Sun.Oct 11, 2015

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Gartner Focuses on Algorithms as the Foundation to Digital Business

Social, Agile and Transformation

Gartner filled their opening keynote with lots of advice for the Digital CIO. As I've been saying on this blog for some time (see posts on agile thinking, cultural practices, and program management) digital transformation is not a bunch of business driven projects that have a beginning and an end. Transformation requires significant culture changes in how enterprises work internally, how they.

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Which Habit would you like to Target with a World-Changing-Act?

Future of CIO

The world-changing act starts with mind shift. With increasing speed of change and continuous digital disruption, from an organization as an entity to a human society as a whole are on the way to adapt to the rapid changes. Digital professionals today have to equip a growth mind to pursue autonomy, purpose, and mastery. They intend to make an impact in hyper-connected and borderless digital global community, but which habit you would like to target with a world-changing-act?

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Is Hierarchy Good or Bad for Systems?

Future of CIO

System hierarchy is different from command control hierarchy. As complexity is pushing the boundaries of the thinking and traditional systems, what we do know is "those larger and more complicated systems" do not have the requisite agility to adapt to more complex and adaptive environments.The more nonlinear, interconnected, and interdependent the environment, where uncertainty and emergence become more prevalent, hence accelerated rates of change, the less likely ordered hierarchical systems ar

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