Quotes From "Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects Of Digital Ready Boards" By Pearl Zhu

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Digital leadership must be extremely visionary, mindful, creative, empathetic, generous, conscious, passionate, and humble. Pearl Zhu
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Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence. Pearl Zhu
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An effective Board can connect all the right dots well. Pearl Zhu
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Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity. Pearl Zhu
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Understanding requires a person’s ability to grasp or comprehend information. Pearl Zhu
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Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture. Pearl Zhu
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Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of “digital -flavored” cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices. Pearl Zhu
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A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation. Pearl Zhu
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Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance Pearl Zhu
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The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference. Pearl Zhu
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The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management. Pearl Zhu
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The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process. Pearl Zhu
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Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature. Pearl Zhu
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Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in. Pearl Zhu
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Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance. Pearl Zhu
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The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness. Pearl Zhu
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Agile is more a “direction, ” than an “end, ” a philosophy and mindset at board level. Pearl Zhu
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A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY. Pearl Zhu
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A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest. Pearl Zhu
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The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism. Pearl Zhu
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Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy. Pearl Zhu
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The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through. Pearl Zhu
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The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do. Pearl Zhu
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Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring. Pearl Zhu
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The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information. Pearl Zhu
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Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer, ” Risk Management is like a “Brake. Pearl Zhu
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The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, “deep common sense, ” balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more. Pearl Zhu