CIO Master Quotes

“Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of the “old experience” and the “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“IT needs to transform from a big fat silo to the digital fit brain of a modern organization.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“IT needs to be the super-glue to bridge business silos and enable holistic decision-making.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“A multi-dimensional IT creates multi-level values to the business as a whole.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“IT agility is a mentality, culture, process, and perspective.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“One of the most influential aspects of people's psychology is how they perceive the world around them and how they relate to it.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“CIOs need to be IT evangelists and learn to sell, speak business.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“IT more often needs to play a pivotal role in discovering the path to strategy implementation.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of changes and the purpose of change.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“IT can coordinate all necessary business elements, either hard or soft, to orchestrate a digital symphony.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“IT needs to be running in a proactive digital mode, rather than in a reactive industrial mode.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“The future of digital organizations is to be complex enough to act intelligently and nimble enough to adapt to the change promptly.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“Digital IT is all about speed, agility, and flexibility.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“IT delivery is about People, Process, and Technology.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

“The CIO needs to be an enterprise ‘polyglot,’ to master both business language and IT terminology, and beyond.”
― Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It