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Management Quotes by Pearl Zhu

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Pearl Zhu says you can’t improve what you’re not measuring, so tracking performance is key. She links strategy, innovation, and digital transformation, urging boards to align policies with new tech. The quotes stress that information management exists to give insight and spark innovation.

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“Metric is part of transparent visual management allowing pulling.”

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“Digital boards should set the tone for talent development and management.”

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“Innovation is essentially a management discipline.”

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“Enterprise Performance Management is an overarching umbrella for other management disciplines.”

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“CIOs can provide the holistic business insight via effective information management.”

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“The business management is, in essence, the decision management and performance management continuum.”

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“Corporate governance is to make sure that management is doing its job properly.”

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“Innovation Management nowadays is more science than art.”

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“Applying the right procedures and policies to asset management allows IT to create a realistic budget with few surprises, and keep best…

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“The quality check of IT management is to ensure IT is the enabler and even a game-changer of the digital transformation.”

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“Innovation shouldn’t be serendipity. It is a management process and the differentiated business capability.”

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“Information Management is to make sure that the right information is shared with the right persons at the right time in the…

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“The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and…

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“Quality management ensures that an organization, product, or service is consistent, effective, and meet customers’ expectation.”

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“Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.”

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“Most organizations fail to manage performance effectively because they fail to look into the system holistically.”

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“With digital awareness, the CIO can transform from a technology manager to a business-savvy leader; from a hands-on technical manager to a…

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“The “self-driven” talent performance management is pursuing the digital way to run a purpose-driven organization.”

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“A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual…

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“The board directors see the development of strategy as a collective effort between themselves and management, rather than a question of “us…

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“The board’s oversight of information management agenda helps to highlight the strategic perspective of IT and improve its differentiated value.”

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“The diversity along with deep knowledge of the business will allow board directors to be real “thought partners” with senior management as…

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“The high performing board shows the ability and openness to “question itself, senior management team, and its decision/discussions.”

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“Corporate performance management systems and processes are gradually moving away from a static, unidirectional, and time-bound avatar to a more dynamic, continuous,…

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“Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital…

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“Assessing organizational personality, managing company performance and maximizing business potential are all important digital management scenarios to build the high-mature digital organization.”

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“The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly.”

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“Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard.”

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“The “Art of Possible” can only be achieved through visionary IT leadership, as well as the art and science of modern IT…

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“Information Management becomes the core capability of the digital organization, and it is the key differentiator between digital leaders and laggards.”

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“You can’t improve what you are not managing, you can’t manage what you are not measuring, and you can’t measure what you…

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“Each functional leader owns their piece of sub-strategies, but they have to work collaboratively to ensure the cohesive strategy management.”

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“The board’s oversight of information management can highlight the importance of information flow, set the tone for building the culture of information-based…

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“The value of information management is never for its own sake, but to provide insight and make a leap of innovation.”

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“Digital management is responsible for designing, enabling, and enforcing a collaborative, innovative, intelligent, inspiring and inclusive working environment.”

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“Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today’s digital organizations.”

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“The corporate boards need to focus on their own performance as well as the performance of the management team.”

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“Corporation performance Management is all about managing performance by that data (KPIs) which really matters.”

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“The risk management needs to lift up from risk control to risk intelligence which can identify the potential business growth opportunities.”

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“The tough choice facing CIOs is not about only picking one identity as either being strategic or tactical, but about - when…

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“By manifesting creativity from an individual endeavor to a team activity and a collective effort, the horizon of creativity is expanded.”

“We need to choose to continue to learn, grow, and empower people to learn and grow as well.”

“Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.”

“The digital boards today should be informed on what benefit is being delivered by IT and aware of constraints and risks.”

“Applying the right procedures and policies to asset management allows IT to create a realistic budget with few surprises, and keep best practices to…

“Knowledge does not stand still; it flows into the company, and it flows out of it; it erodes, and it gets created again.”

“Running IT as a business, IT performance has to be clearly linked with the business performance.”

“The corporate board oversees the corporate strategy, and the business strategy is underpinned by business capabilities.”

“Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.”

“The great communication is not to create more gaps but to bridge the difference and encourage creativity.”

“Keep mindfully insatiable curiosity. It starts with your attitude.”

“The board’s oversight of information management agenda helps to highlight the strategic perspective of IT and improve its differentiated value.”

“Some problems seem irrational as they are caused by people’s emotional reaction to a set of circumstances or events.”

“Problem-solving is about seeing a problem and actually finding a solution to that problem.”

“Capability stands you out; capacity scales you up.”