ILLUMINATION Book Chapters
Digital Intelligence — Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6a, Chapter 6b, Chapter 7a, Chapter 7b, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 22
Purpose of this book
Dear reader,
I authored this book because dealing with intelligence and the digital world is my passion and fascination. I share my passion and fascination with you.
My goal is to provide compelling ideas and unique ways to increase, enhance, and deepen our digital intelligence and awareness and apply them to our digital business journey, particularly for modernization and transformation initiatives.
I used a coherent architectural thinking approach as the primary framework to structure my thoughts and convey important and necessary information.
Based on my thought leadership on various digital transformation and modernization engagements, my goal is to share my experience in a concise book, aiming to add value to the body of knowledge with the accumulated knowledge, skills, and capabilities I’ve developed from these experiences.
Rest assured, this is not a theory and a scholarly book. I designed it as a practical reference covering lessons learned from fundamental enterprise transformation and modernization initiatives in large corporate environments.
I made every effort to make this book concise, uncluttered, and easy to read by removing technical jargon for a broader audience who wants to enhance digital intelligence and awareness, especially for business.
This book is not about a tool, application, a single product, specific technology, or service. It does not endorse any of these items. The primary focus is on architectural thinking and a methodical approach to improving digital intelligence and awareness.
This is not a typical digital transformation book with prescriptive formulas. I do not cover and repeat the exact content of those books describing digital transformations in this book. They are valuable information sources, but my purpose and goals are different.
What distinguishes this book from other books is that I provide an innovative thinking framework and a methodical approach to increase the digital quotient of my readers with insights from experience and hard-learned lessons.
I’m not trying to sell or endorse any products or services. I mention some prominent technologies which enable digital transformation for digital awareness in the right context aiming to enhance your capabilities.
Audience
When I was authoring this book, my conversations were with leaders who may have taken the plunge into the enormous responsibility of digitally modernizing and transforming large enterprise organizations.
I pictured a typical digital leader trying to make sense of the transforming environment.
Thus, this book can be an ideal source for digital leaders who want to increase their understanding of these complex environments and increase their digital intelligence learning from the experience of someone who diligently observed and engaged in these environments.
The guidance in this book can jump-start the thinking process for such digital transformation capabilities.
If I need to name them, the target audience for this book is primarily Technology Leaders, Enterprise Architects, Technical Specialists, Program Managers, and Transformation Executives, including CTO — Chief Technology Officer, CDO — Chief Digital Officer, CIO — Chief Information Officer, and Head of Enterprise Technologies.
These professionals engage in and take responsibility for substantial modernization and transformation programs at the enterprise level, particularly in large business organizations.
As an educative resource, this book can also help students studying disciplines related to media and digital technologies.
My Journey to Digital Intelligence
I am passionate about both human and machine intelligence. More than anything else, as a personal interest, intelligence is a thrilling and uplifting subject for me.
Strangely enough, I am attracted to intelligent people, animals, machines, and plants. Intelligence became such an obsession and fascination that I couldn’t hold my knowledge anymore and wanted to share my thoughts and passion with my readers, hoping that this madness can add some value.
My cravings to understand human and machine intelligence started in the earlier years of my tertiary studies in informatics. It intensified with my doctoral studies in cognitive science, which covered both natural and artificial intelligence. My fascination dramatically increased; hence I couldn’t help but share my thoughts with a broader audience.
Extending human intelligence using technology intelligence has been a particular interest over the years. Thus, I continued my studies and research in the area and chose a profession to deal with both human and machine intelligence in a broader sense but in an integrated context.
My brain loves structures and patterns since I chose to become a technologist practicing as an Enterprise Architect dealing with people, technology, process, tools, and the integration of heterogeneous systems. These engagements required a considerable amount of intelligence My interests allowed me to achieve successful outcomes in commercial and social settings.
Like the universe itself, then out of nowhere, digital intelligence came into the picture to extend my intelligence from a different perspective. Since then, I keep swimming in the digital ocean daily and find it quite refreshing even though it may be risky and harmful to my health at times. However, I love it. When there is love, pain can be more tolerable.
Now you may ask it rightly, where is the intelligence in this paradox.
This extended perspective to the digital arena with passion helped me to deal with complex and rapid change. I became a more flexible and nimbler thinker. Dealing with digital matters expanded my horizons and enabled me to engage in fascinating intellectual activities in global settings.
Large organizations that I work for are substantially challenged by rapid changes in technology and the increasing demands of consumers in this digital era.
Every large organization that I worked for had some digital transformation and modernization programs at the enterprise level. These organizations needed passionate leaders to transform them. I was in the right places at the right times.
Digital technologies in enterprises have multiple dimensions spanning many domains. These domains are tightly interrelated; hence, a minor change in one domain can reflect in many others.
Dealing with these interrelated domains and their components requires substantial digital intelligence.
In this book, I aim to explain these challenges methodically, in the most straightforward format. I provide insights based on a practical thinking approach to deal with them. Some of the points may sound trivial and even boring. Still, each point, punch, and issue I raised can have critical implications and significantly impact the success or failure of digital endeavors.
I set the scene with the fundamentals of intelligence and start an exciting conversation in the next chapter.
Other chapters
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6a, Chapter 6b, Chapter 7a, Chapter 7b, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 20, Chapter 21, Chapter 22
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