It Innovation Quotes

A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.

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Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.

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Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.

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As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses.

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Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,

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An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.

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IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.

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Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.

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To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.

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

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

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A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.

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The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.

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Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change.

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

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Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.

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A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.

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

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The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.

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Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.

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In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.

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Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.

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For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.

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Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.

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

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