Illustratereinvention ~ Future of CIO

Because knowing something is not equal to understanding it, understanding it doesn’t mean you can communicate and coach it effectively. Here is a set of featured blogs to dig into the “keywords” of the 21st century to brainstorm the future of digital leadership and business transformation.

Illustrate Reinvention

Initiatives of Organizational Reinvention Many organizations today are operated between the mix of old and new; different departments within the company are run at varying speed. Organizational design needs to be understood holistically and applies “simplicity” principles to architect and design an ecological organization that can self-develop, self-adapt and self-renew, being able to reconfigure its own structure and change its own behavior to adapt to environmental changes dynamically and improve organizational agility and maturity

Innovatingwithimagineers Imagination is the seed to grow innovation and lead to discovery. The higher the level at which we are engaged and stimulated to imagine, the more likely we get inspired to take actions. At the highest level of imagination engagement, we become driven to leverage our imagination into innovative results.

Innovativecategorization Categorization is about recognizing or labeling things by shared features or similarities between the elements of the experience of the world. Historically, knowledge is categorized based on subject matter; people are categorized based on physical identity, organizations are categorized based on industry functionality; societies are categorized based on political systems, etc.

Revitalizing With the faster pace of changes and continuous disruptions, companies across vertical sectors have huge pressures to survive and thrive in today’s hypercompetitive economic dynamic. They are at the transition stage from operating a mechanical organization to running a dynamic digital living business. Digital organizations are the mixed bag of something old and new; physical building and virtual platform, with a diverse workforce working in different functions running varying speeds. A digital workplace encompasses so much that it’s hard to isolate it from other dimensions of the enterprise. What is the logical scenario to overcome challenges and revitalize the digital workforce to be future-ready?

Innovativerenewal Organizations become over-complex, uncertain, and ambiguous, they are like the living thing with the ability to continually change, renew as the world changes and evolves with an intersecting and interacting business ecosystem constantly. It is important to understand that business transformation is multifaceted, and it has to permeate into organizational vision, strategy, culture, communication, process, underlying functions, and structures. Organizations need to keep renewing themselves, and achieving the state of digital flow and business continuum.

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