Thursday, May 2, 2019

The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 5/2/2019

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2.8 million page views with 5500+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master book series includes 27 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the 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 digital leadership, IT Management, and Talent Management.

Five Practices to Bridge Digital Maturity Chasm Digital is the new paradigm associated with deep ecology. The digital organization is more like living things with self-adaptable and self-renewal capability. Doing digital is perhaps about taking a few actions, but going digital and running an intensive, effective, and cohesive digital organization takes dynamic planning, dedicated execution, and holistic digital management disciplines. Here are five practices to bridge multiple chasms and improve organizational effectiveness and maturity.

The Corporate Board Director’s Digital profile III Leadership is about the future and direction. The corporate board as one of the most critical top leadership pillars needs to be future-oriented, able to steer the organization in the right direction. It’s difficult challenges because there are uncharted water and blurred digital territories on the journey of going digital. The board directors should convey their “outlier’s vision and have to leverage the different points of views to truly become the strategic advisor of the business, conduct changes, monitor business performance and maximize business potential. Here is a set of board director’s digital profiles to bridge the multitude of leadership gaps and develop a high-effective and high-performance corporate board.

Reimagine Digital Organization - Design for Harmony We slowly, but steadily move to the era with an abundance of knowledge, endless information, and abundance of ideas. Digital organizations today increasingly exhibit sophisticated characteristics such as hyperconnectivity, nonlinearity, interdependence, etc, in various shades, extensiveness, and intensity. There are competitions, conflicts, and controversies all over the places, which bring both opportunities and risks, unique scenes and hidden pitfalls. Digital dynamism doesn’t just mean volatility or uncertainty. With effective leadership and masterful design and orchestration, digital organizations can be operated as high-performance and high mature business catalyzed by diversification, versatility, and intelligence. It’s important to create a business context in which people are empowered and respected to create the business synergy that is the essence of the business harmonization.

The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Investment Officer” Apr. 2019 This book “12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence. The important thing is that CIOs as the top leadership role must have a strong mindset, a unique personality, and a clear idea of what needs to be done, yet creative enough to not hold the company back from growth. Regardless of which personality they have, digital CIOs need to be both transformational and situational, innovative and tactical, business savvy and technology insightful, communication-effective and operation-efficient. Here is a set of blogs to brainstorm CIO as “Chief Investment Officer.”

The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Minding Cognitive Gaps Apr. 2019 I"Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with the multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to identify and strengthen the weakest link and take a stepwise approach to make a leap of digital transformation.

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating the 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 the 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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