We can only manage what we measure. Modern business need shape fact-based culture, either executive team or front line workers, measure/metrics/KPIs will help improve productivity, more importantly, it may bring significant opportunities to optimize business process, recognize important patterns and unleash potential of business capabilities. 1. Measure,...
Win-Win, is Mission Possible
Saturday, June 23, 2012 | comments
Modern business and society become more complex and interdependent than ever, there’s no any party can dominate at the negotiation table from every perspective. The "Win-Win" could be translated to mean "mutually beneficial" and should be seen as a negotiation guiding principle which emphasizes fairness in business play. Encouraging this mind set of...
Airlines: From Golden Old Days into Silver Lining Future
Monday, June 18, 2012 | comments
CNN started five-week series of The Traveler’s Psyche in late May, the first series “The golden days of air travel” shared the emotions in industry’s ups and down, from luggage styles to flight attendant fashion, air travel did come a long journey: before deregulation in 1978, airline travels was largely to serve wealthy, in last couple of decades,...
Three Perspectives on IT Mattering More Today
Sunday, June 17, 2012 | comments
Mr. Nicholas Carr wrote 10 years ago "IT doesn't matter" spurred quite many in-depth debates in last couple of years, the book is insightful and resourceful, however, the prediction does not come true, on the opposite, IT matters more than ever at today’s rapidly changing business environment, with the latest technologies emerging, such as cloud, social,...
Seven Ingredients for Future Corporate Leadership
Sunday, June 10, 2012 | comments
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” ~Nelson Mandela Leadership is generally defined as "one attempting to influence the behavior or another, for any reason". And the essence of leadership is in achievement, which has not changed and will not change. However, the world we live change significantly, and the change...
Three Stages of Modern Leadership
Sunday, June 10, 2012 | comments
Leadership is a timeless topic for every generation, as mankind need effective leadership to advance humanity, also make collective progress & achievement via its influence. From nature business evolution perspective, we may define modern leadership into three stages:1. The first stage: Leading at Business Jungle The period during the...
Compliance & Risk Management, Sisters or Cousins
Saturday, June 9, 2012 | comments
1. Definition of Risk & Compliance From Wikipedia: Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risk effect of uncertainty on objectives, whether positive or negative) followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate...
Ten Inspiring IT Elevator Speeches
Thursday, June 7, 2012 | comments
IT and CIO at the tipping point for transformation, with new mindset to create value center, than cost center, move from back office to front brainyard, and with the latest technology such as cloud, mobile, social and Big Data as silver lining, CIO need learn how to articulate IT's value to the Chairman of the Board in 25 or less simple...
Three Insights from Deloitte & MIT’s Social Business Report
Saturday, June 2, 2012 | comments
MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte conducted a survey from organizations in 115 countries and 24 industries, to understand the status of social computing: how does business leader think about it, where is the business value from it, and what kind of challenges they face today. Though many mid and large businesses just start experimenting...
From Rocket Science to Parable: Highlight is the Key
Saturday, June 2, 2012 | comments
One of the big stories in last couple weeks are SpaceX finished its journey to International Space Station successfully.Dragon is flying, it makes me think about a little parable: there was a famous painter long time ago, with a reputation of his talent and vivid, lifelike picture. One day, he was traveling, painted four dragons on the wall,...
