“Diversification is a component and in some cases a very good initiation of value creation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT is the business’s competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Critical Thinking is not automatic thinking. It takes extra effort to think critically.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The business capability coherence is the decisive factor for the success of strategy implementation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“It is time to “align IT to the customer” rather than “align IT with the business.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.” — 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
“IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if… — 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
“A high mature digital ready IT organization is a threshold business competency and the catalyzer of digital innovation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the “part” with ignorance of the “whole.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Both threshold capability and distinctive capabilities are capabilities that organizations have and are closely related to competencies.” — 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
“Digital leaders today need to become more inquisitive, creative, and informative.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A core competency is a combination and harmonization of multiple capabilities with a focus.” — pearl zhu Copy Share Image
“The capability view can leverage different perspectives from different roles.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital synchronization and strategic alignment occur when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony to achieve a higher… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance and guide through changes… — 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 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
“Defining your enterprise business capability is part art and part science, and building your business capabilities is more science than art.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Capability view is for the strategic re-think of “what,” and process view is about the “executable knowing “how.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The “artificial gap” between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement.” — 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
“CIOs are going to prepare for continuous digital disruptions, build changes as an ongoing business capability, and create some capacity to make… — 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
“Knowledge does not stand still; it flows into the company, and it flows out of it; it erodes, and it gets created… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Strategy execution doesn’t go for perfect, it’s the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.” — 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
“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
“Digital leaders who have multi-layer, multi-level quotients and skills can amplify their leadership influence.” — 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
“Information by itself is meaningless until it’s interpreted and analyzed to capture insight and harness innovation.” — 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
