“Organizational development is part of the digital strategy, and digital strategy equals to business strategy with digital new normal.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The corporate board can help to make an objective assessment of the maturity of digital capabilities as well as how further and… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital boards are the strategic advising role, they are also the “mastermind” behind the digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A high mature digital ready IT organization is a threshold business competency and the catalyzer of digital innovation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The contemporary corporate board as the top leadership team plays a directorial role in envisioning the future of the business and overseeing… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT leaders have to practice transformational leadership, situational leadership, and innovative leadership all the way in order to lead digital transformation seamlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital has the hybrid nature; it’s about mixing something old and new, the best practices and the next practices.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The deeper you can perceive the holistic digital impact, the further you can reach the digital vision and pinnacle.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Assessing organizational personality, managing company performance and maximizing business potential are all important digital management scenarios to build the high-mature digital organization.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Running IT as the digital energizer is about accelerating business performance, unleashing business potential, and nurturing collective creativity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible business elements, for improving organizational competency, and enabling business… — pearl zhu Copy Share Image
“You have to collect enough information, listen to different POVs, as everything has more than one side and you have to master… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Create an innovative boardroom with “free atmosphere,” so directors are inquisitive to ask great, tough questions for deepening understanding.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital-savvy CIOs can envision the upcoming business trends and have both “sense and sensitivity” to understand people and lead effortlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that it’s a multi-dimensional planning and orchestration.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital leaders who have multi-layer, multi-level quotients and skills can amplify their leadership influence.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The quality check of IT management is to ensure IT is the enabler and even a game-changer of the digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The organizational digital transformation journey is where the juice is in the organization, not just the destination.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A responsive IT means a lot of things for the digital transformation: Speed, innovation, agility, integration, modernization, intelligence, value creation, and maturity,… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“High mature digital organizations have high-mature digital capabilities not only to implement the digital strategy but also to drive enterprise-wide transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“One of the great responsibilities of the board is to make good policies and set the culture tone for the organization to… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT acts more as a conductor than a constructor for “doing more with innovation,” to conduct an information-mature, customer-centric digital organization.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A digital CIO has to be a digital visionary, a transformational leader; an empathetic communicator; a good facilitator, a great listener, and… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital transformation represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem, with… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The true vision is a reflective process of an organization really understanding itself and its purpose to perceive the future of business.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The goal to run a nonstop and real-time digital IT organization is to create business synergy and achieve digital synchronization of the… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Doing digital is about taking a few actions, and being digital is the fundamental shift from the mindset to behavior.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The corporate board oversees the corporate strategy, and the business strategy is underpinned by business capabilities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Strategy blind spots are often created by the lack of future-driven mindset or a systematic approach to form and implement a strategy.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Great CIOs are great storytellers, envision and communicate a full-fledged, people-centric digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The best fit for the board depends on the board’s current makeup, culture, and which “gap” needs to be filled.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital organizations today have to strike the right balance of being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to make a leap.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A high-mature organization always looks for opportunities across the business to increase the usage of emergent digital technologies accordingly and charter the… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Prepare, listen, question, and participate. IT plays a critical role in taking the organization to the next level of digital maturity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital board’s success plan needs to be well aligned with the board composition, as well as the business's strategy evolution and… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital IT should follow the well-defined set of principles: Order over control; innovation over status quo; people over process; and the… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“By manifesting creativity from an individual endeavor to a team activity and a collective effort, the horizon of creativity is expanded.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“We need to choose to continue to learn, grow, and empower people to learn and grow as well.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“The digital boards today should be informed on what benefit is being delivered by IT and aware of constraints and risks.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“Applying the right procedures and policies to asset management allows IT to create a realistic budget with few surprises, and keep best practices to… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“Knowledge does not stand still; it flows into the company, and it flows out of it; it erodes, and it gets created again.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with the business performance.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“The corporate board oversees the corporate strategy, and the business strategy is underpinned by business capabilities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“The great communication is not to create more gaps but to bridge the difference and encourage creativity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“The board’s oversight of information management agenda helps to highlight the strategic perspective of IT and improve its differentiated value.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“Some problems seem irrational as they are caused by people’s emotional reaction to a set of circumstances or events.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
“Problem-solving is about seeing a problem and actually finding a solution to that problem.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share
