Initiativesofinnovation

The radical innovation creates a chain of innovation, leading to business breakthroughs.

Innovation becomes significantly important in the age with abundant information and advanced technologies. Because knowledge is outdated sooner than what you thought about, frequent disruptions and fierce competitions are part of reality.

Innovative organizations naturally have closer connections between functions and all functions and levels are more intimately involved with the market and each other on a regular basis, business leaders and professionals have to frame a growth mindset, learn to use the new lens of the new era, acquire the new thinking and fresh insight, build differentiated innovation competency.

Always look forward to something different and new, stimulate creative energy, see alternatives: To accelerate business change, businesses need to create an environment that brings together the people from inside and outside the walls of the company in a collaborative way, think differently, think positive, or think beyond your reach, to re-imagining “what is possible.”

Often creative outcomes come from recombining ideas in different ways to create the fresh ideas, formulate unconventional alternatives or solutions to resolve problems, in response to unpredictable or unanticipated circumstances. Creative mentality, proactive attitudes, the blend of knowledge and ingenuity, and the right dose of confidence and risk-taking appetite, etc, are all valid within the context of people’s creative intelligence.

It’s important to understand what it needs to drive future business growth via wise innovation investment: Disruption and stimulation makes sense, taking into consideration because there are not enough innovations happening in their businesses to disrupt obsolete mindsets, systems, processes, cultures, business models, or practices. Organizations gradually stagnate and they do not seem to be satisfied with the current circumstances.

The wise investment of innovation initiatives can be truly helpful to drive business demands such as improving business agility, increasing employee engagement, enforcing collaboration, and harnessing innovation. The objective of innovation investment oversight is to provide visibility of the business innovation initiatives that are supporting the company's strategy; “the various "innovation activities" they perform, and the information that they need, accelerate idea validation from an innovation management perspective, and streamline innovation management processes.

Advanced innovation journey reaches the turning point when you are in the right spot to see the two sides of the coin, and capture multidimensional views via the right angle: Create the space for dialogue and debate about innovation, develop a common understanding of it, and set the right pace for leading innovation journey smoothly. The robust business processes, systems, and tools that enable any entity to generate winning concepts for innovation management on a consistent basis, is the prerequisite for sustaining business advantage and growth.

And rules need to be updated continually because often the outdated rules become the roadblocks to stifle innovation and progress. Innovation is the journey, with a set of principles, processes, and practices. Dare to voyage into the deep, deep “VUCA” reality, co-design the delightful innovation landscape, co-define the comprehensive roadmap and take the innovation journey steadfastly.

At an enterprise level, innovation management requires cross-functional collaboration and interdisciplinary knowledge sharing, and relentless experimentation. The radical innovation creates a chain of innovation, leading to business breakthroughs. By thinking innovation as artistic activities, imagination can be unlocked and creative ideas will flow frictionlessly; by thinking innovation management as the scientific discipline, innovation management effort can significantly amplify its effect and unlock business performance.

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Gaining first mover advantage is all about foreseeing and applying trends, that’s where you win the competitive advantage.

Surviving and thriving in today’s business dynamic requires strategic agility, cross-functional collaboration, structural flexibility, inter-relational process, and intuitive service, to reduce business friction and deal with arising conflicts or disruptions continually. 

The business world moves too fast with blurred territories and intriguing ecosystem conditions, marketing, finance, technology, leadership are all intertwined, only through constant improvement and seamless collaboration, the business can align its key factors such as people, process, and technology to create competitive advantage.

Information technology creates a unique advantage: Organizations rely more and more on information technology, the modern world is so data-driven and information-intensive, technology needs will only expand. Data that can be processed into quality information, then refined into enriched knowledge and fresh insight, could be a real competitive advantage for running a real time intelligent organization. It can provide a real competitive advantage in a sustainable manner for any company that wants to stand out of competition, and accelerate the speed of changes.

From a business management perspective, information technology needs to be understood and harnessed by all stakeholders to fulfill its potential; a clear understanding of what services/solutions are enabling your competitive advantage is needed, to explore hidden/unseen business opportunities, make a unique influence on business strategies and business transformation.

Business process becomes more of a differentiator: A "business process" evokes the notion of inputs, managing known from flowing. Business process has many characteristics such as people, information, workflow, supplies, tools, steering, etc, to take certain activities and achieve certain results. The end results of the processes which are either producing a product or service of perceived more value to a customer is what can be later considered a competitive business advantage. Anything that makes something better, faster, or cheaper provides competitive advantage, and processes help business get there technically..

Understanding which business process optimization and innovations will be most effective to create and sustain a competitive advantage. Business processes that are dynamic and nimble can make a competitive difference for a company from the perspective of product life cycle, customer experience optimization. However, if the company is in a more mature stage, business process innovations may be the primary means for achieving a competitive advantage. By understanding businesses from a process lens, now you know how your resources are deployed, you can see how effective they are and you can measure, empirically, the impact of your management.

Organizational structure tuning improves business agility: In traditional organizations, the business structure is formal and even overly rigid; it perhaps works fine in the considerably static industry age. However, with increasing speed of change, organizational evolution needs business catalysts for change. Otherwise, well-established enterprises become irrelevant and are perhaps replaced by smaller, nimbler competitors. Thus, the top leadership needs to ponder: What new options exist in structures that could support an emerging strategy? What structural optimization enables businesses to improve business manageability? How to fine tune organization structure to create business advantage? The issue is that, given the opportunity, how to establish a formal and enabling organizational structure in line with the strategic direction of the organization.

Many organizations today are running in between - the mix of old and new; the different departments within an organization have different focus or speeds. It’s always a journey to keep tuning the organizational design and structure to improve strategy management effectiveness; move products or services to the markets with effective capacity, process, and speed. It is also important to identify the unofficial structures and take them along on the journey of business innovation and change. The organic system approach to organizational structure could become a reality, and that will be a true evolution of business transformation.

The digital era upon us means the exponential growth of information, increasing speed of change, and fierce competitions. The business today is dynamic, continuous, expansive, interdependent, hyperconnected, and interactive. Gaining first mover advantage is all about foreseeing and applying trends, that’s where you win the competitive edge. Creating trends is about anticipating direction and influencing the better world. The future of the organization is complex enough to act intelligently and nimble enough to adapt to the change promptly.

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Initiategapbridging

It is imperative to transform the traditional process-driven silo management flavor to a people-centric digital management style by closing digital leadership blind spots and modern management gaps.

“Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. 

Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the gap of opportunity between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to identify and strengthen the weakest link and take a stepwise approach to make a leap of digital transformation.

           Initiate Gaps Analysis & Bridging

Innovation Gaps? There are many forms of innovation - technology, application, product, design, business model, process, communication, or customer experience, etc; there’re also many ‘flavors’ of innovations, systematic innovation, customer-centric innovation, open innovation, design-driven innovation, or management innovation., etc, but fundamentally, what are the innovation gaps, the gap differentiation helps delineate the problems and opportunities for innovation, and through identifying such gaps, business can manage innovation portfolio more effectively.

GInitiativesforgap-bridging Nowadays, businesses are steadily moving into the digital era with the very characteristics of hyper-connectivity and interdependence. The path to building an innovative organization won’t be straight or flat, there’s bumps or curves, roadblocks and pitfalls on the way. It is imperative to transform the traditional process-driven silo management flavor to a people-centric digital management style by closing digital leadership blind spots and modern management gaps.

Initiategapanalysis Nowadays, businesses become hyper-connected and interdependent; they are steadily moving into the digital era with over-complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity. High performance organizations have a very clear vision and understanding of why they exist and the value they bring to customers.

InitiativesforbridgingGaps Although developing and implementing a digital strategy is at the top list of business executives’ agenda, Being digital ready goes beyond just applying the latest technologies, or playing the latest gadget. There are still many gaps that need to be closed, and there are also a lot of pitfalls on the way. Therefore, truly forward-thinking organizations are taking a holistic approach to making the business “Digital Ready” via bridging the following three gaps in order to implement digital strategy seamlessly.

Innovateleadershipviagapminding Leadership is an influence. Effective leadership differs by level, the type of organization, the stage of organizational evolution, the mindset of stakeholders, and collective competency. Leadership is about the future and change, innovation, and collective progress, which are all based on a clear vision and profound insight.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #10500th blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. 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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Conclusion: Bridging Gaps to Catalyze Digital Maturity

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Initiativesforvaluegeneration

It’s important to analyze total cost, total value, and total impact of business investment, and calculate financial & performance indicators wisely.

The very goal of running a business is to create value and solve problems. What do we mean by value? Value is a multidimensional concept, from economic value to stakeholders’ value, from ethnic value to cultural value to societal value, etc. 

The most successful organizations have a very clear vision and understanding of why they exist, the value they bring to customers and the very reason for changes. The most effective workplace is the one where collaboration and sharing are the norms; those interdisciplinary and cross-functional teams are able to handle all value-adding steps in the whole flow of work and build a unique set of business capabilities to generate values continually.

It’s the top priority to recognize the value of people, especially today’s knowledge workforce, with many tangible and intangible factors: To compete, businesses rely so much on their human assets or human capital, to reach their goals and succeed. Valuing someone implies respecting them, encouraging them to be who they are, understanding them via empathy, and aligning their value with the organization’s value propositions. There is always a good chance that many people will see value in anything, etc, and they are encouraged to generate value for themselves and their organization.

Not all business value is directly related to ROI. Some people related forms of value include such as employee value, customer value, supplier value, channel partner value, alliance partner value, managerial value, and societal value, By understanding people-centric value; whatever you use to refer to the people in the organization, there is an investment that is needed in order to achieve the business goal and build competitive advantage. The variety of value related perspectives opens our mind, and harnesses the values that each of us can bring to the table.

It’s important to explore how value is created & delivered: The command and control management worked in an industrial age because the value was produced largely by the efficient use of physical assets, with people being secondary. Nowadays, information is growing abundantly and knowledge is power. People's beliefs and values are normally distilled through a long process of cumulating, socio-culturally. The question is to what extent that the trained employees commit to implement what they have learned, become more creative, people-driven, and produce multifaceted value to the organization or our society.

Organizational management needs to assess how balanced and effective their value chain is, reinvent their next practice upon how to provide sufficient opportunities for people with different talents to explore, help them develop professional capabilities effectively to create value, and measure them in tangible ways. The whole value chain needs to be realigned, engaged, and contributing by sharing the value - from employees to suppliers, to shareholders, and get their fair share. So organizations have finite resources to apply to get the best yield possible value to meet stakeholders’ expectations.

It’s important to understand that all sorts of business initiatives need to produce value with clearly defined goals and data support estimation: Organizations have limited resources, talent and time; they need to build a balanced initiative portfolio including both incremental improvements and radical changes; process optimization and business model reinvention. The management should check up: Do we have common values and a dynamic enterprise business model that takes into account initial customer investments, development cycle of customers, products, services, economical cycles, market shifts to ensure flexibility and positive results throughout? Central to creating a new business model is the ‘value proposition’ which describes the “business value” being offered.

In reality, many organizations are unable to demonstrate the value of application portfolio management. Their business model invention fails to realize its purpose and value proposition. Too many applications overlap functionality, too old applications stifle business changes. It’s a dysfunctional issue. So business analytics based on quality information helps to optimize business manageability and drive the actual business value. Do comprehensive value/cost analysis, clearly define appropriate metrics, build a team of inclusive stakeholders and business partners to further define the charter, prioritize and allocate resources, balance quick gain and long term win, to maximize value creation of the organization.

It’s important to analyze total cost, total value, and total impact of business investment, and calculate financial & performance indicators wisely. Refining information into fresh business insight, managing effective application portfolios are all crucial to lead business value generation. Organizations need to discover their hidden value, invest wisely, refine their talent, optimize process, and leverage emerging technology to keep their business relevant and build competitive advantage,

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Initiativesofboard

The contemporary corporate board as the directorial role plays a significant role in overseeing strategy, advising corporate executives on critical issues from an outliers’ perspective, setting culture tones and monitoring business performance.

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals. Here are the multiple perspectives of shaping a strategic boardroom.

  Initiatives of Boardroom

Initiativesofbods vThe ever-changing business dynamic brings significant opportunities and responsibilities for business growth and innovation. Top directorship roles such as board directors are supposed to be the guiding force in the enterprise, envisioning and leading the business towards its future forethoughtfully.

Initiativesofbods ivThe digital paradigm shift is inevitable. Keeping digital fit means the fitting mindset, fitting attitude, fitting structure, and fitting speed. The corporate board's main work is to oversee business strategy management and make an objective assessment of the organization's fit from different perspectives such as business information savvy, agility, innovation, resilience, etc.

Initiativesofbods iiiComplexity and uncertainty are part of reality. The real BoD’s dilemma is that driving the business forward is extremely difficult, because you need to look into an unknown future and attempt to define the landscape with its risks and opportunities.

Initiativesofbod iiThe world has become more connected and transparent, the organization becomes more diverse and complex. The contemporary corporate board as the directorial role plays a significant role in overseeing strategy, advising corporate executives on critical issues from an outliers’ perspective, setting culture tones and monitoring business performance.

InitiativesofBoDs The corporate board is one of the most crucial governance bodies in the modern enterprise; it holds management accountable for business performance; the stakeholders hold the corporate board and the management team accountable for the effectiveness of the direction, and caliber of action taken by the governing body.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 10500+ 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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Illuminate”Again&Again”

Again and again, we are at- the inflection point of -paradigm change-from silo to holism; information scarcity to -knowledge abundance, mechanism to automation; process-driven to people-centricity, local to global...

Again and again,

people try to -

run faster,

jump over,

make transcendental leap;

but outdated knowledge,

conventional wisdom,

stereotypical perceptions,

knock them down,

hold them off;

shut them up.

Still, change is inevitable,

innovation is -

out light to

shine up;

progress is-

the mantra of humanity;

the future should be-

unfolded, brightly.


Experience is not about-

doing the same things,

Again and Again;

it is about always learning -

new things through it;

exploring better ways to-

do it, impressively;

learning faster, smarter,

to generate unique value,

unbelievably.


Again and again,

we are at-

the inflection point of -

paradigm change-

from silo to holism;

information scarcity to -

knowledge abundance,

mechanism to automation;

process-driven to people-centricity,

local to global;

can we broaden-

the vision of -

societal transformation,

share compelling stories-

through it,

clear stages of -

change scenario,

keep track of -

cause-effect,

clarify sequence-consequence continuum?


Again and again,

history repeats itself;

many versions of history -

can all be-

simultaneously "true" or “false,”

can we make-

sound judgment,

discover underlying patterns.

gain lessons-learned?

Past performance doesn't assure-

future success,

previous achievement could make-

us complacent;

shall we all become humber,

transform hindsight to-

foresight,

guide through -

the future journey-

global advancement

confidently?

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Initiativesofinnovation

For every existing or emerging issue, we need to contemplate the varying causes behind it; for each concern that is worth the effort, we should ponder alternatives to handle it effectively without too many side effects.

It is a continuously changing world with high velocity and unprecedented emergence is inherent in every venture of the business. Innovators will be those who can distance themselves from others, keep updating their knowledge, their facts, and numbers, apply critical thinking to understand things from different angles, leverage creativity to generate novel ideas, and take the right dose of risk appetite to explore untaken paths and reach clearly defined goals, but keep making appropriate adjustment to achieve great outcome.


It’s important to take a logical scenario for handling tough issues interdisciplinarily: An initiative is vague or temporary if the problem is not perceived comprehensively. Until the underlying problem is addressed, the symptom or result will continue to return. It’s important to frame the open-ended questions to get the best feedback from customers - the great feedback you wouldn’t have thought about or some great things the customers wouldn’t have thought about before.

The digital era upon us is about people, option, empathy. Put emphasis on people-centricity - how to fit customers’ special needs and improve their satisfaction. Effective business initiative program management helps to address the pros and cons of each initiative, and apply nonlinear logic to clarify cause-effect seamlessly. Always look for innovative, cost-effective opportunities to develop cross-functional teams for dealing with tough issues alternatively.

It’s critical for people to gain fresh insight and see a different way of doing something better, innovatively: One of the biggest challenges in this complex digital world is the fact that we need different perspectives, different knowledge and different ways to overcome across-boundary challenges. What are optimized processes, practical methodologies and best practices to deal with business issue? How to handle different stages of problem-solving with attention and proficiency to ensure success?

It’s important to bring together people who would not typically have the opportunity to communicate in the day-to-day operations, so they can brainstorm ideas together, complement each other’s thoughts and expertise, in order to do things better, faster, and innovative, for achieving high performance results collaboratively.

Building unique innovation competency is a critical aspect of the business future and a significantly underutilized competitive advantage: Organizations all face fierce competitions and selective customers. You have to leverage fresh insight, and balanced views to gain in-depth knowledge of issues that occur, look at the problem domain holistically, and apply the “simplicity and flexibility” principles to architect and design innovative solutions.

A systems thinker solves each unforeseen problem as it arises. The issues can be solved from a much broader and encompassing view that is not possible in linear thinking, and make continuous adjustment, eliminate confusion, apply a holistic view, and take customized approaches to delight customers and create business value effectively.

Running a business is an iterative strategy-implementation, learning-doing-improving continuum. For every existing or emerging issue, we need to contemplate the varying causes behind it; for each concern that is worth the effort, we should ponder alternatives to handle it effectively without too many side effects, and set the right course and pace to move the organization forward effectively.

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Initiativesofinformationanalytics

Information is not for its own sake, but to drive needed changes and produce high performance results coherently.

Information is the invaluable asset all forethoughtful organizations explore to refine it into fresh insight for guiding business change or innovation. The convergence of machine learning, analytics and business intelligence, Information analysis, statistics & decision science will make a direct impact on building an intelligent business. 

It’s always crucial to understand business analysis impact on business optimization, customer satisfaction, or what turns into certain actions with the ultimate goal of producing high performance outcomes.

It’s important to leverage good information, processes, and other analytics tools as a "corporate knowledge base" to improve manageability: Predictive analytics refers to future-oriented analyses that can be used to help drive changes and improvements in business practices. Do "what-if" analysis to understand diverse future scenarios in order to prepare for change smoothly. Predictive analysis involves techniques such as regression, forecasting, simulation, and risk analysis, search for value position. It helps to determine future outcomes.

With rising customer expectations, the need for sentimental analysis is actually more important than ever before. Let the data do the talk. Complexity, data quality, skill shortage, etc, are all roadblocks to successful analytics. Every organization must address their common and unique skills requirements and map that out through some sort of skills/competency matrix within their organization to improve business analytics capacity.

It’s the science to leverage information analytics for improving the quality of business decision-making: The amount of data required for a decision, and the amount of information generated by a decision, can both be measured in bits & bytes. Fact-based decision making is an activity that does require concrete buy-in from all stakeholders, data quality is key. Because many people that are going to make the decisions based on "why", do not have time to understand the process behind delivering the "why". They just need to know what happened and what caused it.

Technically, there are three general pillars in Decision Science: Modeling, simulation and optimization. Information Analytics in real-time coupled with a powerful rules engine poses a challenge to the market with the prize being people-centricity. The typical challenge seen with the traditional decision-making analytics approach is to arrive at insights. The better decision engineering approach is to embed analytics in decision making systems to improve business performance, reduce risk, and encourage good behavior.

It’s crucial to apply an integral management discipline for managing analytics initiatives: There's a need for a change management component in each and every business analytics initiative. Ofen, data quality and information refinement takes a lot of effort, and it’s always important to keep information fluid across functions and build an interdisciplinary team for producing great outcomes. In addition, the creative human interpretation process is needed to tell a most likely story about the analysis results.

Accountability is needed because far too often people in Analytics simply provide their portion of the work and walk away. Once the numerical part is over, so is their part in the effort. Senior leadership gets frustrated about resource waste, lack of complete solution or conclusion. They get all of these promises of closure once the root cause is identified but then there is no follow-through on the remediation of key business issues.

Regardless of how big or complex data is, it does not make sense if it is not converted into usable information for harnessing communications and fostering changes. It’s always crucial to refine information, identify, analyze and solve issues for the better of the company and its stakeholders including customers. To put simply, information is not for its own sake, but to drive needed changes and produce high performance results coherently.

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Innovative organizations advocate empowerment over control, engagement over command, dynamic over static: autonomy over mandates, heterogeneity over homogeneity, etc

The effects of an increasingly digitized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. Companies across industrial sectors are in face of hypercomplexity and frequent disruptions. 

Organizational management shouldn’t lose sight of the long-term or “big picture"; but take balanced efforts, and align resources effectively on achieving either strategic or tactical goals to improve business competency.

Organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and “misfit” thinking, growth and stability: Organizational management “fitness” doesn’t mean to apply conventional wisdom only or take the cookie cutting approach. True organizational fit means how to balance the fit (growth mindset, learning agility, positive attitude, and accepted behavior) and misfit (independent thinking and creativity to think differently)

To put it briefly, the organizational fit is the good balance of the “misfit” thinking and fitting attitude. So the business management needs to encourage critical thinking, embrace constructive skepticism, and unlock collective creativity. The resources need to be aligned scientifically on achieving strategic goals, not only focusing on “keeping the light on,” but also building long term organizational competency.

Organizations strike the right balance of personalization and standardization, process and flexibility: Organizations across industries strive to become information savvy, people-centric business. Usually, companies need standardization via the capitalization of previous experiences, cost control, and also need to provide customized solutions to fit customers’ needs as they become much more selective than before, so they can possibly provide achievable enterprise-wide solutions.

Hence, the customer, including prospects, should be studied and observed and gain insight upon. Using a more inductive approach as to what the customer wants to accomplish "next"; the management needs to contemplate how to break down silo thinking boxes, balance between the standardization and personalization, process and flexibility, to improve people centricity, organizational agility and competency.

Organizational balance today is the digital theme with the right balanced theme of centralization and decentralization, simplicity and complexity, local and global: Business complexity is unavoidable. It becomes complex if things do interact, particularly in the case of "nonlinear" interaction, you can't separate things properly or you cannot predict the actual effect of interaction straightforwardly. One one side, there is no intelligence without a certain level of complexity, complexity is a property of intelligence. On the other hand, complication or unwanted complexity will stifle innovation and decrease productivity.

Same as centralization and decentralization, Being centralized to improve business efficiency and synchronize the speed; being decentralized to customize and build unique business competency. The goal of hybrid management is to follow the “simplexity” principle to handle the over-complex digital reality, and explore innovative ways to solve problems.

Forethoughtful organizations should apply the balanced management approach, focus on building a diverse and dynamic working environment in which people can constantly grow, innovate; leadership advocate empowerment over control, engagement over command, dynamic over static: autonomy over mandates, heterogeneity over homogeneity, etc. So forward-looking organizations explore the new arena to speed up by balancing stability and fluidity; pushing and pulling, etc, to improve overall organizational maturity.

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Initiatebalance

Change is the new normal, organizations and their people must learn through their interactions with the environment. It requires the balance of the diversified viewpoints, creativity & discipline.

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

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

Initiate Balanced Approach

Initiativesforchievingbalance Digitalization means hyper-connectivity, over-complexity, and interdependence; it blurs the geographical borders, functional borders, organizational borders, industry vertical borders and knowledge domain border. Many come to believe that boundaries are not tangible places of resistance but are only self-imposed limitations we place on ourselves to hide our own fear to move forward. The black and white boundaries continue to diminish in the 21st century due to the occurrence of increased economic integration, digital dynamic characterized by the movement of information, people, and businesses. Therefore, it is more critical than ever to maintain the right level of digital balance. In fact, striking the right digital balance is a never-ending business life cycle.


Initiate Balance and Growth Horizontally and Vertically Rapid change, complexity, and uncertainty are the new normal, digital organizations have to self-adapt and self-renew itself, be able to reconfigure the organizational structure, and change their own behaviors for improving their responsiveness and flexibility. They can improve and accelerate organizational balance and growth cycle both horizontally and vertically, develop differentiated business competency to accomplish defined change, and make a seamless digital paradigm shift.

Initiativesofnonlinearity In face of fierce competition and rapid changes, linear thinking implies the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. Digital organization is dynamic and complex, the degree of business responsiveness depends on how business subsystems interact with each other, and those interactions can be nonlinear, technical, informational, or human.

Innatebalance Digital transformation is inevitable, it means the increasing pace of change and fierce competition. Organizations must keep the lights on and also make strategic movements all the time. Like running up to the string, keeping digital balance is critical in reaching digital aptitude. But how to manage the following digital balance cycles effectively?

Ingredientsinbalance Change is the new normal, organizations and their people must learn through their interactions with the environment. It requires the balance of the diversified viewpoints, creativity & discipline; “old experience” and “new ways to do things”; process and flexibility, etc. Balance seems effortless, but there are all different ingredients such as flexibility, agility, paradox, harmony, resilience, etc, to make it advanced in leading changes and catalyzing innovation smoothly.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about #10500+ 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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Illuminaterelevant

Can you keep your mind fit, not always keep- your hands full, make what you do is- relevant to humanity, develop an optimistic attitude towards- changes, progressively?

Humanity needs to -

be relevant;

if we look, see all things,

in the surrounding;

doesn’t living creature have-

numerous different needs and wants;

with emotional touch,

intellectual ability, to-

drive changes, evolutionarily? 

Can we connect with-

each other,

through resonance,

support -

each other,

through empathy?

Will nature stand on-

our side,

to empower us,

delight us,

in unexpected ways,

from places-

we do not know,

our hands cannot reach?



People are-

complex creature,

understand them as -

a whole person,

not just the pieces of -

static reality;

but intelligent, social beings;

inspire them to-

learn, grow, innovate

authentically,

keep them relevant,

to be a part of-

the solution-

advancing humanity,

influentially.



Humans are -

developing, growing, maturing,

competition and choice are-

part of relevant reality;

are you courageous to-

listen to -

what you do not -

want to hear;

have the guts to-

make tough decisions?

Can you keep your mind fit,

not always keep-

your hands full,

make what you do is-

relevant to humanity,

develop an optimistic attitude towards-

changes, progressively?

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Initiateinnovationagenda

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

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.

                   Initiate Global Innovation Agenda

Initiateglobalinnovation We live in a world where change is the norm, with increasing pace. If we don't embrace it, accept it, roll with it, or make it happen, we're not able to run an advanced global society. It takes world-class insight that can connect wider dots to inspire and accelerate the evolution of global society when it comes to innovation. Contemporary global leaders and professionals look at the global economy with an innovative tone and creative lens around the world; deepen their understanding of global issues contextually and deal with common challenges innovatively.

Initiateglobalinnovationagenda Compared to the industrial era with silo setting, static knowledge and overly restrictive hierarchy inherited from the last century, the global world has become much more complex and smaller all at once due to blurred territories, cross-boundary interactions, intriguing business relationships, and diversity of talent. Business leaders and professionals should lay out different thinking, structures, and solutions to sees the world as interconnected, interdependent and integrated, develop global innovation agenda with following characteristics, take initiatives to solve bigger and tougher problems, scale up innovation effort, to help more people, businesses, industries, and societies for enhancing inclusiveness and unleashing collective human potential in a structural way.

Initiativesofglobalists As the world moves into a hyper-connected and interdependent age, global professionals today have to continue sharing their viewpoint about things or events happening in their surroundings, their perspective of future organization, global society; their roles in making transformative changes.

Initiateglobalinnovation The global world we live in is in the digital paradigm shift due to increasing pace of changes and abundant information growth. It is a strategic imperative for today’s leaders and professionals to embrace the broader view of global society, shape a clear vision, and co-set a global innovation agenda.

InitiativesofglobalinnovationThe global world is hyper-connected and interdependent, we define most societies by shared patterns of beliefs, attitudes, and actions; and we live in a world where change is the norm, with increasing paces.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about 10500+ 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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Innovation

It is without a doubt that organizations across industries should realize that in order to be successful within their industry, they have to focus their efforts on building customer-centric business.

The arising new paradigm is all about people-centricity, people-centric companies become the choice generator for delighting customers and driving business growth. Forward thinking organizations seek innovation, customized designs, and people-centric problem-solving.

 People-centric innovation management capability is built via the top executive's sponsorship, the middle-management dedicated execution, and the bottom line employees’ hardworking.

It’s important to provide choices for customers on how to solve their issues by listening to their feedback, and improve customer satisfaction: Traditional organizations are process-driven, but high performance organizations are people-centric, take different propositions and approaches to help customers solve problems and improve their satisfaction. So customer centricity has to be built into the business strategy; the best and next practices to delight customers need to be developed, focus on creating value for people in every step to achieve clearly-defined strategic goals with C-level attention and sponsorship.

Understand customers and what they value; what’s the limitations and barriers which stop the business from producing customer value, how to integrate the variety of management with customer-centricity tone. People-centric innovation means that you have to involve customers and different stakeholders, listen to their feedback, involve them in both idea generation and process implementation, to gain insight and empathy, and solve their problems effectively. 

It’s a strategic imperative to ensure customers become the center of management and they are the major focus for business accomplishment: People-centric success is proactive, identifying ways to help customers gain value from the product or service you provide. Truly people-centric organizations shape customer-centric minds to incorporate personalization efforts at both strategic and design level to present great business value, provide personalized solutions mindfully.

Customer loyalty is what drives company performance and generates multidimensional business value. Personalization with empathy is about how you feel about the whole process of being a customer- the sum of all thoughts, attitudes, experiences, feelings, reactions, etc, so your products or services will serve as you seek to understand their needs, delight customers and generate value to stakeholders as well.

It's great to know organizations build strong brand names because they add value to the customers: Great solutions are creative, progressive, and intuitive. It is also important to tie-in people-centric strategies to the capability maturity level of the organization. It’s important to make things intuitive, provide premium solutions to serve your best customers, optimize customers’ experience by digitizing touch points or gaining their trust.

There is a distinction between reactive customer service and proactive customer Success. Being proactive means to collect invaluable feedback timely and take initiatives to solve customers' feedback interactively. A company can show agility in providing what the customer is looking for in products and services. If done well, this leads to customer success and enhances corporate brand.

In face of rapid change, fierce competitions and frequent disruptions, it is without a doubt that organizations across industries should realize that in order to be successful within their industry, they have to focus their efforts on building customer-centric business. They should keep improving products/services to delight customers, give them an impression on how the organization can meet their needs to solve problems and achieve higher-than-expected results consistently.

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It’s important to keep learning and growing, reaching the next level of understanding of complex problems; developing the higher level of professional competency; and raise the next level of leadership influence.

Organizations all face fierce competitions and continuous disruptions; how successfully they can handle “VUCA” digital new normal depends on how fast and capable they can lead their business forward by reaching the next level of understanding, building the next level of professional competencies; and driving organizations upward to the next level of organizational maturity.

The higher the level at which people are engaged and stimulated to imagine, the more likely they get inspired to think innovatively and act boldly: Business environment becomes over-complex and interdependent; it is the responsibility of each individual to examine themselves and make sure they are open to true understanding. Top seasoned leaders or high professionals become aware when some of the long-acquired common beliefs or knowledge is no longer applicable in certain situations. They have to keep learning agile, unlearn, or relearn all the time.

To overcome stereotyping or unconscious bias, people need to shift their perception from a subjective to objective, making sound judgment about people and things via empathetic understanding, deep insight and accurate interpretation. Business leaders or professionals with multidimensional intelligence can keep the state of psychological balance with the right dose of ego, see things from different angles and understand the situation profoundly in order to craft better strategies and make effective decisions based on the often overloaded information with contrary qualities.

Organizational leaders and professionals need to keep building capabilities and reach the next level of integral competencies: Every professional has their own journey of growth either personally or professionally based on their own perception, talent, life experience, training, and refinement. If their professional capabilities are based on natural talent, there’s higher possibilities that they can become more intuitive on what they do and produce quality results consistently and effortlessly.

The problems facing humanity become more complex; it requires a higher level of understanding, capabilities, and step-wise actions. In fact, every level of professional capability has its own set of requirements for cognitive abilities, knowledge fluency, skill intuitiveness and expertise influence. Business becomes more dynamic, to drive change or solve problems promptly, a set of integral professional capabilities enables us to create something new out of something existing, reaching the new horizon out of an old vision and moving up to the next level of professional capability maturity.

Orchestrating a diversified global team with complementary expertise can initiate meaningful changes reach a higher level of innovativeness, autonomy and harmony: Organizational leaders and professionals apply interdisciplinary knowledge to understand global context, sustain diversified viewpoints into holistic perspectives, provide guidance, and make positive influences. A high level of consensus implies that an acceptable, transparent, and credible basis for evaluating, selecting, and resourcing initiatives exists or can be constructed to orchestrate the large scale of changes, and improve people-centricity.

Either individually or professionally, we need to keep learning, growing, innovating, to build the next level of professional competency. It’s always important to streamline information flow, build a team with a high level of autonomy; so people are able to participate and collaborate, with the ability to listen, discern, analyze & synthesize, articulate the multifaceted situations with accuracy, make a fair judgment, and improve collective problem-solving competency.

The information-abundant digital era implies fluid knowledge cycle and the next level of people-centricity. It’s important to keep learning and growing, reaching the next level of understanding of complex problems; developing the higher level of professional competency; and raise the next level of leadership influence.

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Illumination

Isn't a tough journey to- celebrate #10,500 blog postings - to pursue- the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, motivating, story-telling?

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

Initiatives Information is growing overwhelming, frequent disruptions are part of business new normal, change is continuously happening and spiraling up in such a dynamic environment. The organization has to build differentiated capability, explore multipath global advancement gateways.

Initiateglobalinnovation We live in a world where change is the norm, with increasing pace. If we don't embrace it, accept it, roll with it, or make it happen, we're not able to run an advanced global society. It takes world-class insight that can connect wider dots to inspire and accelerate the evolution of global society when it comes to innovation. Contemporary global leaders and professionals look at the global economy with an innovative tone and creative lens around the world; deepen their understanding of global issues contextually and deal with common challenges innovatively.

Innovation Innovation comes in many flavors and there are lots of opportunities in an enterprise to do so. What’re the special traits of innovation? What does innovation mean to you, how to do it effectively? What qualifies a company to call itself innovative?

Initiativestoinnovateleadership Leadership is one's ability to paint a vivid picture, a vision of a future state and motivate others to achieve it. Innovative leadership indicates open mindedness to embrace unconventional thoughts and fresh ideas, seeks new knowledge or experience.

Innovationorchestration Change is inevitable; closer to reality is that change is continuously happening in such a dynamic environment of a company. Organizational change management has to be orchestrated at all levels, sounds like a symphony via synchronized communication, optimized process, and harmonized instrumental performance. In the highly complex and competitive dynamic global business environment, Analogously, the top leaders act as conductors to orchestrate the symphony of business transformation. Such a vivid description fits in today for top business leaders or a manager in a strategic, operational or even functional role in any successful organization, to lead change synchronously.

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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