Illustrate”fitvsmisfit”

Fitting mind is -confident to be different; fitting attitude is -humble to -be learning agile; fitting act is to-be accountable, responsible, scalable, bold and cautious, at the same time…

In the world of -

hyper-diversity,

fit or misfit is-

truly contextual;

we are -

all unique individual,

Isn’t each one of us-

‘‘fit or misfit,”

in some way,

or the other, 

via different angles,

accordingly?

The world has-

too many stereotypes,

“fit” doesn't mean -

each one of us has -

the same thought process,

the same personalities,

the same preferences,

the same experiences…

Doesn’t our world need-

more rebels, innovators to-

see things differently,

think differently,

do things differently,

rejuvenate fresh energy,

creatively.

Fitting mind is -

confident to be different;

fitting attitude is -

humble to -

be learning agile;

fitting act is to-

be accountable, responsible, scalable,

bold and cautious,

at the same time;

Isn’t “Fit or misfit”-

situational?

Shall we-

celebrate,

be proud of-

who we are,

authentically;

if only we can keep-

growing, improving,

influencing the world,

progressively.

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Initiatives

To reach the high level of digital business maturity, an organization of today or the future needs to take initiatives to create the new paradigm shift, be run in a digital way to unleash their full potential.

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. 

How the business initiative develops compelling business cases in today’s business reality, can business leaders work against all odds, deal with lots of resistance or change inertia, continue making appropriate adjustments to build a strong business initiatives portfolio for achieving high performance results with quality and consistency?

Innovation initiatives: Digital is the age of innovation, innovations often happen at the intersection of people and technology; business and customers. Organizational management can take initiatives to discover more hotspots of innovation. Instead of being rigidly grouped around a specific function or organization, innovation initiatives usually are cross-functional efforts, especially the large-scale innovations that require mass collaboration across the business system. Statistically, innovation management has a very low success rate. The management needs to check the very purpose behind initiatives, as well as the effectiveness of methodology and practices by asking: how the innovation initiative differentiates the organization from its major competitors? Can their processes do what they promise? Innovation shouldn’t be serendipitous, focusing on customers' needs should be an easier path to seed and grow the innovation fruit.

In many cases, innovation in today’s digital world has become increasingly complex in nature, it’s usually a collaborative effort that takes seamless people, process, and technology alignment. Without a clear vision, leaders often miss the big picture and become complacent or comfortable with the status quo. Only initiatives that support the achievement of clearly-defined objectives should be implemented. For the large scale of business initiatives, it’s important to establish a cross-functional team to involve multifaceted management, space and time are made to scope, plan, and execute in a structural way, and improve innovation initiative success rate. Sometimes, when one business area has a new product that can be used by another, business leaders can connect the dots to come up with new innovative solutions. The science of innovation is to manage innovation life cycle and execute in a systematic manner that provides sustained competitive advantages.

Information initiatives: Information is the most invaluable business asset. The power of information is to empower the business with real-time insight across the organization in ways never possible before. In a business scope, there are some of the important bits and bytes of information needed to forecast emerging trends, the business growth opportunities that need to be captured, or the risks that should be prevented timely. However, there are all the bells, hype and whistles for information management initiatives. It doesn’t mean every business must pour huge amounts of resources into information initiatives. Without planning and prioritizing well, information analytics initiatives might fall by the wayside because they are not perceived to have an impact on the business as a whole.

It is perhaps the time for reassessing the way data analytics works to respect and accommodate the data-driven approach. Organizations are looking at new initiatives to increase revenue growth and improve efficiency. To predict and respond to the emergent business properties and make data more “visible” for shareholders, linking information initiatives management to multiple business domains within the enterprise and their business partners for improving business effectiveness and efficiency. The management needs to assess the information initiatives effort through asking: Do you have reports from different sources that don't match? Do you waste time running multiple apps or business processes that have substantially the same data domain but different data repositories? Do you have to combine this data somehow to get meaningful reports? Etc. In practice, real-time Information Management involves the use of technologies and processes of capturing, developing, sharing, and effectively using organizational information timely, with the aim of optimizing the business value that is generated.

Initiatives with ecosystem impact: Recognize and prioritize initiatives that take a comprehensive, anticipatory, and design approach to radically advance human well-being and the health of business ecosystems: Organizations need to take great opportunities for solving crucial problems by assigning their resources and time carefully and solving problems that really matter coherently. Great business initiatives should be viewed as an "opportunity" for solving the most crucial problems or the chains of problems effectively. It’s important to highlight the value of having a good understanding of current and future capabilities, develop and improve the overall organizational competency, link the power of inclusion to key business initiatives and team effectiveness.

A formal business requirements initiative performing enterprise mission and stakeholder needs in-depth analysis. To manage a balanced business initiatives portfolio, a formal business requirement initiatives checklist includes such as enterprise mission and stakeholder needs analysis, enterprise system requirement development and management, talent, skillset, business capability requirement, etc.The tough choices always need to be made - when should you reap the quick win, when shall you focus on long-term growth. Enterprise success is dependent upon few core and differentiating business capabilities.

All business initiatives should achieve some business result directly or indirectly. The bulk of information, methods, and approaches involved as well as the complexity of processes encountered speaks in favor of the scientific approach for business initiative management. To reach the high level of digital business maturity, an organization of today or the future needs to take initiatives to create the new paradigm shift, be run in a digital way to unleash their full potential.

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Illumination

Isn't it a tough journey to write 9900 blog postings - to pursue the digital way of brainstorming, innovating and story-telling?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 9900+ 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 To Innovation Implementation As businesses get more cut-throat in the hyper-connected digital environment, innovation has to become a differentiated business capability of the organization, allowing the business to delight customers, create unique values, win the competition and stay ahead of the game.

Initiatelogicalunderstanding Business world becomes over-complex and hyper-connected, logic enables us to uncover patterns and understand the cause-effect and interconnectivity of related issues underneath the surface. The digital leaders and professionals today need to be in a continuous learning mode, develop strong logic skills, to infer and defer, preliminarily understand the extent of any problems or conditions, grasp truths, facts, meanings, or relationships in order to handle varying complex issues effectively.

Innovativegloballeadership The world is diverse, nonlinear, and ambiguous today, the multifaceted perspectives unfold into a broader iterative growth & balance continuum. Interdisciplinary logic has both artistic sentiment and scientific discipline to identify crucial issues, clarify cause-effect when evaluating activities for changes, especially at the global scope.

Initiativesofvaluegeneration Generating value is the very goal of all meaningful human activities. Value plays a bigger role in determining which task needs to be addressed first by setting the right priority, creating a business justification case, and fitting organizational purpose.

Initiativesofnnovativeleadership The ever-changing business dynamic brings significant opportunities and responsibilities for the new breed of worldwide organizations to reinvent themselves. Digital leaders today can harness innovation by continuing inspiring, interacting, interpreting, exemplifying, orchestrating collective human progress. They can practice open leadership styles to unlock human potential, awaken possibilities in people to deliver extraordinary results with consistency.

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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Initiativesoforganizationalrestructure

It’s important to create a space for open dialogue and design brainstorming, developing a common understanding of business reinvention effort.

Complexity, uncertainty, disruptive changes, and interdependence are the new normal facing business today. To accelerate change; it’s important to connect the dots across the various management disciplines and glue up all crucial ingredients to manage performance as an iterative continuum. 

Organizational leaders need to lead changes and reinvent the organization from structural design to process tuning, from inside-out operation-driven to outside-in people-centric, in order to harness innovation, build business core competencies and maximize the business value it could bring up.

Organizations need to keep improving their agility and innovativeness by reinventing business structure: Design thinking becomes a mainstream digital mindset which is applied in strategy management, process/structure management, change management, and talent management. From an organizational reinvention perspective, the structure carries inherent capabilities as to what can be achieved within its frame. A misaligned structure might stifle changes. Digital organization needs to be holistic, proactive, and people-centric, to pursue long-term business goals with strategic perspectives.

Organization structure and its impact on efficiency could play either positive or negative impact on business culture and effectiveness. To streamline information flow and raise business speed, functional borders are blurred and silo thinking is gradually broken down. Companies need to have an in-depth understanding of the gains and pains of organizational design and development, practice the art and discipline of designing an enterprise structurally.

It is about tuning the hybrid organizational structure that blends structured and unstructured processes to run with faster speeds: When the enterprise is at risk of being defeated by smaller, nimbler, agiler competitors, then the business management with silo mentality understands it is in their own benefit to collaborate and build the “horizontal” organizational interdependencies to achieve better time to market for business exploring and expanding, to accelerate the speed and achieve high-performance business results.

Traditional hierarchical lines will phase out and a collective of business partners will emerge working collaboratively to set and achieve organizational goals as well as strategy. Adding social interactions in the business processes will make them unstructured and unpredictable. The social process management should handle such hybrid processes effectively, harness change, enforce sentimental analytical intelligence, and improve people centricity.

Integrate organizational design into the process design and organizational re-engineering, to enable employees doing their work more productively: The digital workplace needs to be designed to help employees at all levels within an organization, from top leaders to front-line employees, understand and develop their creative capacity to solve problems and exploit opportunities innovatively. New generations of digital technologies such as a social platform or other collaboration tools are enabling the flexible enterprise in which over-rigid hierarchy is broken down and people are encouraged to think, work innovatively and collaboratively.

The key driving factors of any business transformation include, but not limited to organizational re-engineering practices such as business process tuning, capacity development, cost optimization, leadership development, organizational culture reinvention, etc. It’s always important to explore a successful structure that helps to empower people, enforce iterative communication, and harness cross-functional collaboration to deliver better business results and unleash the full digital potential of the organization consistently.

We are at the intersection of the knowledge economy and innovation economy. Transformation is a radical change. It’s about the company or the society that reinvented itself. It’s important to create a space for open dialogue and design brainstorming, developing a common understanding of business reinvention effort, creating the necessity and motivation for it, as well as getting the management buy-in to improve organizational agility and maturity.

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Initiativeofleadership

Leadership is about the future and direction; it is the capacity to influence others through vision birthed by a conviction of a sense of purpose.

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

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

   Initiatives of Leadership

Initiativesofnnovativeleadership The ever-changing business dynamic brings significant opportunities and responsibilities for the new breed of worldwide organizations to reinvent themselves. Digital leaders today can harness innovation by continuing inspiring, interacting, interpreting, exemplifying, orchestrating collective human progress. They can practice open leadership styles to unlock human potential, awaken possibilities in people to deliver extraordinary results with consistency.

Innovativegloballeadership The world is diverse, nonlinear, and ambiguous today, the multifaceted perspectives unfold into a broader iterative growth & balance continuum. Interdisciplinary logic has both artistic sentiment and scientific discipline to identify crucial issues, clarify cause-effect when evaluating activities for changes, especially at the global scope.

Innovativebods Nowadays, the organizations are always on, interdependent, and hyper-connected, the corporate board's role is to pull management out of the trees to see the forest. An insightful corporate board gives the optimum experience and sound advice/ judgment to the senior executive teams of the company for improving decision coherence, management robustness and problem-solving effectiveness.

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

Initiativesofbod Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and velocity of the digital era, the directorship in any organization becomes more critical and challenging. Contemporary corporate boards have many responsibilities, and also get a lot of distractions.

The “Future of CIO” blog has reached million page views with about 9900+ 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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Ignore

Regardless of -who you are, where you go, do not ignore -big picture; fresh insight, significant details, talent, potential...

Past is behind us-

many ignore it,

some repeat it;

but the wise learn -

from it.


Lack of objectivity is caused by -

the narrow lens;

see the tree,

but miss the forest;

know the part,

but ignore the whole;

take a snapshot,

but ignore the dynamic.


Change comes to us,

so fast, nowadays;

information is-growing,

overwhelmingly,

If you have to ignore,

ignore trivial little things,

but focus on-

big picture,

consideringly


Knowledge is -

outdated sooner than -

what you thought about;

if you need to ignore,

ignore -

conventional wisdom:

as outdated perception is-

like time glue,

keeps you still,

while the rest of the world,

perhaps move forward,

promptly.


In face of complex reality,

with fierce competitions,

people need to -

learn, grow constantly;

if you have to ignore,

ignore negative criticisms,

but embrace-

constructive feedback,

invaluable viewpoint,

stay focus,

to produce, improve, innovate,

proactively.


People ignore-

the problems around them because-

they can't figure out -

the exact cause- effect,

so the solutions are -

vague, variable, unknown.

until the underlying problem is -

addressed,

symptom continue to return,

inevitably.

People ignore the problems because-

they are so complex,

with more issues behind it,

there are chains of problems,

make them feel intimidating…


Regardless of -

who you are,

where you go,

do not ignore -

big picture;

fresh insight,

significant details,

talent, potential…

can you discover -

something others ignore,

solve problems,

others ignore;

discover hidden patterns,

show a willingness to -

forge ahead,

in spite of a risk of failure,

cautiously;

take a unique path to -

explore-

“the art of possible”

optimistically?

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Initiategrowth

Build your talent so that they have the growth mind to deliver business results effectively and efficiently in an ethical manner while exhibiting the vision and guts required to lead the organization’s next level of growth.

The purpose of “Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit“ is to share insight about multidimensional enterprise fit from digital characteristics, organizational structure, change, knowledge, and talent perspectives; evoke critical and paradoxical thinking about digital “fit vs. misfit,” spark healthy debates on how to define and develop true digital fit, and build a fitting working environment to inspire creativity and accelerate digital transformation.

                    

Initiate Growth

Initiategrowth The digital world is dynamic, nonlinear, uncertain, individuals or organizations are at a different stage of the growth or maturity cycle; ” Without growth, organizations or human society will get stuck economically, sociologically. Each growth phase has a period of evolution and stability. It’s important to build an innovative working environment in which business professionals are encouraged to think independently, grow professionally, communicate & collaborate cross-functionally, share fresh insight, and produce high performance results consistently.

Understanding Fixed vs. Growth Minds In the traditional organizational setting, people are hired to do their job with compliance; and managers are hired to manage projects or people with control. However, businesses large or small are faced with rapid changes and digital dynamics. Such static management practice based on the fixed mindset is no longer sufficient to adapt to the changes or lift business up to the next level. Which shift is needed for smooth digital transformation?

Innateoptimism Optimism is the tendency to believe, expect or hope that things will turn out well. Being optimistic is the view of looking for the best, coming with a “can-do" attitude. An optimistic person is always looking for the best in any situation and expecting good things to happen.

Influential-professionalism Digital workforce is multi-generational, multicultural, and multi-devicing and the digital workplace is diverse and dynamic today. Business professionalism is critical for today’s digital workforce based on simple logic: Unprofessionalism leads to poor judgment and then drives ineffective decisions which will cause the business to become fragile and stagnate.

Innovationingredients Human beings are a combination of intelligence and emotion or in simpler terms altitude, attitude, and aptitude all contribute to building talent competency. Altitude inspires you to focus on the big picture and long term perspective, attitude motivates you to continue learning and making an improvement, and aptitude helps you strengthen your strength.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 7 million page views with about #9900+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. blog posting. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom, to inspire critical thinking and spur healthy debates. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating new ideas; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content takes time for digesting, contemplation and engaging, and therefore, it takes time to attract the "hungry minds" and the "deep souls." It’s the journey to amplify diverse voices and deepen digital footprints, and it's the way to harness your innovative spirit.

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Informationblueocean

 In the information ocean, the next wave is always- pushing over, moving forward, tirelessly; can you learn -human history, forward-look- the future-of-humanity, indefatigably…

Our world today is-

dynamic, complex, volatile,

not always calm,

but full of-

turbulence, unpredictability;

can you dive into -

information blue ocean to-

discover growth opportunities,

explore hidden potential,

adventurally?


Ocean is all about -

changes,

the flows and ebbs,

the turbulence of -

waves;

rising & falling tides;

the tiny drop of water,

keep flowing,

restlessly…


Isn’t information-abundant business -

like the blue ocean,

the shape, size,

volume, color of -

digital waves keep evolving.

like many rivers merged into-

the deep sea,

spontaneously.

Can you broaden -

the horizon,

recognize patterns,

catch the rising waves,

create the momentum to change,

inspirationally?


In the information ocean,

the next wave is always-

pushing over,

moving forward,

tirelessly;

can you learn -

human history,

forward-look-

the future of-

humanity,

indefatigably…

Shall you become-

more tolerant;

appreciate the difference,

inclusively?

fine-tune-

the dynamic ecosystem,

effortlessly?

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Initiateinterdisciplinaryview

Leadership competency is based on their wider, and deeper thinking box, to shape multidimensional views and enable them to develop a far-sighted vision to lead forward step-wisely.

With the rapid growth of information, change is continuously happening and spiraling up in such a dynamic environment. Whether we can set a progressive tone to make a transition from survival to thriving depends on how we make the mind shift to behavior shift. 

If we all stayed in a box and didn't believe things exist outside of the box, there's no room to broaden our thoughts and no progress can be made significantly. It's important to challenge conventional wisdom and eliminate pre-conceptual assumptions or unconscious bias. By shaping multidimensional views to understand issues profoundly, the contemporary leaders or professionals can inspire, innovate, improve, interact, interpret, innovate, and orchestrate business transformation smoothly. 

Abstract view: Organizations are inundated with information and endless daily tasks, senior leaders should be forward-looking and goal driven, shape a strategic views to “keep the end” in mind, laser focus on the most critical issues that need to be handled smoothly. The art of abstraction is to unify the common understanding of issues. See bigger picture, how to create a blueprint abstract view and future state of business, which will provide a competitive advantage for the business in the long run.

Strategy is often the guide and roadmap to navigate us toward the right direction, making decisions towards achieving defined outcomes as a purposive activity. The opposite of strategic thinking is close mindedness, isolation, or lack of insight. Strategic thinking is specified as being conceptual, directional, systems-oriented,  linking the future with the past and opportunistic. So a strategic business leader can envision the future, create or grasp new opportunities, identify risks, and strike the delicate balance of long term perspective and short term concerns in the dynamics of the business enterprise for leading the business forward step-wisely.

Underneath view: Growth starts from sowing the seed. it's what's under the ground that creates and nurtures what's above the ground. It's what's invisible that shapes what's visible. If you want to change the plant, you will first have to change the roots. Critical Thinking is a crucial thought process to see underneath the symptoms and dig into root causes and see around corners to identify real issues. Creative thinking can be stimulated by looking at things from different angles or connecting unusual dots across domains to search for unseen patterns. The more complex the situation is, the more important it is to apply multidimensional thought processes to see underneath the symptoms and dig into root causes of the problems.

The business and human world become more complex and diverse, it’s always critical to gain sufficient knowledge and unique insight to observe deeper and see around the corner, have an in-depth understanding of cause and effect based on the identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario, see around the corner, and transcend the interdisciplinary knowledge to deal with existing or emerging issues smoothly.

Holistic view: Business ecosystem is dynamic and interdependent; in such an interconnected and hyper-complex world, we need to see both “the trees” and “the forest.” We must be able to resolve the problem of complexity via both breaking down into branch alternatives, but also expand into the ecosystem. A holistic perspective can fix the misperception by exploring multiple thought processes; willing to listen to the diverse viewpoint, seeing the ‘big picture’ and take a more holistic view of the business as a system to make sure that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

In terms of a holistic viewpoint, one does often need to integrate different stereotyped or mechanistic viewpoints, break down silo and conventional understanding; perceive the emerging trends, set the right priority, use resources scientifically, to handle the most critical problems effectively. Holistic view and understanding is important in complex situations where it is impossible to predict the behavior of the whole from the behavior of the parts in the linear way; and where the interrelationships between component parts are more important than the parts themselves.

The digital era upon us is about abundant information and constant disruptions. There are both known unknown and unknown unknown. Change doesn't happen overnight, but neither did the current situation. While there is always some remaining uncertainty and emerging properties. We can't control anything beforehand, let knowledge flow naturally; let ideas click spontaneously; let people do things in their own way. Top leaders go beyond a senior title, their leadership competency is based on their wider, and deeper thinking box, to shape multidimensional views and enable them to develop a far-sighted vision to set guidance and lead forward step-wisely.

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Initiativeofunderstanding

The most important capability of the cognitive mind is the willingness and ability to seek out knowledge, gain an in-depth understanding, address our ignorance and assumptions we make to minimize it.

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

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

        Understanding

Initiativetounderstanding Knowledge is attaining facts, information, and skills by an individual gained through experience, education or a combination of both. Knowledge and wisdom have a long history of philosophy and philosophers. From Aristotle to Descartes to Nozick have defended theories of wisdom that require a "wise person" to have knowledge of some sort. However, one must understand before one becomes knowledgeable, what’re the further perspectives of an understanding mind?

understanding Understanding has happened to humans, which is a reflection of the intellect that has evolved. Our mind is a complex system of complex systems and many of them are very difficult to understand and grasp. We shape our thinking and the way we perceive and know things. The most important capability of the cognitive mind is the willingness and ability to seek out knowledge, gain an in-depth understanding, address our ignorance and assumptions we make to minimize it.

Understanding Contemporary organizations and societies are complex and informative; usually lack of the breadth of knowledge or fresh insight is the root cause of poor judgment. The in-depth understanding of either problems you intend to solve or the people you try to get to know have become an important quality for digital leaders and professionals.

Improve Organizational Manageability via Deepening Systems Understanding Digital organizations are the hyper-connected and interdependent complex dynamics of the ecosystem within which the business is competing and with which the business is unavoidably entangled. They could be disrupted by emerging trends or disturbed by nonlinear events.

Initiate Levels of Understanding With today’s digital new normal - velocity, complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity, in-depth understanding of either problem you intend to solve or the people you try to get knowing have become an important quality for digital leaders and professionals. Because often misunderstanding or poor judgment is the root cause to tie the knots in people’s hearts and build the wall in their minds. Lack of understanding leads to “fixing the symptom, not the root cause” syndrome, and could be the very reason on how the “Mighty Fall.” Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom are interrelated terms: Which level of understanding do you have when facing challenges, building relationships, or practicing leadership disciplines?

The “Future of CIO” blog has reached million page views with about 9900+ 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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Initiativesofinnovation

A highly innovative organization can leverage the robust, but not overly rigid processes for idea filtering and implementation, to achieve innovation excellence ultimately.

We are at the intersection of knowledge economy and creative economy, the enterprises today need to become more open and agile for adapting to the changing environment. 

It also needs to build a healthy working environment in which people are inspired to spur fresh ideas; the best of best ideas can be implemented effectively. In fact, right now, innovation is the only light all businesses need to pursue now. If idea creation is more art than science, and then idea implementation is more science than art.

Innovation is the commercialized creativity: Creativity results in ideas but until those ideas are actualized they will remain ideas. That is innovation management. If people are the weakest link in business, Individuals who learn both broadly and deeply, shift gears in their day to day work, can often produce more ideas and have more unusual dot connectivities to spark great ideas. The ideas flowing, and wrapping around with ideas create a beautiful landscape for sparkling innovation.

In a collective setting, people play different personas such as innovation navigators, innovation implementers, innovation assessors, etc, who can apply information-based intelligence to unpuzzle innovation effectively. The nature of how the implementation of the idea has to follow a logical path and scientific discipline by using organizational knowledge timely, with the aim of optimizing the value that is generated tangibly.

One of the real challenges to innovation management is how to accelerate idea validation and streamline innovation processes: Even if you have many innovative ideas, it doesn’t guarantee innovation success due to the limited resources and possible execution gap. Focusing on convergent thinking helps in terms of validating or invalidating an idea and the execution of an idea. You need an idea to be executed; a highly innovative organization can leverage the robust, but not overly rigid processes for idea filtering an implementation.

It is important to use a front-end innovation process between strategy and concept development, experiment, prioritizing and measuring what to invest in to “value” the early ideas and unmet needs. Start-ups tend to be stronger at the ideation phase and getting to proof of concept. Generating ideas is more art; identification of the novel is only the beginning, the heavy lifting starts as a firm aligns resources and executes, it is the science of innovation management.

The nature of how "implementation of the idea has to follow a logical path for the solution": Organizations need to develop a balanced innovation portfolio with both incremental innovation and breakthrough innovation. There are blind spots in innovation strategy formulation and implementation. Because limited hierarchy works best in a creative environment where the free flow of information and their prompt implementation is a key element of success, to generate business value and delight customers.

Innovation statistically has a very low success rate. That means organizations probably wouldn't know where the weakest link in the business innovation is. Logically, transparency in follow-up of a system of the innovation process from the idea up to implementation, enhancing feedback cycle and management discipline, & peer recognition are so important to catalyze innovation. Innovation often evolves the full methodological environment which covers the whole innovation management scenario, from processes in managing ideas or idea handling systems to idea implementation and promotion.

It’s important to keep connecting the wider dots if ever it makes sense and improve innovation effectiveness and maturity. A highly innovative organization can leverage the robust, but not overly rigid processes for idea filtering and implementation, to achieve innovation excellence ultimately.

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Initiatequalityimprovement

 High-quality enterprise consists of high-quality people, high-quality products or services, and high-quality business processes or capabilities, et, to improve organizational effectiveness and maturity.

Quality is about doing certain things, meeting well-set criteria for achieving high performance results. You have to define what you mean by “quality”; then the required quality with all its aspects should be defined and understood by associates for producing desired outcomes.

 Everyone has some role in quality; monitor quality and take corrective measures when necessary and possible.

Quality management ensures that in an organization, product or service is consistent to produce high performance: There are multiple business perspectives of quality management. Quality management needs to take an overarching approach with multidisciplinary practices. From the products/projects management perspective, the quality is a function of scope, budget, and resources. From a talent management perspective, the quality of people is the foundation to provide quality products and services.

High-quality leaders or employees are great in attitude, aptitude, and altitude, and demonstrate intellectual understanding and emotional maturity. Quality employees are the ones who can think & work independently, have excellent problem-solving skills, a "customer focus," present professional competency and bring wisdom to the workplace consistently.

To build quality into the design, it starts with building it into the business processes: The more the processes are viewed holistically and integrated, the greater the quality of the products, systems, or services will be. It takes a holistic discipline to manage quality; remove the obstacles, clearly describe what quality looks like, and practice a set of activities to produce quality results, to make sure organizational systems run according to plans, schedules, cost, and performance standards smoothly.

Quality process means the right level of guidance and discipline, but overly rigid processes or too ‘pushy’ goals will create new bottlenecks and stifle improvement. With continuous process improvements, you can reduce costs and improve business effectiveness and efficiency. The successful business integration and quality management will depend on the underlying business relationships between all of the crucial business touch points and how they influence each other for closing quality gaps.

Quality management is focused not only on product and service quality but also the means to achieve it: Quality is not one specific department's job, it's the digital principle and a management discipline. There’s always debate upon quality's subjectivity and objectivity. Should a quality product or service only conform to its specification to move towards objectivity; or should product/service quality always be some sort of subjectivity?

Quality management uses quality assurance and control of processes as well as products to achieve more consistent quality. Quality leadership is the capacity to understand and utilize the information, and incorporate that information in ways that inform and enlighten the management teams. Further, quality management is the capacity to approach the change of system or process in an optimized way, inspire support to develop and achieve milestones and goals across teams consistently.

Quality Management is basically the fundamental purpose of serving customers and meeting/exceeding their expectations. Quality is defined by a number of factors, and quality management is a multidisciplinary approach. High-quality enterprise consists of high-quality people, high-quality products or services, and high-quality business processes or capabilities, et, to improve organizational effectiveness and maturity.

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As the saying goes, “You can only manage what you measure.”

Corporate Performance Management is a management control from strategy to the shop floor. "If you can't measure, you can't manage," legendary management guru Peter Drucker once asserted. Managing performance means understanding results, setting metrics, fixing plans, and making decisions to ensure it happens. It takes multifaceted approaches from multidimensional perspectives to unlock digital performance and catalyze change.

                           

                        Leading Indicators

Illustrateleadingindicators Organizations across the industrial sector are faced with frequent disruptions and constant changes. In order to not only survive today, but also thrive in the future, one of the most crucial strategic imperatives for them is to identify business strength and develop their collective potential to accelerate future performance. .

Innovation, Improvement, Investment Indicators Performance management is not an isolated management practice, but a holistic discipline to evaluate multidimensional business value. Managing business performance means translating strategy into operational terms, and mapping collective goals to individual tasks, to make the strategy everyone’s everyday job and a continual process.

Leading Indicator vs. Lagging Indicator As Drucker well pointed out: “You can only manage what you're measured.” Benchmarking and measuring are both science and art. There are many practical metrics and KPIs, but not every metric is created equal. The concept of leading and lagging indicators, as applied to the Balanced Scorecard, relies on an understanding of the cause-effect relationships between KPIs in the different perspectives. But what’re the differences between leading indicators vs. lagging indicators?

Improvementindicators Continuous improvement means to continue to discover that "there is always a better way.”Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and the explanatory model chosen. Have always looked at a Lag Measure as the method for measuring the outcome and the Lead Measure as the bet you make. Here are three indicators for measuring improvement.

Innovation Indicator As the saying goes, “You can only manage what you measure.” Digital Organizations are like organic systems that keep evolving. The performance of the total “system” is independent of the performance of any one of the functions and depends more on how the functions relate to each other, the “space” between functions. In fact, the very goal of running a high performance business is to ensure the business as a whole is superior to the sum of pieces.

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Ambiguity is-dissonance between ideas, could it become -“secret sauce” to spur- creativity, inspire new adventures, optimistically?

In a world where-

Information is-

growing exponentially;

change is -

speeding up,

significantly;

we cannot predict-

the future with -

a certain degree of accuracy,

cohesively;

isn’t ambiguity -

the the haziness of reality,

involves -

mixed conditions.

demands an understanding of-

cause-effect confusion,

interdisciplinarily?


The digital world is -

dynamic, nonlinear,

uncertain, volatile,

are you comfortable with-

unpredictability,

conflicting directions,

multiple demands,

can you tolerate -

the right dose of ambiguity,

appreciate different perspectives,

fresh knowledge,

to think, decide,

act, influence,

search for-

alternative ways to-

solve problems,

dynamically?


Ambiguity is-

dissonance between ideas,

could it become -

“secret sauce” to spur-

creativity,

inspire new adventures,

optimistically?


Are you able to -

understand the world,

insightfully;

tackle great challenges with-

grand consequences over -

long time spans.

holistically?

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Interdisciplinarylogic

It's important to take a nonlinear logical approach to analyze, synthesize, make objective perceptions, connect unusual dots, and search for fresh insight.

Given the complexity, interdependence, and uncertainty of the business world, more often than not, lack of knowledge and scarcity of insight lead to ineffectiveness of organizational change. 

Thinking and logical reasoning are not for their own sake, but to discover patterns, enhance learning, build professional competencies, make intellectual influence and drive transformative changes effortlessly.

It involves a multitude of thought processes to do logical reasoning via connection, perception, discernment: Today's digital leaders or professionals must have a humble attitude to admit known unknown and unknown unknown, develop logical reasoning skills for analyzing, look beyond the surface, not just accept things at face value but being active in their thought processes for inferring, deferring, perceiving, discerning, deepening understanding, and making sound judgment.

When you intend to understand, interpret, and judge people or things, you need to form a critical opinion of it based on quality data, objective facts, in-depth understanding, and clarified notions. The most important capability of the cognitive mind is the willingness and ability to seek out fresh knowledge, apply multidimensional thought processes to gain in-depth understanding by addressing ignorance and assumptions, digging underneath the surface. In the team setting, collaborative logic helps to balance out the biases, generate more viable alternatives, resources, criteria, etc, all of which is shown to improve the quality of understanding.

Ask thought-provoking questions, gather adequate information, make extensive observations and investigations to make logical reasoning: In face of exponential growth of information and rapid change, the answer from yesterday is perhaps outdated in today’s circumstances. Asking the right question becomes even more important to facilitate answers. Because initiating open, bold, insightful questions can attract new concepts or fresh ideas, lead transformative change innovatively. In fact, it’s the time to listen, connect, learn, explore, experience commonalities, and appreciate differences, to illustrate the real issues, make inferential logic and take an interdisciplinary approach to understand and deal with complex issues smoothly.

Often in reality, people are constrained by the little box with which they are familiar, get stuck at the level of conventional understanding, explain things based on observation on the surface or linear logic, so it’s no surprise they miss the point of making sound judgment. Insightful leaders and professionals ask the right questions, and open for varying answers .They are able to explore varying situations from different perspectives by asking: What is the problem? Why? Is it the symptoms or the real issues? What seems to be the constraints? Which factors seem most critical; where is the weakest link in handling those situations effectively? To keep informative and inquisitive, always challenge and ensure that the question itself is corrected before answering for making extensive observations and investigation.

Leverage the multidimensional lenses to perceive the multi-facet world via interdisciplinary inference: In dealing with complex issues, we have a predisposition to seeking patterns, or potentially in the pursuit of logic. Listen to the stories from the opposite sides, see things underneath and around the corner, be sensitive to the emerging trends, and apply multidimensional lenses to take a balanced view of complex reality. With open-mindedness and flexibility, two diametrically opposed parties sometimes end up working together on a solution that suits them both.

Logic is crucial, but don’t ignore creativity. “Out of box” problem-solving is not lacking logic, but about how to expand the thinking box to reframe the circumstances or conditions around a problem and apply inferential logic to solve it innovatively. There are transformational concepts that may be seen by a majority as unconventional, but forward thinking leaders appreciate their value, transforming them into innovative ideas and solutions. Humans should all have some humility and recognize the limitations of their expertise and partner with others for interdisciplinary problem-solving.

To deal with varying issues and circumstances with uncertainty, it’s important to take a nonlinear logical approach to analyze, synthesize, make objective perceptions, connect unusual dots, and search for fresh insight. Innovative leaders and professionals today need to leverage multidimensional thought processes, strategic reasoning skills, challenge existing thoughts or standards, seek additional information and experience, and apply interdisciplinary logic to handling varying issues holistically and lead transformative changes structurally..

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