“Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital synchronization and strategic alignment occur when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony to achieve a higher… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance and guide through changes… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Both threshold capability and distinctive capabilities are capabilities that organizations have and are closely related to competencies.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the “part” with ignorance of the “whole.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The payoff of IT digital transformation is not just for the quick win, but to build the long-term business competency.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitalization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization’s digitization… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Knowledge does not stand still; it flows into the company, and it flows out of it; it erodes, and it gets created… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“The “artificial gap” between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Today’s digital organization is more like an organic living thing thriving at the expanded business ecosystem.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Defining your enterprise business capability is part art and part science, and building your business capabilities is more science than art.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Capability view is for the strategic re-think of “what,” and process view is about the “executable knowing “how.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital transformation is “pushed” by both visible forces and invisible forces; hard forces and soft forces from multiple directions.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board directors see the development of strategy as a collective effort between themselves and management, rather than a question of “us… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“CIOs are going to prepare for continuous digital disruptions, build changes as an ongoing business capability, and create some capacity to make… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Strategy execution doesn’t go for perfect, it’s the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Information Management is to make sure that the right information is shared with the right persons at the right time in the… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“An ultra- modern board can set a clear choice among future scenarios that advocate innovation, advancement, and promotes positive behaviors.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Information as input to the decision-making does not absolutely determine the decision but allows the decision-maker to practice analytical thinking and exercise… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board directors need to gain a deeper understanding of the enterprise in order to be a credible actor in the strategic… — 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
“The challenge for the IT leader is to set the right priority, manage the limited budget and resource, to “Do more with… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Building a digital-ready IT roadmap is a proactive approach to well prepare for the digital transformation.” — 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
“Board directors as key strategic decision makers in the organization need to understand the information potential and become IT advocates.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Information and decision-making are intimately connected and interdependent, this is particularly true in the digital era.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Re-imaging the future of business is exciting, but investigating the different path for unleashing business potential needs to take a systematic approach… — 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
“Information by itself is meaningless until it’s interpreted and analyzed to capture insight and harness innovation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“To gain digital insight and lead business transformation effortlessly, the digital board directors need to become more information savvy and IT friendly.” — 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
“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
“The board updates policies for adapting to the digital new normal for both enforcing the effectiveness of strategy management and harnessing business… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.” — 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
