“There are quite a lot of components in IT innovation management playbook, and importantly, IT has to walk to talk.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, innovation is the state of mind to think and do things from a new angle.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.” — 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
“Either dealing with innovation dilemmas or handling innovation paradoxes, it is part of innovation management learning curve.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT savvy boards will have the advantage of pulling enough resources and pushing the technology-enabled business change and innovation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“While the individual contributions provide the “building block” of creativity; it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT is the superglue to integrate the business as a whole and the linchpin for connecting the wider dots to stimulate innovation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“It is critical to put the right people in the right position from sowing the seed of creativity, growing the innovation fruits,… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital CIOs shouldn’t classify creativity and logic as two completely different disciplines; they are interconnected and need to be mixed seamlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation should break some outdated rule, but needs a level of guidance.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Do not take “ivory tower” style to manage innovation, and do not treat your innovation champion as the troublemaker as well.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The value of information management is never for its own sake, but to provide insight and make a leap of innovation.” — 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
