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1 " IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage. "
― Pearl Zhu , 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
2 " Information by itself is meaningless until it’s interpreted and analyzed to capture insight and harness innovation. "
3 " Information Management is to make sure that the right information is shared with the right persons at the right time in the right place. "
4 " Well-designed and relatively simplified information/knowledge solutions bound to unlock the enterprise knowledge, to turn a downward spiral into an upward spiral. "
5 " The value of information management is never for its own sake, but to provide insight and make a leap of innovation. "
6 " Information-based problem-solving is about how to capture information-based insight and foresight in making right business decisions timely and solving problems effectively. "
7 " IT acts more as a conductor than a constructor for “doing more with innovation,” to conduct an information-mature, customer-centric digital organization. "
8 " The goal to run a nonstop and real-time digital IT organization is to create business synergy and achieve digital synchronization of the entire organization. "
9 " A high-mature organization always looks for opportunities across the business to increase the usage of emergent digital technologies accordingly and charter the digital paradigm shift seamlessly. "
10 " CIOs should be at the table helping the board and executive colleagues maximize ROI and competitive advantage. "
11 " Innovation is an important business capability to catalyze the business’s long-term prosperity. "
12 " The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly. "
13 " CIOs need to leverage different conversations tyles to construct the collaborative vision and deliver high performance IT result. "
14 " Applying the right procedures and policies to asset management allows IT to create a realistic budget with few surprises, and keep best practices to adapt to “continuous changes. "
15 " Prepare, listen, question, and participate. IT plays a critical role in taking the organization to the next level of digital maturity. "
16 " The insight-driven digital transformation can create synchronization of all functions running seamlessly. "
17 " CIOs are going to prepare for continuous digital disruptions, build changes as an ongoing business capability, and create some capacity to make changes. "
18 " CIOs need to lead the department with the balanced mindsets, activities, and speed so that every level of the organization has great working relationships with IT teams. "
19 " To Survive the fierce competition and thrive with the long-term business advantage involve more real-time planning, adjustment, and speed. "
20 " The digital CIO role is like the spinal cord for the organization. "
