“Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.” — 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
“Everything exists in a constant state of change and knowledge of an evolving thing must evolve with the thing at the faster… — 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
“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
“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
“Digital transformation is an arduous journey with the long jump and it takes time and a real commitment to getter the higher… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The “Art of Possible” can only be achieved through visionary IT leadership, as well as the art and science of modern IT… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Business will be more successful when they realize that one of their greatest strengths will be their multifaceted digital proficiency to scale… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the “business value of risk management.” — 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 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
“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
“The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.” — 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
“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
“Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution’ it’s part of art and part of science.” — 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
“Trust means how to strike the right balance upon what IT can give up control, and what IT needs to control.” — 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
“A “roadmap” is simply a plan for moving or transitioning, from one state to another. A roadmap provides the direction to the… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The hard core of leadership capabilities strengthens leadership effectiveness and highlights leadership substance.” — 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
“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 insight-driven digital transformation can create synchronization of all functions running seamlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A business capability is the firm’s ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The challenge for the IT leader is to set the right priority, manage the limited budget and resource, to “Do more with… — 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
“The board directors need to gain a deeper understanding of the enterprise in order to be a credible actor in the strategic… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Information as input to the decision-making does not absolutely determine the decision but allows the decision-maker to practice analytical thinking and exercise… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“An ultra- modern board can set a clear choice among future scenarios that advocate innovation, advancement, and promotes positive behaviors.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Information Management is to make sure that the right information is shared with the right persons at the right time in the… — 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 future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.” — 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
“Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that it’s a multi-dimensional planning and orchestration.” — 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
“Information by itself is meaningless until it’s interpreted and analyzed to capture insight and harness innovation.” — 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
“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
