Digitalization Quotes

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

The digital capability is modular, dynamic, and nonlinear, having many visible and invisible business elements, for improving organizational competency, and enabling business strategy. ~ Pearl Zhu

The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of the "old experience" and the "new way to do things," the "learning and doing. ~ Pearl Zhu

Information Management becomes the core capability of the digital organization, and it is the key differentiator between digital leaders and laggards. ~ Pearl Zhu

Define clearly how you will measure success in meeting the business purpose and vision. ~ Pearl Zhu

Adaptability is not just a soft skill, but a hard capability. ~ Pearl Zhu

At the core," means," is an implementation and capability is an abstraction. ~ Pearl Zhu

Over the past two decades screens have proliferated, filling our purses, pockets, and bedside tables. The living room is no longer configured around a single blazing digital fireplace, the television; instead it flashes with decentralized brushfires: ereaders, tablets, laptops, desktops, smartphones, televisions, refrigerator screens. As for the radios and bookshelves that were supposed to vanish with the digitalization of the American home, they've stubbornly remained. ~ Virginia Heffernan

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

Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of "digital -flavored" cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices. ~ Pearl Zhu

Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization. ~ Pearl Zhu

Anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15) ~ Adam J. Banks

Digital leaders today need to become more inquisitive, creative, and informative. ~ Pearl Zhu

Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather simply pushing the favorite list on their remote control. ~ James Emlund

Digital capability has a recombinant nature. ~ Pearl Zhu

Insighteers" are in demand to lead change forward with a clear vision, courageous attitude, and unique digital competency. ~ Pearl Zhu

The capability view can leverage different perspectives from different roles. ~ Pearl Zhu

The creative work place is based on a triangle with three vertices - culture, method, and people. ~ 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

A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance and guide through changes and digital transformation. ~ Pearl Zhu

A seamless digital transformation requires a vision to convey "WHY," a solid strategy to clarify "WHAT," and a technical specification to articulate "HOW" you want to transform radically. ~ Pearl Zhu

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time. ~ Robin Wasserman

Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony. ~ Pearl Zhu

Hyper-connectivity is the nature characteristic of Digital Organization. ~ Pearl Zhu

A harmonic, forward-looking approach to practice governance discipline has to be put at the heart of corporate board in the digital age. ~ Pearl Zhu

The sociological organization is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, creative and innovation. ~ Pearl Zhu

Organizational success comes when IT and business act from "IT vs. business" to IT is business" - a true partnership. ~ Pearl Zhu

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

The "artificial gap" between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement. ~ Pearl Zhu

Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right "tipping point. ~ 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

Digital has the hybrid nature; it's about mixing something old and new, the best practices and the next practices. ~ Pearl Zhu

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

It is important to strengthen the weakest link, to ensure all important business elements integrated and knitted into ongoing organizational capabilities and unique business competency. ~ Pearl Zhu

In a world of well-defined problems, directors are required to exercise influence over volatility, manage uncertainty, simplify complexity, and resolve ambiguity in the 21st-century digital environment. ~ Pearl Zhu

The sustainable success of digital transformation comes from a carefully planned organisational change management process that meets two key objectives, one being the company culture, and the other one is empowering its employees ~ Enamul Haque

Capability view is for the strategic re-think of "what," and process view is about the "executable knowing "how. ~ Pearl Zhu

It is time to "align IT to the customer" rather than "align IT with the business. ~ Pearl Zhu

Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China. ~ Zhang Xin

Building a digital-ready IT roadmap is a proactive approach to well prepare for the digital transformation. ~ Pearl Zhu

Taking the multidimensional hybrid models for going digital is all about how to strike the right balance of reaping quick wins and focusing on the long-term strategic goals. ~ Pearl Zhu

Digitalization... For the prosperous nation by Atul Kumar. ~ Atul Kumar

You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the "business value of risk management. ~ Pearl Zhu

Digital synchronization and strategic alignment occur when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony to achieve a higher purpose. ~ Pearl Zhu

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

Performance Management is a holistic management discipline which needs to connect many relevant dots to involve development, enablement, and enhancement. ~ Pearl Zhu

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

Every decision by every decision-maker needs to be informed by an understanding of how technology changes business processes. ~ Pearl Zhu

An organizational structure carries inherent capabilities as to what can be achieved within its frame. ~ Pearl Zhu

The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness. ~ Pearl Zhu

Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps. ~ Pearl Zhu

The organization's competency is based on a set of cohesive capabilities and how fast and effective they can be built upon. ~ Pearl Zhu

The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame. ~ Pearl Zhu

Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture. ~ Pearl Zhu

Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution' it's part of art and part of science. ~ Pearl Zhu

Digital strategy is like a GPS to navigate through your digitalization journey. ~ Pearl Zhu

The paradox is "a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities. ~ Pearl Zhu

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

A core competency is a combination and harmonization of multiple capabilities with a focus. ~ Pearl Zhu

The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks. ~ Pearl Zhu

The high performing board shows the ability and openness to "question itself, senior management team, and its decision/discussions. ~ Pearl Zhu

What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking books off shelves.
If you start taking books off shelves then you are only going to find what you are looking for, which does not help those who do not know what they are looking for. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Digital creates the new demand and dimension for global leadership mind-set. ~ Pearl Zhu

The digital transformation scorecard allows you to focus on the most important things. Without scorecards, it will become like searching for a needle in the haystack. ~ Pearl Zhu

Today's digital organizations simply just can't stand still. Bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge. ~ Pearl Zhu

The priority has to be set for lifting IT and overall business maturity from efficiency to effectiveness to agility. ~ Pearl Zhu

Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that it's a multi-dimensional planning and orchestration. ~ Pearl Zhu

Strategy execution doesn't go for perfect, it's the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity. ~ Pearl Zhu

The purpose of digitalization is to make a significant difference in the overall levels of business performance and organizational maturity. ~ Pearl Zhu

The board directors see the development of strategy as a collective effort between themselves and management, rather than a question of "us versus them. ~ Pearl Zhu

I firmly believe that digitalization has only just begun in China. In addition to the taxi, transport, shopping and hotel businesses, many other industries will follow: education, health care, administration, even the legal branch - everything, really. There is still a lot of opportunity in China for the inventive and ambitious ones. ~ Zhang Xin

Digital means flow: data flow, information flow, knowledge flow, and mind flow. ~ Pearl Zhu

Good policy makes good things easy to do, and bad things hard to do. ~ Pearl Zhu

Ideally, the two structures - hierarchy, and relationship structure wrap around each other to ensure responsibility, to keep information flow and the creation of power. ~ Pearl Zhu

High mature digital organizations have high-mature digital capabilities not only to implement the digital strategy but also to drive enterprise-wide transformation. ~ Pearl Zhu