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Driving Digital by Isaac Sacolick – a book review
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
I just finished Driving Digital: The Leader’s Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology by Isaac Sacolick. Note: I received a free copy of this book for review. The short review: Excellent…the best book I’ve read on the subject. Go buy it if you want/need to transform your business.
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On August 24th, my book Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology will be available! You probably guessed that I would eventually author a book.
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A quote from my book, Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology Here's how digital organizations are smarter and faster - They change their culture by developing "bottoms up" practices like agile, ideation, relationship developing CRM, and citizen's development.
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My Most Challenging Tech Presentation Was to Middle School Teenagers
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I've been to several conferences the last few months sharing my insights on digital transformation, agile culture, and enabling the data driven organization - all key practices that I cover in my book, Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology.
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Digital transformation is not just about applying cloud, mobile, and social technologies or experimenting with emerging technologies like AI, blockchain, or IoT. Here's me talking about.
Driving Digital in the News!
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AUGUST 28, 2017
Long time readers of Social, Agile, and Transformation know that I've recommended going on vacations to help clear the mind and having fun as a key tenet of your organization's culture.
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OCTOBER 15, 2018
One year ago my book Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology published and I officially launched my business StarCIO. Two years ago I was just coming out of my last CIO role and started my new role as a consultant.
Driving Digital Smarter and Faster - Because Everybody is a Technology Company
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
I hope you will listen to my recently recorded podcast at AMA Edgewise on my book, Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology.
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Why marketing organizations are transforming their organizations with driving digital practices Last week I had the privilege of speaking at KintoneConnect on Driving Digital: Key Practices to Lead a Smarter and Faster Transformation.
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Typically, CIOs would need to remain on top of various parameters such as costs, production Issues (especially business-critical applications), risks, technology, customer, long-term business transformation, etc. To put simply, the scoreboard is strategy focused, and the dashboard is operation oriented.
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This book “ 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “ CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT ,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.
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The IT Performance Scorecard & Dashboard The Digital CIO’s Scoreboard Due to the overwhelming growth of information and the disruptive nature of technology, IT becomes more and more significant in driving organizational changes and catalyzing business transformation. Three Essential Information from an IT Management Dashboard ?
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Digital boards co-develop the digital vision and oversee the business strategy, and recommend comprehensive digital playbooks to guide the business through the journey of digital transformation. Digital playbook vs. cookbook: what’s your hand book to make a seamless digital transformation?
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The Monthly “CIO Master” Book Tuning: The Multifaceted Digital CIO Mar. 2019
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Digitalization is the evolutionary business transformation which evolves production, adoption, assimilation, exploitation, and exploration of value-added novelty in the business. Great CIOs have multiple personas, varying personalities, and impressive leadership profiles.
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The business transformation should not be undertaken lightly because it must align diverse and divergent stakeholders’ interests toward a common goal. "IT
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Future of CIO
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Ironically, often technology is the disruptive force behind the business transformation and information is one of the most invaluable assets businesses need to invest in. Thus, running faster IT becomes a prerequisite of operating a highly adaptive and high-performance business.
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Future of CIO
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They also set the tone for digital leadership and business transformation. A Board with High Changeability Contemporary corporate boards play a critical role in overseeing strategy, advising management, and monitoring performance. Change is the new normal, the speed of change is increasing in the digital era.
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Future of CIO
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Digital CIOs, are born to change, how they overcome the digital transformation challenges depends on their ability to think, adapt, proactively plan and execute, as well as their multifaceted leadership capacities.
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Thinkingaire Effect” in IT Transformation: Reboot IT Mindset IT plays a significant role in digital transformation. IT transformation is an integral part of the business transformation. They need to deal with constant ambiguity and digital disruptions for rebooting IT to get digital ready.
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Contemporary CIOs should be capable of evolving leadership skills to not only match pace with the changes in technology and the pace at which an organization can effectively manage these changes but also proactively drive changes in business transformation based on their vision, passion and leadership practices.
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40 The Monthly “Digitizing Boardroom” Book Tuning: Board Directors as Digital Practitioners Nov. 2017
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In short, digitizing the boardroom is inevitable, because as the top leadership team, the board just has to step into the digital vision, exemplify digital leadership effectiveness, and walk the talk in driving the business transformation.
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Unfortunately, more than two-thirds of changes and business transformations fail to achieve the expectation. Running IT as a change organization, how can CIOs drive such a multidimensional digital transformation effortlessly?
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FEBRUARY 9, 2020
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The Monthly CIO Debates Collection & “Digital IT” Book Tuning: Why is it so Hard to Run Innovative IT Dec. 2019
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Business transformation or change initiatives today nearly always involves some form of information and technology. All forward-thinking organizations across the industries claim they are in the information management business.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The purpose of the book “ Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the Right Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift ” is to shed some light on how to strike the right balance of stability and changes; being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to leap forward for making a seamless digital paradigm shift.
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Future of CIO
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Change is a dance between the top management and the affected parts of the organization, and change is an ongoing business capability. Business transformation or change initiatives today nearly always involves some form of information and technology. Why Is so Hard for Running IT “Out of the Comfort Zone” ?
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AUGUST 13, 2019
Running an Evolving IT via Consumerization, Contextualization, and Confluence In today’s digital dynamic and technical environments where Information and Technology are being used significantly around the globe for revenue-generating initiatives and business transformation.
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Future of CIO
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
This book “ 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices ” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2019
It’s important to work out a smooth strategy and business transformation by assessing the digital fit of the organization objectively and utilizing collective knowledge and experience to build competitive business advantage.
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