“Great CIOs are great storytellers, envision and communicate a full-fledged, people-centric digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital CIOs are mindful, not necessarily over-thinking, but imaginative, inquisitive, and innovative.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“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
“Capability-based strategy-execution is the only path leading to a sustainable digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Keep strategy management and performance management synchronized to accelerate digital transformation.” — 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
“A high-mature digital organization is shifting from “pushing” stuff to the digital channel into “pulling” resources up for problem-solving.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“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
“The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly.” — 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
“The digital board directors need to be independent thinkers, unbiased communicators, wise advisors, flexible facilitators, and global leaders these days.” — 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
“Running IT as the digital energizer is about accelerating business performance, unleashing business potential, and nurturing collective creativity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital CIO needs to be the proactive, visible, and influential top business leaders.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT shouldn’t be the afterthought of the business because technology is often the disruptive force.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board composition should be synchronized with the digital perspective of the business.” — 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
“The digital board’s IT inquiries help to clarify the strategic role of IT in maximizing business potential.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation should break some outdated rule, but needs a level of guidance.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Problem-prevention is critical for adapting to the “VUCA” characteristics of the digital new normal.” — pearl zhu Copy Share Image
“Connectivity is the “nature” of today’s organization, and hyperconnectivity is the symbol of the digital maturity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“diversity in thought” is the gold nugget to be found in embracing diversity in the digital era.” — 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
“Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Making continuous improvement is the way how IT can improve itself, the business, the interrelation between IT and the business, to get… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Many foresightful boards invite CIOs to the big table for bridging gaps and harnessing communications to accelerate digital transformation.” — 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
“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
