The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.
~ Pearl Zhu
Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.
Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.
In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.
Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.
For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.
T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer.
IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays.
A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.
The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.
Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change.
The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.
Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.
A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.
The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.
The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.
Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent
An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.
IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.
Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.
To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.
The function of the bridge is to mind the gap, the wonder of the bridge is to create a scene.
A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.
Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.
Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.
As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses.
