The Monthly “IT Innovation” Book Tuning Jan. 2017

IT plays a significant role in managing information-knowledge-insight cycle and fostering innovation by leveraging disruptive technologies and enriched information flow. But more specifically, how can IT build differentiated capabilities to become an information power center and an innovation hub? The purpose of the book “IT innovation - Reinvent IT for the Digital Age” is to help business and IT leaders and digital professionals ride above the learning curve, reinvent IT as an innovation hub and game changer; reimagine IT as an innovation outlier; renovate a hybrid IT and digital organization; fine-tune IT as the digital whole brain of the organization; accelerate IT on the fast lane, rebuild IT as the business capability multiplier; empower IT as a digital change agent; and leverage the “alphabetic elements” to run a highly innovative IT organization for the digital age.
            “IT Innovation” Monthly Book Tuning The New Book “IT Innovation - Reinvent IT for the Digital Age: Nowadays we are living in an information abundant world where technology is pervasive and the masses are looking for their own experiences to introduce new technology into the business. There are both incremental innovation and radical innovation. IT is often the driving force for both. IT plays a significant role in managing information-knowledge-insight cycle and fostering innovation by leveraging disruptive technologies and enriched information flow. But more specifically, how can IT build differentiated capabilities to become an information power center and an innovation hub
The Multi-Color of Digital IT? IT is in the middle of a sea change, traditional IT organization is monolithic, monocolored, stereotypical, and slow to change. In order to improve the tarnished image of IT, digital CIOs must set principles and guidelines, but not overly restrictive rules to run digital IT with the enriched color of IT leadership, empowered IT talent teams and enhanced IT-business partnership to make a leap in digital transformation.
How to Run a High-Mature IT Organization in a Proactive Mode Technology is pervasive, business initiatives and digital transformation today nearly always involve some form of technology implementation or information analysis; IT touches both hard business processes and soft human behavior. However, the majority of IT organizations still run in the reactive mode, take the order, fix the symptoms, and keep the lights on, get stuck at the lower level of maturity. With emergent digital trend and the increasing speed of changes, innovation is no longer “nice to have,” but must have the capability to make the organization thrive. IT has the necessary structure/ methodology/tool in shaping the new box of thinking and managing the emergent digital complexity with the characteristics such as hyper-connectivity, hyper-diversity, and hyper-dynamism. And it is strategic imperative to run a high mature IT in a proactive mode to catalyze changes and orchestrate innovation.
A set of Q&As (V) Dealing with IT Innovation Dilemma”  Modern CIOs face many challenges, it is not sufficient to only keep the lights on. Regardless of which industry or the nature of organization you are in, being a digital leader will need to master the art of creating unique, differentiating value from piles of commoditized technologies and take advantage of the emergent digital trend as well; digital CIOs also have multiple personas, “Chief Innovation Officer,” “Chief Insight Officer,” “Chief Improvement Officer,” “Chief Information Officer,” and here, we discuss CIOs as “Chief Inquisitive Officer,” with a set of Q&As to lead digital transformation.
Running IT as the “Light Power” to Navigate Digital Transformation  IT is shifting its reputation from a reactive help desk and support center behind the scene to a proactive innovation engine and change agent leading at front. A CIO must be able to add value to an organization through strategic thinking involves being visionary. Traditional IT in the industrial age is often blamed as the controller to slow down the speed of change. Digital IT is running at much faster speed, and being elevated to the “light power” for navigating digital transformation via identify obstacles and reaching the destination more confidently.
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