It Digitalization Quotes

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

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

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#3. 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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#4. The priority has to be set for lifting IT and overall business maturity from efficiency to effectiveness to agility.

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

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#6. 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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#7. It is time to "align IT to the customer" rather than "align IT with the business.

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#8. Organizational success comes when IT and business act from "IT vs. business" to IT is business" - a true partnership.

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#9. Every decision by every decision-maker needs to be informed by an understanding of how technology changes business processes.

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#10. The challenge for the IT leader is to set the right priority, manage the limited budget and resource, to "Do more with innovation.

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#11. A digital-ready CIO is a visionary and transformational leader, not just a transactional manager, for the long term.

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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. Metaphorically, IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body.

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

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

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

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#17. Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.

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#18. 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.

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#19. IT is the business's competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.

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#20. In order to demonstrate IT value, organizations need to first know wherein lies the IT value.

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#21. Trust means how to strike the right balance upon what IT can give up control, and what IT needs to control.

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#22. Building a digital-ready IT roadmap is a proactive approach to well prepare for the digital transformation.

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#23. IT and business must be partners, must be able to speak the same language, finish each other's sentences, to solve the well-defined business problems.

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#24. By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive but ultimately be the strategic business partner.

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

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#26. Running, growth and transformation are all important stages for the business's survival and thriving.

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

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#29. 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.

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#30. Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution' it's part of art and part of science.

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#31. 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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