“Either dealing with innovation dilemmas or handling innovation paradoxes, it is part of innovation management learning curve.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Modern IT has many faces. Understanding the element of art in digital IT is for achieving the art of possible.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Fundamentally, innovation is the state of mind to think and do things from a new angle.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“CIOs need to have an in-depth understanding of the organizational interdependence in order to fine-tune business structures and improve the strategic responsiveness of the business.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“The digital CIOs are mindful, not necessarily over-thinking, but imaginative, inquisitive, and innovative.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“With digital awareness, the CIO can transform from a technology manager to a business-savvy leader; from a hands-on technical manager to a strategic adviser; and from a support-center supervisor to a proactive change agent.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“IT shouldn’t be the afterthought of the business because technology is often the disruptive force.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“CIOs can provide the holistic business insight via effective information management.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“The companies that are working to bridge the insight gap will be the most successful businesses going forward.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“The paranoid CIOs are not weak, they are just mindful, inquisitive, and innovative.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Great CIOs are great storytellers, envision and communicate a full-fledged, people-centric digital transformation.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“The digital CIO needs to be the proactive, visible, and influential top business leaders.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“IT leadership needs to shift from “surviving to striving to thriving” mode; IT also needs to shift from “controlling to change to innovate.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“The CIO as “Chief Interpretation Officer” is the new digital leadership perspective of harnessing communication and people-centricity for accelerating digital transformation.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“CIOs need to communicate effectively via tailoring different audiences.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“IT leaders need to think like the anthropologist for running a people-centric organization to enchant customers, empower employees, and evolve business partners.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“Critical Thinking is also called structured thinking.”
Source: 100 Digital Rules
“Digital synchronization and strategic alignment occur when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony to achieve a higher purpose.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Complexity is not just a phenomenon, it can be perceived as a property of a system.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“Digital transformation is “pushed” by both visible forces and invisible forces; hard forces and soft forces from multiple directions.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Digital transformation is an arduous journey with the long jump and it takes time and a real commitment to getter the higher level of digital maturity.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Organizations today must take the holistic digital management practices to harness cross-functional communication and collaboration.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“Organizations are moving from doing digital by experimenting some digital technologies to going digital via expanding to all dimensions for leading the holistic digital transformation.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“Organizations are moving from doing digital via experimenting some digital technologies to going digital via expanding to all dimensions for leading the holistic digital transformation.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“Digital transformation is now spreading rapidly to enable organizations of all shapes and sizes to reinvent themselves.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“The future of organization has amazing digital traits such as adaptability, differentiated competency, innovation, customer-centricity, empathy, and participation.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“The highly visible IT can elevate its maturity from “controlling to change to innovating,” from “surviving to striving to thriving,” and from “deficiency to efficiency to proficiency.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“IT-business mutual understanding becomes so important to close the gap and reach the high level of digital maturity.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“IT leaders need to capture the full picture, the holistic business insight, rather than IT picture only.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“A well-defined set of measurement for digital transformation should contain a good mix of the long-term strategic measures along with the short-term operational measures.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“The journey of improving business quality is more evolutionary than revolutionary.”
Source: Quality Master
“The companies that are working to bridge the insight gap will be the most successful business going forward.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“Digital equilibrium is the optimal state of operational excellence, business agility, and organizational maturity.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“It takes a few key building blocks including leadership, strategy, structure, and capability to shape a customer-centric digital business.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“A core competency is a combination and harmonization of multiple capabilities with a focus.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“A “roadmap” is simply a plan for moving or transitioning, from one state to another. A roadmap provides the direction to the future.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“You can’t improve what you are not managing, you can’t manage what you are not measuring, and you can’t measure what you are not focusing.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that it’s a multi-dimensional planning and orchestration.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Learning agility is the willingness and ability to learn, de-learn, and relearn. Limitations on learning are barriers invented by humans.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Dynamic capability is the ability to reconfigure your organization in the way that has the effect of increasing its variety.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“It is important to strengthen the weakest link, to ensure all important business elements integrated and knitted into ongoing organizational capabilities and unique business competency.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“The capability definition is: “the ability and capacity to realize a measurable result in a specific operational context of conditions.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible business elements, for improving organizational competency, and enabling business strategy.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“The capability view can leverage different perspectives from different roles.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Defining your enterprise business capability is part art and part science, and building your business capabilities is more science than art.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“A business capability is the firm’s ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Capability-based strategy-execution is the only path leading to a sustainable digital transformation.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if the gaps are enlarging.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right “tipping point.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Strategy execution doesn’t go for perfect, it’s the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency