Digitalization Quotes

The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve problems in a very collaborative working style.

Pearl Zhu

Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.

Pearl Zhu

Millions of us daily take advantage of [Skype], delighted to carry the severed heads of family members under our arms as we move from the deck to the cool of inside, or steering them around our new homes, bobbing them like babies on a seasickening tour. Skype can be a wonderful consolation prize in the ongoing tournament of globalization, though typically the first place it transforms us is to ourselves. How often are the initial seconds of a video's call takeoff occupied by two wary, diagonal glances, with a quick muss or flick of the hair, or a more generous tilt of the screen in respect to the chin? Please attend to your own mask first. Yet, despite the obvious cheer of seeing a faraway face, lonesomeness surely persists in the impossibility of eye contact. You can offer up your eyes to the other person, but your own view will be of the webcam's unwarm aperture. ... The problem lies in the fact that we can't bring our silence with us through walls. In phone conversations, while silence can be both awkward and intimate, there is no doubt that each of you inhabits the same darkness, breathing the same dead air. Perversely, a phone silence is a thick rope tying two speakers together in the private void of their suspended conversation. This binding may be unpleasant and to be avoided, but it isn't as estranging as its visual counterpart. When talk runs to ground on Skype, and if the purpose of the call is to chat, I can quickly sense that my silence isn't their silence. For some reason silence can't cross the membrane of the computer screen as it can uncoil down phone lines. While we may be lulled into thinking that a Skype call, being visual, is more akin to a hang-out than a phone conversation, it is in many ways more demanding than its aural predecessor. Not until Skype has it become clear how much companionable quiet has depended on co-inhabiting an atmosphere, with a simple act of sharing the particulars of a place -- the objects in the room, the light through the window -- offering a lovely alternative to talk.

A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.

Pearl Zhu

Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

Pearl Zhu

Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.

Pearl Zhu

Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps.

Pearl Zhu

The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.

Pearl Zhu

The sociological organization is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, creative and innovation.

Pearl Zhu

T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer.

Pearl Zhu

IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays.

Pearl Zhu

The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.

Pearl Zhu

The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.

Pearl Zhu

The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.

Pearl Zhu

Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of “digital -flavored” cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices.

Pearl Zhu

Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather simply pushing the favorite list on their remote control.

Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. "An aesthetic holocaust!

The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.

Pearl Zhu

Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve.

Pearl Zhu

What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking books off shelves.If you start taking books off shelves then you are only going to find what you are looking for, which does not help those who do not know what they are looking for.

Jeanette Winterson

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

Robin Wasserman