“ IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage. Pearl Zhu
“ As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses. Pearl Zhu
“ Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively. Pearl Zhu
“ A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules. Pearl Zhu
“ To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation. Pearl Zhu
“ An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently. Pearl Zhu
“ Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent, Pearl Zhu
“ The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential. Pearl Zhu
“ A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits. Pearl Zhu
“ 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
“ The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things,” the “learning and doing. Pearl Zhu
“ Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change. Pearl Zhu
“ A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities. Pearl Zhu
“ IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays. Pearl Zhu
“ T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer. Pearl Zhu
