“Diversification is a component and in some cases a very good initiation of value creation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“An IT-friendly board should oversee the business strategy with IT strategy as an integral component.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital board directors assume the dual role of guidance and governance steering.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Asking insightful and pertinent questions is critical for governing changes at the board-level.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital boards should set the tone for talent development and management.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“It takes a lot of energy to break old habits and outdated thought processes.” — 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
“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 diversity along with deep knowledge of the business will allow board directors to be real “thought partners” with senior management as… — 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
“In practice, even in the simplest organizations, the industrial “speed” is not homogeneous across the enterprise.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Organizations should both develop the updated digital practices to manage performance and the digital methodologies to unleash the business potential.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital board needs to know when to push the gas pedal to accelerate the business speed, and when to push the… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital leaders today need to become more inquisitive, creative, and informative.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“To put simply, “diversity of thoughts” should be the deciding factor the board to embrace inclusiveness.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Boards need to master risk intelligence to identify both business risks and opportunities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital board directors with the right dose of “doubt” are real critical thinkers who can ask deep questions.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board composition should be synchronized with the digital perspective of the business.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.” — 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
“Accountability and oversight are all part of the game changes that boards must address.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Corporate governance is to make sure that management is doing its job properly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“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
“CIOs should be at the table helping the board and executive colleagues maximize ROI and competitive advantage.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest challenges in this complex, multipolar world is the fact that we need different perspectives, different knowledge/expertise, and different… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital boards are the strategic advising role, they are also the “mastermind” behind the digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The contemporary corporate board as the top leadership team plays a directorial role in envisioning the future of the business and overseeing… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board’s IT investment review and strategy oversight help to fill the blind spots and bring the new perspective on improving information… — 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 board directors need to be independent thinkers, unbiased communicators, wise advisors, flexible facilitators, and global leaders these days.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The high performing board shows the ability and openness to “question itself, senior management team, and its decision/discussions.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The deeper you can perceive the holistic digital impact, the further you can reach the digital vision and pinnacle.” — 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 Image
“We need to choose to continue to learn, grow, and empower people to learn and grow as well.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.” — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with the business performance.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The corporate board oversees the corporate strategy, and the business strategy is underpinned by business capabilities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The great communication is not to create more gaps but to bridge the difference and encourage creativity.” — 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
