Innerabstract

Understand issues from different angles, to reach a higher level of thinking, deal with challenges, recapitulate knowledge quintessential, and abstract ultimate wisdom.

Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom are interrelated terms. Often misunderstanding or poor judgment is the root cause to many problems today. Lack of abstract thinking and profound understanding leads to silo mentality, misinterpretation, division. When dealing with complex circumstances, especially with cross boundary knowledge domain, abstraction intends to bridge differences, capture essence, refine universal wisdom.

Abstract diversity of thoughts to reach a point of agreement: The level of thinking and understanding depend on your ability to categorize, recategorize, how you learn and understand, how deeply you can dive in; how further you can think ahead; whether you can enhance a healthy cycle of “learning-understanding- communicating- influencing”; whether you are able to make cognitive expansion of the thinking box from smaller to bigger; one to many.

Perhaps the more knowledge you gain from different sources, the more necessary you need to abstract your thoughts, integrate different pieces of knowledge, refine fresh insight and articulate your thoughts accurately. When people leave outdated thoughts and standards to seek additional knowledge and experience, they are stepping outside that box to unfamiliar territory, and expanding into a much bigger box or across the boxes. So abstraction is important to gain more universal understanding, develop interdisciplinary knowledge to reach a point of agreement,

Abstract helps to define a very flexible business blueprint, having the abstract components with loose structures: It’s important to perceive the business with both a broader scope of abstraction and an in-depth understanding of its inner-connectivity and interdependence. The abstract layers of the business framework include generalization, reusability, holism. Technically, abstraction is to make things brief. An architect’s mindset is abstract, critical, coherent, and persuasive, for gaining an in-depth understanding of abstraction, harnessing communication effectiveness, improves planning flexibility,

To ensure business as a whole is superior to the sum of pieces, abstraction helps people from different functions close gaps and facilitate mindful conversation to clarify common goals, build business blueprint with abstract components, and make integration process more smoothly. A business landscape is a structural process which can bring greater awareness of intricacies and the systemic value of organizations, processes, people dynamics, resource alignment, cultural quintessential, or technological progress.

Abstract thinking enables people to capture substance from style, grasp the quintessential from fast growing information or knowledge: Knowledge is detailed; insight is abstract; story is detailed, outline is abstract; proposal is detailed, summary is abstract. Abstraction enables us to focus on the most critical things, learn, unlearn, relearn fluently. If your abstraction makes the audience think deeper, bridge subjective and objective perception, you are on the right way to reach the next level of understanding. But if your abstraction makes people get lost, worse than the original version of knowledge, it’s important to analyze further, generalization or specialization, which steps cause confusion; how people’s intention, capability influence upon their interpretation of circumstances differently.

Fresh perspective and novel concepts can be recapitulated into deep insight and abstract wisdom. Improving the level of cognition to abstract essentially. Philosophical principles, laws/community rules, clearly defined guidelines are all good examples of abstractions for leading people to make better judgment as they need to hold on to their common beliefs, and pull in the same directions.

It is the amalgamation of thought, analysis, synthesis, prediction of consequences, enabling people to break down the old knowledge box, apply multidimensional thinking to understand issues from different angles, to reach a higher level of thinking, deal with challenges, recapitulate knowledge quintessential, and abstract ultimate wisdom.

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Inquiry

People, organizations and societies are all integral systems that are defined by components and their compositions, and show the interconnectivity between parts and the whole.

Systems Thinking is about understanding interrelationships between parts and the whole. It helps digital leaders and professionals discover the interconnectivity and interdependence of the digital business ecosystem, help them get behind the "surface" validity and give them deeper insight into the nuances of why and how, and ensure that the digital business as an organic system is growing and evolving with its environment in harmony.

  Inquiry

Inquiry People vary in their ideology, cognizance, perceptions, personalities, and priorities; and they react to situations in different ways. Change itself is a tough choice; every person participates in change, experiences the change journey differently and learns from it differently. By taking a philosophical lens, people can gain insight about themselves, their organizations, as well as the ecosystem they live in for exploring the unknown, discovering truth, and advancing human society smoothly.

Initiateinnovativeinquiries Our world is full of uncertainty, change, and complexity; the art of questioning is to discover truth, spark imagination, and provoke comprehensive answers; the science of questioning is to clarify logic, dig into root causes, and figure out better solutions. Asking good questions demonstrates intellectual curiosity, to understand the point of view of the other side, gain objective observation of circumstances, and frame a common-agreeable approach.

Initiateinquiries Our co-shared world is hyper-connected and interdependent; it is the time for a tremendous awakening toward "inquisitiveness" with interdisciplinary understanding and problem-solving. There are always different complexities at a different time or dimension. It’s the time to connect and share; to learn, explore, experience our commonalities, and appreciate our differences.

Initiativeinquiry Change is inevitable, a new paradigm arises out of new mindsets, knowledge, and approach. In a lot of organizations, particularly well-established ones become stagnant after experiencing a rapid-growth cycle. The organizations or societies that have hit the heights of success in the digital world aren’t those that have determinedly followed the old models and ways of thinking; it’s those that have forged a new path, developed integrated capabilities, built strong talent pools to accelerate organizational performance.

Initiateinquiries In a world full of information, the circumstances are complex, uncertain, a variety of cultures or traditions have inundated us with conventional wisdom. To explore the truth and make progressive changes, organizations need to continually cultivate the next generation of true critical thinkers, independent thinkers, or creative thinkers who can challenge conventional wisdom, analyze and synthesize all sources of information to form their own opinions and make objective judgment; generate novel ideas and solve problems unconventionally.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with about 11300+ 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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Follow me, follow you; there are times to lead, times to follow…

Follow mind, be open to learning;

our mind has been shaped via-

education, surroundings,

historical events happened in-

our generation, consciously;

inclusive mind is open,

share ideas with-

each other,

let idea flow, freely;

treat different situations with novelty, freshly;

no matter how many times,

we’ve seen it or done it before,

follow trends,

explore possibilities, emerging;

growth mind is-

curious, dynamic,

climb up,

build tall,

learn from each other,

listen to -

diverse viewpoints, continually;

sharpen skills,

refine expertise, fluently.



Follow your gut-feeling,,

do what you feel is right,

be confident;

believe in yourself.

have the right mindset, attitude,

skills, willingness to-

participate in your vision,

keep your imagination flowing, freely;

take chances,

tolerate risks,

whenever you hit a setback,

do not give up,

give in,

too quickly…



Follow me ,

follow you;

there are times to lead,

times to follow;

good followers are -

not just a “yes” man,

mindless order-taker;

silo pragmatist,

follow others, blindly;

they are-

positive, compliant,

support each other, trustfully;


Be an independent thinker,

fearless change agent;

do not follow -

others’ opinion, blindly,

but analyze, synthesize -

all sources of-

information to -

form your own opinions, mindfully;

follow the right guidance,

raise your expectations,

demonstrate competence,

at varying opportunities;

work harder & smarter to-

keep the arc of-

your career path;

life journey on-

an upward road, inspirationally.

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Initiatives

Organizations clarify strong business logic via seamless alignment of people, process, and technology, and apply the best fit methodologies, technologies, and practices to improve the success rate of business management.

In today's dynamic and unstable business circumstances, sooner than later, enterprise runs into fierce competition, unexpected disruptions. It is critical to identify and strengthen the weakest link of implementation, and determine how each part of the organization, including all important functions, must "put all things together" to bring tangible business results. 

So the business management is emerging rather than being prescribed, moving from linear steps of strategy-implementation to iterative planning-implementing-adjusting continuum.

It’s important to gain a holistic view to refine or adjust the problem statement so that it can be approached piece by piece, without ignoring interdependence: The collaboratively interdependent organizations can reach the higher state of business maturity because limited hierarchy works best in a creative environment. The business becomes more effective when the corresponding learning curve has reduced uncertainty to the point where both the strategic synergy and organizational interdependence can be structured, people follow clearly defined principles for solving problems in a structural way under complex, uncertain and ambiguous circumstances.

To gain the in-depth understanding of interdependence, it is important to apply a holistic view of the organization as an interconnected and interdependent whole; where the free flow of ideas and their prompt implementation is a key element of business success. Break the big plan into meaningful small chunks so that people are willing to deal with them piece by piece, take calculated risks and readily measure progress. What works and what doesn´t, depends on the nature of the organizational interdependence that needs to be enabled.

It is important to think about business from a micro and macro perspective in a structural fashion: Where macro or micro are simply methods of viewing or understanding the resolution of the process. It starts as a top-down method of divergent thinking to establish the context of the system that will be eventually conceptualized and designed for. More often than not, you need to take care of issues behind the scene such as functional misalignment, structural rigidity, or cultural inertia, etc.

The macro view is useful to tell you "What"? While micro views tell you How? Both are necessary, analysis and synthesis. Continue to question: Why? Where? and Who? In general, the qualitative or constraints come from the macro level; the quantitative or energy come from the micro level. Solid business management requires both levels of macro and micro perspectives of the business system. on a micro level, one department may improve their operational efficiency. On a macro level, you should consider the optimization of all the departments, and the effectiveness and efficiency of a holistic business management.

It is necessary for the coherent use of various already known concepts and gradually opening up to the best and next practices: Every organization should strive to explore the "best practices" throughout the organization. Developing the best practices help to standardize solutions to some common problems usually within the industry. These practices might be different across organizations, across departments, and affiliates within an organization and can change over time. In fact, they should change and evolve over time.

The practice is always a combination of people and how they are used to doing things. It’s important to orchestrate organizational interrelationship by sharing information, harnessing cross-boundary communication and collaboration, and building mutual trust. Often, the best practices were industry-specific and evidence-based. They are based on data, communicate the possibility of change in structure, patterns, processes, and scale up efforts in improving business management agility.

Business strategy management can build a solid roadmap to get from here to there. If its implementation does not result in delighting existing or prospective customers, or increasing market shares in existing or new markets, then it is not a successful implementation. High performance organizations clarify strong business logic via seamless alignment of people, process, and technology, and apply the best fit methodologies, technologies, and practices to improve the success rate of business management.

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It’s important to manage the boundary between the organization and the external world, enforce cross boundary communication and collaboration.

Our global world is forced to "grow out" of an old paradigm with silo patterns, lagging concepts or outdated knowledge, because of constant changes in the physical world, frequent disruptions in reality. 

The digital ecosystem expands when the business territories blur and the business communities broaden their scope and consume all sorts of resources. The ever-changing business dynamic brings significant opportunities and responsibilities for the new breed of worldwide organizations to reinvent themselves constantly.

A global professional with a global mindset develops the potential to make global influence: In this globalized world and market, it has amply been demonstrated that embracing diversity makes sense, for many, many reasons. A visionary globalist can see the world with fresh eyes, open mind, and across boundary interactions to create thresholds of possibilities that can result and expand into innovative advantages. Global mindset is an objective worldview that looks at problems or issues objectively in a broad and deep way that global perception is much closer to the objective reality that the majority of insightful global citizens are experiencing. So a solution emerges through a multicultural and interdisciplinary approach involving global capital.

Global influencers are visionaries, experts, agile learners and diligent practitioners who can facilitate continuous digital dialogues and initiate global conversations that inspire innovation in diverse domains of expertise. Giving people the time to voice opinions or perspectives is a powerful way to demonstrate your respect, harness communication. Business leaders and professionals can develop global cognition, share the well-blended insight from a global lens, develop their expertise and be put in the right positions to solve problems innovatively.

Look at innovation from the perspective of developing global wide innovation capabilities and world class leadership competency: Innovation can happen anywhere across the global ecosystem. A structural global innovation system helps organizations recognize challenges, understand boundaries, deal with constraints, frictions, and bridge a variety of gaps seamlessly. It's critical to connect the right dots, identify hot spots for innovation, build innovation clusters to nurture fresh ideas, manage innovation initiatives and accelerate innovation development cycle.

In order to scale up innovation efforts across the globe, fostering cross boundary global collaboration is the key to creating an innovative organization. It’s important to understand a variety of global dialects, demonstrate cultural empathy and emotional excellence. It’s important to embrace the holistic ecosystem view of innovation development, bridge a variety of gaps, and leverage holistic understanding to improve innovation competency.

It’s important to integrate resilience into processes, systems to reinvent a truly global organization: In today's interdependent global economy with high levels of unpredictability, uncertainty, and unrepeatability, global leaders and professionals build working environments where the global team and virtual team can thrive, they need to leverage variable factors in making sound judgment and solving problems effectively. The business has to keep optimizing its structure and management proactive to achieve the state of business resilience.

Business becomes more complex, risk is part of business reality, you just need to handle it structurally in managing business complexity and improving organizational agility. The level of organizational resilience depends on the interrelationships, interdependence across the organizational hierarchy. Lift up from risk control to risk intelligence, identify the potential business growth opportunities from risk management. Security, risk, compliance, and governance should be converged into a cohesive risk management discipline to improve overall organizational agility.

The digital boundary is not for dividing, but permeable to enable information, ideas, and knowledge flow seamlessly. It’s important to manage the boundary between the organization and the external world, enforce cross boundary communication and collaboration, harness collective innovation, and build a highly mature global organization.

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Innerquality

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.

   Inner 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.

Initiativeofquality Quality is all about what people think and do the right thing right to increase reliability, manageability, operability, reusability, etc. High-quality enterprise consists of high-quality people, high-quality products/services, and high-quality business capabilities/processes, etc. Quality is everyone’s responsibility in the organization. Quality management needs to be a cross-functional collaborative effort, not something one team does alone in a corner, in order to improve the entire business’s effectiveness and maturity.

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.

Quality Organizational excellence is achieved by delivering qualified products or services and continuously improving business performance. Quality Management is not one department’s work, as a degree of quality is in everything people do and experience. Quality is not just the specific task of one single business department or function as well, it is one of the business management disciplines which needs to be taken in a systematic way. Quality management is like change management, and needs to be embedded in the corporate culture. Functional managers need to become quality champions for quality control and quality assurance, and they are the quality masters to run the high quality and high-performance digital business.

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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Innatenormality

It is important to develop your own set of company rules to inspire changing mentality, motivate positive attitude and good behaviors, generate new knowledge, and deal with “VUCA” normality.

When building the future state of the business, make sure that you break it down into looking at the ideal future first, followed by the practical view via resource, schedule, and talent assessment. Many organizations today are running in between the mix of old and new; “virtual interaction” and “human connection,” and balance between the two actions- competition & collaboration. 

Only if they can clarify the vision, put the right talent in the right position, you are able to navigate changes with the past and future being held in balance by “now.”

In the world where change is a normality, find a regularity in chaos, and recognize chaos in a regularity: Change is significantly speeding up, business leaders can't predict the future with a certain degree of accuracy, and the strategy can no longer stay static, the business goals can no longer be well framed in advance. The more complex the situation is, the more different approaches are needed to reach for insightful understanding of hidden paradoxes and pattern-discovery behind the “VUCA” new normal.

Change cannot be just another thing that needs to be accomplished, it has to be woven into collective communication, mentality, process, and action of the organization. In these uncertain times, strategic planning should go hand in hand with contingency planning around “what if '' scenarios. So businesses are able to initiate rapid and effective response to business change and bring up business value continuously.

It’s good to combine some new ingredients or give some new twists, to create some new normal from old: Innovation is the most needed change. Creative people always look for new challenges. They don’t create out of boredom, but through gaining fresh knowledge or experiences. Creativity demands the possibility of the wrong in order to be exploring in a free way. It’s all in the attitude and cognitive ability of the mind, and it just needs to be nurtured properly. So if you have to obsess with something, obsess with innovation. It involves allowing to be part of a process of experimenting, and learning.

Forward-looking organizations explore the new possibility and unlock the potentiality to perform in the future. It is important to look at innovation from the perspective of developing business-wide innovation capabilities. They need to keep making fresh twists, fine-tune methods and processes, and stretch out in every business dimension for deepening understanding and driving a seamless business transformation. So business does not only “earn enough from today,” but “thrive in the future,” because that’s what really matters from the longer-term perspective.

Organizations provide choices to engage employees, and delight customers as the personalized normality: Choice with full awareness is the freedom from the conditioned circumstances, allowing us to explore options that one individual or a homogeneous group might not have uncovered. It provides the opportunity to think about new ways to do things and increase people-centricity. Organizations provide choices for customers, provide them personalized solutions; provide choices to talented employees on how they would like to get the work done, stop micromanagement and increase autonomy.

Every situation has known unknown and unknown unknowns, whether we know it consciously or not, we are always making a choice. So the abundance of information and emerging technologies provide the opportunity to re-imagine the new possibilities, think of a new way to do things. The point is: How to provide those “unusual options” and how to help people make better choices? Although we can't control the outcome of our choices, it’s important to leverage quality information, weigh options appropriately to solve problems innovatively.

It is important to develop your own set of company rules to inspire changing mentality, motivate positive attitude and good behaviors, generate new knowledge, and deal with “VUCA” normality. Forward-looking view of the organization is to determine what the future needs to look like, what the business transformation should look like, and how business leaders and professionals can navigate through new normal and thrive in the exponential era with focus, determination, and competency.


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Initiatives

Knowledge alone is not sufficient, gaining business insight and foresight to accelerate digitalization is the key.

In a world where change is significantly speeding up, business leaders or professionals couldn’t predict the future with a certain degree of accuracy. It's time to step into the deep, deep new normal, co-designing the delightful landscape, defining a comprehensive roadmap and drawing a scientific knowledge flowchart are all stepwise approaches to embrace change and evolve digital proactively.

It’s important to be truly open to new ideas, or if you are only pursuing those that support your current understanding of the facts: Learn to avoid pitfalls on the way, discover how and where to find invaluable information, not just the information itself. It is a basic way humans cope with the thousands of bits of stimuli that they encounter - information being only one. They have to make fact-based decisions and deal with complexity effectively.

Because the information you absorb and knowledge you select becomes "part" of you, and directly impacts how you make judgments or decisions. Organizational management needs to ponder: What investments can we make that lead to both staff and customer satisfaction? How to foster a culture of people centricity? Where to start, and who are change agents? Not only do fact based analysis, but also be open to new ideas, balance short-term quick gains and long term perspectives, with the goals to build organizational competency.

It’s critical to gather the knowledge or fact around the subject under scrutiny and then and only then, can you be selective in getting the right information to make sound judgment timely: There is good information, misinformation; there is new knowledge, outdated concepts. It's important to make connections between pieces of knowledge. The bridge between quality information and business insight is deep understanding, which allows business leaders to envision emerging opportunities, predict risks, have the right level of ambiguity tolerance, and lead the business forward confidently.

If knowledge is gained from learning, insight is captured from unlearning then, re-learning. It’s always important to connect cross-boundary dots for developing business insight. When these connections are structured in a meaningful way, we are better able to retrieve and apply knowledge effectively and powerfully. In information-savvy organizations, analytics needs to be well embedded into business culture, lead data-based decisions both at the strategic and operational level.

It’s crucial to frame a growth mindset, learn to use the new lens of the new era, refine data based facts, acquire new thinking and fresh insight: The pervasive information age and knowledge economy requires the balance of “old experience” and “new ways to do things.” The newer thoughts, newer trends, newer knowledge are all that captivates learners with new curiosities to learn quickly, absorb and adopt it selectively. To keep information relevant, knowledge updated, and insight fresh, there is nothing scary about the evolving trends in any field of knowledge.

Constantly gain fresh knowledge as learning occurs through the processes to solve problems, the activities you spend on absorbing information and digesting knowledge; the experience of failing, etc. High potential leaders and professionals adapt more readily to whatever changes life/work throws at them. They not only assimilate the existing knowledge, but also they share knowledge with others to overcome common challenges.

Uncertainty and ambiguity are the new reality, with the paradigm shift, knowledge is not less important, but more important; knowledge alone is not sufficient, gaining business insight and foresight to accelerate digitalization is the key. The part of taking knowledge seriously as a corporate asset involves assigning responsibility for knowledge within the organization, developing business capacity for changes, dealing with risks effectively for running a high performance business.

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Innerquintessential

It is important to create conditions so that fresh ideas can be generated fluently; creative potential can manifest, and fresh perspective and novel concepts can be recapitulated into deep insight and abstract wisdom.

Our world now becomes more advanced, over-complex, hyperconnected, and interdependent than ever. It requires people to see things through a broader lens, discover hidden patterns underneath. 

 People become wise when they are humble enough to be aware of and admit what they don't know and share what we know, and constantly explore truth from myth, and become purposeful and insightful human beings.

It is the responsibility of each individual to examine themselves and to make sure they are open to true understanding: When you look, you are not always truly seeing; when you listen, you are not always really hearing the true message. To understand correlations and discover patterns, it’s important to perceive the interdependence of varying relevant issues or connected pieces.

To bridge the difference, it’s important to have people who can extend the thinking box, complement each other’s viewpoint, broaden the knowledge base and deepen the understanding of varying issues. When you truly understand, you know the real issues are, you’ll know what you need, and how to get what you need to achieve the “art of possible.”

It’s crucial to go a few inches deep by bridging subjective and objective perceptions, knowledge and insight: Our perception is an interpretation based on our conditioning or beliefs, philosophy, mindset etc, leading us to make judgment. When the mind listens to itself, then it tries to connect by association; the deep problem that reveals is to understand what are the evolutionary pathways implied by those mind switches and how we can leverage different thought processes to stimulate novel ideas and solve complex problems innovatively.

People need to acquire additional information, with an acceptance that you do not know enough to achieve your purpose; you recognize a gap in the knowledge you have and value in closing the gap. So you are able to dig a few inches deeper and handle issues thoroughly.

It’s great to abstract the thoughts, recapitulate knowledge quintessential: Analyze and synthesize all sources of input and information to form your own opinion. Remember, actions or words are said to be the second order. Once thoughts have been accessible to others through language or action, you reach a stage to assess the logic of everything; thoughts, language, actions. Thoughts are the first order, language as a method of communicating thoughts. Abstract your thoughts, so you can unify, enable people to capture the true essentials, and get rid of trivial details.

Put aside all the trained thoughts, ]and boxes, let the open possibility come to connect. It is the amalgamation of thought, analysis, planning, prediction of consequences, enabling us to recapitulate knowledge quintessential, abstract wisdom. When in-depth thoughts and understanding transcend into fresh insight, the good solution to a specific problem can be scaled and applied to other domains, you can deal with a set of issues holistically.

There is the thought that we are creating our experience moment to moment, bringing our reality into existence as we go. It is important to create conditions so that fresh ideas can be generated fluently; creative potential can manifest, and fresh perspective and novel concepts can be recapitulated into deep insight and abstract wisdom.

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Profundity is not for its own sake, but to become more persuasive, influential to communicate empathetically, and deal with tough situations holistically.

All humans are born with raw creativity ability. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge and multidimensional insight. Creativity is the wings of our mind and the tempo of our heartbeat. Creativity is a constructive disruption, not so bad addiction, and a sensational phenomenon.

The purpose of “100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity “ is to classify, scrutinize, articulate, and share insight about one hundred special creativity ingredients, to paint the picture with them, to add colors on them, to embed the music into them, and to make the story via them, in order to unleash our collective creativity potential.

                               Innovativeness

Initiativesofinnovativeness Being innovative is a state of mind: To create a new idea requires not just a single type of thought process, it’s multidimensional thinking; not just one skill, but many; not just casual efforts, but daily practices; not just old experiences, but new perspectives. Be aware and engaged with both the inner world of thoughts, feelings, choices, and the exterior world of interactions, synergies, experiences. Isn’t blogging a creative way to express professionally and amplify professional influence continuously. Isn’t it a tough journey to celebrate 11,300 blog postings - to pursue the digital way of brainstorming, innovating and sharing.

Innovation Organizational and economic environments play an important role in spurring creativity and catalyzing changes. There are both tangible and intangible elements which need to be knitted into the unique innovation competency of the organization. High-innovative companies or societies can source creative ideas in a more open way and leap innovation management to the next level of maturity.

Innovation In a stagnated working environment, people are disengaged, employees do not feel like they have an opportunity to contribute enough, or their work does not get recognized fairly. Business progress is more like a journey than a destination, it is no surprise that there are many confusions or frustrations on the way.

Innovation Innovation is all about doing things better, differentiating yourself from competitions, and lifting the business up to the new growth trajectory. There is always a noble goal behind innovation, identifying shared goals is a crucial collaboration success factor. There are many ingredients to build innovation competency, such as open-mindedness, interdisciplinary expertise, learning agility, patterns understanding, etc. The world becomes more dynamic, innovation is for renewal; it is equivalent to sustainability and resilience for an increasing number of hyper-connected enterprises and industries.

Illustrateoriginal Being original is one of the important characteristics of authenticity, because you don’t just blindly follow other people’s opinions or practice conventional wisdom only. Original thinkers come up with conclusions and solutions for problems with their own unique cognitive processes, sometimes, they are confused by their limited cognition threshold. But if they are open-minded enough to embrace diverse feedback; and keep refining their knowledge and methodology, they are able to become some sort of innovators, to make an influence significantly.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 16 million page views with about 11300+ 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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The ultimate goal of Business Architecture is to envision and design the future state of the business.

Forward-thinking organizations are in search of fresh ideas, reimagine the future of business, and consider designing the new model to drive transformative change for improving organizational maturity. 

Business Architecture is a practical tool for guiding, facilitating, monitoring, deliberating, sustaining a balance of diversified viewpoints, navigating critical business activities to deal with complexity, and enabling strategic alignment. Business architecture can be invaluable for performing a wide array of tasks including strategic positioning, change facilitation, process optimization, governance enhancement, and keeping the priorities in balance, for riding the tide of digital transformation.

Business architecture provides an invaluable set of philosophy, methodology, and ontology for improving organizational manageability: Business architectures as the steering instrument provides you a holistic view of a business problem seen from every relevant perspective. It enables organizational leaders to frame bigger thinking boxes, and approach problems via multifaceted ways technically, scientifically and culturally. It has deliberate processes for identifying questions, reasoning, and understanding business knowledge contextually.

Interdisciplinary science conveyed via a good business architecture framework should be applied to management with integrating multidisciplinary methodology. It enhances a holistic understanding of the hyperconnected digital business world and discovers a better way to do things.It can be used in governance efforts that help business management gain an in-depth understanding of risks, raise visibility and awareness for many business issues that are captured at the different levels of the organization.

Business architecture is a critical body that bridges the gap between what is required and how it is implemented: What is the role Business Architecture may play to design and manage future businesses The management needs to leverage business architecture as a strategic alignment tool by pondering: Are business processes functioning to deliver results consistent with the strategic intent? Are business capabilities solidified enough to ensure a consistent delivery of customer value? Are managers able to facilitate cross-functional communication? Are people acting in a way that is consistent with the strategy?

Business Architecture is a useful navigation tool for helping business executives seek strategic views of changes; work to perceive issues from multiple points of view, identify trade-offs; make choices. Business architecture can be used as an investment instrument to create a decent business capability map, and make wise investments to achieve a situational balanced compromise or a meaningful trade-off.

Business architecture has to be developed with an examination of the business processes: Business Architecture should have the capability to transform the manual process and the business requirement to process design and process governance. The interactions of the business processes across multiple business departments are what create the Process Architecture of an organization, which in turn, leads to the business architecture.

Business architecture and process design and deployment are not for their own sake, but for understanding, managing and governing organizations better for achieving business agility. Strong business architecture fits for purpose and closes the gaps. The relationships of business processes in the context of the rest of the enterprise systems (architecture, structure, strategies, etc.) create greater capabilities when analyzing and planning enterprise changes.

The ultimate goal of Business Architecture is to envision and design the future state of the business. Business Architecture cannot be defined with a fixed set of deliverables such as value chains, functions, etc, but a strategic communication tool to ensure all related parties are on the same page and the strategy execution is on the right track to produce better than expected business results coherently.

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We all have -our own inner world, social circle; are we confident enough, to- lay aside ourselves, believe- we would not get lost in -what could turn out to-be the bizarre land of others; return to- our own world, quickly..

Every person has-

the ability to be creative,

set aside-

time daily, weekly, monthly,

take a step back to-

observe, reflect,

apply intellectual curiosity to-

make inquiries,

flesh your “creativity” muscles,

constantly.


Being innovative is-

a state of openness,

in which-

you set aside-

what you think -

you know.

set time aside to -

ponder about -

issues on hand,

allow a fresh idea, to incubate, inspirationally.

Open your mind -

listen carefully,

put aside all trained thoughts,

let the open possibility come to -

connect naturally;

put aside-

your stereotypes,

observe deep,

what you see depends -

very much on-

what you are familiar with,

on the parade.

put aside your experience to -

learn fresh knowledge,

what you learn from-

the past depends on -

how open your mind is,

how effortless it would be..

We all have -

our own inner world,

social circle;

are we confident enough, to-

lay aside ourselves, believe-

we would not get lost in -

what could turn out to-

be the bizarre land of others;

return to-

our own world, quickly;

But, we are still,

open-minded enough to-

step outside of -

the comfort zone,

keep learning agile,

be inclusive,

see things differently,

share something new?

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Isn't a tough journey to- celebrate #11,300 blog postings - to pursue- the digital way of brainstorming, innovating, motivating, story-telling?

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 10 million page views with 11,300+ blog postings in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. 

The “Digital Master” book series includes 29 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to businesses and society. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Here is the weekly insight of innovation leadership, IT Management, and Talent Management.

Innovation Innovation is one of the core activities of the business revolution and collective human progress. Business environment either encourages or discourages innovation, the ease or difficulties inherent in surviving. Information is one of the most intensive pieces of innovation. There is more flow of quality information, creative ideas; the better opportunities to reap the benefits from innovation management. Innovation has to become your business routine, corporate culture to renew creative energy.

Inquisitivenss Whether we like it or not, humans are unique, people are different because we think and act differently, not just look differently. Thus, to understand each other, as well as surrounding, we all should broaden our points of interest and try new things to extend our thinking box. So please do not stop speaking out what you are thinking outside the box, also apply critical thinking to understand things differently, bring new perspectives to lead changes.

Initiativesofinnovativeness Being innovative is a state of mind: To create a new idea requires not just a single type of thought process, it’s multidimensional thinking; not just one skill, but many; not just casual efforts, but daily practices; not just old experiences, but new perspectives. Be aware and engaged with both the inner world of thoughts, feelings, choices, and the exterior world of interactions, synergies, experiences. Isn’t blogging a creative way to express professionally and amplify professional influence continuously. Isn’t it a tough journey to celebrate 11,300 blog postings - to pursue the digital way of brainstorming, innovating and sharing.

Initiativesofglobe We are experiencing major societal change from the industrial age to knowledge and creative economy. A new paradigm is an emerging ecosystem of principles, policies, processes and practices that set boundaries, not overly rigid; offer guidance for creating something new through a holistic worldview.

Innovationn today's interdependent global economy with a high level of unpredictability, complexity, uncertainty, and unrepeatability, it requires a new model of thinking, innovating, and transforming. As long as humans are unique, their mindsets, perception, opinions, views, and cultures, etc, are equally unique and diversified. That results in both collaboration and competition depending on the context and situations. Still, innovation is the light that we all need to pursue persistently.

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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Innovative organizations should be capability-driven and people-centric, lighting up the surroundings.

When talking about a business transformation, it can impact the core, enabling and supporting capabilities of an enterprise. It’s not so easy for many organizations, especially those large well-established organizations to de-bureaucratize and become innovative.

 Many organizations which get stuck at the low level of business maturity seem to live in the darkness without a clear vision, identified unique strengths and hot spots for innovation. In the digital era, companies need to create their own strategic light, design a good strategy, build differentiated competency, increase risk intelligence and improve overall business competency.

Organizational strategy provides the light in identifying both building blocks of capacity and roadblocks of changes, setting guidance for the business to move from “as-is” to “to-be” state: All industries have more or less their own distinctive business cycles. Organizations are at a different position in the business cycle, and search for the light for unlocking business performance. All businesses need to develop strategic objectives, derive and implement effective measures. It is more about looking at your strength and core and then formulating a proactive strategy. Every strategy making process will come to the point where resources need to be committed to implementation.

How effectively the strategy plans have been articulated internally and externally, depends on the management's vision as stated through the mission statement; and the communication system effectiveness of the business. Strategy which cannot be executed is just a mirage, so execution should always be part of the good strategy. It follows that strategies always have to be flexible as the business environment undergoes a major change. Strategic light is not burning hot, but warm enough to inspire passion, create new energy for people to pursue it, produce high performance results tangibly,

Innovation is the light all businesses need to pursue now, as innovation touches broader aspects of organization to accelerate business performance: The foundation for innovation has to be grounded in the “vision.” It has to be linked to “hope” and seeking justice, discovering "truth." Besides hard innovation such as products/services/business model innovation, there are soft innovations such as culture innovation, business model innovation, process innovation to directly impact business reinvention and customer satisfaction.

One of the real challenges to innovation management is how to accelerate idea validation and streamline innovation processes. Even if you have many innovative ideas, it doesn’t guarantee innovation success due to the limited resources and possible execution gap. Innovation often evolves the full development cycle which covers the whole innovation management scenario, from processes in managing ideas or idea handling systems to idea implementation and promotion.

Risk management provides the strategic light and tactical angles to improve business management effectiveness for achieving great business results: If the business cannot manage risk effectively, then all the good work done by it so far can be tarnished, and turn out to be a costly affair, the strategic light fades away, darken the business environment. It’s critical to understand the risk appetite of business management, improve the risk attitude of staff, and embed risk management mechanisms into corporate culture. So the enterprise risk management programs would be making continuous improvement based on the feedback from the risk management process and what would be left is what is unknown.

Risk management permeates across organizations and should not be a separate function at all, making transition from risk control to risk intelligence. Identify the potential business growth opportunities, understand opportunities, roadblocks, decide which one to go after and which one they will not go after and clearly articulate forward the way value will be created. Even though all the known and potential risks would have been covered and managed, still, there would be unknown risks, hidden pitfalls on the way, creating the shadow of business changes.

Traditional organizations are often process-driven or operation-oriented, but innovative organizations should be capability-driven and people-centric, lighting up the surroundings. It's a strategic imperative to create a disciplined space for inspiring creativity, develop and test new business models, products, services, and business management approaches, take multidirectional business exploration for unlocking business potential ultimately.

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Organizations need to continually fine-tune a successful structure for improving people-centricity, performance, and unleash its full potential constantly.

Re-imaging the future of business is exciting, but investigating the different path for unleashing business potential needs to take a structured approach and develop it into a more solid form.

 The bigger the organizations or enterprises, the more they have “change inertia. Fine-tuning the organizational design and structure to achieve a high level of autonomy is the journey of business transformation.


It’s critical to organize around the vision and create a new context for it: The current vision needs to be the principal guide to strategic decision-making and resource allocation. Organizational leaders should set the tone to “baking in” the vision into business structures, processes, cultures, A clarified vision articulates the destination the organization intends to get and informs the Change Agenda and requires across-functional management disciplines.

The implication of reorganization is that the model of the context could be useful in developing the perspective of business design and change. Another way to see the power of context is in the ways you can change the factors that create a context. Context needs to be split into different dimensions in terms of understanding the scope of change. The problem is freedom versus control. Both are exploited, people are given too much freedom to exploit it, people controlled are exploited by those given the power. The point is how to balance well for improving business performance.

It’s important to organize around core principles, shared purposes and strategic goals: Guiding principles as statements of belief that reflect the values, culture and real-world concerns of the organization, should cover people, process, performance, and quality. Design and organize around organizations to maintain viability and deliver tactical actions for strategic effect, influence the emergent properties of the environment and enable emergent change in its own behavior, function, and structure.

Organization design is the vehicle through which the business strategy is executed. When organizations can self-organize around core digital principle either for decision-making or problem-solving, the business life cycle could be viewed as resulting in emergent means of autonomous, self-adjusting, and self-renewing by focusing on solving top prioritized issues, balancing resources, and directing people to understand the whole, in terms of its inner processes, its interactions with external systems,

It’s excellent to organize around people - to delight customers, engage employees, generate multifaceted value to varying stakeholders: Many organizations across the geographical or industrial boundaries have come to the realization that in order to be successful, they have to focus their efforts on building people-centric business. So lean on customers, engage employees, and focus on creating value for people in every step, improve employee engagement, customer delight, stakeholders’ satisfaction.

Reorganization needs to enforce effective cross-hierarchical business alignment and accountability. One of the key principles of assigning responsibilities is to reduce as far as possible the number of people who have to be involved in each task, since all the additional communication/consensus seeking dramatically increases the time required to get even simple tasks done. So there needs to be the real delegation of responsibility with well-defined boundaries and clear accountability.

Digital blurs the functional, organizational, and even industrial borders nowadays. Traditional hierarchical lines will phase out. Organizations need to continually fine-tune a successful structure for improving people-centricity, performance, and unleash its full potential constantly.

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