The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 6/23/2016

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO”  6/23/2016To Celebrate 2900 Blog Posting in “Future of CIO”: Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating the new ideas; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves.
“Digital Master” Book Series Introduction 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 journey in a holistic way.
“Digital Agility” Book Introduction Chapter 5: Agile Dot Connections: Agile is not only the ability to create changes, but also the capability to adapt to changes, and create a working environment to inspire creativity. If creativity is all about connecting the dots, and agility is about shaping a customer-centric organization with a culture of innovation. And then, how can we connect the dots between agile and other desired goals of the digital organization, such as strategy, quality, flexibility, innovation, etc. Because Agile is certainly not just a “development thing,” the goals of agile transformation lie with the organizations to overall improve organizational maturity.
The Monthly CIO Debates Collection Running IT with Digital Speed June 2016 Due to the changing nature of technology, IT leadership role also continues to involve & shift the focus, to move up the maturity level. More and more CIOs are requested to take more responsibility and many CIOs present the breadth of leadership competency. The proactive IT debates help IT leaders to brainstorm innovative and better ways to do things, and improve management capabilities. Here are the monthly CIO debates collections.
“Digital Agility” Book Introduction Chapter 7 Agile Maturity: Many organizations are transforming from doing Agile to being agile, apply agile philosophy, methodology, and practices to scaling up and building a truly agile organization is an important aspect of digital transformation. But what characteristics determine whether organizations are truly agile or just calling themselves agile? How do you define Agile maturity? And how to build a high-mature Agile organization?
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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