“Boards need to master risk intelligence to identify both business risks and opportunities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The best fit for the board depends on the board’s current makeup, culture, and which “gap” needs to be filled.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The risk management needs to lift up from risk control to risk intelligence which can identify the potential business growth opportunities.” — 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
“The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Board directors need to work closely and collaboratively with the management to identify opportunities and risks and take the digital journey from… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“To overcome the business vulnerability to changes, new competitors or a new breed of customer behaviors, digital organizations today should have a… — 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
“The digital board directors assume the dual role of guidance and governance steering.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The true vision is a reflective process of an organization really understanding itself and its purpose to perceive the future of business.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Strategy blind spots are often created by the lack of future-driven mindset or a systematic approach to form and implement a strategy.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“You have to collect enough information, listen to different POVs, as everything has more than one side and you have to master… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The “deep diverse” BoDs can practice independent thinking, bring the differentiated point of views, ideas, and capabilities to the table, and fulfill… — 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
“One of the great responsibilities of the board is to make good policies and set the culture tone for the organization to… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board of directors should take an outlier’s lens to criticize the business strategy via questioning wisely.” — 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
“The high-effective board with board directors having the mixed capabilities and skills can make effective decisions in deliberation, moving the enterprise forward,… — 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
“Create an innovative boardroom with “free atmosphere,” so directors are inquisitive to ask great, tough questions for deepening understanding.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board is responsible for ensuring an appropriate mix of skills, knowledge, and experiences are present or available for it to fulfill… — 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
“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
“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