. It is critical to apply hybrid management disciplines to break through the industrial constraints and limitations, harmonize communication, and cross-functional collaboration, strike the right balance of reaping quick wins and focusing on the long-term strategic goals, to accelerate business performance coherently.

Initiativesofbalance With increasing speed of changes and overwhelming growth of information, we don't really know the future of the industry or the ecosystem, but we prepare organizations to become more resilient, and compete in it. For quite a while, the majority of us will work in an organization that is somewhere between old and new; running at both industrial speed and digital speed; mixed with the physical building and remote environment.

Initiativestorenewal Variety, complexity, diversification, and interdependence, are the characteristics of the business ecosystem. Digital organizations today are always on and always connected. To explore the emerging business horizon, you have to understand what it means to the business and get to know the external changing environment or the hyper-connected business ecosystem, fine-tune business processes, structures, and management disciplines to improve business agility and renew business energy.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with about #11,100+ 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, 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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Organizational management needs to have a big picture of what’s going on so that they can justify the capacity planning properly to ensure the business is in line with the corporate direction to achieve well-defined business goals with consistency.

In face of increasing pace of changes, fierce competitions, the enterprises today need to become more open and responsive, increasing agility and influencing societal progression. In reality, today companies very often get stuck at the daily busyness, with the consequent lack of focus on getting the most critical work done effectively.

 Senior Executives should say no to many of the initiatives, just choose a few where they will put most of the resources of the company on the most important things, make seamless alignment, set the right priority, select the right initiatives to implement step-wisely.

If you're building the "right" thing, the smart way to do it is to experiment quickly and cost-effectively: Business needs keep evolving, and what we need today may no longer be valid a short time later. Valuable increments must be shippable and shippable increments must be valuable. Stakeholders are supposed to tell the management what to build and then they are supposed to prioritize how to use resources efficiently and produce better business outcomes. The real outcome to aim for should be to ship a valuable solution. The only time you should set a goal to be shippable is if value is already inherently in the solution. If you find these through focus group activity and act on them, you can create differentiation for the business.

In today's business dynamic, building the right products or implementing new solutions requires companies to focus on digging deeper into processes/methodologies that can provide flexibility and protections to ensure that the products/services meet changing business requirements over the cycle of the investment. It’s important to spend more time on setting principles and managing the set of next practices for prioritizing, implementing, and continuous optimization.

In order to keep the teams and employees focused on the most important things, clarify sequence & consequence; enforce nonlinear logic, to produce great outcomes: Organization is dynamic to adapt to the ever-changing environment, the management must go out and talk with customers to understand their tastes, current and future needs. Every customer has a "wish list" - a list of things they would really like the organization to be doing for them, but at the present time, due to limited resources and time, they are not.

The organization requires changing the underlying management practices and values that drive performance and organization agility. Stakeholder involvement and engagement always makes the difficult paths of business management easier to tread. Business management is multidimensional; you have a clear destination, but you can pick the varying processes/ practices/tools to get there. Understanding the sequence-consequence cycle helps the business management solve problems effectively.

It combines restless dissatisfaction with the current state coupled with the excitement of leading individuals or teams to come up with better solutions: The product/service will make all significant difference in business growth and customer satisfaction. Change, creativity, and problem-solving are all important perspectives on delighting customers, leading the business forward. It requires thinking beyond, outside the box, altering or changing the frame of reference to create previously unconsidered solutions.

Assess the maturity level of process management. Should this process even exist in the first place? Or is it an inability to imagine a different perspective that could be the big resistance to Customer Centricity taking a firmer hold? The overly rigid process is an outcome of using rigid process approaches which make things inflexible and inefficient. It’s important to enhance design thinking, process management, and continuously improve customer experience for running a true people-centric organization.

The blurring line of the organizational borders and the uncharted frontier of an organization provides both unprecedented opportunities and emergent risks that companies must deal with appropriately for adapting to the dynamic ecosystem smoothly. The business management needs to have a big picture of what’s going on so that they can justify the capacity planning properly to ensure the business is in line with the corporate direction to achieve the well-defined business goals with consistency.

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Innovation

Innovation is costly most of the time, that is why you should really concentrate innovation on the main issues of your strategy- intensify innovation with focus.

In today's modern organizations, complexity, diversification, and collaboration are the characteristics of the innovation ecosystem. Innovation is similar to "the sum is larger than its parts." It is the practice through which you grow and evolve something to something great. 

Organizations are at the different stages of business maturity, they should meet their business needs and take a logical approach to build their organizational innovation strength.

Innovation via outside-in collective, intensive creativity: Due to the fact that innovating in today’s world has become increasingly complex in nature, it’s usually a collaborative effort with intensity of association, engagement, involvement and commitment to catalyze innovation. There are frictions or conflicts existing in human interactions. When the engagement is low, performance suffers. Innovative organizations proactively develop the information-savvy and resource-rich innovation hubs and hyperconnected clusters across enterprise ecosystems for enabling idea flow and creating synergy to growth.

The boundaries are not sharp lines, they are fluid and cursive to streamline information and idea flow. Large companies have more rigid rules, structure, processes, budget control, they are much better at incremental innovation than at radical innovation. The smaller business can also gain economies of scale of innovation through cross boundary communication and collaboration. Organizations need to invest in the cultivation of capacity for innovation and recognize innovators with varying strengths. They should continue to invest in the cultivation of capacity for innovation and recognize innovators with varying strengths.

Innovation is intensified via complexity syndromes and the cause-effect scenario: Intensive innovations do not happen in isolation, but act as a complex system feeding, amplifying and ameliorating the effects. In business, complexity both drives innovation and also hinders it. When a business becomes overly complex and people get frustrated by not being able to accomplish things easily, they search for simpler concepts and creative methods, which is the purpose behind innovative initiatives.

Innovating in today’s digital world has become increasingly complex in nature. Because there are different levels of capabilities, complementary experiences, spectrum of skills, unique competencies, cultural perspectives, and personalities. Innovation is not for its own sake, but to solve problems. Therefore, identifying the right problems, clarify-cause-effect, brainstorm different solutions, and ensure that interdependencies and loyalties between business partners are taken into account and build up a strong innovative ecosystem with harmony.

Increasing intensity of innovation influences the pace of organizational transformation: Breaking assumptions, having more assumptions uncovered will lead to greater innovation. Innovation will happen when people are given free space to be creative without rigid structures and without holding them back. Respect your audience's cognitive diversity and professional interest, and try to send the message which appeals to them. In a creative environment, people are encouraged to become independent thinkers, search for fresh ideas, better solutions, to take innovative initiatives and make significant influence.

When boundaries are more permeable, it usually streamlines information flow and leads to faster decision making, easier idea access from people anywhere in the organization. Innovation management is an ongoing business continuum with multi-stepped processes that include both innovation resolution and management disciplines. The reiteration of the requirements development process is essential to arriving at the real requirements to keep the business innovation initiative moving forward, cultivate the culture of innovation and unleash business potential smoothly.

The world becomes more dynamic, change is for renewal; innovation is for renewal; incremental innovation improves business performance in many perspectives; breakthrough innovation is often disruptive and will change your organization or even the industry in many fields. It brings something that did not exist before at all. Innovation is costly most of the time, that is why you should really concentrate innovation on the main issues of your strategy- intensify innovation with focus.

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Illustratereinvention

Profound leaders and professionals are open and deep, able to apply multiple thinking processes to expand their perspective of circumstances, and leverage nonlinear logic in dealing with varying situations wisely.

Back to the root of the word “profundity,” it means insightful understanding; it requires a person's ability to grasp or comprehend information, be able to see beyond the obvious, look around the corner, dig into the root cause of the problems, and climb the knowledge-insight-wisdom pyramid step-wisely in order to solve problems thoroughly. The gap between knowledge and insight is about the depth of understanding. 

Because knowing something is not equal to understanding it, understanding it doesn’t mean you can communicate and coach it effectively. Here is a set of featured blogs to dig into the “keywords” of the 21st century to brainstorm the future of digital leadership and business transformation.

Illustrate Reinvention

Initiatives of Organizational Reinvention Many organizations today are operated between the mix of old and new; different departments within the company are run at varying speed. Organizational design needs to be understood holistically and applies “simplicity” principles to architect and design an ecological organization that can self-develop, self-adapt and self-renew, being able to reconfigure its own structure and change its own behavior to adapt to environmental changes dynamically and improve organizational agility and maturity

Innovatingwithimagineers Imagination is the seed to grow innovation and lead to discovery. The higher the level at which we are engaged and stimulated to imagine, the more likely we get inspired to take actions. At the highest level of imagination engagement, we become driven to leverage our imagination into innovative results.

Innovativecategorization Categorization is about recognizing or labeling things by shared features or similarities between the elements of the experience of the world. Historically, knowledge is categorized based on subject matter; people are categorized based on physical identity, organizations are categorized based on industry functionality; societies are categorized based on political systems, etc.

Revitalizing With the faster pace of changes and continuous disruptions, companies across vertical sectors have huge pressures to survive and thrive in today’s hypercompetitive economic dynamic. They are at the transition stage from operating a mechanical organization to running a dynamic digital living business. Digital organizations are the mixed bag of something old and new; physical building and virtual platform, with a diverse workforce working in different functions running varying speeds. A digital workplace encompasses so much that it's hard to isolate it from other dimensions of the enterprise. What is the logical scenario to overcome challenges and revitalize the digital workforce to be future-ready?

Innovativerenewal Organizations become over-complex, uncertain, and ambiguous, they are like the living thing with the ability to continually change, renew as the world changes and evolves with an intersecting and interacting business ecosystem constantly. It is important to understand that business transformation is multifaceted, and it has to permeate into organizational vision, strategy, culture, communication, process, underlying functions, and structures. Organizations need to keep renewing themselves, and achieving the state of digital flow and business continuum.

The blog is a dynamic book flowing with your thoughts; growing through your dedication; sharing your knowledge; conveying your wisdom, and making an influence through touching the hearts and connecting minds across the globe. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #111,00 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 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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Innatequlity

Quality management needs to be a cross-functional collaborative effort, not something one team does alone in a corner, in order to improve the entire business effectiveness and maturity.

Quality is not just the specific task of one business function; it is one of the business management disciplines which needs to be taken in a systematic way. The management processes and systems need to be more dynamic, iterative, integral, and interactive in order to make the timely adjustment for improving the quality of management and overall business maturity.

Quality understanding: Quality Management starts with shaping the quality mindset and defining quality as the discipline. Knowledge is neutral and can be used for good and become beautiful; or it can be used to harm others and become ugly. Positive mentality is a crucial element for deciding the quality of thinking.

Shaping quality thoughts and in-depth understanding requires that we move from mindset to mindflow, from fixed mind to growth mind. Thinking is high-quality when people can think both hard and smart, be mindful, nonlinear, and holistic. What you experience in quality life is the continuous flow of your thoughts and the total sum of decisions you have made to reach a certain level of quality experience.

Quality alliance: Quality is doing the right thing right, making strategic alliances is important to allow room for adjustments and keep the organization informative, and build s high level of organizational competency. The smooth alignment is multifaceted, across the organizational hierarchy by enhancing interpersonal communication, vendor/value analytics, accountability enforcement.

Does everyone know and understand each other's goals and have agreed on common overall goals via seamless alignment? Effective communication, partnership, collaboration, governance, and value analytics, etc, all these need to be effective to have a close alliance. Those organizations that have a more mature alliance outperform their competitors and tend to be more antifragile, innovative and resilient.

Quality solution: From the products/projects management perspective, the quality is a function of scope, budget, and resources. Quality management ensures that in an organization, products or services are consistent to meet customers’ satisfaction. The ability to deliver a quality product is, as a matter of clear focus on the things that deliver quality. Quality = Expected standard of products/services/solutions.

Quality management ensures that in an organization, product or service is consistent to produce high performance. It requires engaging all the people involved working together as a team to excel in quality products/service delivery. Quality has to be designed in, not inspected out; Remove the obstacles to quality, clearly describe what quality looks like, how to design, develop quality products, services, processes to satisfy the needs and wants of customers for achieving the quality goal of the business.

Everyone has some role in quality; monitor quality and take corrective measures when necessary and possible. Quality is defined by a number of factors; quality management needs to be a cross-functional collaborative effort, not something one team does alone in a corner, in order to improve the entire business effectiveness and maturity.

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Business Architecture is a practical tool for orchestrating a logical problem-solving scenario that conforms to a sequence, a focus or a goal, a motivation to explore options to solve problems.

All enterprises are designed to varying degrees of detail and with varying degrees of success, but that does not mean they are architected effectively. In order to run a successful organization, there are many things that have to be taken into account such as business purposes, ecosystem landscape, maturity of the company, etc. 

The architecture is used as a corporate management instrument to close the gap between “as is,” and “to-be” to improve overall business agility, performance, and resilience.

It is important to apply business architecture as a steering instrument to provide a holistic view of the organization: Organizations are highly conscious about what’s happening in their environment, how they can grasp opportunities, and prevent risks effectively. When building the future state of the business, make sure that you can leverage business architecture to break things down into looking at the ideal future first, followed by the practical view via resource, schedule, and talent assessment, highlighting which changes to focus on, which one can be ignored.

Top business management uses business architecture to clarify vision, mission, goals, and strategy and handles every new business problem from all the relevant perspectives, analyze the current state of the business and make comprehensive planning for business transformation.

It is important to use business architecture for proactively providing feedback for business betterment, rather than containing knowledge only: Information/knowledge is one of the most invaluable assets besides people. Knowledge is neutral and can be used for good and become beautiful, or it can be used to harm others and become ugly. Unfortunately, many organizations still take a very reactive attitude to manage knowledge. There is the danger of super specialization as it would create silos and generate gaps between different knowledge domains.

It's practical to use architecture as a body of knowledge and experience in gaining a contextual understanding of the business, bridging a multitude of viewpoints, dealing with knowledge transfer, keeping the knowledge fresh, and providing feedback for business betterment proactively.

It is important to use business architecture to gather interrelated data and facts, analyze and frame the right problems, and solve problems effectively: Many of today’s business problems are complex, it’s the responsibility of business architects to look out for new possible strategic moves for the business and solve appropriate problems effectively. Many organizations are complex, problem-solving is a multi-thread, multi-stepped process that includes both problem resolution and solution implementation.

Business architecture can be invaluable for performing a wide array of services, including competitive analysis, information/knowledge gathering, process optimization and governance. Walk through the scenario from generalization to specification by leveraging solution architecture to clarify nonlinear cause-effect; customized and modified to solve a set of problems effectively.

Business Architecture is a practical tool for orchestrating a logical problem-solving scenario that conforms to a sequence, a focus or a goal, a motivation to explore options to solve problems. Business architecture is considered a useful tool if it can manage complexity, enable maximum reuse of assets, untangle complexity systematically in search of simpler concepts and methods, eliminate the costly re-inventing of the wheel, prevent problems or errors, manage the boundary between the organization and the external world, enforce cross boundary communication and collaboration, to build a highly mature global organization.

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