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Digital Quotes by Pearl Zhu

101 Digital quotes by Pearl Zhu

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Digital transformation means linking all parts of a company so they work together instead of in separate silos. It calls for boards that reflect shareholders, employees, customers, and suppliers, and for strategy and performance to be managed together. Leaders who understand the whole digital impact can guide the firm to its vision.

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“A solution is nothing if the problem is not perceived.”

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

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“The digital CIO role is like the spinal cord for the organization.”

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“High level of autonomy is the symbol of the digital maturity.”

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“Amplifying digital leadership is not about how loudly you can speak, but how profoundly you can think.”

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“Building a digital-ready IT roadmap is a proactive approach to well prepare for the digital transformation.”

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“The digital board directors assume the dual role of guidance and governance steering.”

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“The digital dimension of organizational structure is enjoying powerful tailwind.”

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“The high mature digital masters are highly conscious of what’s happening in their environment, with the ability to adapt to change, grasp…

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“The right set of unique digital capabilities directly decides the overall organization’s competency and growth potential, to build high-effective, high-responsive, high-intelligent and…

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“Today’s digital organization is more like an organic living thing thriving at the expanded business ecosystem.”

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“The diversity along with deep knowledge of the business will allow board directors to be real “thought partners” with senior management as…

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“Digital transformation is “pushed” by both visible forces and invisible forces; hard forces and soft forces from multiple directions.”

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“CIOs are going to prepare for continuous digital disruptions, build changes as an ongoing business capability, and create some capacity to make…

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“In practice, even in the simplest organizations, the industrial “speed” is not homogeneous across the enterprise.”

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“One of the biggest challenges in this complex, multipolar world is the fact that we need different perspectives, different knowledge/expertise, and different…

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“With digital awareness, the CIO can transform from a technology manager to a business-savvy leader; from a hands-on technical manager to a…

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“Digital boards should set the tone for talent development and management.”

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“Asking insightful and pertinent questions is critical for governing changes at the board-level.”

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“Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable.”

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“It takes a lot of energy to break old habits and outdated thought processes.”

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“The insight-driven digital transformation can create synchronization of all functions running seamlessly.”

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“To put simply, “diversity of thoughts” should be the deciding factor the board to embrace inclusiveness.”

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“Digital leaders today need to become more inquisitive, creative, and informative.”

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

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

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“Keep strategy management and performance management synchronized to accelerate digital transformation.”

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“The digital CIO needs to be the proactive, visible, and influential top business leaders.”

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

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“From the boardroom to the front line, you need to believe that, the customer is the lifeline of the business.”

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“Digital transformation is to optimize the whole via bridging the gaps between separate silos.”

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“Accountability and oversight are all part of the game changes that boards must address.”

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“The CIO as “Chief Interpretation Officer” is the new digital leadership perspective of harnessing communication and people-centricity for accelerating digital transformation.”

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“The digital board needs to know when to push the gas pedal to accelerate the business speed, and when to push the…

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“Organizations should both develop the updated digital practices to manage performance and the digital methodologies to unleash the business potential.”

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“The challenge for organizations is to manage its portfolio of relevant cross-border strategic synergies and organizational interdependence and achieve the digital equilibrium…

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“The “self-driven” talent performance management is pursuing the digital way to run a purpose-driven organization.”

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“The payoff of IT digital transformation is not just for the quick win, but to build the long-term business competency.”

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“IT can weave all crucial business elements such as people, process, and technology into organizational competencies for running a living and fluid…

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“A high-mature digital organization is shifting from “pushing” stuff to the digital channel into “pulling” resources up for problem-solving.”

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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.”