It Innovation Quotes

“Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The function of the bridge is to mind the gap; the wonder of the bridge is to create a scene.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Silo thinking creates blind spots and enlarges IT-business gaps.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age