“CIO Master” Book Tuning: Three Dynamic Elements in Running Digital IT

Digital transformation represents the next stage of business maturity which will optimize how the enterprise works and interact with its ecosystem, with the customer at the center of its focus, and how the business always on, because employees can get work done from anywhere, anytime, with the right information to make the right decisions. Digital IT becomes more dynamic and innovative to be a pathfinder for the digital transformation. Here are three dynamic element in running a digital IT.
Dynamic leadership: Generally speaking, due to the speed of changes, especially at technology arena, CIO needs to be a dynamic person with open, growth and complexity mindset. The CIO should have both broad business acumen and deep technical expertise as well, with high ability to handle personal attributes, manage impressions, communications to suite situations so as to make things happen.  A dynamic CIO can take courage to challenge the executive team’s expectations, as the reason many businesses end up not delivering value or achieving optimal performance is that there are too few executives willing to constructively challenge things. As a IT leader, a CIO’s dynamic persona will directly influence IT and business culture as well, and transform IT from a static support function to a change organization; from a cost center to an innovation engine. A CIO should accept and understand what they have to offer and strive for what is needed to establish and maintain the balance of operating and innovating. From IT leadership perspective, it is also about striking a balance of management (processes), leadership (people) and technical expertise/IT skills, with the capability to speak both dialects fluently.
Dynamic capability: IT is a key enabler of capability-based digital strategy. Digital capabilities such as manageability, optimization, automation, agility and flexibility, etc. are dynamic, lego-like, and recombinative, and IT is the superglue in integrating business processes, resources and information into a set of necessary and differentiated digital capabilities that the company need to implement its strategy. It directly impacts on how people are managed, budgets are planned and project portfolio are managed. The role of IT today for many organizations is a business 'solutionary' for information, automation, and orchestration - although the real goal is, as is the case with every part of the organization, helping the business become, stay, and increase profitability via building the dynamic capability and competitive advantage. Dynamic workforce: With increasing speed of changes, the ability to adapt to change also becomes more crucial than ever. This is particularly true for IT employees, due to the disruptive nature of technology and overloading information. An adaptive mind has better learning capability. Each person has a different level of knowledge (the consciousness about a problem) and reacts to environmental Therefore, knowledge management will be a huge factor in the workplace of tomorrow. Therefore, building a dynamic workforce is to provide a creative working environment with necessary resource to improve productivity, creativity and employee engagement. IT also plays a critical role in information and knowledge management of the organization.  The future looks to have more real-time sharing of information and knowledge across industries and professions of the likes we have not seen yet. Sifting that information and capturing what's value to the organization will take savvy and speed to be on the leading edge.
Dynamic really means a lot for IT organization such as speed, agility, innovation, flexibility, or information savvy. Principles, Processes, People, Practices, Performance, etc are all critical factors to run a dynamic IT and high-performance business. Follow us at: @Pearl_Zhu