The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 6/16/2016

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO”  6/16/2016
“Digital Master” Book Series Presentation The Digital transformation, like the computer technology revolution itself, is a long journey. “Digital Master” is the series of guide books (5+ Books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the business and workforce and help forward-looking businesses to navigate through the journey in a holistic way.
New Book Preview - “Digital Agility” Slideshare Blog: Fundamentally, Agile is not just the methodology and practices for developing and managing software projects, it’s a set of principles to run today’s customer-centric organizations. But how can you differentiate the guide principles from rigid rules? What are necessary clarifications for having an in-depth understanding of Agile principles, and what is the hardest principle to follow?
Digital Master Book Series: New Book Preview “Leadership Master” Slideshare, Blog? Leadership is complex yet simple: Complex in that there are so many traits and characteristics that are considered when evaluating a leader. Simplicity in that the substantial of leadership never changes, it’s all about future and change; direction and dedication; influence and innovation. The purpose of the book: Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity is to convey the vision of digital leadership, share the insight about leadership maturity, and summarize five emergent digital leadership trends.
The Monthly Insight of Digital Board Room  June 2016: At today’s “VUCA” digital dynamic, organizations face both unprecedented opportunities to grow and hyper-competition or great risks to survive. Therefore, the corporate board plays a more significant role in overseeing business strategy, setting principles and policies, and making the judgment on and assurance of corporate action within a framework of practical knowledge. So in order to drive digital transformation smoothly, how to run a digital savvy board and improve digital organization maturity?
Running Lightweight Digital IT to Catalyze Digital Transformation Organizations large or small are on the journey of digital transformation. Literally transformation is to radically change the nature of something. So digital transformation is a radical change of business, leverage digital technologies to renovate business processes, innovate organizational culture, reinvent digital leadership, reimagine the new possibilities and unleash the full business potential of the company. Forward-looking organizations are also empowering their IT leaders to lead more proactively and take advantage of lightweight digital technology to catalyze digital transformation.
Running a Highly Capable Digital IT  Forward-looking IT organizations are shifting from a process-driven silos function to a capability-based digital engine of the organization, because often technology is the disruptive force of business transformation, and the information is one of the most valuable assets in modern business. IT needs to go beyond “keeping the light on,” and focus on adding value to catalyze business growth and improve organizational maturity. More specifically, how to run a highly capable digital IT?
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