“The challenge for organizations is to manage its portfolio of relevant cross-border strategic synergies and organizational interdependence and achieve the digital equilibrium… — 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 transformation is “pushed” by both visible forces and invisible forces; hard forces and soft forces from multiple directions.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The high mature digital masters are highly conscious of what’s happening in their environment, with the ability to adapt to change, grasp… — 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
“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
“Digital transformation represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem, with… — 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
“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
“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 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
“Create an innovative boardroom with “free atmosphere,” so directors are inquisitive to ask great, tough questions for deepening understanding.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital-savvy CIOs can envision the upcoming business trends and have both “sense and sensitivity” to understand people and lead effortlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Prepare, listen, question, and participate. IT plays a critical role in taking the organization to the next level of digital maturity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital organizations today have to strike the right balance of being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to make a leap.” — 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
“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
“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 BoDs and business leaders must work with the right mindset to make good policies and create an inclusive organization with every… — 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
“The high-mature organizational capability is the digital business differentiator, to keep the business unique, competitive, innovative, and improve the overall business maturity… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Autonomy becomes one of the most critical characteristics of digital organizations to thrive as well as the symbol of achieving high-level digital… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today’s digital organizations.” — 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 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 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 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 digital IT should follow the well-defined set of principles: Order over control; innovation over status quo; people over process; and the… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Building an evolving digital organization is about putting people at the center of the business.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Amplifying digital leadership is not about how loudly you can speak, but how profoundly you can think.” — 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
“Accountability and oversight are all part of the game changes that boards must address.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital has the hybrid nature; it’s about mixing something old and new, the best practices and the next practices.” — 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 CIO as “Chief Interpretation Officer” is the new digital leadership perspective of harnessing communication and people-centricity for accelerating digital transformation.” — 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 payoff of IT digital transformation is not just for the quick win, but to build the long-term business competency.” — 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
