“The business capability coherence is the decisive factor for the success of strategy implementation.” — 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
“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
“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 paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.” — 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 digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got… — Jennifer Egan 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
“The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitalization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization’s digitization… — 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“A high mature digital ready IT organization is a threshold business competency and the catalyzer of digital innovation.” — 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
“The high performing board shows the ability and openness to “question itself, senior management team, and its decision/discussions.” — 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
“Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right “tipping point.” — 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
“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
“Critical Thinking is not automatic thinking. It takes extra effort to think critically.” — 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 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
“IT is the business’s competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.” — 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 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
“Diversification is a component and in some cases a very good initiation of value creation.” — 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
“Capability view is for the strategic re-think of “what,” and process view is about the “executable knowing “how.” — 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
“Today’s digital organization is more like an organic living thing thriving at the expanded business ecosystem.” — 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
“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
“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
“Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels” — 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
