Thursday, March 14, 2019

The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 3/15/2019

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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.

Running IT as a Busines Partner with Transparency
Nowadays, IT needs to work both in the business and on the business. IT transformation means rationalizing current IT department and planning to partner with the business to provide tailored services and solutions in new ways. The CIO's leadership penetration is about the depth of IT expertise and the breadth of enterprise and knowledge upon understanding business as a whole. IT leaders need to take the bold move in pursuing strategic engagement with the business and running IT as the business partner with transparency.

Five Building Blocks of the Boardroom Competency Due to the “VUCA” characteristics - complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and velocity of the digital era, the directorship in any organization must have abilities for adapting to changes, being able to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and strategic goals. The fundamental dimensions of the corporate board’s responsibilities include, but not limited to strategy oversight, policy-making, performance monitoring, and executive advising. Here are five building blocks of the boardroom competency.

Managing Tensions Right to Improve Innovation Success Rate? Due to the “VUCA” nature of digital transformation, innovation in the digital age is coming at seemly a much faster pace, more changes, and more potential disruptions, with a broader scope, scale, and impact on the business’s surviving and thriving. The dynamic innovation perspective and creative balances allow the organization to morph into living conditions and organizational capacities change to allow a better fit for the purpose. But more specifically, how to manage the following business tensions well and improve the success rate of innovation management?

Five Building Blocks to Shape a Learning Organization With the exponential growth of data and the mixed bag of new information and outdated knowledge, digital organizations and their people must learn through their interactions with the business environment continually, infuse digital into every aspect of the business, and keep information and knowledge flow frictionlessly. High organizational learning relates to high response in recognizing and addressing system constraints, unleashing business potential, improving organizational changeability and innovation capacity. Here are five building blocks to shape a learning organization.

The Monthly “Digital Maturity” Book Tuning: The Practices and Efforts to Improve Digital Maturity Mar. 2019 Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational and geographical borders in the business ecosystem. It is like the gigantic puzzle with many misplaced pieces, you have to put them all in the right places to discover the real meaning and unleash its full potential. You cannot make a true digital paradigm shift without an in-depth understanding of the digital interconnectivity and embracing the multitude of digital maturity.

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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