Professional Capability

 Improving capability coherence is always critical to accelerate business performance and improve organizational maturity.Improving capability coherence is always critical to accelerate business performance and improve organizational maturity.

The purpose of the book “Digital Capability - Building Lego-Like Capability into Business Competency “ is to provide an insightful understanding of assessing, developing, and managing organizational capabilities in a structural way. The organization’s competency is based on a set of cohesive capabilities and how fast and effective they can be built upon. The high-mature organizational capability is the digital business differentiator, to keep the business unique, competitive, and innovative, to improve business maturity significantly.

The capability views enable dot connections and help the business identify “actuality, capability, and potentiality,” build Lego-like capabilities into core business competency and improve the success rate of strategy execution and overall business maturity.

    Professional Capability

Refiningprofessionalcapability Today’s information-exponential world is often more dynamic and complex than ever; digital professionals shouldn’t stop learning and growing. But you need to keep building unique professional capabilities. You become what you do, and you improve when you reflect and rectify what you have done. What are important factors in developing professional capability?


Initiativestogrowprofessionalcapabilities We are experiencing a major paradigm shift from a siloed industrial age to the hyperconnected digital era. These changes reshape our thinking and recasting the way we view ourselves, the societal ecosystems of which we are a part of. Global professionals should keep exploring themselves, integrating the existing building blocks or recombining existing capabilities into high-integral capabilities for solving complex problems and making a high impact.

Innerconnectivityofcapability Either individually or at the organizational level, capability is the ability to achieve the desired effect under specified performance, standards, and conditions through combinations of ways and means to perform a set of activities. It’s important to gain an in-depth understanding of what capabilities bring core professional advantage and invest accordingly in developing and sustaining valued differentiated business competency.

InnovativeglobalcapabilityWith overwhelming growth of information and frequent disruptions, what matters is capability, dynamism and organizational maturity. There is intense learning and knowledge update for professionals and enterprises; there are different levels of capability management via a healthy cycle of "development, enhancement, and maturity."

Initiatives The pervasive information growth and frequent disruptions means change is the norm and happens the whole time. The speed of change is accelerating. Either individually or from an organizational perspective, managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, Change Management turns out to be a strategic ongoing capability in today’s business dynamics.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #11600th 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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Illumination

Isn't it a tough journey to explore the world, and pursue the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, motivating, and 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 on 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.

Risk Intelligence Traditional risk management often focuses on identifying and mitigating existing or past risks. Risk intelligence takes a more forward-looking, proactive approach. This proactive approach allows organizations to do sufficient analysis, monitor and communicate potential risks and take preventative measures, reducing the likelihood or impact of those risks, grasp opportunities from risk management, to not only improve the bottom line of the business but also lead the next level of organizational growth and maturity

Increaseriskfluency We live in a world with a mix of physical and virtual reality, order and chao, opportunity and risk, fear and favor, etc. Risk is part of reality in running business today, however, most of today’s risk management is reserved for huge and costly endeavors.

Intelligence and Influence The digital era upon us is about information abundance and pervasive intelligence. Our intelligence with regard to any given type of information is a function of our mental capacity to refine information, recognize and interpret patterns, and our consequent ability to use the perceived information for making sound judgments or taking logical actions.

InitiativesofRI In business, every day is a risk; there are different types of risks; there are diverse viewpoints and different emphases about risks. Solid risk management enables the accumulation of abundant information and enough resources to thrive by capturing opportunities in it and adapting to uncertainty and changes.

Illustraterisks Business ecosystem is dynamic with rapid change and constant disruptions, and risk management has become one of the significant management disciplines to address the changing environment and “VUCA” reality effectively.

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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Illumination

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

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 11,500+ 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.


In Pursuit of Truth Advanced knowledge and profound insight are important elements in developing advanced mindsets and capabilities. An independent thinker with high intelligence can observe more comprehensively and think more profoundly. Independent thinking is a “mindful” ingredient of confidence and a fresh element of intelligence.

Inclusiveness With the world becoming hyper-diverse, problem-solving also turns out to be more complex. We are stronger through appreciating diversity and advocating inclusions. The organization would like to embark upon the road of total inclusion as that appears to be the only way to move forward. There are plenty more questions one can ask to illustrate the importance of inclusion and there are numerous quotes worldwide to convey the importance of inclusion.

Inspiration via Knowledge & Understanding In the fast-paced digital society with abundant knowledge, learning is a constant process. The professional workforce today needs to become self-driven, demonstrate the attitude to keep learning; learn fast and smart. How effective professional learning is depends on the information it absorbs, the insight being abstracted, and the capabilities being developed.

Insight of Critical Thinking Worldwide People, organizations, and human society are complex, the essence of critical thinking is careful deliberation, examination, and testing of assumptions, and consideration of opposing views. Critical thinking is the logical reasoning skills to figure out issues underneath the surface, also be open-minded to considering alternative perspectives, integrate new or revised perspectives into better ways of thinking and acting

Influence via Versatility In modern society, many industries and professions face difficulty in reinventing themselves. Organizations become more complex, and running a business is also more challenging, with heavy workloads, multifaceted tasks, and fierce competition. Professional capability is crucial for people to get the work well done, not only for surviving but thriving in the interdependent global society.

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 take 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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Illumination

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

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 11,500+ 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.

• Philosophical Perspectives  Philosophy is the abstract theories and condensed version of collective wisdom. From one generation to the next, people make changes deliberately. By taking a philosophical lens, they can discover who they are and their intention - the “big why” behind the scenes. Philosophy is always important to better understand evolution and harness its power to serve human purposes.

• Insight of AnthropologyThe world has become much more complex and smaller all at once. Anthropology can help to discover our place in the world as regards culture, world of difference, style of life, mythology, and the common points among societies, All those complex things have multiple layers, an anthropological mind helps us look at things from a multiplicity.

• Refining The art of leading radical change is to connect the old and new, to embrace the full spectrum of colors, all sorts of shapes & sizes; and ultimately make a leapfrog transformation. Creativity in the corporate world has a lot to do with fostering a creative environment to disrupt outdated mindsets, systems, processes, cultures, business models, or practices. To awaken the positive energy of radical changes, people need to be encouraged to express different thoughts, share fresh ideas, become more proactively driving changes, take risks, and bring value to the success of their organization and our societies.

• Risk as part of realityThe “VUCA” reality brings both an abundance of growth opportunities and a flood of high-potential risks. It’s understandable if you make mistakes or fail to reach certain expectations once in a while due to continuous fast-paced changes. Risk is part of reality, the point is how you can leverage critical thinking to identify them timely, how to manage them structurally, or how to prevent them wisely. If failure is part of success, how can you fail fast, fail forward?

• Rootcsuse Change is the new normal; business disruptions are inevitable; risks and opportunities co-exist. There are often multiple and inter-related dynamics behind complex problems and it’s critical to leverage effective tools, methodologies, or practices to frame the right problems, analyze cause-effect, discover crucial factors of problem-solving, and improve overall organizational risk intelligence. 

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 take 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

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

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 11,500+ 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 on 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.

Initiatives We live in a diverse and dynamic global society with a multigenerational, multi-device workforce, multipolar knowledge centers, multi-cultural wisdom, and multifaceted innovation, etc. The journey of globalization is more evolutionary than revolutionary; curvature than the straight line. It is critical to strike the right balance, think big and small; understand both narrow and wide, assess both low and high; put a stronger emphasis on empowering people, refining information & knowledge; and catalyzing innovation, to reach the next level of business maturity.

Initiatives The pervasive information growth and frequent disruptions mean change is the norm and happens the whole time. The speed of change is accelerating. Either individually or from an organizational perspective, managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, Change Management turns out to be a strategic ongoing capability in today’s business dynamics.

Initiatives We live in a dynamic environment with information exponentiality, rapid change, and unprecedented uncertainty & ambiguity. If business vision is more art than science, then realizing it is more science than art. There is an alignment between strategic goals and business initiatives management, and there is a road mapping from vision to implementation with the logical scenario.

Initiatives Any initiative should have a business objective associated with it. The management needs to check how the business initiative differentiates the organization from its major competitors. There are strategic initiatives and tactical initiatives; functional initiatives and cross-boundary initiatives, local initiatives or global initiatives; quick win or long-term focused initiatives, identifying what generates the most value for the company and expressing that in strategic objectives helps managers keep their eyes on what matters: Can the business initiative differentiates the organization from its competitors? Are they competing for the best quality, cost advantage, or efficient value chain? Are the initiatives able to improve employee/customer loyalty and enhance organizational reputation?

Initiatives The digital world is moving into a hyper-connected and interdependent relationship under the “VUCA” business new normal. There are functional initiatives and cross-functional initiatives, quick win or long run focused initiatives, identifying what generates the most value for the organization and expressing that in strategic objectives helps managers keep their eyes on what matters, align resources and talent smoothly, and improve business agility and competency.

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Reinventglobalsociety

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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. 

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Reinventglobalsociety We co-share this beautiful planet with billions of people; global vision has broadened perspectives, global wisdom has enriched context, global value is multifaceted; global culture has deep historical roots. So constant knowledge refinement and continuous re-imagination of a global society is crucial to expedite collective progress and drive changes for advancing humanity.

Innovativeglobalists The global working environment is diverse, dynamic, energetic, and innovative; it's a strategic imperative to frame the global mind to see the ever-changing world via the multi-dimensional lenses. Forethoughtful leaders and professionals broaden their view of global society, learn expanded world knowledge, deepen understanding of global issues, and become insightful globalists with abilities to work as part of an interactive, collaborative team as well as think independently, to generate value and make differences.

InnovativeGlobalist When looking at the global economy with an innovative tone and creative people around the world, it’s important to develop an effective agenda that explores enriched worldwide knowledge, appreciates diverse global resources, cultural differences, and collective wisdom. Unleashing global potential requires us to be willing to listen to diverse viewpoints, broaden the perspective to fix misperceptions, break down outdated knowledge, old traditions, and take initiatives to advocate inclusiveness, lead progression at the global scope.

Initiativesofglobe All human beings are more similar than different. It is possible to set the common global principles to break down silos and bridge the difference. Global organizations give people the voices, tools and experiences of how to communicate, initiate continuous dialogues across the world effectively even if they perhaps speak diverse languages, with the goal to build trust across boundaries, harness changes and take co-responsibilities to solve problems smoothly.

Initiatenavigationofglobalization 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.

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 Initiatives

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

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 11,500+ 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 on 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.

• Initiatives  We live in a diverse and dynamic global society with a multigenerational, multi-device workforce, multipolar knowledge centers, multi-cultural wisdom, and multifaceted innovation, etc. The journey of globalization is more evolutionary than revolutionary; curvature than the straight line. It is critical to strike the right balance, think big and small; understand both narrow and wide, assess both low and high; put a stronger emphasis on empowering people, refining information & knowledge; and catalyzing innovation, to reach the next level of business maturity.

• Initiatives The pervasive information growth and frequent disruptions mean change is the norm and happens the whole time. The speed of change is accelerating. Either individually or from an organizational perspective, managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, Change Management turns out to be a strategic ongoing capability in today’s business dynamics.

• Innovation Innovation is the most needed change, it is the core activity of human evolution to change the environment for making collective progress. The highly intensive changes do not happen in isolation from each other in predictable ways, but act as a complex system discipline, amplifying and ameliorating change effects and creating synergy. 

• Initiatives Business is nowadays complex, to manage business initiatives successfully, logical scenarios and different information are needed to achieve high performance. The more stakeholders can impact a business initiative seriously, the better chance the change will exceed the business expectations. 

• Initiatives Organizations today are inundated with the sea of information, overloaded with operation and short-term business concerns; and overwhelmed with too many initiatives. Organizations have a variety of stakeholders, behind many critical business initiatives, there are numerous points of view and reference points. 

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The Journey for Visiting Europe

From the West to the East hemisphere, we co-share this beautiful planet. As humans, we are more the same than different. 

In mid-January, I wrapped up the 22-city visit tour in Europe, and took a flight across the Pacific Ocean, heading to Tokyo Japan. 

This winter I have had a fulfilling journey visiting twenty-two cities across Europe;  most of the time took various public transport tools: airplanes, trains, or buses to visit many cities with deep anthropological roots and cultural enrichment

I went to Frankfurt to participate in one of the biggest book fairs in the world, also went to Berlin, Munich, and Heidelberg Germany, visiting their famous architectural landmarks, science, art, and history museums; walking through the trendy streets; enjoying the botanical gardens and tasting their local bakery and food. I hope I can follow our common ancestors, take the philosophical path, and gain global insight. 

After that, I flew to London England,  impressed by its metropolitan global city atmosphere and enriched cultural vibes. I also visited Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Salisbury etc. I gained knowledge about those ivy towns and visited respectful author Jane Austen’s hometown. I visited college campuses; went to varying parks; passed through different river banks; walked across churches, city halls, big streets, or small alleys up and down, and explored the quintessential of historic heritage or local legendary stories.

Then, I visited Paris and nearby towns, the grandeur museums squares and fashionable streets, ruly attract numerous tourists to come every year. The enriched art and big city surroundings brought us some clues about the European style of culture and human evolution pathway.

I also visited Switzerland which is famous for its snowy mountains. But I went to the urban cities of Geneva and Zurich; enjoying Swan Lake and the peaceful charm of Geneva. Unbelievably, swans are my companion on Thanksgiving day. I also went to the commercial hub Zurich on a black Friday rainy day, passing through their mother river Zurich, and enjoyed the holiday theme in the city. 

I visited a few famous cities in Italy with natural beauty and human creativity: Milan’s Galleria, Venice's water buses and river scenes, Rome’s architectural buildings; Bolzano snow mountain scenery, etc all of which drew great pictures of their nation. 

I spent a few days in Brussels, Belgium.  It was full of holiday fairy tale themes with Christmas markets and ornaments, fictional figures, and giant castles. It was so amazing that I met lovely swans again in England and I saw quite a few beautiful swan lakes in London recently, making my Christmas holiday cheerful. 

 It’s time to say goodbye. I took European airlines and stopped over in Helsinki, Finland which claimed itself as the happiest nation in the world. I bought the boxes of chocolate as gifts and will visit here again in the future. 

I landed in Tokyo safely with a smooth overnight trip. From West to East hemisphere, we co-

share this beautiful planet. As humans, we are more the same than different. I will go back and forth between East and West frequently. I hope I can visit all continents soon. As a passenger, I appreciate global strangers' help.  As a globalist, I’ll continue my journey to explore the unknown and bridge the world of differences.

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Global Trip Summary

Learn to be a global citizen, appreciate the world of differences.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 11,500+ 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.

London Bridges Returning back to London after the nine city Europe trip, I would like to live like a Londoner. With a convenient transportation card. I can take subways or buses accordingly. But I always prefer to walk around, getting familiar with London and discovering the fresh spots, hidden gems interactively. I enjoy standing on the bridges and overseeing the city landscapes. I appreciate the function of bridges to connect the city or the world.

Brussels -the Capital City of Belgium, with Christmas Fairy Tales Theme My train pass was almost expired, so I decided to take the train from Munich to Brussels Belgium. Brussels is Belgium’s capital and home to the European Union headquarters. However, there is no direct train. I have to transfer to Frankfurt, where I visited for the book fair in mid-October.

Up to the Summit of the Eiffel Tower Standing firmly under- strong wind, heavy rain, she is not shaky; holding up- thousands of people inside, she is not fragile; shining up with- holiday light, she is not cold; she is - elegant, firm, magnificent Paris landmark.

Journey to Munich – A Contemporary City covered by Snow Reluctantly, the train from Bolzano to Munich would be on schedule at noon. But after the train was leaving the station, the staff notified the passengers that the train would be stopped in Eastwood- the other small town in Italy. Then there is the long distance bus we need to take to get to Munich. That perhaps takes another three hours. Goodness, that would be around 6pm in the dark as the day becomes very short in winter.

Go Rome, as Romans do We all know this old saying. Unbelievably, I went to Rome in late November for a couple days, explored this historically glorious grand city, and practiced what this proverb told us. I bought 3-day transportation tickets to explore Rome, experience the breadth and depth of Italy’s capital city.

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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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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Illumination

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

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.

• Innovatepublishing All organizations and industries should reinvent themselves for harnessing innovation, renewing fresh energy, integrating old and new, and lead changes we all would like to see.Last week, I participated in a global book exhibition event in one of the culture-enriching cities of the world. Our society is now moving to the digital era of hyper-connectivity, interdependence with fierce competition. The audience of this fair is very diversified, and the agenda of the exhibition focuses on digitalization, globalization and innovation.

• Innovate Personalized Society We are at the intersection of the knowledge economy and the creative economy. Digital transformation we face means hyper-connectivity, interdependence, and information integration. Human society is at a turning point, and further evolution requires us to first change our thinking and extend it to step-wise actions.

• Innovationvalley We are slowly but steadily moving from the age of industrialization to the age of insight-based personalization with the digital-rich innovation hubs. Knowledge is narrower and more specific, while wisdom is more extensive and abstract. Wisdom comes from life experience or the result of knowledge transcendence. Knowledge helps you figure out the “how” – practice. Wisdom guides you to pursue “why”—principles. 

• Initiatescenariologic We have a predisposition to seeking patterns, or potentially in the pursuit of logic. Logic is crucial, it is an interdisciplinary approach which involves cognitive science, sociology, culturology, psychology, philosophy, ecology, etc, to predict and prevent certain critical problems from happening. Even though you couldn’t predict anything beforehand, you can always imagine different scenarios based on “lessons learned” with many experiences involved in current or in the past. Strategic scenario planning is to navigate through the digital dynamic, discover the path via unconventional thinking, believing in yourself and most importantly, in your team to achieve the high performing results. 

• InnovationBreakthrough Conclusion: Build Breakthrough Innovation Competency  With the increasing pace of changes and cutting-throat competitions, nowadays innovation can occur anywhere in the organization, and frankly, it has to occur in every aspect of the organization. To effectively respond to the digital dynamics, companies across vertical sectors must begin thinking about ways to build innovation competency, and broaden their ecosystems and revenue streams. 

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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Illumination

Isn't a tough journey to- celebrate #11,300 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 11,300+ 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.

Initiatives Organizational management is both science and art. The traditional linear management practices working in the considerably static industrial organizations are simply not sufficient to manage the "VUCA" new normal.

InitiativesThe global environment is dynamic and uncertain, the pace of change is increasing, Global citizens are experiencing the same world but perhaps perceive it subjectively. For the past couple of days, I have been staying in a great global metropolitan city in which I have had an amazing people-centric experience. I enjoy the excellent mix of natural beauty and societal advancement, the ocean's openness and the city's charming; and most importantly, people treat each other so friendly, offer help to strangers warm-heartedly. The pacific ocean broadens my mindset. The local residents impress me and embrace me friendly, make me strong and full of appreciation. Great global places and citizens cure us spiritually, make us feel energetic in the face of frustration, doesn't it?

Initiativeformulas Change is increasing its pace; organizations need to awaken their information-based consciousness, start thinking about ways to improve, and innovate. Understanding the ecosystem dynamics, working to influence multifaceted business management takes attention and energy.

Innatequality Quality is everyone’s business; touch every important perspective of the business. Business management systems and processes need to be dynamic, iterative, integral, and interactive to make the timely adjustment for improving the quality of management. Quality management should focus not only on the quality of products and services but also how to achieve the overall business effectiveness, efficiency, agility, resilience, and maturity.

Innateprofundity Information is permeating into every corner of the organization, and emerging technology makes a profound impact on organizational design and reinvention. Being profound means objective perception, empathetic communication, emotional excellence.

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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Quality is all about what people think and do the right thing right to increase reliability, manageability, operability, reusability, etc.

Digital organizations arise when the scale of the interrelations, interactions, or inter-relational interactions surpasses the silo-based organizational capacity. Quality management ensures that in an organization, products or services are consistent to meet customers’ satisfaction. Digital Quality management needs to take an overarching approach with multidisciplinary practices. Quality is everyone’s business.

This book “Quality Master: The World Class Insight about Quality” is not about discussing specific quality standards or techniques well adopted in different industries, but for sharing some insight on how to understand the multitude of quality attributes from different perspectives, recognize quality champions to inspire quality culture, set digital principles and develop the best and next digital quality management practices.

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Innatequality Quality is everyone’s business; touch every important perspective of the business. Business management systems and processes need to be dynamic, iterative, integral, and interactive to make the timely adjustment for improving the quality of management.

Initiativesofquality The very characteristics of organization today are openness, fluidity, agility, design fluency innovation, high quality, etc. Quality is embedded in everything we think, act, and influence surrounding. Everyone in the organization has some role in quality management; monitor quality and take corrective measures when necessary and possible. Quality management is basically the fundamental purpose of meeting or exceeding customers’ expectations or fulfilling employee satisfaction, and improving corporate reputation.

Initiatives Due to the digital nature of hyperconnectivity and interdependence, software applications will become more interrelated as we move to a world of systems-of-systems in which constraints govern how and what we develop. The ultimate goal of software app development is business problem-solving for either delighting customers or engaging employees to generate business value ultimately.

Illustratequality People are always the weakest link in organizations; a degree of quality is in everything people do and experience. Quality is everyone’s business; touch all important perspectives of the business. Quality management should focus not only on the quality of products and services but also the quality of people, process, structure to achieve the high level of business maturity.

Initiatives Digital organizations are hyper-connected and interdependent, business leaders today must be able to foster a workplace that thrives on cross-functional communication, collaboration, and social interaction in building business competency. The true value of people, especially today’s knowledge workforce, includes many tangible and intangible factors; it’s important to build a differentiated set of workforce competency via knowledge management, innovation, and quality improvement, and improve business agility, and maturity.

Quality is about doing the right things right the first time. High-quality enterprise consists of high-quality people, products, or services; business capabilities and processes, etc. To effectively lead the organization to reach the next level of business maturity, it’s important to shape quality as the mindset and quality as the management discipline.

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