Pearl Zhu Quotes

“The high performing board shows the ability and openness to “question itself, senior management team, and its decision/discussions.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Inquisitiveness

“Digital leaders today need to become more inquisitive, creative, and informative.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Inquisitiveness

“The risk management needs to lift up from risk control to risk intelligence which can identify the potential business growth opportunities.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Risk Management Digitalization Boardroom

“The board’s oversight of information management agenda helps to highlight the strategic perspective of IT and improve its differentiated value.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Information Management

“The digital board’s IT inquiries help to clarify the strategic role of IT in maximizing business potential.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Information Management

“The board’s oversight of information management can highlight the importance of information flow, set the tone for building the culture of information-based decision-making.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Information Management

“Digital boards should set the tone for talent development and management.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“It takes a lot of energy to break old habits and outdated thought processes.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Paradox Digitalization Boardroom

“The board directors see the development of strategy as a collective effort between themselves and management, rather than a question of “us versus them.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The corporate board oversees the corporate strategy, and the business strategy is underpinned by business capabilities.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Create an innovative boardroom with “free atmosphere,” so directors are inquisitive to ask great, tough questions for deepening understanding.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The corporate boards need to focus on their own performance as well as the performance of the management team.”

Book:Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“Boards need to master risk intelligence to identify both business risks and opportunities.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Good boards advise and get all those fundamentals right.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Corporate governance is to make sure that management is doing its job properly.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Governance Digitalization Boardroom

“The contemporary corporate board as the top leadership team plays a directorial role in envisioning the future of the business and overseeing the corporate strategy.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The corporate board should set the tone to “baking in” the vision into the DNA (culture) and drive change proactively.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The true vision is a reflective process of an organization really understanding itself and its purpose to perceive the future of business.”

Book:Digital It: 100 Q&as

Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as

“Strategy blind spots are often created by the lack of future-driven mindset or a systematic approach to form and implement a strategy.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Diversification is a component and in some cases a very good initiation of value creation.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Diversification

“Information and decision-making are intimately connected and interdependent, this is particularly true in the digital era.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Decision Making Digitalization Boardroom

Book:Digital It: 100 Q&as

Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as

“Information as input to the decision-making does not absolutely determine the decision but allows the decision-maker to practice analytical thinking and exercise their judgment.”

Decision Making Digitalization Boardroom

“Board directors need to work closely and collaboratively with the management to identify opportunities and risks and take the digital journey from good to great.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The board updates policies for adapting to the digital new normal for both enforcing the effectiveness of strategy management and harnessing business governance maturity.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The board of directors should take an outlier’s lens to criticize the business strategy via questioning wisely.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Innovation Digitalization Boardroom

“An ultra- modern board can set a clear choice among future scenarios that advocate innovation, advancement, and promotes positive behaviors.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Vision Digitalization Boardroom

“The digital boards today should be informed on what benefit is being delivered by IT and aware of constraints and risks.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Leadership Boardroom Directorship

“Board directors as key strategic decision makers in the organization need to understand the information potential and become IT advocates.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Decision Making Digitalization Boardroom

“The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Leadership Digitalization Boardroom

“Good policy makes good things easy to do, and bad things hard to do.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Policymakers

“Digital board directors with the right dose of “doubt” are real critical thinkers who can ask deep questions.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Critical Thinking Digitalization Boardroom

“To gain digital insight and lead business transformation effortlessly, the digital board directors need to become more information savvy and IT friendly.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Many foresightful boards invite CIOs to the big table for bridging gaps and harnessing communications to accelerate digital transformation.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Cio Leadership

“IT savvy boards will have the advantage of pulling enough resources and pushing the technology-enabled business change and innovation.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Information Technology Boardroom

“How deeply the corporate boards can dig and which questions they should ask will directly impact on the success rate of IT investment and the boardroom governance effectiveness.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The board’s IT investment review and strategy oversight help to fill the blind spots and bring the new perspective on improving information system effectiveness and efficiency.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“An IT-friendly board should oversee the business strategy with IT strategy as an integral component.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Leadership Digitalization Boardroom

“Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Leadership Gaps Boardroom

“The board directors need to gain a deeper understanding of the enterprise in order to be a credible actor in the strategic dialogue.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The digital board directors need to be independent thinkers, unbiased communicators, wise advisors, flexible facilitators, and global leaders these days.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as