“A digital-ready CIO is a visionary and transformational leader, not just a transactional manager, for the long term.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The composition of boards should reflect approximately the profile of the company’s stakeholders, such as shareholders, employees, customers, and suppliers.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The high-effective board with board directors having the mixed capabilities and skills can make effective decisions in deliberation, moving the enterprise forward,… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital organizations are like the living systems that can self-renew in thriving as the high-performance businesses.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The corporate board should set the tone to “baking in” the vision into the DNA (culture) and drive change proactively.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital transformation is an arduous journey with the long jump and it takes time and a real commitment to getter the higher… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The corporate board plays a significant role in making the judgment on and assurance of corporate action within a framework of practical… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The “deep diverse” BoDs can practice independent thinking, bring the differentiated point of views, ideas, and capabilities to the table, and fulfill… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“To overcome the business vulnerability to changes, new competitors or a new breed of customer behaviors, digital organizations today should have a… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today’s digital organizations.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The corporate boards need to focus on their own performance as well as the performance of the management team.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Autonomy becomes one of the most critical characteristics of digital organizations to thrive as well as the symbol of achieving high-level digital… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“High mature CIOs are high influencers through their breadth of business knowledge and the depth of IT insight.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The high-mature organizational capability is the digital business differentiator, to keep the business unique, competitive, innovative, and improve the overall business maturity… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The BoDs and business leaders must work with the right mindset to make good policies and create an inclusive organization with every… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Each functional leader owns their piece of sub-strategies, but they have to work collaboratively to ensure the cohesive strategy management.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The boardroom composition will directly impact on how they lead and which tone they will set for the entire organization to follow.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Information Management becomes the core capability of the digital organization, and it is the key differentiator between digital leaders and laggards.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A good digital strategy should identify the business challenges, make options, and take stepwise actions based on a clear roadmap to achieve… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital management is responsible for designing, enabling, and enforcing a collaborative, innovative, intelligent, inspiring and inclusive working environment.” — 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
