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Technology Quotes by Pearl Zhu

96 Technology quotes by Pearl Zhu

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A digital board must see both the benefits and the risks of new technology. The quotes stress that aligning digital strategy with business goals, continuously improving, and treating innovation as a science help companies stay ready. Leaders are urged to be independent, unbiased, and flexible.

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“Innovation is essentially a management discipline.”

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“Continual Improvement” is the IT mantra in the digital era.”

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“Failure is part of innovation.”

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

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“Innovation Management nowadays is more science than art.”

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“Prioritization enables businesses to manage innovation with a focus, not for stifling innovation.”

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“The deeper you can perceive the holistic digital impact, the further you can reach the digital vision and pinnacle.”

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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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“A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation.”

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“Knowledge Management is a human problem and not a technological problem.”

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“The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality.”

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“A high mature digital ready IT organization is a threshold business competency and the catalyzer of digital innovation.”

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“The digital board directors need to be independent thinkers, unbiased communicators, wise advisors, flexible facilitators, and global leaders these days.”

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“Organizational development is part of the digital strategy, and digital strategy equals to business strategy with digital new normal.”

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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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“The corporate board can help to make an objective assessment of the maturity of digital capabilities as well as how further and…

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“The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly.”

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“IT leaders have to practice transformational leadership, situational leadership, and innovative leadership all the way in order to lead digital transformation seamlessly.”

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“A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance and guide through changes…

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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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“In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.”

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“Innovation challenges the status quo and that is important for a healthy, innovative organization.”

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“Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.”

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“Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.”

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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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“Digital is the age of innovation because creativity is about connecting the dots in the wider scope.”

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“The digital boards today should be informed on what benefit is being delivered by IT and aware of constraints and risks.”

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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 future belongs to those fast learners who can test and run, walk the talk, and ultimately become a digital master.”

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

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“The organizational digital transformation journey is where the juice is in the organization, not just the destination.”

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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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“Running IT as a business is about focusing on innovation, growth, and tangible performance result.”

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“Information and decision-making are intimately connected and interdependent, this is particularly true in the digital era.”

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

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“The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.”

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“The quality check of IT management is to ensure IT is the enabler and even a game-changer of the digital transformation.”

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“Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.”

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“Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.”

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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.”