“IT is the business’s competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Back to fundamental, IT is not the weakest link in the organization, it’s people.” — 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
“It is time to “align IT to the customer” rather than “align IT with the business.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT metrics have to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“To reimagine IT, IT branding needs to be part of IT transformation effort.” — 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
“IT can weave all crucial business elements such as people, process, and technology into organizational competencies for running a living and fluid… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Building a digital-ready IT roadmap is a proactive approach to well prepare for the digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“A responsive IT means a lot of things for the digital transformation: Speed, innovation, agility, integration, modernization, intelligence, value creation, and maturity,… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically,… — 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 metrics need to evolve to something that matters to the business audience, at the same time that “business sentiment” needs to… — 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
“Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.” — 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
“Organizational success comes when IT and business act from “IT vs. business” to IT is business” - a true partnership.” — 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
“In order to demonstrate IT value, organizations need to first know wherein lies the IT value.” — 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
“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
“Re-imaging the future of business is exciting, but investigating the different path for unleashing business potential needs to take a systematic approach… — 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
“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
