CIO MasterUnleash the Digital Potential of IT

Pearl Zhu

The Author of “Digital Master,” & “Future of CIO” Blog

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CIO MASTER

DIGITAL MASTER

Title: CIO MasterSub Title: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT

Author:Pearl Zhu

ISBN: 978-1-4835658-5-9

Copyright Date:Mar. 2016

About “CIO Master”

SummaryThe purpose of CIO Master - Unleash the Digital Potential of IT is to provide guidelines for building a framework to run a highly effective, highly innovative and highly mature digital IT organization. Also, it provides the principles to reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.

● Rebrand digital CIOs with multiple personas ● Reinvent IT to unleash its full digital potential● Reenergize changes as an ongoing digital capability● Refine talent management to bridge IT skills gap● Remaster multidimensional IT to create multi-level business value● Renovate strategy execution continuum to improve effectiveness● Reimagine IT as an innovation engine to catalyze business growth● Reshape IT via leveraging “3P”s: Principle, Portfolio, Performance● Retool IT agility to adapt to changes

Two Parts of “CIO Master”

CIO Leadership

The prominence of the CIO role has risen greatly as IT has become an increasingly important success factor of the digital organization. The CIO position has a shorter history, but a more dynamic role to play due to the continuous changes of information and technology. Compare to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented and reenergized.

Unleash Digital IT Potential

The business paradigm is shifting from the industrial age to a new digital era. Digital organizations are hyperconnected and interdependent, and they have to continue to adapt to the digital new normal with “VUCA” characteristics -Velocity, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. So the challenge facing IT leaders is on how to re-imagine IT and unleash its full digital potential.

Part I: CIO Masters’ Multiple Hats

Chief Influence Officer

Leadership is All about Influence

Chief Innovation Officer

Innovation is not “Nice to Have,” but “Must

Have” Capability in the Digital Era.

Chief Interpretation Officer

It is not about “What you Say,” but about “Why do you Say & How you Say

it!”

Chief Inspiration Officer

It is the Leadership Role to Inspire, Unleash the

Collective Human Potential and Leapfrog Digital Transformation

Part IIUnleash Digital Potential of IT

● Remaster multidimensional IT to create multi-level business value

● Renovate strategy execution continuum to improve effectiveness

● Reimagine IT as an innovation engine to catalyze business growth

● Reshape IT via leveraging “3P”s: Principle, Portfolio, Performance

● Retool IT agility to adapt to changes

Running IT as a “Whole Brain” of the Digital Organization.

CONCLUSION

CIO Master Brief

The purpose of CIO Master - Unleash the Digital Potential of IT is to provide guidelines for building a framework to run a highly effective, highly innovative and highly mature digital IT organization. Also, it provides the principles to reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.

Author: Pearl Zhu

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