Illumination

Isn't it a tough journey to explore the world, pursue the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, motivating, story-telling?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 11,600+ 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.

Influence, Inclusion, Intrapreneurship We live in such a diverse world with unpredictability, uncertainty, exponential growth of information, and increasing pace of changes. Organizations across vertical sectors are transforming from industrial silos to hyper connected digital businesses. An innovative leader has the interdisciplinary knowledge and cross-functional experience to connect unusual dots, promote a healthy climate for innovation, inspire team members to create a portfolio of fresh ideas, coach team members on innovation management practices and how to overcome the barriers to achieve innovation excellence.

Influential Characteristics of Corporate BoDs Business ecosystem environment becomes more dynamic, organizations need to hunt for qualified and independent Board members who are aware of their responsibilities and duty to the shareholders and have a good understanding of the organization's strategic direction and its business alternatives.

Innovation The digital era upon us is about abundant information and increasing pace of changes. There are both known unknown and unknown unknown. The workforce today is multigenerational, multicultural, and multi-devicing and the digital workplaces are a melting pot of hyperdiversity. The global society becomes hyper connected and interdependent, it is important to develop an open atmosphere with candid communication, fortify cross-functional learning, communication, and coordination based on quality information, expertise, and responsibility for achieving innovation excellence.

Initiatives Organizations become more complex and dynamic with an increasing pace of changes. Change management is a core discipline and strategic policy in business management. Change Management has to make an objective assessment of whether change efforts achieve the expected business results. At the end of the day, change is never for its own sake, it’s about business improvement, innovation for achieving higher than expected business value.

Innovateglobalsociety We live in a more dynamic, ambiguous and globally distributed world, with exponential growth of information and increasing opace of changes. We global citizens are experiencing the same world but perhaps perceive it subjectively. Because each mindset filters information differently, thinks differently, learns differently, decides and acts differently. It's imperative to deepen understanding of global issues contextually and dealing with common challenges cross-industry or cross-geographical locations smoothly, in order to harness global communication, foster innovation, enforce governance on the global scale, and advance humanity to the next level.

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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