1. Pearl Zhu
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About “Digital Master” Series (25+ Books)

2. Digital Master
25 Books

3. ● Set Digital Principles
● Shape Digital Mindsets
● Speak Digital Languages
You are What You Read-
Being a Digital Leader & Professional Today

4. Digital Master
Debunk the Myths of Enterprise Digital Maturity
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER
● A Play Book to Shape Digital Mindset
● A Bridge Book to Mind the Industrial
Age & the Digital Era
● A Guide Book to Orchestrate Digital
Transformation

5. Digital Master
Debunk the Myths of Enterprise Digital Maturity
“Digital means flow: data
flow, information flow,
knowledge flow, and mind
flow.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Master

6. THINKINGAIRE
100 Game-Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the future
The term digital " THINKINGAIRES" we
advocate in this book refers to the talented
digital leaders and professionals who
continue to create new ideas, to practice
thought leadership, and to bring the world
both content richness and context
intelligence.

7. THINKINGAIRE
A guidebook
helps you
Cultivate
Digital
Thinking
Mindsets to
Compete for
the Future!
100 Game-Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the future

8. IT Pillar in Digital Transformation

9. CIO Master
Unleash The digital Potential of IT
The Principles, Practices
and Portfolio to Reinvent
CIO Leadership!
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

10. CIO Master
Unleash The digital Potential of IT
Reimagine IT as an
Innovation Engine!
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

11. IT Innovation
The purpose of “IT innovation -
Reinvent IT for the Digital Age” is
to help business and IT leaders and
digital professionals ride above the
learning curve, reinvent IT as an
innovation hub and game changer.
Reinvent IT for the Digital Age

12. Digital IT
100 Q&As
The purpose of “Digital IT-100 Q&As “ is to
summarize 100+ classic and emergent digital
debates about digital IT leadership and
management, brainstorm how to run a holistic
digital business from multidimensional lens
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

13. Digital Agility
The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
Agile is a State of Mind.
Agile is a Culture!
Agile is a Set of Principles.
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

14. Digital Agility
The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Being Agile”
considers
the entire enterprise.
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

15. IT Pillar in Digital Transformation
IT
Digitization

16. Digitizing Boardroom
The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Board
● Envision the future of directorship
● Building IT friendly and
technology-savvy digital boards.
● Advocate digital fitness and talent
management innovation.
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

17. Digitizing Boardroom
The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Board
A highly effective and wise Board
exhibits a creative tension, that hard
to define, but you know it when you
see it.
CIO MASTER
Digital gility
DIGITAL MASTER

18. Innovation Pillar in Digital Transformation

19. Summary IT plays a significant role in managing
information life cycle and fostering
innovation.
● Reinvent IT as an innovation game changer.
Reimagine IT as an innovational outlier
● Renovate a hybrid IT and digital organization;
Fine-tune IT as the “digital whole brain” of the
organization.
● Accelerate IT on the fast lane. Rebuild IT as business
capability multiplier
● Empower IT as digital Change Agent. Run a highly
innovative digital-ready IT organization.

20. Unpuzzling Innovation
Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
Pearl Zhu
The Author of “Digital Master” Book Series (18
Books & “Future of CIO” Blog
WWW.PEARLZHU.COM
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

21. Summary
The purpose of “Unpuzzling Innovation -
Mastering Innovation Management in a
Structural Way“ is to demystify innovation
puzzle in a structural way.
● Innovation is the process which can be classified scientifically and
managed dynamically. Digital leaders are innovators.
● Innovation needs to break some outdated rules, builds digital
principles, to manage innovation in a structural way.
● Creativity is simply about connecting the dots, develop a set of
best/next practices to manage digital innovation continuum
effectively.
● Understand the paradox of innovation, be cautious about gaps and
pitfalls, to improve innovation success rate and measure it in the right
way.

22. 100 Creativity Ingredients
Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Pearl Zhu
The Author of “Digital Master” Book Series (18
Books & “Future of CIO” Blog
WWW.PEARLZHU.COM
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

23. Summary 100 Creativity Ingredients
The purpose of “100 Creativity Ingredients
-Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity“
is to classify, scrutinize, articulate, and share
insight about one hundred special creativity
ingredients, to paint the picture with them, to
add colors on them, to embed the music into
them, and to make the story via them, in order
to unleash our collective creativity potential.

24. “Digital Master” Book Series (25 Books)

25. People Pillar in Digital Transformation

26. Leadership Master
Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity
The defining qualities
that will distinguish great leaders
from the rest are stemmed
from the mindset level.
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

27. Leadership Master
Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity
Leadership is about Future.
Leadership is about Change
Leadership is Influence!
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

28. Talent Master
199+ Questions to See Talent
from Different Angles
● Digital Fit
● Digital Intelligence
● Digital Creativity
● Digital Professionalism
● Digital Potential CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

29. Talent Master
199+ Questions to See Talent
from Different Angles
● Hire Mindset, Build Capability
● Creativity is a High-Level of
Thinking Ability.
● Digital Intelligence is
multidimensional.
CIO
MASTER
Digital
Agility

30. Change Pillar in Digital Transformation

31. Digital Valley
Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Knowledge is Learned,
Wisdom is Earned.
CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

32. Digital Valley
Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Knowledge is
concrete,
Intelligence is
contextual! CIO MASTER
Digital Agility
DIGITAL MASTER

33. Change Insight
Change as an Ongoing Capability to Fuel Digital Transformation
● Understand the Psychology behind
Changes
● Manage Change from the Mindset Level
● Fine-Tune Change in a Structural Way

34. Conclusion
Change is the voyage to discover
the new scenes.

35. The “Master Pieces” in “Digital Master”

36. Summary Decision Master
“”The Art and Science of Decison Making””
is the guidebook to perceive digital mindsets with
multidimensional decision intelligence, define a set
of decision-making principles, articulate potential
pitfalls in decision-making scenario, describe
digital decision-making styles, summarize the
important elements in building the
decision-making capability and taking stepwise
steps to achieve decision maturity.

37. Introduction Decision Master
“”The Art and Science of Decison Making””
is the guidebook to perceive digital mindsets
with multidimensional decision intelligence,
define a set of decision-making principles,
articulate potential pitfalls in decision-making
scenario, describe digital decision-making styles,
summarize the important elements in building
the decision-making capability and taking
stepwise steps to achieve decision maturity.

38. 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.

39. Introduction Digital Gaps
Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive
Digital Businesses” 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.

40. Introduction Digital Capability
The purpose of the book “Digital
Capability - Building Lego-Like
Capability into Business Competency “ is
to provide an insightful understanding
of assessing, developing, and managing
organizational capabilities in a
structural way.

41. Summary Let Capability Shine
Let capability shine. The capability-based
strategy is not only leading to a destination -
the business vision but also cultivating and
optimizing the differentiated business
competency dynamically and proactively, to
further improve business effectiveness and
maturity.

42. Introduction Performance Master
The purpose of the book “Performance
Master: Take a Holistic Approach to
Unlock Digital Performance “is to
provide an in-depth understanding and
share unique insight about how to take
a holistic approach to measuring and
managing enterprise digital
performance.

43. Conclusion Return on Digital Transformation
Enterprise Performance
Management is a multidisciplinary
management discipline to run
numbers in context, leverage data to
tell stories, and get results related to
business goals, and keep the
business digital fit for the long term.

44. Introduction The purpose of the book “Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As
“is to share 100 insightful questions for rejuvenating the
boardroom to get digital ready.
Question and brainstorm on much-needed oversight and additional rigor to the
boardroom composition and succession planning process.
● Practice critical thinking and independent thinking for identifying blind spots,
criticizing the strategy constructively and advising management insightfully.
● Practice “out-of-the-box” thinking to ask open-ended questions about IT and
how to build an IT friendly and technology-savvy digital board.
● Practice strategic thinking and systems thinking, ask insightful questions, to
become the mastermind of digital transformation.
● Make profound inquiries about the future of leadership, constantly question
the status quo and set the digital leadership tone to get digital ready.

45. Summary Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&As
Digital directorship goes Deeper over
louder;
from Compliance to Performance to
Excellence;
from homogeneity to heterogeneity to
High-Maturity.

46. Digital Fit
Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit
Pearl Zhu
The Author of “Digital Master” Book Series (19+
Books & “Future of CIO” Blog (4100 + Postings)
WWW.PEARLZHU.COM
CIO MASTER
Digital IT
DIGITAL MASTER

47. Digital Fit
The purpose of “Digital Fit: Manifest Future of
Business with Multidimensional Fit“ is to share
insight about multidimensional enterprise fit from
digital characteristics, organizational structure,
change, knowledge, and talent perspectives; evoke
critical and paradoxical thinking about digital “fit
vs. misfit,” spark healthy debates on how to define
and develop true digital fit, and build a fitting
working environment to inspire creativity and
accelerate digital transformation.

48. 100
Digital
Rules
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 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; discourage static thinking, silo,
and bureaucracy, help to accelerate collective human
progress.

49. 100 Digital Rules
●

50. 12 CIO Personas This book “12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational
Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical
content expansion of my book “CIO Master: Unleash the Digital
Potential of IT,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via
practicing multitudes of digital influence.
CIOs have multiple personas, varying personalities, and impressive
leadership profiles. The personas can be seen as the “public relations”
part of digital CIOs that allow them to interact socially in a variety
of situations with relative ease. Contemporary CIOs are expected to
wear many hats to practice situational leadership effectively.

51. 12 CIO Personas
The CIO is an inherently cross-functional role, to bridge
the business and IT; the data and insight, the business’s
today and tomorrow. The digital CIOs have to wear
different personas and master multiple leadership and
management roles effortlessly.

52. Digital Master
25 Books

53. Future of CIO Blogs
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54. Problem-Solving
Master
We all develop reputations for being
problem creators, problem definers, or
problem solvers.
The purpose of “Problem-Solving Master -
Frame Problems Systematically and Solve
Problems Creatively“ is to throw some light on
how to understand, frame, and solve today’s
multilayer, interdependent, and over-complex
business problems effortlessly.

55. Mastering Problem-Solving

56. Digital Maturity
Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
Pearl Zhu
The Author of “Digital Master,” & “Future of CIO” Blog
WWW.PEARLZHU.COM
CIO MASTER
DIGITAL MASTER

57. Digital Maturity
Summary
A-thousand-miles journey of
digitalization is to improve business
maturity from functioning to firm to
delight.
The purpose of the book “Digital Maturity: Take
a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning
to Delight” is to envision the future of the
business, articulate the very characteristics of
digital organizations; reimagine the
interdisciplinary and hyperconnected digital
ecosystem.

58. 100 Digital Pitfalls
How to Overcome Pitfalls on the Path of Going Digital
Pearl Zhu
The Author of “Digital Master,” & “Future of CIO”
Blog
URL: WWW.PEARLZHU.COM
EMAIL: DigitalMasterSeries@GMAIL.COM CIO MASTER
DIGITAL MASTER

59. Introduction 100 Digital Pitfalls
The purpose of “100 Digital Pitfalls: How to
Overcome Pitfalls on the Path of Going
Digital” is to throw some light on how to
identify, understand, and overcome common
pitfalls on the digital journey, dig underneath the
surface, and take a holistic approach to integrate
both hard and soft elements for improving the
long-term organizational competency and reaching
the high-level of business maturity.

60. Digital Hybridty
How to Strike the Right Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift
Pearl Zhu
The Author of “Digital Master,” & “Future of CIO”
Blog
URL: WWW.PEARLZHU.COM
EMAIL: DigitalMasterSeries@GMAIL.COM CIO MASTER
DIGITAL MASTER

61. Introduction Digital Hybridity
The purpose of the book “Digital Hybridity: How
to Strike the Right Balance for Digital Paradigm
Shift” is to shed some light on how to strike the
right balance of stability and changes; being
transactional to keep spinning and being
transformational to leap forward for making a
seamless digital paradigm shift.

62. Digital Master Series

63. Being a Digital Professional Today!
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