Aiping Zhu Quotes

Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -"the solid state of "water. ~ Pearl Zhu

The digital paradigm that is emerging is the dynamic organization with hybridity of knowledge, flexible processes, and unique competencies. ~ Pearl Zhu

IT more often needs to play a pivotal role in discovering the path to strategy implementation. ~ Pearl Zhu

Because it wasn't enough to be accompanied by the beast who scared the crap out of every god in Heaven, Xuanzang was assigned a few more traveling companions. The gluttonous pig-man Zhu Baijie. Sha Wujing, the repentant sand demon. And the Dragon Prince of the West Sea, who took the form of a horse for Xuanzang to ride. The five adventurers, thusly gathered, set off on their -

"Holy ballsacks!" I yelped. I dropped the book like I'd been bitten.

"How far did you get?" Quentin said.

He was leaning against the end of the nearest shelf, as casually as if he'd been there the whole time, waiting for this moment.

I ignored that he'd snuck up on me again, just this once. There was a bigger issue at play.

In the book was an illustration of the group done up in bold lines and bright colors. There was Sun Wukong at the front, dressed in a beggar's cassock, holding his Ruyi Jingu Bang in one hand and the reins of the Dragon Horse in the other. A scary-looking pig-faced man and a wide-eyed demon monk followed, carrying the luggage. And perched on top of the horse was . . . me.

The artist had tried to give Xuanzang delicate, beatific features and ended up with a rather girly face. By whatever coincidence, the drawing of Sun Wukong's old master could have been a rough caricature of sixteen-year-old Eugenia Lo from Santa Firenza, California.

"That's who you think I am?" I said to Quentin.

"That's who I k ~ F.C. Yee

We are moving slowly into an era where Big Data is the starting point, not the end. ~ Pearl Zhu

Everything was burning. Today it was the bodies; tomorrow it would be the spirit. ~ Zhu Xiao-Mei

A high-mature digital organization is shifting from "pushing" stuff to the digital channel into "pulling" resources up for problem-solving. ~ Pearl Zhu

A global mind thinks about interconnections and interdependencies and their impacts and consequences, both on a local and a global level. ~ Pearl Zhu

Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics; and soft elements such as communication and culture. ~ Pearl Zhu

Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only. ~ Pearl Zhu

The overall organizational health needs to be measured via employee engagement, culture readiness, business agility, and customer-centricity, etc. ~ Pearl Zhu

Future is the most difficult problem of our era. ~ Pearl Zhu

Though there are both hard and soft business elements in building organizational capabilities. Still, people are the capability masters. ~ Pearl Zhu

The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do. ~ Pearl Zhu

Group Thinking" or lack of courage to ask the tough and strategic questions is the chief weakness on Boards today. ~ Pearl Zhu

The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward. ~ Pearl Zhu

Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and explanatory model chosen. ~ Pearl Zhu

Critical Thinking brings insight into the situation. ~ Pearl Zhu

The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture. ~ Pearl Zhu

Re-imaging the future of business is exciting, but investigating the different path for unleashing business potential needs to take a systematic approach and develop it into a more solid form. ~ Pearl Zhu

The "Art of Possible" can only be achieved through visionary IT leadership, as well as the art and science of modern IT management. ~ Pearl Zhu

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

All generations need to realize they can learn from each other, to run a successful business and an advanced society. ~ Pearl Zhu

The right set of unique digital capabilities directly decides the overall organization's competency and growth potential, to build high-effective, high-responsive, high-intelligent and high mature digital organization. ~ Pearl Zhu

You can't improve what you are not managing, you can't manage what you are not measuring, and you can't measure what you are not focusing. ~ Pearl Zhu

IT metrics have to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator. ~ Pearl Zhu

If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist. ~ Zhu Rongji

In order to demonstrate IT value, organizations need to first know wherein lies the IT value. ~ Pearl Zhu

Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System" of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly. ~ Pearl Zhu

One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle. ~ Pearl Zhu

Metaphorically, IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body. ~ Pearl Zhu

Decisions always refer to the future. ~ Pearl Zhu