“The digital board directors assume the dual role of guidance and governance steering.” — 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
“Digital boards should set the tone for talent development and management.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Asking insightful and pertinent questions is critical for governing changes at the board-level.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“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
“Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.” — 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
“Information and decision-making are intimately connected and interdependent, this is particularly true in the digital era.” — 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 board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.” — 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
“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
“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
“Information as input to the decision-making does not absolutely determine the decision but allows the decision-maker to practice analytical thinking and exercise… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board composition should be synchronized with the digital perspective of the business.” — 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
“Corporate governance is to make sure that management is doing its job properly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Accountability and oversight are all part of the game changes that boards must address.” — 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
“To put simply, “diversity of thoughts” should be the deciding factor the board to embrace inclusiveness.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital leaders today need to become more inquisitive, creative, and informative.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“It takes a lot of energy to break old habits and outdated thought processes.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Boards need to master risk intelligence to identify both business risks and opportunities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board directors need to gain a deeper understanding of the enterprise in order to be a credible actor in the strategic… — 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 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
“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
“CIOs should be at the table helping the board and executive colleagues maximize ROI and competitive advantage.” — 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
“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
“In practice, even in the simplest organizations, the industrial “speed” is not homogeneous across the enterprise.” — 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
“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
“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
