Digital Gaps

Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Businesses

Pearl Zhu

The Author of “Digital Master” Book Series (15+ Books & “Future of CIO” Blog (3600 + Postings)

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Title: Digital Gaps

Sub Title: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Businesses

Author:Pearl Zhu

ISBN: 978-1-365-82479-1

Copyright Date:Mar. 2017

About “Digital Gaps”

Author: Pearl Zhu Digital Master Book Series ( 15 Books)

Summary Digital Gaps“Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive

Digital Businesses” is a guide book to help digital

leaders and professionals today identify, analyze,

and mind multiple gaps with multidisciplinary

insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital

organization simply just can’t stand still. Bridging

the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are

and want to become is a welcomed challenge and a

step-wise approach to make a leap of digital

transformation.

Chapter 1 Digital IT Leadership Q&As Cognition is the mental process of acquiring

knowledge through thought, experience, and

senses. The "mind" represents our consciousness

and awareness. Cognition is a perception,

sensation, and insight. People are different, not

because we look differently, but because we

think differently. Bridging cognitive gaps is

about minding creativity gap, problem-solving

gap, and insight gap.

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Chapter 2 Leadership Gaps Competition at the leading edge of business

is fierce at the age of digitalization and

globalization. if you are not taking steps now

to shrink that leadership gaps, you will not be

prepared to lead the digital business in the

future. Successful companies need to grow

and innovate, investing in, and developing the

next generation of leadership is one of the best

ways to do that.

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Chapter 3 Management Gaps Most organizations at the industrial era

operate in the functional silos and digital

management focuses on broader

collaboration. Hence, it is a strategic

imperative to close the gaps between

traditional management and digital

management in order to enforce

cross-functional collaboration and improve

business effectiveness and maturity.

Chapter 4 Capability GapsA capability is an ability that a person, an

organization, or a system possesses to perform

and achieve a certain result. The corporate

capability is the collective ability to

implement strategy, innovation and make

changes. The organization’s capabilities can

be categorized into both competitive necessity

and competitive uniqueness. Forward-looking

organizations craft capability-based strategies

to ensure the smooth implementation.

Chapter 5 Professional GapsA professional is an individual who strives

to represent skill and delivers quality. Being

a digital professional means consistency.

Lack of professional maturity causes a

digital professional gap. Being a digital

professional inherently and inextricably

links with high levels of “professionalism.”

Conclusion Bridging Gaps to Catalyze Digital Maturity

Digital ecosystem provides unprecedented

opportunities to leapfrog the business world

up to the next level of maturity. Bridging

multiple digital gaps helps discover the

alternatives to problem-solving; create the

digital synergy and accelerate digital flow

and business transformation.

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