Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.
~ Pearl Zhu
The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.
Agility within and of itself is a strategy.
A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.
The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.
Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.
A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.
The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.
Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.
The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.
The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.
Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.
The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.
A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.
A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.
Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.
The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.
If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.
Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment.
Genuinely intelligence-led operations have to be embedded into both processes and more importantly mindsets to bridge the gaps in Risk Management.
The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.
Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.
Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer,” Risk Management is like a “Brake.
Digital organization is essentially a dynamic, people-centered ecosystem.
The answer from yesterday is not as critical as the questions about the future.
Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.
High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.
The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three “I”s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.
Leadership vision is built on the leader’s authenticity.
We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.
The big “WHEN” about change is not just a particular moment, but a thought-out planning with clear defined timelines.
Change shouldn’t be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization.
The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, “deep common sense,” balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.
The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve problems in a very collaborative working style.
The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.
It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.
Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.
The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.
Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.
Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.
