Illuminatesometimes

Sometimes, you are cheerful for - what you achieve; Sometimes, you are sad about -what you lost; happiness is personal, but also universal, sometimes, bigger than yourself.

Sometimes,

you are the light -

part of- the solution;

sometimes,

you are the shadow -

part of the problem;

sometimes,

shaping the right questions is-

more important than -

providing -

single-minded answers..



Sometimes,

you move fast;

sometimes,

you lag behind;

sometimes,

good and fast doesn't always go-

together, so easily..

Sometimes your way is -

not the best way…

Sometimes, 

people are too rushed-up,

they jump to the “how” ;

but the circumstance has -

changed, already;

sometimes,

a little push helps to-

smash down -

the old box,

break through-

the limit.

but, pick the right things to-

push through;

push yourselves -

out of -

the comfort zone, impactfully.


Sometimes,

all a person needs is to-

be reminded,

they do in fact,

hold the power to-

change within-

themselves, introspectively,

to keep thinking fresh,

move forward, rapidly.

Sometimes, you are strong, with -

common beliefs;

sometimes you should break down-

silo mentality;

ignore conventional wisdom,

challenge traditions,

keep focusing on -

doing things right,

forethoughtfully.


Sometimes, you have to -

take risks,

make a leap;

sometimes,

you need to take a step back for -

understanding things, holistically;

sometimes,

you gain “lessons learned” from the past;

Sometimes, 

looking at-

 the past inhibits-

forward progress, completely..

If you focus too long,

too much on the past,

you will not be prepared to-

react when potential obstacles enter -

your path ahead, unexpectedly.


Sometimes,

you are cheerful for -

what you achieve;

sometimes,

you are sad about -

what you lost;

happiness is personal,

but also universal,

sometimes,

bigger than yourself.

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Illuminateseasons

Four seasons of -changes allows us to- imagines many possibilities, act what we thought of; when our vision is engaged, our passion flows, our impulse to -acting is high..

Change is-

like the four seasons,

it is something happening-

every so often,

not always under-

our control,

but we all experience -

such natural themes, refreshingly.

From wax & wane of moonlight-

to ebb and flow of-

ocean tide;

if winter hibernates-

part of the world;

spring wakes up-

latent energy, earth-wide;

summer speeds up-

the pace of nature,

stretch up to live to -

our full potential, intensively;

autumn enriches -

natural spirit, abundantly;

four seasons has-

its own time frame,

rhyming tempo,

it’s the dance between -

nature and us, immersively.


There is time to sow,

time to reap;

time to -

recharges our energy,

four seasons of -

changes allows us to-

imagines numerous possibilities,

act what we thought of;

when our vision is engaged,

our passion flows,

our impulse to -

acting is high;

shall we enjoy-

a changing voyage to-

discover -

the new landscape,

be a part of scenery,

inspirationally.

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Illuminatestagnation

There are -many causes of stagnation; there are -numerous roadblocks to changes; are you able to-shape game-changing mindsets, well-rounded capabilities; renew energy, ride ahead of - learning curves, to overcome stagnation, speed up impressively?

We live in-

a constantly changing world;

if you get stuck,

you are lagging behind;

repetitively doing -

something without -

making improvement is-

a stagnation.

resistance to -

change gets you stagnated,

unsurprisingly;

complacency stagnates you-

to move up, progressively;

If you stick to-

the comfort zone for -

too long,

you lose-

the “mojo” to-

move forward,

enthusiastically;

negative conflicts,

competitions diminishes -

the brightness of -

true talent,

stagnating entire human society,

unfortunately.




There are -

hard barriers,

soft pitfalls behind -

stagnation;

hoarding knowledge without -

updating it is -

stagnation;

being compliant without -

making achievement is -

a stagnation;

following outdated rules,

conventional wisdom is-

a stagnation;

fixing symptoms without -

digging into the true cause is-

a stagnation…

exhaustion,

change fatigue make passion-

fade away,

block energy,

stagnate people to

make progress,

constantly.





There are -

many causes of stagnation;

there are -

numerous roadblocks to changes;

are you able to-

shape game-changing mindsets,

well-rounded capabilities;

renew energy,,

ride ahead of -

learning curves,

to overcome stagnation,

speed up impressively?

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Initiatives

Rapid change, diversification, hyper-connectivity, nonlinearity, and interdependence, etc, are the very characteristics of the digital era.

Organizations across industrial sectors face hyper-competition and shortened business development cycles. To avoid fast obsolescence and gain long term business advantage, insightful business leaders can perceive the trend of business evolution, look uphill and look deeply into the future, have a very clear understanding of their organizational strengths and weaknesses, enforce the sequence and cycle of business growth and development.

Organizational coherent state which is supported between the spins and waves of components seems to be the key business property to emphasize: Running a successful business is a journey; you have a clear destination, but you need to pick the varying processes/practices/tools to get there. Important business components should be reviewed regularly, refined regularly and are transparent across the organization, bringing into alignment of most of the key parts of the business.

Not all processes and improvements are equal because each touch-point does not always have the same effect. Select the right component leverage to adjust. For instance, Process Management is to manage the known from the flows. Strong business processes have a better chance to produce better outcomes. Every part of the process is interlinked and the smallest touchpoint will have an effect on a major touchpoint further up or down the line, and therefore, will have an overall effect on the “whole” processes to produce better results.

Important bits & bytes of information can make a significant impact on business changes: Information is the crucial ingredient of business management. There is no way and not necessary to absorb every bit & byte of information flowing to you, you need to be informative, but selective. Thus, more attention needs to be placed on the conditions that allow information/knowledge to flow, connect dots to create new ideas, and generate business value.

Information comes from the analysis of that data, technology allows for capture, manipulation, and presentation of information. With emerging lightweight digital technologies and frameworks, the highly effective digital organization has a higher level of responsiveness because information can flow to the right people to allow them to make the right decisions at the right time to bring better results and improve business agility.

It’s crucial to proactively develop the resource-rich innovation hubs and clusters across enterprise ecosystems for enabling idea flow and business growth: The traditional organizations can become more innovative if they can consciously break down silo mentality and the bureaucratic management style. For many organizations, ecosystems have evolved without much attention or planning. Innovations simply benefit from being developed in and subsequently commercialized in a more open ecosystem. Companies across the vertical sectors can benefit from open innovation by fully engaging with their partners or customers.

There is more flow of creative ideas, the more is happening to expedite business growth. Companies need to proactively evolve and develop a vibrant innovation ecosystem in which businesses can thrive and reach the next level of innovation maturity. Digital hyper-connectivity can foster innovation through broader scope collaboration and create synergy for achieving innovation success. Innovation collaboration teams embrace multiple disciplines and understand how systems work, develop the cross-ecosystem innovation clusters that enable idea flow, and create synergy for idea management. This yields competitive advantage.

Rapid change, diversification, hyper-connectivity, nonlinearity, and interdependence, etc, are the very characteristics of the digital era. Organizations are at the different vertical sectors and stages of business transformation. They should meet their business needs and take a logical approach to build their organizational innovation strength, investigate different paths to business growth, shape solid forms, and drive changes at steadfast paces, to achieve the long-term business results in a consistent way.

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Initiatives

Clearly define a set of business principles and differentiated business capability; initiate multidirectional business exploration to get the organization digital ready.

In face of unprecedented uncertainty and high velocity, it’s important to deepen the level of understanding of complex issues via analyzing and synthesizing information, top business leaders need to envision the future of the business, continue doing consolidation, integration, optimization, keep the business synchronized to ensure that every part of the organization operates in harmony.

 In the digital era, what the business needs is not just the faster speed, but a hyper-connected interdependent ecosystem with information-based communication/process synchronization and collaboration harmony.

It becomes easy for the coming generation to adjust to the needs of the changes necessitated with the evolving new thinking, knowledge, and trends: There is nothing scary about the evolving trends in any field of knowledge. The newer thoughts, newer trends, newer knowledge are all that captivates learners with intellectual curiosities to learn and quickly absorb and adopt.

Knowledge basically involves the human factor and capturing the benefit of someone's experience. Apply fresh knowledge to deepen your understanding of people and things; gain fresh insight, and make it available to broader and broader audiences who can benefit from that combined intellectual asset of information and experience.

It is a worthy investment and hidden dimension to explore growth opportunities and improve long term organizational advantage: A holistic perspective helps to both understand issues from different angles and solve them thoroughly. The word "holism" refers to something that transcends an adding or combination of thinking ways, to understand things as the whole, with interconnected parts and interdependent relationships.

In the business environment, being innovative is a state of mind. You have to live it and breathe it every day, otherwise, you would feel stuck. Examine the businesses investment management in the new context, build the new paradigms, capture opportunities, roll it out, improve business competency, and measure the result accordingly.

It’s a management discipline to use resource, time, talent scientifically to to reach a state of dynamic balance: In the organizational scope, there are different types of resources such as funds, physical assets, people, information, reputation, resources of the individuals who comprise the firm, such as knowledge, education, training, insights, experience, etc. Organizations also slice their time into such as meeting time, productivity time, creative activity time, etc, effective resource/time management and smart actions.

To reach a state of dynamic balance of solid operation and fluid information management; hard processes and soft disciplines, a radically different social and economic structure will be needed and the holistic digital perspective is imperative to improve business maturity.

Enterprises have always been parts of simple or complex ecosystems. In order to function smoothly, an enterprise has to be linked to the many and varied ‘touch points’ between itself and the marketplace environment of which it is a part, clearly define a set of business principles and differentiated business capability; initiate multidirectional business exploration to get the organization digital ready.

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Illumination

Isn't a tough journey to- celebrate #11,000 blog postings - to pursue- the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, motivating, story-telling?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 11,000+ 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 Organizations today are the mix of old and now, hard and soft, visible and invisible components. There are both big picture thinking, and in-depth understanding of knowledge context to do business planning, enhancing great design, and flawless business operation. It's a strategic imperative for scrutinizing the strength and weakness of the business, rationalizing application portfolio, analyzing total value and cost, to improve business agility, performance, and resilience.

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

Influence In navigating through “VUCA '' reality, today’s leaders and professionals need to naturally gravitate to an influencer role, create change momentum, when things are unknown, things keep evolving. They must constantly learn, innovate, and practice on a daily basis for developing differentiated professional competency.

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

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

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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Innovativeinitiatives

Not only about keeping technical excellence or process efficiency; but also about being able to get all the way around the task and rethink the alternative ways to solve today’s complex problems.

Change is part of reality; predicting and preparing the next level of business transformation is an iterative learning and doing continuum. You're accepting risk for potential reward. To not only survive today but also thrive for the long term, organizations need to keep one eye on today’s performance and the other eye on unlocking business potential.

Organizations that achieve the seamless alignment, integration, collaboration, and synchronization will outperform their competitors and reach the inflection point for accelerating business speed.

Organizations not only have enriched context, being able to read digital sentiment insightfully, but also set the guidance for creating something new under a set of guidance: Business is complex, global professionals need to become more open-minded, inclusive, and show intellectual curiosity to embrace a variety of perspectives, enjoy diverse people, culture, knowledge, read digital sentiment fluently, lubricate cross-boundary interactions, co-develop change agenda, and overcome common challenges. Ask questions, become part of solutions to things bigger than each one of us; it means, priority matters, it’s critical to know what is important, what to focus on.

Besides hard business components, there are soft success factors. The real impact of making the invisible visible, and then measurable, comes when companies find ways to leverage business sentiment to initiate meaningful dialogues, open communication channels up, down, and across the enterprise, set the guidance for problem-solving or creating something new, keep information flow, and achieve a state of dynamic balance.

Organizations not only have “me too” type competitive necessity but also should build differentiated business competency: Capability management, in essence, consists of a portfolio of capabilities that are used in various combinations to achieve great outcomes. Competitive necessity is to keep the bottom line; focus on meeting customer expectations and delivering what the business asks for; while competitive uniqueness allows the business to achieve the art of the possible, make you shine even on a rainy day.

A clear understanding of what capabilities, services or solutions are supporting your competitive advantage is needed in order to build unique competency. It often takes the linear step for tuning the enterprise machine and ensuring it keeps spinning. On the other hand, the transformational capability can often make a leap for achieving the high -performance business results. It provides the opportunity to think of new ways to do things; it helps the business differentiate itself from competitors.

Not only measure quantity, but also evaluate quality to harness leadership, improve business advantage: Assessing business performance is both art and science. It is a common practice to evaluate digital fitness in order to maximize it. Choose the right metrics by deciding which are seen as critical to make the progress in delivering high performance results. Metrics are not the end-all solutions to business management, but simply another set of tools and information to be used for producing better business results. What gets measured, gets managed. Not just about the quantitative results which sometimes can mislead the management with a short-term perspective; but also quality assessment of invisible business success factors for long term organizational maturity. Culture and brand are the most important "soft" elements that a company has to assess periodically since they will define how the company interacts with its various stakeholders, whether they can reach the next level of business maturity.

In well-established organizations across the vertical sectors, there are complex business rules, policies, processes, and performance systems that govern how people operate. This probably means that organizations are going to have to get not only the “hard numbers” right but more importantly, how to manage the intangible elements in business from the beginning. Not only from the financial results, but also from the involvement and signs being displayed inside the organization, about what guidance, values, and principles governing. Move the purpose of performance reviews away from "evaluating" the past, to improving success in the future. Shift from an administrative past-driven performance management process to an interactive future-driven performance scenario.

Without continuous envisioning of a better future, organizations will become short-sighted, static, and become irrelevant sooner or later. Digitalization represents the next stage of business maturity, which is not only about technical excellence or process efficiency; but also about being able to get all the way around the task and rethink the alternative ways to solve today’s complex problems, keep the business synchronized to ensure that every part of the organization operates in harmony to take a digital leap.

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Information

Information technology is at the unique position to oversee the functionality underlying the entire organization.

In this world of information abundance, Information Management is all about ensuring information robustness, having the right people to have the right information to get work accomplished at the right time. 

To achieve information robustness and knowledge abundance, organizations need to manage data assets to capture business foresight and customer insight through cross-functional communication, collaboration and seamless information technology integration. So information savvy organizations can enable business growth and increase customer satisfaction via achieving their full potential.

Information flow: Information is one of the most invaluable assets of the company. Information flow directly impacts idea flow and business flow. Business management needs to clarify: How the data accesses and flows through the organization storage: where the information resides. How work activities interact with data and use the information, to provide information accessibility and availability, knowledge or services to ensure that the right people can get the right information to make the right decisions in a timely manner.

Information flow streamlines business flow. It is amazing how you can work through arguments and filter through information when you relax your mind and share it with someone. It is always beneficial to communication, interpretation and accuracy of overall results when diverse teams interpret and define- data sources and outcomes constantly.

Information Context: Using data to understand past and present performance, predictive – analyze past performance to predict the future, prescriptive, focused primarily on information optimization. It’s important to understand how the quantitative data is a subset of reality, and that what happened yesterday will not be a perfect image of today or tomorrow, to not feed the illusion of knowing and controlling everything, and do their best to leverage quality information in problem-solving.

There is a shift from envisaging the internet as a glorified information system to envisaging it as an infrastructure of hyper-connectivity. Practically, to solve complex business problems, multidisciplinarity must be applied within the context of the values of the organization with a healthy cycle of Information management. Take advantage of all information available, unify diversified views, create new knowledge, and build a high performance organization.

Information fluency: Information is not for its own sake, but for improving problem-solving effectiveness. People are responsible for managing information and creating value through it. In the end, it is not about information, but how to refine information into customer insight and business foresight to pursue business growth opportunities and prevent risks. Also, it is not about technology, but what technology can do when it is enabling and integrating with change/innovation management to come up with strategic differentiation.

How fast you can swim in the information sea depends on how fast and deep you can learn, as digital learning is multidimensional, dynamic, interactive, and integrated. You need to not only assimilate the existing knowledge, but you also have to refine fresh information into the new knowledge, more frequently to replace the out of dated knowledge, build robust, not overly rigid processes to do the meaningful work, develop innovative partnership and intimate customer relationships, and leverage flexibility to unlock performance.

Information technology is at the unique position to oversee the functionality underlying the entire organization. Information Technology Management is the backbone with interdependent processes, efficient technologies, and a set of interdisciplinary management practices for moving the business to a dynamic, iterative, integral, and interactive digital ecosystem.

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Initiativesofinnovation

To awaken innovation in the well-established organization, business leaders and professionals should think as an intrapreneur and act as a startup manager.

Digital is the age of innovation. And innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. 

The purpose of the book “Unpuzzling Innovation - Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way“ is to demystify innovation puzzles in a structural way.

  

 Initiatives of Innovation

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

Innovativeness Nowadays, creativity is the most desired professional quality. The most advanced societies are diverse mixtures of peoples who can spark creativity and develop talent. You cannot wait for some “aha moment” to happen, keep curious, always think profoundly, learn fresh knowledge, and acquire new capabilities. Innovativeness is a state of being quiescent, fluent, transcendental, etc. Being able to engage in the creation of novel ideas or unique insight does include a lot of observations, inquiries, unusual connections, and potential discoveries.

Initiatives Businesses are different, they have different cultures, different structures; they compete in different markets, they have a different strength and scale to achieve organizational purposes. To reinvent business, you need new technology, new processes, new customers, new knowledge, new talent, even a new business model. All that makes them very risky but on the other hand, you will get very great chances and opportunities for radical change and business innovation.

Innovation In today's modern organizations, complexity, diversification, and collaboration are the characteristics of the innovation ecosystem. Innovation is similar to "the sum is larger than its parts." It is the practice through which you grow and evolve something to something great. Organizations are at the different stages of business maturity, they should meet their business needs and take a logical approach to build their organizational innovation strength.

Initiatives All business initiatives should achieve some business result directly or indirectly. The bulk of information, methods, talent and approaches involved speaks in favor of the scientific approach for business initiative management. The unique thoughts, emergent trends, and updated knowledge, etc, are all that captivates professionals with intellectual curiosity to ask insightful questions, make deep observations, spur creativity, and develop differential core competency.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about 11,000+ blog postings in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content takes time for digesting, contemplation and engaging, and therefore, it takes time to attract the "hungry minds" and the "deep souls." It’s the journey to amplify your voice, deepen your digital footprints, and match your way to human progression.



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"Unpuzzling Innovation" Book Chapter 4 Connecting Innovation Dots

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"Unpuzzling Innovation" Book Chapter 6 Innovation Paradox

"Unpuzzling Innovation" Book Chapter 7 Innovation Gaps and Pitfalls

"Unpuzzling Innovation" Book Chapter 8 Innovation Measurement

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Illuminategenerate

One's own experience teaches -more as -it generates emotions, good and bad, serve as -cognitive stimulator for- association, value generation, effectively...

 

Generate -

a vision with clarity;

tomorrow will be -

at least as good as today,

probably even better;

do not let -

knowledge deter-

our imagination,

keep our minds flowing to-

release positive energy,

generate novelty;

fresh insight, constantly;


Information brings about ideas;

ideas generate-

lots of information;

information potential impacts-

the potentiality of-

global society,

significantly.

Knowledge never completes,

learning never ends;

not knowing -

ourselves as best as -

we could,

how can we -

do any change,

aim for -

generating better future, 

progressively?

One's own experience teaches -

more as -

it generates emotions,

good and bad,

serve as -

cognitive stimulator for-

association, value generation, effectively;

shall we perceive, preserve value,

identify stories behind it;

orchestrate changes to shape it,

influentially?

Future hasn’t been-

fully unfolded yet,

generate, integrate, orchestrate-

next generation of -

global leaders, professionals,

tap into-

their way of -

looking at-

the world,

deal with -

opposing views, concepts,

constraints, competitions,

influence perception into-

a holistic understanding, 

progressive movement

to step into-

 the brighter future,

collaboratively.

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Initiatives

The more effortlessly you can guide, align, integrate, and optimize important business elements such as people, process, and technology, the closer you can accelerate business performance and lift the business up to the new-cycle of business transformation.

Organizational growth exploration is all about planning, investing, designing, operating, consolidating, integrating, securing, modernizing, optimizing, balancing. It is a continuous effort to adapt to the new world of businesses, faster, always on, hyper-connected and fiercely competitive. 

Business management should build a working environment in which the growth minds get encouraged, creative energy flows around, communication is the two-way street to lubricate business interactions. It takes a structural way to integrate both hard and soft business elements to build long-term organizational advantage.

In order to explore the emerging horizon, you have to understand what it means to the business and get to know the ever-changing ecosystem: To survive in the digital era with overwhelming growth of information and frequent disruptions, it is imperative to explore different views, fresh knowledge, and multiple perspectives to gain a holistic understanding of complex problems that may occur and develop a systematic approach to overcome the challenge. Explore the horizon which is high enough to stretch up the business, clear enough to steer the business in the right direction.

If the organization understands itself in relation to its context and unleashes its full potential, it should be able to determine whether it requires changing something to become viable. It's about people being willing to be held accountable, following the good rules for their own benefit. It takes a systematic approach to work across disciplines with contextual understanding to solve complex problems, and make transcendental leap.

Intensity of business transformation needs to be handled at the mindset level, changing underlying values, common beliefs, philosophy and methodology: The business today is not just working within the industry, but also permeating a cross-ecosystem which is interdependent, hyperconnected, and interactive. Organizational change or innovation is complex; there are numerous points-of-view and reference points of varying stakeholders, and they all have a different perspective on how to run a successful business. With high uncertainty and frequent disruptions, the varying stakeholders need to adjust "every day" of the business transformation journey as the current situation and its net value changes rapidly.

The complication of traditional organizations that are caused by over-layering, rigid hierarchies, fractal structure, or skill shortages, etc, could make the business vulnerable. The digital intensity needs to be handled thoughtfully, understanding psychology underneath. In many large-scale business transformations, fear has always been one of the major obstacles to change--fear of failure, fear of loss of control, etc. Make a smooth transition from static mindset to growth mindset, to expand the business transformation horizon and stretch up growth space. Nowadays, organizations depend heavily on their information fluency, technological knowledge and market capabilities to experiment, learn and innovate.

Organizations initiate heterogeneous team setting, embark upon the road of total inclusion: In face of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of new normal, to predict the future trends and risks, business leaders today must be inclusive, very open to fresh knowledge, desire unique insight, search for unconventional wisdom, recognize merit and ideas, close multitude of gaps and build a complementary team to generate high performance results consistently.

There are plenty more questions one can ask to illustrate the importance of inclusion. The goal of an organization is to find out how you can locate the right candidate for a specific position within an organization. Are you planning to build a homogeneous or heterogeneous team; a complimentary team or a competitive team? What is important is that everyone feels committed to the goals of the team, and are comfortable with “who they are” associated with those goals. People feel comfortable sharing ideas and thoughts because everyone has a different perspective based on their cognitive difference, diverse life experiences, and cultural values.

The leading businesses across the vertical sectors are the ones that can adapt to the digital new normal and manage the proactive business growth continuum. The more effortlessly you can guide, align, integrate, and optimize important business elements such as people, process, and technology, the closer you can accelerate business performance and lift the business up to the new-cycle of business transformation.

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Innatehquality

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

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

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

        High Quality 

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

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

Innatequality The world becomes more dynamic, change is for renewal; innovation is for value generation. We are now entering an even more rapid and extensive period of business expansion and high degree of interdependence, with a sense of urgency. The future of organizations is complex enough to act intelligently and nimble enough to scale up or down, to accelerate business performance smoothly.

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

Innerquality The speed of change requires the business to adapt to the dynamic business new normal, and the fiery business competitions push organizations to deliver qualified products or services to woo customers and gain market share. Nowadays, quality is everyone’s business. High-quality enterprise consists of high-quality people, high-quality products/services, and high-quality business capabilities/processes, etc. From the organizational management perspectives, how to gain an in-depth understanding of business competency + quality, what do you put in place or how would you then structure your business to ensure that the ability of your business to adapt rapidly and deliver products and services with high quality?

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

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Business management needs to embed the art of design into the science of reengineering to harness innovation and explore the art of possibility.

We are living in a complex world in which interactions, developments, and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have complete knowledge and understanding of many issues facing the organization today. It requires strategic agility, structural flexibility, cross-functional collaboration, intelligent processes to reduce business frictions and deal with emerging conflicts, disruptions that arise, harness communication, and build high performance organizations from functioning to delight.

Harness the data’s actionable power to improve business agility: Business operates in the real world, and the real world is muddy and even chaotic. Information is the most invaluable asset besides people in the organization. Just-in-time information management is crucial to ensure information fluidity and business holism, for running a real-time digital organization.

As companies across vertical sectors should transform themselves into the digital business that is based on information, time-to-insight is increasingly becoming critical and often plays an instrumental role in making sound judgment and effective problem-solving. As there are always some assumptions made in data selection and analysis, It requires organizations to adopt new and more effective methods to obtain the most meaningful results from the data that generate value and accelerate business performance.

Harness “soft” innovation such as leadership innovation, communication innovation, and culture innovation, besides “hard” products, services or business model innovation: Interdependence and hyper-diversity are the very characteristics of contemporary organization. Every innovation initiative today needs to be information-enriched, people-centric. It’s always important to harness innovative leadership, bridge gaps, fertilize creativity, and empower innovators. Build a working environment in which creativity is encouraged, cross-functional communication is harnessed, and the next innovation practices" continue to emerge.

In management practice, it's not easy to bring all talented people and mold them into an effective innovation team, and build a flexible work environment to harness innovation. It is important to build a motivational environment with less overly rigid rules,In practice. Business management harnesses creativity, values fresh ideas. Trust reciprocity works because of shared innovation goals, it creates less stress on the business relationship and harness across-boundary communication to improve innovation effectiveness.

Harness an proactive learning-thinking-acting-improving cycle: With ever evolving new normal, knowledge does not stand still, needs to flow and transfer for achieving its business value. Knowledge cycles drive the emergence, extend through the scope of the organization. Business leaders and professionals become aware when some of the long-acquired knowledge is no longer applicable in certain situations. They should be learning all the time as they go.The amount they learn is probably closely related to the amount of risk they take. The iterative learning-thinking-acting-improving process leads to a series of refinements based on learning and experience, rather than "good" or "bad.”

The shift from the reactive learning mentality to proactive learning attitude enables individuals and organizations to look forward, improving their learning agile. However, there are far too many who do not fully harness their creative ability when it comes down to refining their thought process, acting scenario, and improvement stages. Make the observation and deepen understanding by asking the right questions, and open for varying answers. There should be a balance between the organization and the individual where the responsibility for learning is concerned. Practice multidimensional thinking, and only then, can you be selective, to capture invaluable insight to solve problems, and lead progressive changes

With emerging lightweight digital technologies and overwhelming growth of information, the world has become much more complex and smaller all at once due to blurred territories, hybrid interactions, intriguing business relationships. Business management needs to embed the art of design into the science of reengineering to harness change and explore the art of possibility. Every organization should make continual improvement in order to meet their objectives and stay competitive all the time.

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Rejuvenating business is not an overnight phenomenon, organizational reinvention takes planning, experimenting and scaling up to achieve high performance results coherently.

Organizations today are the mix of old and now, hard and soft, visible and invisible components. There are both big picture thinking, and in-depth understanding of knowledge context to do business planning, enhancing great design, and flawless business operation. 

It's a strategic imperative for scrutinizing the strength and weakness of the business, rationalizing application portfolio, analyzing total value and cost, to improve business agility, performance, and resilience.

It is important to scrutinize digital intent - vision, purpose, strategic goals; recognize pathfinders who can come with a foresight: Organizations need to determine what the future needs to look like, envision a need that others overlook or ignore, and have a willingness to forge ahead to satisfy their vision. It takes exceptionally strong and visionary leadership to see all important business forces working against the better path of the business growth, bring about significant changes in business minds, attitudes, and behaviors. It's also about understanding people’s strength, enforcing their talent and accountability, and giving them a means to shine.

Business ecosystem becomes so dynamic, if the business understands itself in relation to its context, it should be able to determine whether it requires organizational design to become viable. It’s important to listen to people’s feedback because often they are the cause and center of business transformation; involve them in both change planning and process implementation, to gain fresh insight. It’s important to continuously collect customers’ feedback such as the information customers really use, the process customers encounter difficulties, as well as their overall experience of adopting new products or services, etc. So all sorts of business pathfinders (leadership influencers, innovators, change agents, customer evangelists, talent refiners, etc) are able to close gaps, generate clear vision to reinvent the business.

It’s imperative to take initiatives for optimizing processes and application portfolio: Organizations should build a strong application portfolio, to constantly sharpen dynamic business capabilities, enabling an iterative planning-implementing cycle. Rationalization efforts must be incorporated in a business-led effort to address a business pain point. On top of that, the organization now realizes that you cannot just rationalize the application portfolio without looking at holistic business context, emerging technology, collective skill sets, and sourcing portfolio.

In reality, too many applications overlap functionality, too old applications stifle business changes. It’s a dysfunctional issue and decreases business speed. Application rationalization can’t be successful unless the short-term quick win nature of applications are transformed into the long-term strategic advantage. Gain an in-depth understanding of underlying business processes, functions, and structures, examine inner-connections and define any constraints in the business system in order to take effective rationalization scenarios. For the actual business process optimization, application rationalization, share some best and next practices about how to rate, rank, optimize objectively.

It's important to analyze total cost, total value, and total impact of developing a set of unique organizational abilities: Organizations have limited assets or resources, to improve business effectiveness and efficiency; it’s important to understand that all sorts of business initiatives need to produce value with clearly defined goals and data support estimation. Do comprehensive value/cost analysis, clearly define appropriate metrics, build a team of inclusive stakeholders to further define the charter, prioritize and allocate resources, balance quick gain and long term win.

The challenge is to have visibility and traceability between costs and the assets consuming those costs. Also, understand that value is multifaceted, besides tangible economical value, there are customer value, cultural value, societal value which are “soft,” hard to measure tangibly. Data-based cost/benefits analysis is an important tool to optimize cost structure without sacrificing quality, improve value chain and better brand value. Use hard numbers if you can, measure the right things, and measure them right.

The very characteristics of real-time organization are openness, responsiveness, innovativeness, fluidity, hybridity, etc. The business management needs to properly understand all elements of value that are translated to the organization, and how all the pieces and parts of the organization are ultimately impacted. Rejuvenating business is not an overnight phenomenon, organizational reinvention takes planning, experimenting and scaling up to achieve high performance results coherently.

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In order to influence others in a constructive way, people or organizations present differentiated competency, build solid character, cultivate creative culture.

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.

Inquisitive Influence

Inquisitiveness Curiosity is a human nature, inquisitiveness stimulates imagination; amplifies influence and accelerates improvement. Asking the right questions helps to validate how thorough and deep your thinking is on a particular issue: it can also assess whether they consider various different perspectives. How to ask good questions is the art, science, and philosophy, and the cross-knowledge domain discipline to fuel imagination, enhance learning, and deepen understanding.

Inquisitiveness & Innovation As we steadily move into the deep digital reality with continuous disruptions and competitions, innovation is a differentiated business competency to build long term organizational advantage. People who innovate are not afraid to challenge conventional understanding, they have the unlimited curiosity to ask questions, explore alternative ways to do things

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

Influence It is the paradigm shift from static to flow, silo to integral, and mechanical to organic. Influence is thought-provoking, insightful, and permeating. In order to influence others in a constructive way, people or organizations present differentiated competency, build solid character, cultivate creative culture.

Innovatingviaquestioning We live in the world full of pondering, oftentimes, a great question gives us hint to think broadly, deeply; some questions seem paradoxical, some questions are circular, some questions cannot be answered, some questions seem not questions, some questions can trigger more questions which are thought-provoking,,,,,,

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