“Either dealing with innovation dilemmas or handling innovation paradoxes, it is part of innovation management learning curve.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Do not take “ivory tower” style to manage innovation, and do not treat your innovation champion as the troublemaker as well.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The value of information management is never for its own sake, but to provide insight and make a leap of innovation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation should break some outdated rule, but needs a level of guidance.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The creation of corporate entrepreneurship is to cultivate the culture of innovation and build business competencies.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Digital CIOs shouldn’t classify creativity and logic as two completely different disciplines; they are interconnected and need to be mixed seamlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT is the superglue to integrate the business as a whole and the linchpin for connecting the wider dots to stimulate innovation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“While the individual contributions provide the “building block” of creativity; it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT savvy boards will have the advantage of pulling enough resources and pushing the technology-enabled business change and innovation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“It is critical to put the right people in the right position from sowing the seed of creativity, growing the innovation fruits,… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Creative tension is important to switch on the “innovative mode” of the business environment.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, innovation is the state of mind to think and do things from a new angle.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The digital CIOs are mindful, not necessarily over-thinking, but imaginative, inquisitive, and innovative.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“There are quite a lot of components in IT innovation management playbook, and importantly, IT has to walk to talk.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Running IT as a business is about focusing on innovation, growth, and tangible performance result.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation is an important business capability to catalyze the business’s long-term prosperity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovation shouldn’t be serendipity. It is a management process and the differentiated business capability.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Every innovator has the vision to bring something new or solve some thorny issues.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Innovative CIOs with bold leadership styles are the key to re-imagine IT for achieving the art of possible.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“An understandable mind is a step closer to innovation, and two inches deeper to wisdom.” — 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
