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Three “Soft” IT Management Disciplines to Drive Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

Machines, tools, and environments that IT professionals use will become more powerful, easy-to-use and knowledge-base. Build the people advantage in IT : As businesses become so dynamic, how to develop and manage their people is often the most challenging soft discipline.

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Overcome Barriers to Accelerate Transformative Changes

Future of CIO

Communication gaps decrease productivity, stifle change, cause mistrust, and decelerate the business speed. Miscommunication is often caused by perception gaps because people have different knowledge bases and cognitive understanding to articulate things. Change is inevitable, and the speed of change is increasing.

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Running Intensive, Effective, and Cohesive Digital Organization

Future of CIO

Effective : Effectiveness is about doing the right things and qualifying the business result. The digital era upon us is full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, and ambiguity, business leaders should focus on effectiveness.

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What is more important? Enterprise Architecture or Architect

Future of CIO

How would you structure an EA intervention in an organization if you assume that all people in the organization are in professional role-a professional is that they engaged in expanding and applying knowledge in a domain that is growing its knowledge base? That is, ongoing learning is a necessary component of all work roles.

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Leaping Digital Transformation at the Inflection Point

Future of CIO

All forward-looking organizations are on the journey of digital transformation. Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way the business is conducted and expand business transformation to the multiple directions so that simply adopting a new digital technology is not insufficient.

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The Systematic Effort Behind IT Magic

Future of CIO

What C-level executives really expect from a digital CIO is an insightful business partner, someone who knows what they want before they know themselves. CIOs need to be the information master who can convey the technological vision and in-depth business insight.

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EA & Five-Dimensional Business Capability Map

Future of CIO

Five-Step Value Chain 1) Identify or create a knowledge product 2) Assemble the product (hire and train consultants, knowledge management) 3) Market and Sell the product (awareness, sales, engagement) 4) Deliver and oversee the engagement (engagement, collections, service) 5) Follow-up and value recognition (service and account mgmt) 4.