Pearl Zhu Quotes
The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of “rules.
The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.
The sociological organization is alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, creative and innovation.
Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.
Innovators are at their very heart visionaries who also have determination, dedication, passion and motivation.
An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.
Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,
The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.
The digital philosophy is to live as “customers, ” when practicing IT management.
A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.
Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.
The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things, ” the “learning and doing.
Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last, ” to “wired for change.
The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.
A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.
IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays.
T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer.
For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.
Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.
In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.
Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.
Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles - looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.
Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone.
Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.
The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking.
Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.
In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.
The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.
The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.
Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.
The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.
Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.
Digital is the age of empathy.
Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.
Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.
The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems.
Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.
Like many things, power is like the two sides of a coin.
Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps
Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.
Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.
The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.
The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.
Perception shows how deep one can understand an issue or a phenomenon, the mental strength.
The paradox of indecisiveness lies in uncertainty.
Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation.
Learning to think beyond a single dimension, look beyond the surface, love more than one color and enjoy the world of differences.
Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.