“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 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 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
“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
“Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.” — 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
“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 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 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
“Digital boards are the strategic advising role, they are also the “mastermind” behind the digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The corporate board should set the tone to “baking in” the vision into the DNA (culture) and drive change proactively.” — 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 corporate board plays a significant role in making the judgment on and assurance of corporate action within a framework of practical… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital board’s success plan needs to be well aligned with the board composition, as well as the business's strategy evolution and… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The composition of boards should reflect approximately the profile of the company’s stakeholders, such as shareholders, employees, customers, and suppliers.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The boardroom composition will directly impact on how they lead and which tone they will set for the entire organization to follow.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Each functional leader owns their piece of sub-strategies, but they have to work collaboratively to ensure the cohesive strategy management.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board’s oversight of information management can highlight the importance of information flow, set the tone for building the culture of information-based… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A good digital strategy should identify the business challenges, make options, and take stepwise actions based on a clear roadmap to achieve… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The corporate boards need to focus on their own performance as well as the performance of the management team.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“How deeply the corporate boards can dig and which questions they should ask will directly impact on the success rate of IT… — 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
“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
“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
“Many foresightful boards invite CIOs to the big table for bridging gaps and harnessing communications to accelerate digital transformation.” — 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
“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
“The board updates policies for adapting to the digital new normal for both enforcing the effectiveness of strategy management and harnessing business… — 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 board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.” — 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
