The purpose of "CIO Master - Unleash the Digital Potential of IT" is to provide guidelines for building a framework to run a highly effective, highly innovative and highly mature digital IT organization. Also, it provides the principles to reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence. -Rebrand digital CIOs with multiple personas -Reinvent IT to unleash its full digital potential -Reenergize change as an ongoing digital capability -Refine talent management to bridge IT skills gap -Remaster multidimensional IT to create multi-level business value -Renovate strategy execution continuum to improve effectiveness -Reimagine IT as an innovation engine to catalyze business growth -Reshape IT via leveraging “3P”s: Principle, Portfolio, Performance -Retool IT agility to adapt to changes

1. CIO Master
Unleash the Digital Potential of IT
Pearl Zhu
The Author of “Digital Master,” & “Future of CIO” Blog
WWW.PEARLZHU.COM
CIO MASTER
DIGITAL MASTER

4. Title: CIO Master
Sub Title: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT
Author:
Pearl Zhu
ISBN: 978-1-4835658-5-9
Copyright Date:
Mar. 2016
About “CIO Master”

5. Summary
The purpose of CIO Master - Unleash the Digital Potential of IT is
to provide guidelines for building a framework to run a highly
effective, highly innovative and highly mature digital IT
organization. Also, it provides the principles to reinvent CIO
leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.
● Rebrand digital CIOs with multiple personas
● Reinvent IT to unleash its full digital potential
● Reenergize changes as an ongoing digital capability
● Refine talent management to bridge IT skills gap
● Remaster multidimensional IT to create multi-level business value
● Renovate strategy execution continuum to improve effectiveness
● Reimagine IT as an innovation engine to catalyze business growth
● Reshape IT via leveraging “3P”s: Principle, Portfolio, Performance
● Retool IT agility to adapt to changes

6. Two Parts of “CIO Master”
CIO Leadership
The prominence of the CIO role has risen
greatly as IT has become an increasingly
important success factor of the digital
organization. The CIO position has a shorter
history, but a more dynamic role to play due to
the continuous changes of information and
technology. Compare to the other executive
positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken
up, refined, reinvented and reenergized.
Unleash Digital IT Potential
The business paradigm is shifting from the
industrial age to a new digital era. Digital
organizations are hyperconnected and
interdependent, and they have to continue to
adapt to the digital new normal with “VUCA”
characteristics -Velocity, Uncertainty,
Complexity, and Ambiguity. So the challenge
facing IT leaders is on how to re-imagine IT
and unleash its full digital potential.

7. Part I: CIO Masters’ Multiple Hats
Chief Influence Officer
Leadership is All about
Influence
Chief Innovation Officer
Innovation is not “Nice
to Have,” but “Must
Have” Capability in the
Digital Era.
Chief Interpretation Officer
It is not about “What you
Say,” but about “Why do
you Say & How you Say
it!”
Chief Inspiration Officer
It is the Leadership Role
to Inspire, Unleash the
Collective Human
Potential and Leapfrog
Digital Transformation

8. Part II
Unleash Digital Potential of IT
● Remaster multidimensional IT to create
multi-level business value
● Renovate strategy execution continuum to
improve effectiveness
● Reimagine IT as an innovation engine to
catalyze business growth
● Reshape IT via leveraging “3P”s:
Principle, Portfolio, Performance
● Retool IT agility to adapt to changes

9. Running IT as a
“Whole Brain” of
the Digital
Organization.
CONCLUSION

10. CIO Master Brief
The purpose of CIO Master - Unleash the Digital Potential of
IT is to provide guidelines for building a framework to run a
highly effective, highly innovative and highly mature digital IT
organization. Also, it provides the principles to reinvent CIO
leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.

11. Author: Pearl Zhu

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