Pearl Zhu > Quotes

“An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics; and soft elements such as communication and culture.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” - It means to change or alter things that already exist.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the process.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.”
― Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way

“A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age