100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal

By Pearl Zhu

The purpose of “100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal “ is to establish digital principles and update business policies that can be applied holistically and guide the digital transformation systematically. Digital rules are based on a set of fundamental beliefs behind the methodologies and they help to shape mindsets behind behaviors. Digital rules encourage mindfulness, authenticity, creativity, inclusiveness, and discourage static thinking, silo, and bureaucracy, help to accelerate collective human progress.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781387357628

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100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal

100 Digital Rules

Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal

Pearl Zhu

Copyright @2017 Pearl Zhu

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ISBN: 978-1-387-35762-8

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Digital Thinking Rules

Chapter 2 Digital Changes Rules

Chapter 3 Digital Innovation Rules

Chapter 4 Digital Problem-Solving Rules

Chapter 5 Digital Transformation Rules

Conclusion

Acknowledgement

About the Author

Introduction Setting Digital Rules to Guide Through Digital Transformation

A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance, and guide through changes and digital transformation.

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Figure 1 Digital rules

Digital businesses today are facing fierce competitions, unprecedented uncertainty, and velocity. There is a classic fable about a lion and a gazelle to analogize such a surviving and thriving cycles. The lion wakes up and starts running, otherwise it will not catch lunch. The gazelle does the same but, in this case, to avoid becoming lunch. Either way, you have to move to survive, and accelerate to thrive.

Digital organizations are organic, alive, holistic, vibrant, energetic, responsive, fluid, and innovative, in a relationship with its environment dynamically, and above all enhances and supports the dignity of the creative human spirit. The challenge is to prioritize what you know about and keep an eye open for signs of things you don't know about. Therefore, it is important to develop your own company tailored rules to inspire change mentality, motivate positive attitude and good behaviors, and generate winning concepts for digital transformation on the consistent basis.

Digital rules are not some outdated cliches or overly rigid policies to stifle innovation. Generally speaking, a business rule is a statement to set the policy or procedure. Enterprise policies provide a basis for decision-making throughout an enterprise and inform how the organization sets about fulfilling its mission. A business rule is simply a rule that is under business jurisdiction. It means that the business can enact, revise, and discontinue their business rules as they see fit.

The purpose of "100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal " is to  establish digital principles and update business policies that can be applied holistically and guide the digital transformation systematically. Digital rules are based on a set of fundamental beliefs behind the methodologies and they help to shape mindsets behind behaviors. Digital rules encourage mindfulness, authenticity, creativity, inclusiveness, and discourage static thinking, silo, and bureaucracy, help to accelerate collective human progress.

Chapter 1 Digital Thinking Rules: Mindset is the most valuable thing to shape every progress, but also the root cause of all mankind problems. It’s time to set digital thinking rules, shift mindset - from fixed to accelerated; closed to open; linear to circular; exclusive to inclusive; silo to holistic; and reawaken limitless human potential.

Chapter 2 Digital Change Rules: Change Management is a complex management discipline due to the VUCA nature of digital organizations. It is critical to set digital rules to improve Change Management effectiveness, capture the right timing for changes, make people at the center of change, and take a logical scenario to make change more nature, and less painful.

Chapter 3 Digital Innovation Rules: It is important to set digital rules, define the most compelling and unique innovation approach or a mix of different approaches to addressing the needs; analyze the benefits per costs of that approach, to ensure that innovation can be managed more systematically and develop it as a distinguished business capability.

Chapter 4 Problem-Solving Rules: We all develop reputations for being problem creators, problem definers or problem solvers. Problem-solving has a very wide scope, it takes well-defined rules and interdisciplinary approaches. The problem-solving mindset has synthetic nature with multi-level thinking processes involved.

Chapter 5 Digital Transformation Rules: The digital organization should set guidelines and rules to empower employees at all levels within an organization to unlock their creativity, understand and develop their creative capacity to solve problems and exploit opportunities in new and innovative ways.

Change is costly. Digital transformation is full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, and ambiguity. The very characteristics of digital new normal are nonlinearity, unrepeatability, unpredictability, and denial of control. Therefore, it is important to set digital rules to improve the success rate of changes and digital transformation in the organization. The journey is far more important than destination. Digital organizations have to adapt to the continuous changes and are able to follow digital principles, revise business rules, reconfigure organizational structures and change their own behaviors for its adaptation to environmental changes and business dynamic.

Chapter 1 Digital Thinking Rules

Mindset is the most valuable thing to shape every progress, but also the root cause of all mankind problems.

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Figure 2 Digital Thinking Rules

Digital transformation is the long journey. Digitalization doesn’t mean just tearing down all the old things in the previous era. It means to strike the right balance between the new way and the old way to do things. Organizations have to set fair principles and updated digital rules, develop digital mindsets, build well-rounded capabilities, and run up all important stages for reaching the higher level of digital maturity and reaping the benefit via going digital with full speed.

The fact is that the world now becomes more advanced, complex and dynamic than ever, mindset is everything. Human minds are perhaps one of the most powerful but mysterious things in the universe, as they continue to imagine and invent things for changing the world. With increasing speed of changes, it is in the people’s mindset to either adapt or embrace the changes. It has been said that to embrace change requires a change of mindset at every level and an understanding that things cannot stay the same. This is the groundwork that has to be done at all levels prior to initiating major change.

The race of human against the machine is ongoing. The knowledge life cycle is significantly shortened, and the pace of information technology is so rapid that no one can rest on a static mindset, past accomplishments, or the wishful thought that everything is perfect the way it is. Indeed, the mindset is far more important than talent. Mindset is the most valuable thing to shape every progress, but also the root cause of all mankind problems. The quality of your life is given via the quality of the thinking you have done. In other words, what you are experiencing is the continuous flow of your thoughts and the total sum of decisions you have made. It’s time to shift mindset, to reawaken limitless human potential. Think both hard and smart, fast and slow, be mindful, nonlinear, multidimensional, and holistic to make a leap of digital transformation.

Critical Thinking Rules

Education is not the learning of fact, but the training of the mind to think. (Albert Einstein)

Critical thinking is one of the most important skills to learn for career and life. Critical thinking is to apply the objective analysis for either making judgments or decisions.