CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It

by Pearl Zhu

The purpose of CIO Master - Unleash the Digital Potential of IT is to provide guidelines for building a framework to run a highly effective, highly innovative and highly mature digital IT organization. Also, it provides the principles to reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.
-Rebrand digital CIOs with multiple personas
-Reinvent IT to unleash its full digital potential
-Reenergize changes as an ongoing digital capability
-Refine talent management to bridge IT skills gap
-Remaster multidimensional IT to create multi-level business value
-Renovate strategy execution continuum to improve effectiveness
-Reimagine IT as an innovation engine to catalyze business growth
-Reshape IT via leveraging “3P” Principle, Portfolio, Performance
-Retool IT agility to adapt to changes

Part CIO The prominence of the CIO role has risen greatly as IT has become an increasingly important success factor of the digital organization. The CIO position has a shorter history, but a more dynamic role to play due to the continuous changes of information and technology. Compare to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented and reenergized.

Part Unleash Digital Potential of The business paradigm is shifting from the industrial age to a new digital era. Digital organizations are hyperconnected and interdependent, and they have to continue to adapt to the digital new normal with “VUCA” characteristics -Velocity, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Now with the acceleration of digital speed, IT organizations are at a crossroad, where it will either reinvent its tarnished image or become irrelevant in the digital age. So the challenge facing IT leaders is on how to re-imagine IT and unleash its full digital potential.

432 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 23, 2016

About the author

Pearl Zhu has more than 25 years of technical and business working experience in Information Technology, E-commerce, international trading, etc. My blog has reached #10000 blog posting with 100,000,000 views wordwidely.

She is a digital visionary who can capture technological foresight, business insight, and digital leadership philosophy from multidimensional lenses and global perspectives. She also is a forward-looking digital leader who advocates business innovation and culture evolution relentlessly.

She is the author of "Digital Master" book series (28+ books), which include: "Digital Master –Debunk the Myth of Enterprise Digital Maturity," "CIO Master – Unleash the Digital Potential of IT," "Digital Valley - Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence," "Digital Agility - The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile," "Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity," "Talent Master -199+ Questions to See Talent from Different Angles," "Digitizing Boardroom - The Multidimensional Aspects of Digital Ready Boards," "Thinkingaire - 100 Game-Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future," "Change Insight -Change as Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation," "IT Innovation -Running IT for the Digital Age," "Unpuzzling Innovation - Mastering Innovation in a Structural Way," "100 Creativity Ingredients -Everyone's Playbook to Unlock Creativity," "Decision Master -The Art and Science of Decision-Making," "Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business," "Digital IT - 100 Q&As," "Digital Capability - Building Lego-Like Capability Into Business Competency," and "Performance Master - Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance," and "Digital Boardroom- 100 Q&As," "Digital FIt: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit," "100 Digital Rules," and "12 Digital Personas," "Problem-Solving Master: Frame Problems Systematically, Solve Problems Creatively," "Digital Maturity: Taking a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioining to Delight," "Digital Pitfalls: How to Overcome Pitfalls on the way to Going Digital," "Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the RIght Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift," and received very positive feedback.

Reviews

[Edward Sweeney · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was very interested to read “CIO Master” because as a person involved in the financial world I have come to realize the importance of a Chief Information Officer. This book details the twelve Digital CIO personas which I found very enlightening and this is something that every CIO needs to learn. The CIO in today’s workplace should be a digital visionary. When Pearl Zhu states that “CIOs must go digital, like a pro, to run IT as an innovation engine” never were truer words written. A CIO needs to be a digital strategist because CIOs are now positioned closer to the top of the pyramid with regard to business strategy. I also appreciated the time the author takes in detailing the importance of digital transformation. Digital transformation represents the next stage of business maturity and every CIO must embrace the fact that digital is the age of explosive information, hyper connectivity and fierce competition. This book is very enlightening regarding the importance of the CIO as a change agent. CIOs need to be change agents in leading the digital journey of a business and are accountable for a critical part of the business that is constantly changing & evolving. One of more important roles of a CIO which I never gave much thought about was the role of being a talent master. CIOs need to be able to find the right people through what they think and how they act. The right mindset is the utmost quality for being a right fit. I learned so much from this book. CIO master is a wealth of IT knowledge and a must read for every CIO! I highly recommend this incredible book.