It Digitalization Quotes & Sayings

IT and business must be partners, must be able to speak the same language, finish each other's sentences, to solve the well-defined business problems. — Pearl Zhu

IT is the business's competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention. — Pearl Zhu

Gaining an in-depth understanding of business capabilities helps today's business leaders craft good strategy and implement it effectively. — Pearl Zhu

In order to demonstrate IT value, organizations need to first know wherein lies the IT value. — Pearl Zhu

A digital-ready CIO is a visionary and transformational leader, not just a transactional manager, for the long term. — Pearl Zhu

It is time to "align IT to the customer" rather than "align IT with the business. — Pearl Zhu

Strategy execution doesn't go for perfect, it's the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity. — Pearl Zhu

Organizational success comes when IT and business act from "IT vs. business" to IT is business" - a true partnership. — Pearl Zhu

IT is the building block of the business capability when business -IT gaps are shrinking, and it would be the roadblock if the gaps are enlarging. — Pearl Zhu

Over the past two decades screens have proliferated, filling our purses, pockets, and bedside tables. The living room is no longer configured around a single blazing digital fireplace, the television; instead it flashes with decentralized brushfires: ereaders, tablets, laptops, desktops, smartphones, televisions, refrigerator screens. As for the radios and bookshelves that were supposed to vanish with the digitalization of the American home, they've stubbornly remained. — Virginia Heffernan

Information Management becomes the core capability of the digital organization, and it is the key differentiator between digital leaders and laggards. — Pearl Zhu

Digital has the hybrid nature; it's about mixing something old and new, the best practices and the next practices. — Pearl Zhu

The "Art of Possible" can only be achieved through visionary IT leadership, as well as the art and science of modern IT management. — Pearl Zhu

Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization. — Pearl Zhu

It is important to strengthen the weakest link, to ensure all important business elements integrated and knitted into ongoing organizational capabilities and unique business competency. — Pearl Zhu

Metaphorically, IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body. — Pearl Zhu

Running, growth and transformation are all important stages for the business's survival and thriving. — Pearl Zhu

Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution' it's part of art and part of science. — Pearl Zhu

Building a digital-ready IT roadmap is a proactive approach to well prepare for the digital transformation. — Pearl Zhu

The priority has to be set for lifting IT and overall business maturity from efficiency to effectiveness to agility. — Pearl Zhu

The "artificial gap" between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement. — Pearl Zhu

The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame. — Pearl Zhu

A high-mature digital organization is shifting from "pushing" stuff to the digital channel into "pulling" resources up for problem-solving. — Pearl Zhu

Re-imaging the future of business is exciting, but investigating the different path for unleashing business potential needs to take a systematic approach and develop it into a more solid form. — Pearl Zhu

Re-use is a necessity, but it should be a natural reflex, and find the right "tipping point. — Pearl Zhu

Trust means how to strike the right balance upon what IT can give up control, and what IT needs to control. — Pearl Zhu

By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive but ultimately be the strategic business partner. — Pearl Zhu

The digital transformation scorecard allows you to focus on the most important things. Without scorecards, it will become like searching for a needle in the haystack. — Pearl Zhu

Anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15) — Adam J. Banks

Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that it's a multi-dimensional planning and orchestration. — Pearl Zhu

The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of the "old experience" and the "new way to do things," the "learning and doing. — Pearl Zhu

The challenge for the IT leader is to set the right priority, manage the limited budget and resource, to "Do more with innovation. — Pearl Zhu

Every decision by every decision-maker needs to be informed by an understanding of how technology changes business processes. — Pearl Zhu