Digital Capability Quotes

#1. Digital capability has a recombinant nature.

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#2. An individual's agility is a fundamental digital capability block through which she or he can build more advanced professional capabilities and better fit in the digital dynamic we live in.

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

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#4. The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.

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#5. The high-mature organizational capability is the digital business differentiator, to keep the business unique, competitive, innovative, and improve the overall business maturity significantly.

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#6. Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels

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#7. The business capability coherence is the decisive factor for the success of strategy implementation.

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#8. Digital organizations today have to strike the right balance of being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to make a leap.

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#9. Capability-based strategy-execution is the only path leading to a sustainable digital transformation.

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#10. Gaining an in-depth understanding of business capabilities helps today's business leaders craft good strategy and implement it effectively.

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#11. The capability definition is: "the ability and capacity to realize a measurable result in a specific operational context of conditions.

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#12. IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if the gaps are enlarging.

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#13. A business capability is the firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments.

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#14. The hard core of leadership capabilities strengthens leadership effectiveness and highlights leadership substance.

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#15. Defining your enterprise business capability is part art and part science, and building your business capabilities is more science than art.

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#16. Information Management becomes the core capability of the digital organization, and it is the key differentiator between digital leaders and laggards.

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#17. Decision-making is a solid business capability to improve business responsiveness, agility, and competency.

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#18. 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.

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#19. A "roadmap" is simply a plan for moving or transitioning, from one state to another. A roadmap provides the direction to the future.

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#20. Learning agility is the willingness and ability to learn, de-learn, and relearn. Limitations on learning are barriers invented by humans.

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#21. There are two sets of business capabilities: Competitive necessity and competitive uniqueness.

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#22. The capability view can leverage different perspectives from different roles.

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#23. A core competency is a combination and harmonization of multiple capabilities with a focus.

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#24. 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.

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

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#26. 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.

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

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#28. Dynamic capability is the ability to reconfigure your organization in the way that has the effect of increasing its variety.

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#29. Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations.

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

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

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

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#33. The emergence of potential opportunities for exploiting digitalization is likely to follow a nonlinear pattern as the pervasiveness of an organization's digitization journey increases.

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

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