“The CIO as “Chief Interpretation Officer” is the new digital leadership perspective of harnessing communication and people-centricity for accelerating digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“IT leaders have to practice transformational leadership, situational leadership, and innovative leadership all the way in order to lead digital transformation seamlessly.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Each functional leader owns their piece of sub-strategies, but they have to work collaboratively to ensure the cohesive strategy management.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and explanatory model chosen.” — 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
“With digital awareness, the CIO can transform from a technology manager to a business-savvy leader; from a hands-on technical manager to a… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“From average to great is a leadership journey; it takes vision, passion, confidence, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Amplifying digital leadership is not about how loudly you can speak, but how profoundly you can think.” — 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
“A digital CIO has to be a digital visionary, a transformational leader; an empathetic communicator; a good facilitator, a great listener, and… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Information Management becomes the core capability of the digital organization, and it is the key differentiator between digital leaders and laggards.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Intrapreneur leaders present solid leadership attributes such as “full open communication,” “creativity,” “confidence,” “resourcefulness,” “decisiveness,” “ownership,” “digital readiness,” “self-adaptation,” and “resilience.” — 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
“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
