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Business Quotes by Pearl Zhu

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Pearl Zhu notes that knowledge moves through a company, constantly changing and being recreated. She says IT must be tied to business results, and that the board should mirror the interests of shareholders, employees, customers, and suppliers. She also points out that a digital strategy is really just a business strategy for the new normal.

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“Prioritization enables businesses to manage innovation with a focus, not for stifling innovation.”

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“Building an evolving digital organization is about putting people at the center of the business.”

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“Performance metrics are number in context, results related to the strategic goals of the business.”

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“In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.”

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“Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels”

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“The business management is, in essence, the decision management and performance management continuum.”

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“IT is the business’s competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.”

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“Enterprise Performance Management is an overarching umbrella for other management disciplines.”

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“CIOs are in the unique position to oversee the business from different angles, they can have the multitude of business views to…

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“IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if…

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“Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.”

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“Assessing organizational personality, managing company performance and maximizing business potential are all important digital management scenarios to build the high-mature digital organization.”

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“Organizational development is part of the digital strategy, and digital strategy equals to business strategy with digital new normal.”

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“A high mature digital ready IT organization is a threshold business competency and the catalyzer of digital innovation.”

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“The contemporary corporate board as the top leadership team plays a directorial role in envisioning the future of the business and overseeing…

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“Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard.”

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“CIOs can provide the holistic business insight via effective information management.”

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“Metaphorically, IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body.”

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“The business capability coherence is the decisive factor for the success of strategy implementation.”

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“Innovation is an important business capability to catalyze the business’s long-term prosperity.”

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“Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with the business performance.”

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“Running IT as a business is about focusing on innovation, growth, and tangible performance result.”

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“An IT-friendly board should oversee the business strategy with IT strategy as an integral component.”

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“It is time to “align IT to the customer” rather than “align IT with the business.”

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“Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.”

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“IT is part of business, and business is becoming IT.”

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“Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy execution.”

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“IT shouldn’t be the afterthought of the business because technology is often the disruptive force.”

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“Knowledge is without a doubt one of the most valuable and most poorly managed assets in business today.”

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“Boards need to master risk intelligence to identify both business risks and opportunities.”

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“There are two sets of business capabilities: Competitive necessity and competitive uniqueness.”

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“Running, growth and transformation are all important stages for the business’s survival and thriving.”

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“Creative tension is important to switch on the “innovative mode” of the business environment.”

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“Strategic Thinking is about change, and outcomes are positive changes to a business.”

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“Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution’ it’s part of art and part of science.”

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“The business plasticity is the organization’s capability to change, adapt, and innovate with speed.”

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“The board composition should be synchronized with the digital perspective of the business.”

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“Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.”

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“BoDs direct and oversee, like the steering wheel of the business vehicle.”

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“The companies that are working to bridge the insight gap will be the most successful businesses going forward.”

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“By manifesting creativity from an individual endeavor to a team activity and a collective effort, the horizon of creativity is expanded.”

“We need to choose to continue to learn, grow, and empower people to learn and grow as well.”

“Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.”

“The digital boards today should be informed on what benefit is being delivered by IT and aware of constraints and risks.”

“Applying the right procedures and policies to asset management allows IT to create a realistic budget with few surprises, and keep best practices to…

“Knowledge does not stand still; it flows into the company, and it flows out of it; it erodes, and it gets created again.”

“Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with the business performance.”

“The corporate board oversees the corporate strategy, and the business strategy is underpinned by business capabilities.”

“Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.”

“The great communication is not to create more gaps but to bridge the difference and encourage creativity.”

“Keep mindfully insatiable curiosity. It starts with your attitude.”

“The board’s oversight of information management agenda helps to highlight the strategic perspective of IT and improve its differentiated value.”

“Some problems seem irrational as they are caused by people’s emotional reaction to a set of circumstances or events.”

“Problem-solving is about seeing a problem and actually finding a solution to that problem.”

“Capability stands you out; capacity scales you up.”