The flavor of GRC practices depends on the nature of the business and the level of the organizational maturity. 

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. The important characteristics of digitalization are over-complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity.

Hence, RI (risk intelligence) becomes more critical than ever. Here's the context; how should GRC programs be approached? Should technology be a driver? Can you achieve any level of GRC without automation? Can you achieve any level of GRC without people? What is the real driver of GRC? Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses in the right direction and achieve expected business results. Here are the multiple perspectives of shaping a strategic boardroom with digital acumen.

        Innovate GRC

Innovategrc There’s a correlation between corporate governance and business performance, and there's a clear connection between bad governance and poor performance. Governance is about guiding and regulating corporate activities to serve the fundamental purpose of the organization. Without effective GRC discipline, the business will face significant risks for surviving, The best practice of governance takes a people-centric, value-creation approach.

Innovaterisk Organizations across industries are faced with the “VUCA” reality, there is a myriad of information, conflicting, disrupting, uncertainties, inherent variability, and the unknown interdependencies among sources of risks. Risk Management becomes one of the strongest pillars of business beyond people, process, and technology.

Innovategovernance Business ecosystem is complex, nonlinear, uncertain, interrelated, and hyper-connected, full of opportunities and risks. Governance should be understood via multidimensional lenses such as value, innovation, people-centricity, and needs to be enforced holistically. When governance is done properly, it is actually a great tool to harness change, facilitate innovation.

InnovateGRC Global societies become more hyper-connected and interdependent. Creating the paradigm change means how to shift from taking a polarized viewpoint to making interdisciplinary discernment; from the classic command and control management approach to coaching and personalization.

Innovategrc Enterprise becomes more complex than ever, uncertainties and complexities are a common occurrence in any walk of human progress. GRC are a set of complex processes that, if well executed at the different levels of organizational hierarchy, will lead to decision coherence and business effectiveness. The GRC program is a journey, and it’s good to start at the top with risk awareness, appetite, attitude, oversight, etc, to improve business management maturity

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 11,100+ 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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Frustration comes from- an element of- dissonance, disagreement…misunderstanding, mistrust…short of expectations; frustration is part of reality, we have to deal with it, positively.

As humans,

we have all sorts of emotions,

If our everyday experience is -

sort of frustration,

use up all energy,

it diminishes passion,

stifles changes,

makes people feel -

struggling, exhausted, distressful,

fragilely.


Misinformation, misinterpretation, cause-

frustration;

silo mentality,

stereotypical bias,

irrational actions,

lead to frustration;

frustration comes from-

an element of-

dissonance, disagreement…

misunderstanding, mistrust…

short of expectations;

frustration is part of reality,

we have to deal with it,

positively.


Spending a lot of energy,

trying to address things,

we cannot control,

raises frustration;

sometimes,

our frustration are caused by-

very real, inescapable problems,

in our lives,

in the society;

can we listen, observe, patiently,

overcome vulnerability,

learn from experience;

deal with frustration, calmly;

recharge. renew, reinvent -

ourselves, optimistically?

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Illuminate”what-if”

 “What if” sparks -imagination, provokes insightful answers; stimulates thought-provoking arguments, inspires creative brainstorming …

The world is-

full of-

knowing known,

knowing unknown,

unknown unknown,

besides digging into “why,”

ask an open question of-

“what if”?

A visionary would ask -

“What If” -

we do things in a new way”;

'How can we make things better for the whole?'

Innovators ask -

“what if” to -

think “out of the box”;

clarify -

multipath problem-solving scenarios.


“What if” sparks -

imagination,

provokes insightful answers;

stimulates thought-provoking arguments,

Inspires creative brainstorming …


Ask “what if” to-

explore choices;

you may not have -

all of the answers,

but you can remain -

confident, resilient,

your actions will be in-

the best interest of-

those involved,

advocate innovation,

inspire creativity, unimaginably.



Ask “what if” to-

unleash latent potential;

believe in ourselves

grow talent,

convince everyone else to-

believe in it,

as well.

If you do not direct -

gradual strides toward -

pursuing the deeper state of -

thoughts, understanding;

broadening perspective,

taking mindful actions,

you will never know-

what the substance can do for-

the potential of -

the livelihoods;

“What If”charms the world,

makes-

the “art of possible.”

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Illuminatevalidate

Validate ideas; everything has -always started with- an idea; ideas come and go, freely; ideas are worth nothing unless- it's being executed, to -generate value, smoothly; validate them, keep them flowing, accelerate idea validation, implementation, seamlessly.

Global society is -

inundated with-

true knowledge,

misinformation,

common beliefs,

conventional wisdom;

validate common sense,

a common sense in-

a local group is-

perhaps totally odd,

in a global environment.

the validity of it,

depends on-

the degree of familiarity,

Where did you learn from it?

Does common sense lift you or fail you,

unbelievably?


Validate true wisdom from -

outdated concepts, knowledge;

arguably,

humanity argues as much or more about -

what we ought to do;

a good argument opens-

a new perspective;

refresh knowledge;

a bad argument causes-

confusion, frustration;

Is argument leading to -

discovery of truth,

or unnecessary pain?

are we able to -

learn the rules of -

logic, proof,

required to -

judge a valid argument from-

an invalid one,

persuasively?


Validate ideas;

Everything has -

always started with-

an idea;

ideas come and go, freely;

ideas are worth nothing unless-

it's being executed, to -

generate value, smoothly;

validate them,

keep them flowing,

accelerate idea validation,

implementation, seamlessly.

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Initiatives

Know when to move forward and when to take a pause, self-reflect, learn & relearn, realize the strategic goals of the organization, and produce higher-than expected business outcomes coherently.

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. 

 

Innovative organization today asks for a new mindset, a connected world image, global consciousness, and cognitive intelligence, etc. Whether we like it or not, as long as humans are unique, their mindsets, views, opinions, culturess, etc are equally unique and diversified. The culture of innovation starts with a culture of participation because employees want to make a difference in learning and development, to do meaningful work. Inclusion is strongly supported by management teams, all levels in the organization can reap the benefits of personal and professional growth, weaving all critical business factors such as processes, technologies, people, culture, etc, into differentiated business competencies.

Innovation is about moving forward. There is no standing still. Continuous movement is what makes things happen. And if business consciousness at every stage of evolution is synchronized with the spirit of nature; it’s able to keep an organization dynamic and energetic, inclusive culture is nourishing and fluid; lead radical change, and accelerate business performance. innovation is ripened when the power of influence is based on acute observation, insightful understanding, courageous questioning, unconventional connectivity, and deep penetration.

An agile management philosophy advocates “Iteration, Interaction, Improvement”: Philosophy can allow people to see the cause and effect thoroughly for improving organizational manageability. Even presently, philosophy seems to be a completely different discipline from science, but philosophy is the foundation of science. All the insightful managers love the information- knowledge - wisdom.

Many organizations are in the survival mode subconsciously; but sometimes they can reach the “conscious or even superconscious” mode to drive transformative changes proactively. The overall outcome of the management philosophy and artifacts is the set of structures in use within the business and enterprise ecosystem. If senior management holds to a philosophy that planning things is better than reacting to them, setting philosophical principles to encourage desired corporate attitude & behavior, monitoring performance and handling risks effectively, advocating “interaction, iteration, improvement,” they will see the essential benefits of the philosophy of agile management.

Understand multifaceted business logic, either as business language logic, process logic, business model logic, change logic, or autonomy logic, etc: In large complex organizations, there are multi-functional dialects, to engage employees, you have to understand each other empathetically, communicate with each other. Even better if all parties can speak the language of business.You cannot conceive of any types of language without logic. Business management needs to take initiatives for clarifying business logics, demonstrating their organizational abilities for growth and innovation. It can offer the opportunity for senior management to determine whether they are supporting the business model innovation, transformative changes.

High effective leaders encourage the staff to improve their proficiency in work by managing iterative thinking, agile learning, proactive acting continuum, and making continuous deliveries. In high-performance teams, by clarifying business logic, the selection of roles is assigned automatically and naturally, focusing on creating the right atmosphere in which people can take ownership of their processes and participate in various activities to boost performance or catalyze innovation.

Organizational reputation and success today are founded on innovation and to a very large extent, the most invaluable asset of the business is talented people. Don't waste your time hiding or keeping yourself from accumulating invaluable experiences of learning, experimenting, innovating. Know when to move forward and when to take a pause, self-reflect, learn & relearn, realize the strategic goals of the organization, and produce higher-than expected business outcomes coherently.

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Innovation & Information

Innovation only exists in the more open environments that create insights, take advantage of all sources of creativity in an open way and leap innovation management to the next level.

Within abundant information and emergent digital technologies, Information technology is a key component of holistic business mindset to re-imagine “what is possible” - unleashing business potentials and improving business efficiency, effectiveness, agility, and maturity. The “art of possible” to reinvent business in the digital age is to deliver the value of information in helping businesses grow, delight customers and do more with innovation.

       Innovation & Information

Innovativeinitiatives With the increasing pace of organizational changes and digital disruptions, innovation is the unique path to build business advantage. The available digital technology just makes innovation easier to do now than in the past, less costly and more easily accessible. Every organization needs to develop the best or next innovation practices, apply effective technologies, tools or methodologies to drive innovation for really adding value to corporate growth in the long term.

InformationRequirement Information Systems are the backbone and provide valuable information for business growth and improve organizational responsiveness. Information is the key ingredient of innovative solutions to today’s complex business problems. Digital organizations must manage information effectively, and bring to the table innovative solutions that meet customers’ needs while reducing the cost to market. In fact, information is one of the most intensive pieces of the innovation puzzle.

Itinvestigation Nowadays organizations are complex, hyperconnected and interdependent, Information technology is a linchpin to integrate key business components into core competencies for successful business solution delivery, Traditional organizational management with siloed processes often causes bureaucracy. IT captures organizational knowledge to continuously investigate critical issues, improve performance. Dysfunction, incoherence, and bad reputation are not always easy to uncover. It takes processes, methodology, and practices to identify the real problems in order to improve IT from functioning to firm to delight.

Innovativeness Today’s organization is the mixed bag of old and new, order and chaos. Organizations, like individuals, need to be in flow to communicate fluently and change frictionlessly. Innovation is to have a new perspective on things, and it is the process that transforms novel ideas or knowledge into business value. Innovation is the core human activity to change the environment for reaching high performance, you have to manage it strategically and systematically to achieve a consistent business result.

Innovateorganizationviait Change is still the new year theme. Information Technology will continue to be the disruptive force behind transformative change. It was not so long ago when organizations did not see the opportunity for IT to enable the business strategy, let alone actually drive the business strategy. A value driven Information Technology organization needs to understand stakeholders’ expectations and propose a service/solution portfolio that corresponds to both demand and cost drivers with a focus on business priority and unlock the full potential of the company.

The blog is a dynamic book flowing with your thoughts; growing through your dedication; sharing your knowledge; conveying your wisdom, and making an influence through touching the hearts and connecting minds across the globe. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 15 million page views with 11,100+ blog postings. Among 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. 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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Grasp emerging opportunities, create options, not only- think about today, but also- selectively forget yesterday, forward-look tomorrow, confidently.

We live in -

such a complex world with-

all sorts of old & new,

physical & virtual,

right & wrong;

grasp fresh insight from -

flow of information;

grasp trust from -

shadow of doubts,

the world of difference;

grasp truth from -

false knowledge,

unconscious bias…


The contemporary society is-

the product of the past;

when moving forward,

the past is-

like the rearview,

allowing us to -

see what is behind if -

we want to envision -

where we are-

going ahead;

an intuitive grasp of -

relevant past helps us-

gain lessons learned,

without losing-

our visibility, forethoughtfully.

Have a quick grasp of-

overall circumstances;

holistic picture,

analyze gaps, blindspots,

in the context of -

future need,

grasp emerging opportunities,

create options,

not only-

think about today,

but also-

selectively forget yesterday,

forward-look tomorrow,

confidently.

Grasp the light to innovate,

in the dynamic field with-

uncovered risks,

unprecedented uncertainty;

step outside the box into -

unfamiliar territories to -

generate broad views,

design innovative landscapes,

open for change,

reinvent the future,

inspirationally.

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Innovation

Innovative organization or society is a dynamic ecological system with many attributes such as responsiveness, engagement, flexibility, innovativeness, resilience, and self-renewal, etc.

There is no doubt we are moving from a static and linear business world to a dynamic and hyper-connected, interdependent era, abundant information and advanced technologies bring unprecedented convenience to learn and work flexibly; directly impact the way we understand and experience the world. 

Forward-looking companies all strive to build a people-centric organization for reaching the state of flow and harmony.

Global efforts have gone into developing and promoting different means of communication, motivation, etc, in an endeavor to improve people engagement: Forethoughtful organizations strive to become people-centric. Let people explore where their energy is and then, align the energy to work at hand, and motivate them to think and do things innovatively. Motivational leaders are the means toward reconciling all the different factors toward a unifying and driving motivation but it isn't the only answer.

Successful management will inspire changes and align the individual’s professional goals with the strategic goal of the business, motivating people to achieve more, accelerate business performance and unlock collective potential.People can become motivated by two-way communications, listening and asking questions through the engagement process. When motivating people via seamless goal-driven alignment, they will be delighted to do the work because they have been listened to and understand why they are doing it, they are more engaged in the work and bring up the high-performance result.

It is important to build a set of principles and disciplines to discern the positive motivation and creative energy from the negative mentality behind the competition: The purpose of competition is to inspire creative thinking, harness progress changes; so as leaders, you need to be more confident and conscious rather than threatened by growth minds and confident attitude. To be conscious is to be aware and engaged with both the inner world of thought, feeling, choice, and the exterior world of experience and relationship. It’s important to equip yourself with a positive mind, discern the good motivation from negative energy behind competition. Positive emotions such as passion, curiosity, etc, improve inner consciousness, enabling us to learn, share, and connect more dots for generating fresh ideas and harnessing innovation.

Innovation is encouraged based on a set of principles and practices. Motivate people to achieve more by evolving them from the platform of trust and respect that cascades from the top. It takes courage to get out of fear, release creative energy. So top management will have to create a culture of learning and innovation proactively, inspire transformative changes, strike the balance between leading and following, pushing and pulling, and build a great workplace in which creative energy can flow seamlessly. People are motivated to achieve high performance innovatively.

It becomes really insightful when people realize that different organizations want to spend more time on reaching different trajectories of growth or different plateaus of stability: It is important to understand that digital business development is multifaceted and it takes a collaboration effort to boost energy and enable organizations to thrive. Be aware of how changes to any part of the organizational system impact the other parts of the business and the whole. Investigating the different path for unleashing business potential needs to take a structural approach and develop it into a more solid form. Ensure the management understand that stability is not the same as stagnation, they need to break down silo mentality, enforce a balance cycle of process and change, learning & doing; solidity and fluidity, etc, and improve business coherence,

If you need to transform the business up to the next growth cycle, the management needs to take a holistic view, take the right dose of risk to catalyze innovation. Leading organizations strike the right balance of growth and stability, take a wide look around at what's going on inside the company & outside the organization, identify opportunities and threats, deal with emergent issues, try to build teams around business capabilities rather than functions. It requires the executives to coach the organization on how to resolve conflicts in favor of reaching the business objectives, and fine-tune critical success factors, for achieving the long term success of the business.

Innovative organization or society is a dynamic ecological system with many attributes such as responsiveness, engagement, flexibility, innovativeness, resilience, and self-renewal, etc. It requires us to develop empathy, apply rational or technical analysis, gain in-depth understanding of human nature, leverage workforce planning to improve business potentiality development, culture engagement, and performance optimization for producing high performance consistently.

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Progress is fundamentally achieved via an iterative problem-solving scenario.

The purpose of “Problem-Solving Master - Frame Problems Systematically and Solve Problems Creatively“ is to throw some light on how to understand, frame, and solve today’s multilayer, interdependent, and over-complex business problems effortlessly. 

Digital leaders and professionals should be self-aware of their role in problems, show professional maturity, and develop a good reputation as the problem-solver.

              

Initiatives of Innovation

Innovation The digital era upon us is about options and people. Though it is important to take a logical and stepwise approach to problem-solving, logic or process shouldn’t stifle creativity. Forethoughtful organizations encourage alternative ways to solve problems; they expect mistakes and still encourage people to make mistakes, yet they need to be able to guide the team to think open mindedly, improve business flexibility, agility, and innovation.

Influentialinitiatives Organizations and the world as a whole become over-complex, interdependent, understanding the business dynamics, working to influence multifaceted business management takes attention and energy, dealing with uncertainty, ambiguity, and handling complex business problems effectively. Businesses need to find the right spot to change, identify critical problems to solve, with proven advantages to improve organizational agility.

Initiatives Business initiative management is crucial to build organizational capabilities, improve risk intelligence, reap some quick wins or achieve long term business success. Business management needs to keep eyes on what matters, identify what generates the most value for the company and express that in strategic objectives, analyze potential pitfalls and brainstorm pros and cons of different business initiatives. The real challenge is to understand business priorities, know where and how you can and should improve, leverage available resources, focus on the most important things, boost the energy and excitement to achieve high performance results.

Initiativesofpersonalization The purpose of business is to create customers. Providing personalized solutions to customers has become the new normal. Customers must be willing to pay for it, whether it is a product, process or service, to meet their needs. Organizations have to build a set of differentiated business capabilities to keep fit and ride above the learning curve. They need to believe that the people-centricity is an important perspective to build long term business advantage.

Initiatives Change is inevitable, business transformation is a journey that requires clarifying the vision, setting common standards, aligning resources and talent properly, and taking an interdisciplinary approach to drilling down the critical business success factors that underpin every dimension of the business performance.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 11 million page views with about 11000+ blogs 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; 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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Initiatives

Corporate management needs to broaden their investment perspectives, leverage emerging trends, link business strategy to investment goals or business benefit, weave the business “golden thread” for accelerating growth, and harnessing business transformation.

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. 

Companies are gradually opening up to the next practice to enforce change, catalyze growth, harness innovation, and accelerate business transformation.

It is to facilitate brainstorming of creative ideas, new business models to improve organizational growth ability continually: When you are looking at grasping the emerging business opportunities and creating options, business executives not only think about business reality today, but also selectively forget yesterday, and forward-look tomorrow. Talking and actively listening to one another creates excitement which propels good ideas to be formed, sparking possibilities that happen in conversations, developing collective abilities to innovate and catalyze business growth.

The powerful business platforms and collaboration tools provide unprecedented opportunities for businesses to innovate, build coherent processes to expand organizational innovation capacity and increase the probability of innovation success. It’s important to select the right audience, who is able to listen appropriately, learn and quickly absorb and adapt, constructively challenge conventional thinking, stimulate you to seek better answers, but most of all provoke you to listen to fresh ideas, allowing for multidimensional thinking, and value the power of collaboration.

Align the different parts of the business ecosystem to adopt more points of integration with the loosely coupled modular processes, to build up dynamic abilities for organization: Business ecosystem is interdependent and complex, the dynamic organizations need to get away from letting things fall through and start creating “integrated wholes." Most of the enterprise capabilities need to be woven cross-functionally, with all critical building blocks. Loosely structured cross-border interdependencies require a much greater dose of informal elements such as shared corporate values and culture, information flow, common business language, cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills.

At some point in the enterprise evolution, business effectiveness and efficiency are correlated specifically when the organization reaches its capacity. Organizational management should be aware of integration of a single functional capability into a holistic portfolio of abilities across all enterprises. Information technology is “superglue" to integrate all necessary “hard” and “soft” business elements into dynamic ability for business growth and innovation. The crucial business processes need to be reviewed regularly, refined regularly, and are transparent across the business for improving organizational maturity.

It's important to analyze total cost, total value, and total impact of developing a set of unique organizational abilities for business growth: Organizations have limited resources and budget, many organizations spend most of their resources and budget on “keeping the lights on” without providing differentiated business capabilities to compete for the future. It is critical to understand and examine the whole, analyzing gaps in the context of future need, capability dependency, investment calculation, etc. Actual expenditure should always involve a business case. Cost optimization and investments positively affect business productivity and customer experiences. The focal point is to calculate which business initiatives provide the greatest return, and which would be invested in the future.

Visibility of costs measured against the visibility of quantifiable benefits is a way to show how such efforts contribute to the top business growth and bottom line efficiency improvement. The logical investment scenario helps an organization assess whether the business improvement initiatives are the right investment to be done in the first place, and ensure the expected return on investment, with the goal to solve critical problems, accelerate performance, and drive transformative changes seamlessly.


In today’s world where the global business environment, organizations, and technology are continuing to experience dramatic changes at an accelerated pace. Organizational leaders motivate people to move up to the growth trajectory, move into the area of delegation and mentoring, take reasonable risks, and go beyond their defined roles. Corporate management needs to broaden their investment perspectives, leverage emerging trends, link business strategy to investment goals or business benefit, weave the business “golden thread” for accelerating growth, and harnessing business transformation.

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Innovation

Innovation comes in different flavors and there are many opportunities in an enterprise to manage it effectively.

The organization is more like the organic living thing with its unique identity and strength; they should become more open to diverse viewpoints, connect the wider dots in the interdisciplinary domains, look for alternative ways to do things, take the unique path to innovate, and fill their innovation toolbox with the customized process, platforms, practices,, and metrics for improving innovation management excellence.

Innovation is done by people and for the people: A good innovation is empowered by the latest digital technologies today, organizations can set up the appropriately configured innovation platform which creates a scalable means for sharing and building ideas throughout the enterprise. Innovation is a manifestation of a unique trait in some people who consciously or unconsciously strive to do better through changes, and take alternative approaches.

Creative people are in demand to catalyze a culture of innovation in the workplace. For those who are trying to solve problems, they can find the problems evolving as they try different solutions. Sustainable innovation means product and service need to be improved via continuous conversation and collaboration, deal with the diversity of thoughts, ride above the learning curve, build a set of differentiated business capabilities coherently.

Innovation is a good mix of art and science; innovation science is rather more a complex of rules, practices, and examples: What defines the science from chance is the ability to repeat a process with the same resultant solution every time. The science is "the ability to produce solutions in a problem domain repeatedly" through the application of known facts. Companies can be more successful in executing innovative ideas by following scientific principles, relying less on silo function, and more on their cross-functional collaboration, performance management.

Innovation provides the opportunity to think of a new way to do things, it forces business leaders to get really creative on how they implement different flavors of innovations. By practicing the scientific discipline, innovation management effort can significantly amplify its effect and renew the creative energy of the business.

Flexibility is important to make proper adjustments for improving innovation performance: The process of planned innovation shouldn’t be too rigid, the chaos to some extent is necessary for sparking fresh ideas and enforcing flexibility. Different types of innovation should be managed via personalized management processes, talent, and approach.

To break through the idea management bottleneck, innovation management needs to clarify: Can you learn some innovative ideas across the industrial border? Can you also learn what the trend of such a new idea is? Can you identify important technology trends, including potential next-generation innovation waves? Can you recognize the key players who are involved in innovation development? Can you classify the components or operations of ideas, what can interact with ideas, and what parameters the innovative ideas might have? Who else is using such new ideas? It’s crucial to optimize budget and resources, build a balanced innovation portfolio with the right mix of incremental innovation and breakthrough innovation.

Innovation comes in different flavors and there are many opportunities in an enterprise to manage it effectively. A disciplined innovation approach focuses on commercially relevant compounds innovation management which are driven by clear strategic goals, risk management, as well as integral and interdisciplinary process management.

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Innovativegrowth

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.

                  Innovative Growth

Initiategrowth Organizations are at a different stage of the business development cycle; they have to experiment with all sorts of growth opportunities. Most of the time, growth is a tough journey as you have to ride the learning curve, develop different capabilities, overcome change inertia, build confidence and gain enriched experience. Each growth phase has a period of evolution, stability and ends with a revolutionary road of organizational change and maturity.

Initiativesofinnovation Innovation is a process to transform novel ideas for achieving commercial value as "intentional novelty bringing sustainable benefit.” Due to the increasing pace of changes, innovation can happen anywhere. Innovation Management needs to take a structural approach, which is driven by clear strategic goals, effective risk management, integral and interdisciplinary process management, to build innovation as the business competency and long-term advantage.

Initiativesofglobalinnovation We have moved from the industrial economy to the knowledge economy, now stepping into the hyper-connected and interdependent global economy. Companies today need to understand the dynamic competitive landscape, find global ecosystem partners that can help the business succeed, orchestrate business transformation cross-disciplinarily, going beyond functional, business, industry, or geographical borders, and demonstrate the benefits to the ecosystem at a faster rate with much broader impact in the digital era.

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. Today's world class leaders need to keep learning agile, ask insightful questions; gain interdisciplinary knowledge to explore diverse worlds; today’s global companies should realize that they will need to renew themselves periodically to cope with change effectively and advance human society cohesively.

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 for human progression.

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Innovation comprises -a combination of -hard, soft factors, working together, flow, fluctuate, in harmony, to reach- the next level of fluency?

All living beings are creative,

creativity could be -

a fountain flowing-

out of you,

it could fluctuate,

seem to disappear at times,

get blocked,

and then, sparkle,

in abundance;

isn’t creativity -

a flow,

an abstract;

an imagination?



Creativity is -

serendipity,

but can be unpuzzled,

ultimately;

are you able to-

pull it out of-

the box,

look at it through-

different lenses;

thoroughly?

Innovation comprises -

a combination of -

hard, soft factors,

working together,

flow, fluctuate, in harmony,

to reach-

the next level of fluency.

Creativity comes into play when-

you call upon -

conscious mind with -

intention to -

bring forth solutions from -

unconsciousness;

you need to-

have the level of -

intellectual curiosity,

desire to -

learn, observe,

with the natural ability to -

be open, inquisitive;

can you leverage-

emergent,

divergent,

convergent thought processes to -

ignite imagination,

let creative thoughts-

flow, fluctuate, fruitfully?

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Nobody, no organization, no society is perfect, but we shouldn’t ignore those critical flaws that cause significant damages to humanity.

With increasing pace of changes and fierce competitions, many organizations today are running in between- the mix of old and new; different divisions within an organization evolve changes with different speed. There are flaws and constraints in an organization that seems to hold the business back from running a business at a premium speed.

 The top business management needs to be open minded enough to evolve change and cautious enough to identify flaw points, avoid pitfalls, and shape a vision reflecting the purpose of the company via continuous growth cycles of participation, adaptability, expansion, innovation, and optimization.

Flawed perception: Each person has their own set of understanding, characters, experiences to perceive the world, Perception is an interpretation based on your own conditioning, cognitions, leading you to make judgments. So perception is usually subjective, or flawed - it is not absolutely true, but it is what they believe to be true. There are all sorts of misperception symptoms such as silo mentality, stereotypical reasoning, unconscious bias, preconceived ideas about how things should happen. If you only know two colors - black and white; then perceptions are filtered into one of those two dimensions. You can only know what you know, but there are more dimensions which you don’t know. 

Flawed perception causes conflicts, frictions, mistrust, unnecessary pains, leading to numerous societal problems and slowing down the speed of organizational transformation. It’s crucial to apply critical thinking to validate common sense, criticize conventional wisdom, update the best practices, seek out fresh knowledge to address ignorance and assumptions, increase perception objectivity and judgmental intelligence.

Flawed communication: Communication connects the thoughts and words; lubricates business relationships and harness organizational transformation. Flawed communication enlarges gaps, increases conflicts, organizational stagnation, etc. Communication gaps are often caused by cognitive differences, internal politics, ambiguous processes, socio-cultural traits, or other management bottlenecks, etc. In fact, the “lost in translation” is the common pitfall of business management.

 Communication has different content, context, and style; communication is complicated because there are differences in goals and contexts, and these contexts can shift. Without the contextual understanding of people, process, technology, the blind spots are inevitable and cause miscommunication across functional or geographical borders. To fix flawed communication and harness business management, context intelligence is about understanding the whole meaning of functional dialects and business cultures via connection, discernment, penetration, and perception, etc, to harness communication and expedite business speed,

Flawed management and measurement: Business management today is both art and science; involving a lot of planning, processes, risk management, and execution skills to deal with “VUCA '' business new normal. Due to the dynamic business environment, effective processes or systems yesterday might be redundant or utterly ineffective tomorrow, diminishing returns in short order. Too restrictive boundary setting will cause silos, ineffective business processes, and flawed management, which disengages employees, stifles changes, decreases customer satisfaction, decelerates business speed.

The peril of measurement management such as the wrong metrics selection, ineffective performance practices cause more management flaws or resource misalignment. The business management should do information based forecasts, leverage interdisciplinary knowledge to predict emerging events, prevent potential problems, define the right key performance indicators and measure them in the right way to improve organizational agility, effectiveness and efficiency.

Nobody, no organization, no society is perfect, but we shouldn’t ignore those critical flaws that cause significant damages to humanity. Organizational executives today need to have both business acumen and technological understanding to become influential leaders and skillful managers. They must be able to fix management flaws, fine-tune the underlying organizational structures, optimize organizational processes, break through the industrial constraints and limitations, manage flawless execution, and accelerate business performance in a structural way.

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It is important to develop an open atmosphere with candid communication, fortify cross-functional coordination based on quality information, expertise, and responsibility.

Although the information is abundant and knowledge only clicks away, individuals or organizations need fresh insight to move faster because knowledge can be outdated sooner than what you thought of, and the business development cycle is significantly shortened. 

It’s very important for any high performing organization to get the best alignment and leverage the great human potential that exists or is needed to tap into the passion of the people and achieve great results coherently.

 

If we think, ponder deeply: Organizations are the mix of old and new, diversified people and dynamic business reality. Corporate leaders and professionals should learn how to apply a set of integrative thinking processes to deepen understanding of complexity interdisciplinarily. The thought does not precede the thinker, the thinker precedes the thought. The power of the mind is the constructive and creative force to drive progressive changes. The profound thoughts improve problem-solving effectiveness.

The diversity of thought is on demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing the world of wisdom; with the goal to lift up the spirit of the organization and our society. The right mind with multidimensional intelligence is the utmost quality for being the right fit. People with cognitive fit are astute strategists, insightful change agents, inspirational innovators, thoughtful customer champions. They can apply critical thinking to challenge conventional wisdom and bring up a new perspective for solving problems. They are able to make an influence via shaping other people's views or opinions towards their own views or perspectives, showing benevolent intention, enriched knowledge, and profound insight.

If we look, look further, and broadly: We see that all things and especially living creatures have numerous different needs and numerous different wants. And those wants and needs are provided for them at the appropriate time, or in unexpected ways, from places they do not know, their mind cannot think about, and their hands cannot reach. Look further, broadly, vision grows for those who learn to see and enter into the experience of perceptual connection with open minds and fresh eyes. It is important for building competitive teams with people who do not have the same view of the small part of the world so that they can complement each other’s viewpoints and close gaps in different perspectives.

The workforce today is multigenerational, multicultural, and multi-devicing and the digital workplaces are a melting pot of various diversity. We contemplate, reflect, learn, act, perceive, and our vision evolves and leads us to move forward cautiously. We usually see what we have accomplished is always less than our potential. We have to really dig beneath the superficial layer, see around the corner, be able to see beyond the obvious, and dig into the root cause of multiple issues, transcend knowledge into unique insight.

If we act, act step-wisely: Change is the norm and happens the whole time. The bigger the change, the more important it is to take different parameters into account early rather than late. Change can be an opportunity, but at the end of the day, it needs to be all about moving us upward. Ponder deeper, focus forward, we are able to accurately judge the coming curves and obstacles on the path, and get into actions step-wisely.

Change is a journey; either individually or collectively, it’s important to identify and develop a set of capabilities required to achieve goals at a cognitive, attitudinal, behavioral, technical level. It’s important to have a desire to learn, grow and make progress with scalability; communicate the roadmap and make sure it is flexible and evolves with the company’s long-term perspectives, support and celebrate every emotional step of the change curve and take solid steps in leading progress steadfastly.

It is important to develop an open atmosphere with candid communication, fortify cross-functional coordination based on quality information, expertise, and responsibility. Running an innovative business means that an organization can think “out of the box,” figure out alternative solutions from the outside-in lens, build novel things based on the business needs, and come up with optimal solutions.

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