Pearl Zhu quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Pearl Zhu has a lot to say. In this list we present the 50 best Pearl Zhu quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Pearl Zhu quotes
Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Creativity is a high level of thinking and intelligence.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Innovation comes from the Latin, “Innovare” – It means to change or alter things that already exist.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The solution to encourage creativity is to maximize use of employees’ brainpower.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Always dig through the thoughts underneath the words, and be authentic of being who you are.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Creativity is a flow, an abstract and an imagination.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovation is to connect the dots – synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the process.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The very nature of open innovation is to take advantage of all sources of creativity in a more open way and make a leap of innovation management to the next level.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The best way to foster creativity is to help people communicate in a way that instills confidence, not fear.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management – idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
T has to continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as an innovative game changer.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
A hybrid of centralization and decentralization is counter-balance of delivering effective IT capabilities.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance – to keep things going steadfastly.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last, ” to “wired for change.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of “old experience” and “new way to do things, ” the “learning and doing.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
A CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” has creative, logical, hybrid, and abstract thinking traits.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
The digital philosophy is to live as “customers, ” when practicing IT management.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.
— Pearl Zhu
Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
To strengthen the IT-business link, it takes more resource to doing innovation, not just IT innovation, but business innovation.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
A transformation often needs to break down the outdated rules, and a transaction is following the rules.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and “super-creative” via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Develop talent for tomorrow, rather than just hire for yesterday.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses.
— Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age
Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.
— Pearl Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
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