“Self-reflection is an important stage to diagnose, develop and strengthen your creativity.” — Pearl Zhu Creativity Copy Share Image
“Innovation shouldn’t be serendipity. It is a management process and the differentiated business capability.” — Pearl Zhu Business Copy Share Image
“An IT-friendly board should oversee the business strategy with IT strategy as an integral component.” — Pearl Zhu Boardroom Copy Share Image
“To motivate” is the act of giving somebody a reason or incentive to do things.” — Pearl Zhu Creativity Copy Share Image
“Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding.” — Pearl Zhu Creativity Copy Share Image
“Change Management Success is not accidental, it requires a plan and strategy.” — Pearl Zhu Change Copy Share Image
“Measure thinker performance and doer performance differently but objectively.” — Pearl Zhu Performance-management Copy Share Image
“IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.” — Pearl Zhu Cio-leadership Copy Share Image
“A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual… — Pearl Zhu Dashboard Copy Share Image
“Defining your enterprise business capability is part art and part science, and building your business capabilities is more science than art.” — Pearl Zhu Art 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 Boardroom Copy Share Image
“The “artificial gap” between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement.” — Pearl Zhu Business Copy Share Image
“CIOs need to lead the department with the balanced mindsets, activities, and speed so that every level of the organization has great… — Pearl Zhu Cio-leadership Copy Share Image
“The diversity along with deep knowledge of the business will allow board directors to be real “thought partners” with senior management as… — Pearl Zhu Boardroom 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 Boardroom 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 Cio-leadership 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 Innovation Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, innovation is the state of mind to think and do things from a new angle.” — Pearl Zhu Cio-leadership Copy Share Image
“Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.” — Pearl Zhu Business Copy Share Image
“Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment.” — Pearl Zhu Aging Copy Share Image
“Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.” — Pearl Zhu Data Copy Share Image
“Strategic Thinking deals with discovering novel, rewriting the rules of the competitive game.” — Pearl Zhu Books Copy Share Image
“The digital CIO needs to be the proactive, visible, and influential top business leaders.” — Pearl Zhu Business leaders Copy Share Image
“IT shouldn’t be the afterthought of the business because technology is often the disruptive force.” — Pearl Zhu Business Copy Share Image
“Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy execution.” — Pearl Zhu Business Copy Share Image
“There are two sets of business capabilities: Competitive necessity and competitive uniqueness.” — Pearl Zhu Business 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 Cio-leadership Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is that you need to define the quality as leadership and quality as management.” — Pearl Zhu Excellence Copy Share Image
“Boards need to master risk intelligence to identify both business risks and opportunities.” — Pearl Zhu Boardroom Copy Share Image
“Good policy makes good things easy to do, and bad things hard to do.” — Pearl Zhu Bad thing Copy Share Image
“Don’t just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives.” — Pearl Zhu Business Copy Share Image
“Creativity requires openness and growth mind to new experiences and explore new possibilities.” — Pearl Zhu Creativity Copy Share Image
“Great CIOs are great storytellers, envision and communicate a full-fledged, people-centric digital transformation.” — Pearl Zhu Cio-master Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is without a doubt one of the most valuable and most poorly managed assets in business today.” — Pearl Zhu Business Copy Share Image
“Systems Thinking is the discipline for discerning relationships and context that are not obvious.” — Pearl Zhu Digital-rules Copy Share Image
“The digital CIOs are mindful, not necessarily over-thinking, but imaginative, inquisitive, and innovative.” — Pearl Zhu Cio-leadership Copy Share Image
“The best fit for the board depends on the board’s current makeup, culture, and which “gap” needs to be filled.” — Pearl Zhu Board Copy Share Image
“The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.” — Pearl Zhu Indicators Copy Share Image
“The quality of assessors is critical to the quality of the assessment result.” — Pearl Zhu Assessment Copy Share Image
“We all develop reputations for being problem creators, problem definers, or problem solvers.” — Pearl Zhu Digital-rules Copy Share Image
