Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.
Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.
Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.
Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” – It means to change or alter things that already exist.
The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.
Always dig through the thoughts underneath the words, and be authentic of being who you are.
Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.
Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.
You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.
Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.
Innovation is to connect the dots – synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.
The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.
Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.
An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.
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.
The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.
Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.
You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the process.
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.
The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.
The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear.
The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.
Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.
Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management – idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps
Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.
In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.
Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.
For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.
T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer.
IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays.
A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.
The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance – to keep things going steadfastly.
Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change.
The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing.
Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.
A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.
The digital philosophy is to live as “customers,” when practicing IT management.
Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,
An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.
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.
IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.
Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.
To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.
A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.
Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.
Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.
As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses.
Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.