Quotes About Digitalization

#1. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. No economy, no company, in fact no individual can develop its full potential today without embracing two fundamental trends - globalization and digitalization. They will dominate for quite some time to come.

Zhang Xin

#6. Digital strategy is like a GPS to navigate through your digitalization journey.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#11. Innovation has to become the philosophy, and part of DNA in an organization.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the "part" with ignorance of the "whole.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#22. Capability stands you out; capacity scales you up.

Pearl Zhu

#23. The Boardroom Paradox: Harden the softest like culture, and soften the hardest like number.

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#24. At the core," means," is an implementation and capability is an abstraction.

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#25. Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.

Pearl Zhu

#26. 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

#27. Digital creates the new demand and dimension for global leadership mind-set.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#30. Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

Pearl Zhu

#31. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#34. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#40. Innovation is the only bridge to mind digital gaps.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#44. The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.

Pearl Zhu

#45. A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#47. 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.

Pearl Zhu

#48. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

#50. The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#53. 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.

Pearl Zhu

#54. 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

#55. Digital capability has a recombinant nature.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#57. We are moving slowly into an era where Big Data is the starting point, not the end.

Pearl Zhu

#58. 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

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

Pearl Zhu

#60. Both threshold capability and distinctive capabilities are capabilities that organizations have and are closely related to competencies.

Pearl Zhu

#61. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.

Pearl Zhu

#62. Hyper-connectivity is the nature characteristic of Digital Organization.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. A hybrid nature of organization strikes the right balance between "virtual world" and the human connections.

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#68. The sociological organization is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, creative and innovation.

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#72. 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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#73. 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

#74. Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Pearl Zhu

#77. Digital means flow: data flow, information flow, knowledge flow, and mind flow.

Pearl Zhu

#78. 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

#79. 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