Digital Master Quotes

#1. Digital Masters spend time understanding customer behavior and designing the customer experience from the outside in. A Digital Master figures out what customers do and why, where, and how they do it. The company then works out where and how the experience can be digitally enhanced across channels.

George Westerman

#2. Enterprise Performance Management is an overarching umbrella for other management disciplines.

Pearl Zhu

#3. Giants such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Visa and Master Card all want to be your mobile digital wallet,

Anonymous

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#16. I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

John Dykstra

#17. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

#19. I have control over every single frame on Blu-ray. If I want a scene bluer, I get that scene bluer. Originally, there was some fluctuation with the prints. If you made a thousand, or a few thousand prints, there is no control over any of that. But now I can make a master using the digital process.

William Friedkin

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#23. 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

#24. 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.

Pearl Zhu

#25. Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#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.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#32. Keep strategy management and performance management synchronized to accelerate digital transformation.

Pearl Zhu

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. When you see Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and it's shot on film at 75mm it's ... you know. It's hard to compare. But I still think that digital is close enough, and I think it's getting closer and closer to be ... there's no doubt it's going to be taking over completely unfortunately.

Fredrik Bond

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu