“Information by itself is meaningless until it’s interpreted and analyzed to capture insight and harness innovation.” — 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 high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.” — 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
“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 board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“It is important to strengthen the weakest link, to ensure all important business elements integrated and knitted into ongoing organizational capabilities and… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The hard core of leadership capabilities strengthens leadership effectiveness and highlights leadership substance.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The insight-driven digital transformation can create synchronization of all functions running seamlessly.” — 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
“The organization’s competency is based on a set of cohesive capabilities and how fast and effective they can be built upon.” — 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
“Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution’ it’s part of art and part of science.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT and business must be partners, must be able to speak the same language, finish each other’s sentences, to solve the well-defined… — pearl zhu Copy Share Image
“You can’t improve what you are not managing, you can’t manage what you are not measuring, and you can’t measure what you… — 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
“Gaining an in-depth understanding of business capabilities helps today’s business leaders craft good strategy and implement it effectively.” — 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
“Organizational success comes when IT and business act from “IT vs. business” to IT is business” - a true partnership.” — 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 board of directors should take an outlier’s lens to criticize the business strategy via questioning wisely.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A digital-ready CIO is a visionary and transformational leader, not just a transactional manager, for the long term.” — 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
“Well-designed and relatively simplified information/knowledge solutions bound to unlock the enterprise knowledge, to turn a downward spiral into an upward spiral.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital transformation scorecard allows you to focus on the most important things. Without scorecards, it will become like searching for a… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right “tipping point.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“At the core,” means,” is an implementation and capability is an abstraction.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Today’s digital organization is more like an organic living thing thriving at the expanded business ecosystem.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“In order to demonstrate IT value, organizations need to first know wherein lies the IT value.” — 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
“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
“CIOs need to leverage different conversations tyles to construct the collaborative vision and deliver high performance IT result.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The capability definition is: “the ability and capacity to realize a measurable result in a specific operational context of conditions.” — 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
“A high-mature digital organization is shifting from “pushing” stuff to the digital channel into “pulling” resources up for problem-solving.” — 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
