Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer/Chief Analytics Officer JOBS Update through March 2020. I do hope everyone is safe and healthy. Sincere thanks to our first responders and medical professionals. It is essential for everyone to do their part to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 virus. I recently received an email from Caitlin […]
CDO Summit Photo Gallery
Teddy Goff: Digital Director, President Barack Obama’s 2008 & 2012 campaigns
Rachel S. Haot: US CDO of the Year 2014
Michael Doernberg, Brian Lakamp, Eric Garland, Bill Campbell, and Dick Wingate
Riley McDonough (Thomson Reuters) and Vivian Schiller (NBC News)
Michael Smith: President at Forbes.com
Fred Santarpia: Chief Digital Officer at Conde Nast
Ellie Hirschhorn: Chief Digital Officer at Simon & Schuster
Daniel Heaf, Jason Seiken, Albert Cheng, Jason Tafler, and Esmeralda Swartz
Daniel Heaf, Jason Seiken, and Albert Cheng
Margaret Molloy and Mary Ann Pierce
Michael Smith, Fred Santarpia, David Kang, Joe Bilman, and Ellie Hirschhorn
David Kang (Wenner Media) and Joe Bilman (American Media Inc.)
Chief Digital Officers Bernardo Rodriguez, Perry Hewitt, and Sree Sreenivasan
Ana Serrano, Elizabeth Scott, Christine Montgomery, and Tom Hjelm
Participants
Ana Serrano: Chief Digital Officer at Canadian Film Centre
Mayer Danzig, Jonathan Sackett, Josh Golden, and Angela Wei
Jane Barratt: Chief Operating Officer at mcgarrybowen
Daniel Backhaus
Jörg Malang, George Gollub, and Mark Keys
Bill Campbell: SVP, Digital Business at Universal Music Group
Scott Singer (DDG), Perry Hewitt (Harvard University), and David Payne (Gannett)
Margaret Molloy, Christine Montgomery, and Janet Scardino
Harriet Seitler, Katerina Markov, Laxmi Wordham, and Rosemary Maggiore
Jason Seiken (PBS) and Tom Hjelm (New York Public Radio)
David Payne: Senior Vice President and CDO at Gannett Co., Inc.
David Shing: Digital Prophet at AOL
Elizabeth Scott: Chief Media and Digital Officer at Lincoln Center
David Chivers, Chris Hooven, Jonathan Sackett, and David Shing
Participants
David Mathison, Chan Suh, and Jay Rosenzweig
Angela Wei: Managing Director at AGENCY (Milk Studios)
Linda Perry-Lube, Thomas Gensemer, David Richeson, Steve Rubel, and Scott Schneider
Scott Swartz, Jeremy Legg, Mehul Nagrani, and Joe Ruffolo
Cammie Croft, Jay Geneske, and Laxmi Wordham
Eric Hellweg (Harvard Business Review), Perry Hewitt (Harvard University), and Sree Sreenivasan (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Kristen O’Hara, Thomas Gewecke, Dan Suratt, Kristin Frank, and Lisa Hsia
Daniel Heaf, David Payne, Justin Tobin, and Eric Hellweg
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for March 2020
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through March 2020. Despite (or maybe because of) these turbulent times, March 2020 was yet another exceptional month for Chief Digital Officers. For a quick recap to date: January Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update: Hiring in this normally slow month was RED HOT, with new […]
Chief Data Officer/Chief Analytics Officer JOBS Update for February 2020
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer/Chief Analytics Officer JOBS Update, through February 2020. In this issue, we list FIFTEEN new CDO/CDAO appointments for February; we tracked 54 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked FOURTEEN CDO/CDAOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Data Officer/Chief […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for February 2020
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through February 2020. Last month’s Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update was RED HOT, with new hires announced at Bayer, Chubb, Cognizant, McDonalds, Microsoft, Panera Bread, and Sainsbury’s, among others. New CDO hires continued its torrid pace again in February, with new hires last month at Amway, General Mills, Lloyd’s, Marriott, and Trustmark, […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for January 2020
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through January 2020. In this issue, we list NINETEEN new CDO appointments for January; we tracked 88 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked TWENTY-SEVEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Data Officer […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for January 2020
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through January 2020. In this issue, we list TWENTY-THREE new CDO appointments for January; we tracked 87 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked THIRTY-ONE CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through […]
The White House Chief Digital Officer Ory Rinat to Keynote at NYC CDO Summit on May 6, 2020
The White House Chief Digital Officer and Deputy Assistant to the President Ory Rinat will Keynote on “A Digital-First White House: Speaking Directly to the American People” at the 8th NYC CDO Summit on May 6, 2020 at Columbia University, presented by IDC. Want to get an inside look on how the Trump White House […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for December 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through December 2019. In this issue, we list EIGHT new CDO appointments for December; we tracked 56 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked EIGHTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! Open Chief Data Officer Jobs: […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for December 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through December 2019. In this issue, we list FOURTEEN new CDO appointments for December; we tracked 49 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked SEVENTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for November 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through November 2019. In this issue, we list SEVENTEEN new CDO appointments for November; we tracked 55 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked TWENTY-TWO CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for November 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through November 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed TEN new Chief DATA Officer appointments for November; we tracked over 70 articles and hand-picked TWENTY-NINE CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, these are […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for October 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through October 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed NINE new Chief DATA Officer appointments for October; we tracked over 60 articles and hand-picked TWENTY-SEVEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, these are exciting […]
IDC Named Exclusive Research Partner to CDO Club & Presenting Analyst Partner of CDO Summit
Leading digital strategists and practitioners gain access to IDC’s world class research and insights to guide effective digital transformation initiatives FRAMINGHAM, MA–December 19, 2019 –IDC, the premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services, today announced it has been named the exclusive research partner to the CDO Club (CDOClub.com), the world’s first, largest, and […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for October 2019
The Queen is Hiring: Apply by Christmas Eve! Queen Elizabeth is hiring a “Head of Digital Engagement” to be based in her Private Secretary’s Office of Royal Communications at Buckingham Palace. The goal is “to engage a worldwide audience with the public role and work of The Royal Family.” The Royal Family’s social media accounts […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for September 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through September 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed TWENTY-FIVE new Chief DATA Officer appointments for September; we tracked over 59 articles and hand-picked TWENTY-FOUR CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, these are […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for September 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through September 2019. In this issue, we list FIFTEEN new CDO appointments for September; we tracked 60 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked SEVENTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for August 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through August 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for August; we tracked over 61 articles and hand-picked TWENTY-ONE CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, these are exciting […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for August 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through August 2019. In this issue, we list TWELVE new CDO appointments for August; we tracked 49 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked TWENTY CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for July 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through July 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed 8 new Chief DATA Officer appointments for July; we tracked over 42 articles and hand-picked TWENTY-FOUR CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, these are exciting […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for July 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through July 2019. In this issue, we list SIXTEEN new CDO appointments for July; we tracked 63 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked TWENTY-FOUR CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! Open Chief Digital Officer Jobs: In addition […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for June 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through June 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed 12 new Chief DATA Officer appointments for June; we tracked over 40 articles and hand-picked TWENTY-FOUR CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, these are exciting times to […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for June 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through June 2019. In this issue, we list TEN new CDO appointments for June; we tracked 68 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked TWENTY-FOUR CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! Open Chief Digital Officer Jobs: In addition […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for May 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through May 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed 10 new Chief DATA Officer appointments for May; we tracked over 88 articles and hand-picked TWENTY-FIVE CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, these are exciting times to […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for May 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through May 2019. In this issue, we list FOURTEEN new CDO appointments for May; we tracked 73 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked TWENTY-FOUR CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! Open Chief Digital Officer Jobs: In addition to […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for April 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through April 2019. In this month’s issue, we added 20 NEW Chief Data Officer jobs, listed 12 new Chief DATA Officer appointments for April; we tracked over 97 articles and hand-picked THIRTY CDOs who made the news last month. In total, we added DOZENS of new global jobs for Chief Digital and Chief Data Officers – […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for April 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through April 2019. In this issue, we list SIXTEEN new CDO appointments for April; we tracked 49 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked TWENTY-SIX CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through April 2019): […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for March 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through March 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed 11 new Chief DATA Officer appointments for March; we tracked over 113 articles and hand-picked TWENTY-FIVE CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for March 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through March 2019. In this issue, we list THIRTEEN new CDO appointments for March; we tracked 56 CDO ARTICLES; and hand-picked EIGHTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through March […]
What Happened in Madrid? The first-ever Spanish CDO Summit!
On May 21-23 2019 in Madrid, Spain, the fourth annual Digital Enterprise Show (DES 2019) featured more than 500 speakers, 300 exhibiting firms, and 26,342 visitors from over 50 different countries. As part of the three-day event, the first-ever Spanish CDO Summit was held on Wednesday May 22nd in the R-Evolution Theatre by Deloitte Digital. See […]
What Happened In New York City? The 7th NYC CDO Summit!
On Wednesday, May 8, 2019, the 7th annual NYC CDO Summit was held in the Roone Arledge Auditorium in Alfred Lerner Hall at Columbia University in New York City, USA. The event was sponsored by Globant, Orion, Trilogy, Wunderman Thompson, Chief Outsiders, Ellig Group, Sansan, and DistantJob. Videos of all keynotes and panels from every […]
Atif Rafiq, President of Commercial and Growth, MGM Resorts International (former CDO, Volvo Cars) Named U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2019 by CDO Club
Atif Rafiq, newly appointed President of Commercial and Growth at MGM Resorts International and former Chief Digital Officer at Volvo Cars, today was recognized as the U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2019 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders. Mr. Rafiq received the award after his […]
Linda Avery, Chief Data Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Named US Chief Data Officer of the Year 2019 by CDO Club
Linda Avery, Chief Data Officer and Head of Data and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, today was recognized as the U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2019 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders. Ms. Avery was presented with the award today after […]
Fred Santarpia, Former Chief Digital Officer at Condé Nast, Named U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2018 by CDO Club
Fred Santarpia, Digital Transformation Expert and former Chief Digital Officer at Condé Nast, was recognized today as the U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2018 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders. Mr. Santarpia will receive the award at the 7th annual NYC CDO Summit on Wednesday, […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for February 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through February 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed 12 new Chief DATA Officer appointments for February; we tracked over 23 articles and hand-picked more than FOURTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for February 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through February 2019. In this issue, we list EIGHT new CDO appointments for February; we tracked 26 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked FIFTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through February 2019): […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for January 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through January 2019. In this month’s issue, we listed 11 new Chief DATA Officer appointments for January; we tracked over 22 articles and hand-picked more than TWELVE CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for January 2019
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through January 2019. In this issue, we list TWENTY new CDO appointments for January alone; we tracked 33 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWENTY-THREE CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through January […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for December 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through December 2018. Below are just four of the 31 articles on Chief Data Officers that we tracked in December 2018. See all CDOs In The News in the full blog post with a CDO Club Membership. Helen Hunter: December 13, 2018 Chief Data Officer at Sainsbury’s “Part of the benefit […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for December 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through December 2018. As most recruiters and CHROs know, December is normally a slow month for new hires and announcements of open positions. But that is not the case for Chief Digital, Chief Data, and Chief Analytics Officers! In this month’s issue, we list SEVENTEEN new open global […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for November 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through November 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for November; we tracked over 33 articles and hand-picked more than NINETEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for November 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through November 2018. In this issue, we list ELEVEN new CDO appointments for November alone; we tracked 38 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked SEVENTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through November […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for October 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through October 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for October; we tracked over 37 articles and hand-picked more than TWENTY-THREE CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for October 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through October 2018. In this issue, we list EIGHT new CDO appointments for October alone; we tracked 40 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWENTY-ONE CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through October […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for September 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through September 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for September; we tracked over 31 articles and hand-picked more than SIXTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for September 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through September 2018. Big news this month: more new Chief Digital Officers were hired in September 2018 than in any other month to date! As our members know, we’ve been tracking this trend for more than seven years, and posting them in our biweekly JOB Updates […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for August 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through August 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for August; we tracked over 30 articles and hand-picked more than EIGHTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for August 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through August 2018. In this issue, we list ELEVEN new CDO appointments for August alone; we tracked 28 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked FOURTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through August […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for July 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through July 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for July; we tracked over 22 articles and hand-picked more than SIXTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for July 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through July 2018. In this issue, we list THIRTEEN new CDO appointments for July alone; we tracked 37 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked NINETEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through July […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for June 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through June 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for June; we tracked over 31 articles and hand-picked more than TWENTY-THREE CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for June 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through June 2018. In this issue, we list NINE new CDO appointments for June alone; we tracked 32 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWENTY FOUR CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! New Chief Digital Officer placements (through June […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for May 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through May 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for May; we tracked over 36 articles and hand-picked more than TWENTY-TWO CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for May 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through May 2018. In this issue, we list THIRTEEN new CDO appointments for May alone; we tracked 27 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWENTY CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new Chief […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for April 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through April 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for April; we tracked over 42 articles and hand-picked more than NINETEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for April 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through April 2018. In this issue, we list FIFTEEN new CDO appointments for April alone; we tracked 34 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked FOURTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new Chief […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for March 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through March 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for March; we tracked over 40 articles and hand-picked more than TWENTY CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for March 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through March 2018. In this issue, we list EIGHTEEN new CDO appointments for March alone; we tracked 44 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWENTY SIX CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new […]
Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for February 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through February 2018. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for February; we tracked over 30 articles and hand-picked more than SIXTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
What Happened In New York City? The 6th NYC CDO Summit!
On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, the 6th NYC CDO Summit was held in the Roone Arledge Auditorium in Alfred Lerner Hall at Columbia University in New York City, USA. The event was sponsored by Bain Capital, Esri, United Technologies, Unified, Sansan, The Shipyard, Ellig Group, Caserta, Avado, BERG, Metis Machine, and ODBMS.org. Videos of all keynotes […]
Dun & Bradstreet’s Dr. Anthony Scriffignano Named U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2018 by CDO Club
Dr. Anthony Scriffignano, senior vice president and chief data scientist at Dun & Bradstreet, was recognized on May 30, 2018 as the U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2018 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders. Dr. Scriffignano was presented with the award after his keynote, “Digital Disruption: Evolve […]
101 CDOs Who Have Become CEO
Below are 101 CDOs who have become President/CEO since 2011, listed in reverse chronological order (most recent appointment first): 2018 1. Ganesh Bell Feb. 2018: President of Uptake. Former Chief Digital Officer at GE. In February 2014, Ganesh Bell became GE’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer, driving digital transformation at one of GE’s largest businesses, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for February 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through February 2018. In this issue, we list EIGHTEEN new CDO appointments for February alone; we tracked 41 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked FIFTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new […]
What Happened in Toronto?
On Wednesday, October 25, 2017, the inaugural Toronto CDO Summit was held at Thomson Reuters in Toronto, Canada. We are thankful to our host Thomson Reuters, and for our sponsors Rosenzweig & Company, AllSight, MaRS Discovery District, the DMZ, ObjectFrontier Software (OFS), SnapLogic, and ODBMS .org. Videos of all keynotes and panels from every CDO Summit to […]
What Happened In London? The 3rd UK CDO Summit!
On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, the 3rd UK CDO Summit was held in the Tudor Room at the Sheraton Park Lane hotel in London, England. The event was sponsored by Microsoft UK Services, Collibra, and Sansan. Videos of all keynotes and panels from every CDO Summit to date – including London – are available for CDO Club […]
CDO of the Year Winners Announced!
Congratulations to Sarah Wilkinson, CEO at NHS Digital, recognized as “U.K. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2017,” and Lauren Sager Weinstein, Chief Data Officer at Transport for London (TfL), for being named the “U.K. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2017” by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders. The awards were […]
Starbucks CDO Adam Brotman Named President of J.Crew & Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update for January 2018
Onward and Upward: Congratulations to Starbucks Adam Brotman! We are excited to inform our CDO Community that Adam Brotman will be leaving Starbucks after nine years to join J.Crew as President and Chief Experience Officer, reporting to new CEO Jim Brett. Brotman joined Starbucks as Chief Digital Officer in April 2009, where he helped digitally […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for January 2018
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through January 2018. In this issue, we list FIFTEEN new CDO appointments for January alone; we tracked 44 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWENTY-FIVE CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for December 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through December 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for December; we tracked over 31 articles and hand-picked more than EIGHTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. […]
L’Oréal Japan CDO Tsuguhide Nagase Named Japan Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2017 by CDO Club Japan
Tsuguhide Nagase, CDO at L’Oréal Japan, was recognized today as the first-ever Japan Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2017 by the CDO Club. Mr. Nagase was presented with the award at the 2nd annual Tokyo CDO Summit hosted at the JP Tower Hall & Conference by Jun Kamo, CEO and Founder CDO Club Japan, and David Mathison, CEO and […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for December 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through December 2017. In this issue, we list SIX new CDO appointments for December alone; we tracked 47 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWENTY-THREE CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for November 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through November 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for November; we tracked over 36 articles and hand-picked more than SEVENTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for November 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through November 2017. In this issue, we list THIRTEEN new CDO appointments for November alone; we tracked 38 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked SIXTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for October 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through October 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for October; we tracked over 45 articles and hand-picked more than TWENTY TWO CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for October 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through October 2017. In this issue, we list TWELVE new CDO appointments for October alone; we tracked 51 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked EIGHTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for September 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through September 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for September; we tracked over 43 articles and hand-picked more than TWENTY TWO CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for September 2017
Celebrate the CDO Club’s 5th Year Anniversary with us! The CDO Club was the first and is still the largest C-suite community for Chief Digital Officers, Chief Data Officers, and Chief Analytics Officers, with over 5,000 registered members. We created the CDO Club community to enable our members to share their experiences and best practices, […]
Insights from Chief Digital Officers at Barclays, Convene, and National Rugby League
This post contains sponsored links from Microsoft Office. In today’s turbulent technology world, organizations must make important, strategic decisions regarding digital transformation to survive. They need to decide on how to adapt their organizational structure, and who will be responsible for leading the transition from analog to digital. Microsoft’s Modern Workplace recently released a webcast on […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for August 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through August 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for August; we tracked over 39 articles and hand-picked more than SEVENTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career […]
Chief Digital Officer: Does every organization need one?
This post contains sponsored links from Microsoft Office. Over the past six years, our CDO Club and global CDO Summits have been bringing together C-level executives to discuss their toughest challenges, in a world where constant innovation and disruption have become the new normal. At our Summits, Chief Digital Officers from major organizations have spoken […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for August 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through August 2017. In this issue, we list ELEVEN new CDO appointments for August alone; we tracked 53 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked NINETEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for July 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through July 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for July; we tracked over 53 articles and hand-picked more than SIXTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for July 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through July 2017. In this issue, we list SIXTEEN new CDO appointments for July alone; we tracked 71 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked FIFTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for June 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through June 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for June; we tracked over 30 articles and hand-picked more than FIFTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for June 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through June 2017. In this issue, we list NINE new CDO appointments for June alone; we tracked 55 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWENTY FIVE CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the […]
What happened at the Tokyo CDO Summit?
The inaugural Japanese CDO Summit was held in Tokyo on Friday, July 14, 2017 at the Bellesalle Kudan in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The event was sponsored by PwC Consulting LLC, Domo, Inc., and Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd. The event was meticulously and masterfully curated by Jun Kamo, the founder and CEO of CDO Club Japan, and who is […]
IBM’s Dr. Inderpal Bhandari Named U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2017 by CDO Club
Dr. Inderpal Bhandari, Global Chief Data Officer at IBM (NYSE: IBM), was today recognized as the U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2017 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders, with over 5,000 registered members. Dr. Bhandari was presented with the award today after his closing keynote […]
NPR’s Thomas Hjelm Named US Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2017 by CDO Club
Thomas Hjelm, Chief Digital Officer at NPR, was today recognized as the U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2017 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders with over 5,000 registered members. Mr. Hjelm was presented with the award today after his keynote on “The United States of […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for May 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through May 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for May; we tracked over 33 articles and hand-picked more than THIRTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for May 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through May 2017. In this issue, we list FOURTEEN new CDO appointments for May alone; we tracked 45 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new Chief […]
Look What Happened at the 2017 NYC CDO Summit
The fifth annual NYC CDO Summit took place on Wednesday May 24, 2017 at Convene in New York City. Videos of all keynotes and panels from every CDO Summit to date – including NYC – are available for CDO Club GOLD and PLATINUM members. CDO Club membership benefits are here The NYC CDO Summit was kicked off by Oliver Cummings, […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for April 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through April 2017. In this issue, we list TEN new CDO appointments for April alone; we tracked 40 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWENTY CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new Chief Digital […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for April 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through April 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for April; we tracked over 27 articles and hand-picked more than Twenty CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
‘Top 50 CDO Influencers’ List Announced by The CDO Club and The Shipyard
The Shipyard and the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders with 5,000 registered members, today released its Top 50 CDO Influencers list for 2017. The Top 50 CDO Influencer list includes global superstars in the fields of digital transformation and in the adoption of data-driven culture. Titles on the list […]
Bertrand Bodson, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at Sainsbury’s Argos, Named U.K. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2016 by CDO Club
Bertrand Bodson, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at Sainsbury’s Argos, was today recognized as “U.K. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2016” by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders with 5,000 registered members. Mr. Bodson has played a pivotal role in guiding the U.K. retailer’s digital transformation from a […]
Look What Happened at the Sydney CDO Summit
The second annual Sydney CDO Summit took place on Wednesday 15 March 2017 in the Water Room at the prestigious Pier One, overlooking Sydney Harbour. Follow these links for the full speaker list and agenda from the Sydney Summit. Videos from all keynotes and panels from every CDO Summit to date – including Sydney – are […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for March 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through March 2017. In this issue, we list EIGHTEEN new CDO appointments for March alone; we tracked 45 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked SIXTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new Chief Digital Officer […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for March 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through March 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for March; we tracked over 30 articles and hand-picked more than SEVENTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page. Clearly, […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for February 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through February 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for February; we tracked over 25 articles and hand-picked more than FOURTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page, including […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for February 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through February 2017. In this issue, we list FOURTEEN new CDO appointments for February alone; we tracked 35 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked TWELVE CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new Chief Digital Officer […]
Dr. DJ Patil, Former White House Chief Data Scientist, Named First-Ever ‘Chief Data Officer of the Year’ by CDO Club
Dr. D.J. Patil, the U.S. Chief Data Scientist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from February 2015 to January 2017, was today recognized as first-ever U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2016 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders. In 2015, Dr. Patil […]
Simon Bligh and Clive Dickens Named Chief Data Officer and Chief Digital Officer of the Year ANZ 2017
On Wednesday March 15, 2017 at the 2nd annual Sydney CDO Summit in Australia, the CDO Club bestowed awards on two world-renowned data and digital executives, Simon Bligh and Clive Dickens. The awards were presented by CDO Club founder David Mathison and Odgers Berndtson’s Paul Rush, after a panel on “Leadership” at the 2nd annual Sydney CDO Summit […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for January 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through January 2017. In this issue, we list SIX new CDO appointments for January alone; we tracked 30 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked THIRTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new Chief […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for January 2017
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through January 2017. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for January; we tracked over 30 articles and hand-picked more than TEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for December 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through December 2016. In this issue, we list over FIFTEEN new CDO appointments for December alone; we tracked 50 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked EIGHTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new Chief […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for December 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through December 2016. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for December; we tracked over 40 articles and hand-picked more than TEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page, including jobs […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for November 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through November 2016. In this issue, we list over FIFTEEN new CDO appointments for November alone; we tracked 55 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked over FIFTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the new Chief […]
Chief Data Officer 2016 Year-End Review; 2017 Predictions; and CDO JOBS Update for November 2016
Welcome to our Chief Data Officer year-end review! This post consists of three parts: Chief Data Officer Year-End Review for 2016 Seven Chief Data Officer Predictions for 2017 Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for November 2016 CHIEF DATA OFFICER YEAR-END REVIEW FOR 2016: Back in 2014, at the 2nd annual NYC CDO Summit held at […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for October 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through October 2016. In this issue, we list over TEN new CDO appointments for October alone; we tracked 60 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked over TWENTY CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at all the […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for October 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through October 2016. In this month’s issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for October; we tracked over 50 articles and hand-picked more than a DOZEN CDOs who made the news last month; and be sure to check out all the new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page, including […]
The IBM Watson Data Platform and the Rise of the Citizen Analyst
In October, I had the good fortune to be an IBM Analytics Insider at IBM’s World of Watson event in Las Vegas. Almost 20,000 people attended, packing all three floors of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and the T-Mobile Arena to hear keynotes by such luminaries as Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman and IBM Chair and […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for September 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through September 2016. In this issue, we list over FIFTEEN new CDO appointments for September alone; we tracked 70 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked over FIFTEEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page (FIFTEEN total jobs). [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for September 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through September 2016. Our regular readers know from our original research that Chief DIGITAL Officer hires have been doubling every year. And that is startling enough (see our Chief DIGITAL Officer Update for August 2016 here). Even more amazing is the tremendous growth of Chief DATA Officers. Last […]
What? Chief Data Officers Surpass Chief Digital Officers!
As you may recall, at the April 2014 NYC CDO Summit hosted at Time Warner/CNN, CDO Club founder/CEO David Mathison predicted that, within 3-5 years, Chief Data Officer hires would surpass Chief Digital Officer hires. As you can see from our video (during the Q&A), representatives from IBM were in the back of the room, videotaping Mathison’s keynote. […]
US Chief Digital Officer of the Year, Linda Boff, on Digital Transformation at GE [VIDEO]
“We’re a company that is becoming a digital industrial company,” said Linda Boff, Chief Marketing Officer at GE. “We’re sitting increasingly at this intersection of physical and digital, and what we’re selling is productivity.” Boff was recognized as the U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2016 by the CDO Club at the NYC CDO Summit, […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for August 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through August 2016. Our regular readers know from our original research that Chief DIGITAL Officer hires have been doubling every year. And that is startling enough (see our Chief DIGITAL Officer Update for August 2016 here). Even more amazing is the tremendous growth of Chief DATA Officers. […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for August 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through August 2016. In this issue, we list over FIFTEEN new CDO appointments for August alone; we tracked 62 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked over Twenty CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page (TWENTY total jobs). [bctt […]
Sexiest Job of 21st Century: Chief Data Officers in Demand, with Michael Li, CEO of The Data Incubator [VIDEO]
In 2012, DJ Patil, now Chief Data Officer at the White House, wrote in the Harvard Business Review that the Chief Data Scientist was the “sexiest job of the 21st century.” Around that same time, CDO Club founder David Mathison predicted that within 5-10 years, C-level hires in data and analytics would far surpass those […]
Top 5 Ways to Track Digital Transformation with Walmart, Humana, City of Boston, BBVA, Centric Digital [VIDEO]
“One of the things that people used to ask me when I arrived was: should we grow or should we be profitable?” said Anne Myong, Chief Financial Officer at Walmart eCommerce. “And I thought, is that a trick question?” There’s nothing harder than being honest with yourself… And that goes double for Chief Digital Officers, […]
Digital Success Principles with Chief Digital Officers from IBM, SAP, and the City of Boston [VIDEO]
Create a list of your top success principles for digital transformation. Now, be honest: would your guidelines work in different industries and sectors, even non-profit or public sector? Do they apply to both incumbents as well as disruptors? To find if there are any common threads, we sat down with some of the top Chief […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for July 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through July 2016. In this issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for July; we tracked over 35 articles and hand-picked a DOZEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted SIX more new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page, including jobs […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for July 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through July 2016. In this issue, we list over FOURTEEN new CDO appointments for July alone; we tracked 45 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked over a DOZEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page (TWENTY total jobs). These […]
Customer Personalisation and Data: Are You Being Creepy, or Cool? [VIDEO]
Last year two million Australians received a message from melanoma. The deadly skin cancer “liked” and commented on beach or poolside pictures posted by people on social media. It also provided information on identifying and preventing melanoma. Melanoma, in this case, was actually an algorithm developed by agency GPY&R. The goal was to raise awareness […]
UTS Students Propose Revolutionary Life-Saving Initiative at Sydney CDO Summit
Imagine: You collapse from a heart attack. A sensor in your wearable Apple Watch detects an irregular heartbeat and immediately notifies emergency services. But an ambulance is too far away to help in time, because every minute your survival rate drops by 10%. Instead, a registered “Citizen Hero” with first-aid training gets an alert on […]
Top 5 Skills Chief Digital Officers Need to Become CEOs and Board Directors, with Larry Kramer [VIDEO]
Why are Chief Digital Officers increasingly being tapped to become CEOs or board directors? Just ask Larry Kramer, who serves on the boards of TheStreet.com; Gannett Co. Inc.; Harvard Business School Publishing; and MDC Partners; and is a trustee of Syracuse University. He was previously board director at American Media Inc, Answers.com, and Discovery Communications. He […]
Cisco Chief Digital Officer Kevin Bandy Reveals Digitization Strategy [VIDEO]
“Technology is now the catalyst of every business strategy that’s happening,” said Kevin Bandy, Chief Digital Officer at Cisco Systems. “Operating models are changing every 18 to 24 months…. You’re seeing leadership teams really challenged with the pace of change.” The hiring of a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) usually indicates big change in an organization. That’s why […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for June 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through June 2016. In this issue, we listed new Chief DATA Officer appointments for June; we tracked 36 ARTICLES and hand-picked a DOZEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted NINE more new open CDO positions on our CDO Career page, including jobs at […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for June 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through June 2016. In this issue, we list over FIFTEEN new CDO appointments for June alone; we tracked 60 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked over a DOZEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted two more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page. […]
How Do Capgemini, Mashable, The New York Times, The City of New York, and Neustar Use Big Data? [VIDEO]
“There’s a kind of universality to the kinds of problems that companies with leverageable data encounter,” said Haile Owusu, PhD, Chief Data Scientist at Mashable. Shockingly, more data has been created in the past few years than the entire previous history of the human race, reported Sintef. For those organizations that leverage this explosion of data, […]
How to Use Social Media to Engage Your Event Audience, with IBM, Mutual Mind, and Thomas Power [VIDEO]
Chief Digital Officer Summit organizers were caught by surprise the first time a CDO Summit event trended on Twitter. The inaugural U.K. CDO Summit, held on 29th October 2014, was an intimate gathering of little more than a hundred digital and data leaders from the U.K. and Europe. Yet what this audience lacked in size […]
6 Digital Transformation Strategies for Chief Digital Officers [VIDEO]
“Digital is at the heart of everything, and it’s an ongoing investment we need to make,” said Jacqueline de Rojas, Area VP for Citrix in Northern Europe and President at techUK. She’s right: companies that are “digital masters” are 26% more profitable than their industry competitors. And most times, the burden of successful digital transformation […]
4 Things Chief Digital Officers Must Do to Become CEO or Board Director / NED [VIDEO]
This month yet another Chief Digital Officer made the transition to CEO/President, when Joachim Janssen was named CEO at Viessmann Group. That means in 2016, three CDOs have already become CEO, and one was named Non-Executive Director (or ‘NED,’ a.k.a. ‘Board Director’ here in the States). And those are just the ones we’ve reported on […]
Top 5 Customer Experience Strategies for Chief Digital Officers in Retail [VIDEO]
“Not everybody shops online, and not everybody shops offline,” said Faisal Masud, CDO & EVP of Global E-Commerce at Staples. Masud highlights just how interesting and complex the challenge of a retail Chief Digital Officer can be. You’re neither completely online nor off. Doomsayer predictions that every brick-and-mortar store would be demolished and replaced with […]
Chief Data Officer JOBS Update for May 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through May 2016. In this issue, we list new Chief DATA Officer appointments for May; two dozen CDOs who made the news last month; and new open CDO positions globally. These are exciting times to be a leader in building a data-driven culture! [bctt tweet=”Wow! Look at […]
Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update for May 2016
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through May 2016. In this issue, we list almost two dozen new CDO appointments for May alone; over a dozen CDOs who made the news last month; and new open CDO positions globally. These are exciting times to be a leader in digital transformation and building […]
Look What Happened at the Israeli Chief Digital Officer Summit
The CDO Club’s Global Affiliate Partner CDO Club IL held its 3rd CDO Summit at Krypton HaKfar HaYarok in Tel Aviv, Israel on 17 May 2016. The sold-out Israeli summit was jam-packed with interest growing in Israel, as the number of Chief Digital Officers globally has doubled every year, to over 2,000 in 2015, according to the CDO […]
Join us at the Israeli Chief Digital Officer Summit in Tel Aviv May 17, 2016
CDO Club IL, a CDO Club global affiliate, will hold the Israeli CDO Summit on May 17, 2016 in Tel-Aviv. The summit gathers local digital leaders to discuss and learn innovative ways to improve digital transformation efforts and focus on the right factors to ensure success. David Mathison, Founder & CEO of the CDO Club, […]
Look What Happened at the 4th Annual NYC Chief Digital Officer Summit
The CDO Club held its 4th annual NYC CDO Summit, presented by Centric Digital, on April 27, 2016, at Thomson Reuters in New York City. The CDO Summit addressed the challenges and opportunities arising from Big Data, the cloud, digital disruption, and social and mobile media, with an in-depth discussion surrounding the rising voice of the Chief […]
GE CMO Linda Boff Named Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2016 by CDO Club
Linda Boff, Chief Marketing Officer at GE, was today recognized as U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2016 by the CDO Club, the world’s largest community of C-suite digital and data leaders. Boff is being recognized for her leadership in transforming the GE brand as the company becomes a ‘Digital Industrial’ company. [bctt tweet=”Linda […]
Transforming Traditional Businesses into Digital Leaders, with Centric Digital’s Brian Manning at the NYC CDO Summit on April 27
“From the mechanical innovations of the First Industrial Revolution to the emergence of computers and the Internet of the 3rd, the business world has been in a state of radical transformation since 1760,” explains Brian Manning, co-founder, president and CDO of Centric Digital. “We’re now moving into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which isn’t some lofty […]
GE CMO Linda Boff to Keynote NYC Chief Digital Officer Summit on April 27, 2016
Chief Digital Officers aren’t the only C-level professionals leading digital transformation. Linda Boff, CMO at GE, proves the importance of digital leadership in the marketing function as she helps turn GE into a “digital industrial company.” That’s why we are proud to announce that Linda Boff will be the Featured Keynote Speaker at the NYC CDO […]
Top Skills Chief Digital Officers Need to Become CEOs and Board Directors, with Larry Kramer
Last year, eleven (11) Chief Digital Officers became CEO and five (5) CDOs became board directors/non-executive director (NED). That number has grown every year since we started tracking it in 2011. That’s partly because, as digital strategy becomes integral to an organization’s overall strategy, the skills and leadership required of a CDO become necessary for the CEO, and […]
Digital Success Principles with Chief Digital Officers from the City of Boston, IBM, and SAP, at the NYC CDO Summit
Create a list of your top success principles for digital transformation. Would your guidelines work in different industries and sectors, even non-profit or public sector? Do they apply to both incumbents as well as disruptors? While no two organizations (or Chief Digital Officers) are the same, the very best strategies share some common threads such […]
DMA, CDO Club Launch Ground-Breaking Online Education Initiative
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and CDO Club have partnered to provide online courses to our members! As part of the CDO Club’s new education initiative, CDO Academy, we’ve hand-picked four DMA on-demand marketing courses based on their relevance to digital and data strategy for today’s digital leaders. Because the schedule of a Chief Digital Officer […]
Driving and Measuring Digital Transformation at the NYC CDO Summit
If digital transformation has no end because it is said to be a journey, then how does a Chief Digital Officer measure success? The answer isn’t simple. Innovation is happening all the time, in every sector, with media, telecom, healthcare and financial services executives still anticipating “massive” change in the next 12 months. Leaders from […]
Choosing the Right Digitization Strategy with Cisco Chief Digital Officer Kevin Bandy at the NYC CDO Summit on April 27
“As every CDO knows, the cost, speed, and volume of innovation in today’s hyper-connected markets are driving forces behind the imperative to digitize, demanding that organizations re-architect their business models in order to compete and thrive,” said Kevin Bandy, Chief Digital Officer at Cisco Systems. The hiring of a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) usually indicates […]
Agenda Announced: 4th Annual NYC CDO Summit, Sponsored by Centric Digital, Returns to Thomson Reuters on April 27, 2016
Speakers, keynotes, and sponsors have just been announced for the fourth annual NYC CDO Summit, presented by Centric Digital, a global digital transformation partner. The all day U.S. event will take place on April 27, 2016 at Thomson Reuters in New York City. Linda Boff, CMO of GE, has been confirmed as the event’s featured […]
Keynotes Announced for the 4th Annual NYC Chief Digital Officer Summit at Thomson Reuters on April 27 2016
Digital and data leaders from some of the world’s most prestigious organizations are meeting at Thomson Reuters in New York City on April 27, 2016 for the NYC CDO Summit presented by Centric Digital! Organizers for the NYC CDO Summit have just confirmed the full speaker list and keynotes. The event will offer in-depth discussions surrounding […]
How Non-Profit Chief Digital Officers Can Make Digital Personal
“How do we best balance the efficiencies that algorithms and automation offer us, with the need to maintain what feels like a genuine personal connection?” asks Nancy Hallberg, Chief Marketing Officer at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Hallberg will join a panel of Chief Digital Officers and digital leaders from prestigious non-profit organizations such as […]
Meet Top Media Chief Digital Officers at the NYC CDO Summit on April 27, 2016
The media sector continues to hire Chief Digital Officers, and considering that it was the first and most strongly affected by digital disruption, this should come as no surprise. The Harvard Business Review recently reported that 72% of media executives in a recent Russell Reynolds Associate survey anticipate moderate or massive digital disruption in the […]
Chief Digital Officer’s Guide to the Collaborative Economy, with Jeremiah Owyang [VIDEO]
“The bad news is, your customers may be your competitors. The good news is, you can harness them,” declared Jeremiah Owyang, Founder of Crowd Companies, at the 2015 NYC CDO Summit, on April 29, 2015, hosted at Thomson Reuters. We felt it appropriate to revisit Owyang’s featured presentation from last year’s Summit, given the return of our […]
‘From Chief Digital Officer to CEO,’ with Harvey Nash’s Anna Frazzetto at the NYC CDO Summit
“The rise of the CDO has been exponentially fast! So fast in fact, no other role comes close in comparison growth wise – not even the CIO,” Anna Frazzetto, Chief Digital Technology Officer & SVP at Harvey Nash, said recently. Frazzetto will keynote on “The Rise of The CDO, Our CEO of The Future,” at […]
Top 10 Social Media Tips for Busy Chief Digital Officers [VIDEO]
“Folks who are leading digital strategy in organizations are so busy that they don’t have time to work on their own social media,” Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), said at the 2015 CDO Summit, on 29 April, 2015, hosted at Thomson Reuters in New York City. We felt […]
Look What Happened at The Inaugural Sydney CDO Summit
The CDO Club held its inaugural Sydney CDO Summit, presented by Accenture Digital on 1 March, 2016 at the UTS Business School. The CDO Summit addresses the challenges and opportunities arising from big data, the cloud, digital disruption, and social and mobile media. The event took place at a pivotal time for digital innovation in […]
Rebekah Horne, Chief Digital Officer at National Rugby League, named first Australian CDO of the Year by CDO Club
Rebekah Horne, Chief Digital Officer at the National Rugby League (NRL), was today named the first-ever Australian Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2016 by the CDO Club. Horne was announced as the recipient of the award after participating in the “DNA of the CDO – Reinvention or Unique?” panel moderated by executive search firm […]
Fireside Chat with Gerd Schenkel, Executive Director Telstra Digital at the Sold-Out Sydney CDO Summit
The most feared term in the telecommunications industry is “dumb-pipe.” It’s a term coined for outdated internet providers, unable to compete with insurgents like Google Voice and Skype when it comes to calling services. To avoid the dreaded label, Australian telecom Telstra tapped Gerd Schenkel in 2011 to lead their newly established Telstra Digital division […]
See The Future Of Sports And Fan Engagement at the Sold-Out Sydney CDO Summit
Need an example of the impact digital has had on sports in Australia? Take the venerable Australian Open tennis tournament that took place in Melbourne in January: While the actual matches were played in much the same way, digital innovation allowed the event organisers to increase fan engagement and secure greater revenues than ever before. […]
Inaugural Sydney Chief Digital Officer Summit Sells Out!
Organizers for the inaugural Sydney CDO Summit, presented by Accenture Digital, have announced that sales have exceeded expectations and that the event, hosted at the UTS Business School in Sydney on 1 March 2016, has completely sold out of tickets. Attendees at the CDO Summit will learn how to focus zealously on improving the customer experience, build and […]
Experts to reveal the DNA of the Chief Digital Officer at Sydney CDO Summit on March 1 2016
The Chief Digital Officer title has been controversial since conception. Are Chief Digital Officers just glorified CIOs, CTOs or CMOs? Or is this a unique leadership role with completely different origins? Do CDOs require a technology or marketing background, or does their role demand a completely different perspective altogether? To shed light on this timely issue, Paul […]
Creepy Versus Cool: Striking the Right Balance in Customer Personalisation
In the mid-1990s, it would have been unheard of to have your location tracked by military satellites. Today, this happens around the clock with smartphone GPS and a host of location-based mobile services. It would have been equally odd that a high school acquaintance that you hadn’t seen in 10 years knew the details of […]
BEING Digital, with Google, Westpac, Harvey Norman and SmartClinics at the Sydney CDO Summit
Is your digital strategy only skin deep? Many organisations are finding it challenging to capture the full value of revolutionary breakthroughs in digital innovation. Some have figured out how to use digital technology to drive down costs and become more efficient, akin to “looking digital.” Others are grappling with how to take things further in […]
What Chief Digital Officers Need to Know About IoT, with Intel, Visa, Microsoft, and GroupM
By 2019, it’s estimated that up to 40 billion devices may be connected to the internet or each other. Welcome to the “internet of things,” or IoT. It’s a world where a refrigerator can send you a message on your phone when your milk is about to expire, and also a coupon to buy a […]
Meet Paul Shetler, the CEO of Australia’s Digital Transformation Office (DTO) at the Sydney CDO Summit
The government of Australia is encouraging an “ideas boom” by actively promoting collaboration between government, business, and academia. Its being driven by digital-friendly government initiatives such an unprecedented $1.1 billion AUD ($800 million USD) innovation investment, and the launch of the first-ever Digital Transformation Office (DTO). And one technology leader stands uniquely poised to take advantage […]
Historic Meeting of 3 Australian City Chief Digital Officers at Sydney CDO Summit
“We are just drifting into the digital age. Why aren’t we demanding it?” asked Jon Cumming, Chief Digital Officer at ACT (Australian Capital Territory) Government. Cumming is part of a new wave of public sector CDOs who want to bring about the “smart city,” where digital innovation improves public services, engages its citizens, and spurs […]
First Look: Chief Digital Officer and Chief Data Officer Talent Map 2016
“If you’re lacking a digital transformation strategy, it’s not just your company that’s at risk. Entire industries are at risk,” David Mathison, CEO and Founder of the CDO Club, said at the 2nd annual U.K CDO Summit, presented by Accenture Strategy, on October 7th, 2015 in London, England. In 2013, the CDO Club released the […]
5 Ways Chief Digital Officers can Implement Digital Transformation in Healthcare, by Mayur Gupta
By Mayur Gupta, Senior Vice President, Head of Digital at Healthgrades (former Global Head of Marketing Technology & Innovation for Kimberly Clarke) [bctt tweet=”New CDO Community Post: @inspiremartech @Healthgrades shares 5 ways CDOs can implement digital trans in healthcare http://bit.ly/1UcRIiE” via=”no” url=”no”] It’s staggering to see the pace at which digital technology is changing the very traditional […]
Why CDOs Need to Embrace ‘Living Services’ – Fjord’s Bronwyn van der Merwe to keynote at the Sydney CDO Summit
“The pace of change will never again be as slow as it is now” said Matthew Bishop, an editor for The Economist, at the 2015 Innovation Forum. What are the new battlegrounds organizations need to understand if they hope to be leaders in the markets that are emerging in 2016? Bronwyn van der Merwe, Group […]
Why Chief Digital Officers Must Invest in Experiences Over Products and Technology
By Brian Solis, Principal Analyst at Altimeter Group Thoughts from the new book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design [bctt tweet=”New CDO Community Post: Find out why @briansolis says Experience is the New Brand http://bit.ly/201ej5s” via=”no” url=”no”] In my research and in my work, I continue to observe the importance of experience in building long-term, […]
Twenty Influential Chief Digital Officers, compiled by CXOTalk’s Michael Krigsman
We are proud to welcome Michael Krigsman as a CDO Community contributor! Michael is the Founder of CXOTalk, which offers conversations with the most innovative and thoughtful business leaders in the world. The show’s opening episode began in March 2013 with Guy Kawasaki. Since then, CXOTalk has set the standard for thought-provoking enterprise thought leadership. Michael is recognized internationally as an industry analyst, […]
Google’s Head of Digital Transformation Reveals 4 Crucial Branding Strategies for Chief Digital Officers [VIDEO]
“Brand is the starting point of all company decisions,” said Joris Merks-Benjaminsen, Head of Digital Transformation at Google and author of “Online Brand Identity: Getting And Keeping Your Brand Future Ready.” Joris doesn’t deal with digital transformation at Google directly, but advises their top 50 advertisers. For him, brand should be at the heart of […]
EU Chief Digital Officer of the Year, Patrick Hoffstetter, on Digital Transformation at Renault [VIDEO]
Imagine a checklist of some of the biggest challenges a Chief Digital Officer can face. Renault’s Patrick Hoffstetter has probably been dealing with all of them since becoming CDO at the French automaker in 2011: Bringing innovation to a 116 year-old legacy organization Implementing digital transformation to a network of 120,000 employees in 118 countries […]
Why and How Chief Digital Officers Can Cut Through the BS, with Richard Kramer
“I’m probably the only person you know who makes their money in the financial markets by telling the truth,” said Richard Kramer, Founder and Managing Director at Arete Research. The digital sector has seen so much hype and bombastic promise in the last few years that organizations are beginning to demand a more independent and […]
How Chief Digital Officers Can Deal With Digital Disruption in Banking
“Banking is necessary but banks are not.” While this infamous prediction from Bill Gates hasn’t come true yet, it might if banks don’t respond properly to digital disruption, said James Haycock, Managing Director at Adaptive Lab. In his presentation “Bye Bye Banks?” held at the 2nd annual U.K CDO Summit, presented by Accenture Strategy, on […]
SAP Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Becher Reveals 3 Elements of Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is a term that has clearly taken its place in the current business lexicon. But what does it really mean? How can Chief Digital Officers separate hype from reality? SAP’s Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Becher believes that successful digital transformation has three main elements: Click here to find out what they are! Becher […]
5 Ways Chief Data Officers Can Balance Big Data Initiatives with User Consent [VIDEO]
Arguably the biggest trust issue facing organizations today in the wake of digital transformation and big data initiatives is how users’ data is used. A 2014 TRUSTe consumer data privacy study showed that 92% of US internet users are worried about online privacy, and 89% actively avoid doing business with companies they feel do not protect their data privacy. […]
5 Ways Big Organizations Can Win At Digital [VIDEO]
“The assumption that because you are small and agile, you are therefore going to win, is inherently flawed,” said Stuart Lauchlan, Co-founder and Editor at Diginomica, at the 2nd annual U.K CDO Summit, presented by Accenture Strategy, on Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 at 30 Euston Square, London. “The prevailing wisdom at so many of the […]
CDO Turkey and Samsung Türkiye present “Leaders of Digital Transformation,” announce partnership with CDO Club
Monday 09 November 2015 (Istanbul, Turkey): Following successful back-to-back CDO Summits in London and Amsterdam, the CDO Club participated in the “Leaders of Digital Transformation” event at the Wyndham Grand Levent Hotel. The Istanbul event was organized by CDO Turkey and Samsung Türkiye, including a superhuman effort by Ali Malaz, a tireless IT Executive and successful business leader who […]
What Chief Digital Officers Need to Know About Living Services, with Fjord’s Mark Curtis [VIDEO]
“We believe that digital is on the verge of a new era,” said Mark Curtis, Chief Client Officer at Fjord, during his opening keynote at the 2nd annual UK CDO Summit on Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 at 30 Euston Square in London, England, presented by Accenture Strategy. According to Curtis, the digitalization of everything will have […]
Look What Happened at the E.U. Chief Digital Officer Summit in Amsterdam
The CDO Club held its inaugural EU CDO Summit on Wednesday, November 4th, 2015 at the Conservatorium Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The CDO Summit addresses the challenges and opportunities arising from big data, the cloud, digital disruption, and social and mobile media, with an emphasis on the ascendant role of the Chief Digital Officer […]
Renault’s Chief Digital Officer Patrick Hoffstetter Named First EU CDO of the Year 2015 by CDO Club
Patrick Hoffstetter, Chief Digital Officer at Renault and Director of its Digital Factory, was named the first-ever EU Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2015 by the CDO Club, the world’s first and largest community of C-suite digital leaders. Hoffstetter was announced as the recipient of the award during CDO Club founder David Mathison’s keynote […]
Renault Chief Digital Officer Patrick Hoffstetter to keynote CDO Summit Amsterdam
Imagine a checklist of the biggest challenges a Chief Digital Officer can face. Renault’s Patrick Hoffstetter has been dealing with all of them since becoming CDO at the French automaker in 2011: Bringing innovation to a 116 year-old legacy organization Implementing digital transformation to a worldwide network of 120,000 employees Staying competitive in a sector […]
Finding The Needle In The Big Data Haystack at the Chief Digital Officer Summit Amsterdam
Big Data. Just as digital transformation did a few years ago, this term inspires both dread and promise in organizations today. Shockingly, more data has been created in the past few years than the entire previous history of the human race, reported Sintef. The “dread” comes from the fact that less than 0.5% of all […]
Don’t miss the CDO Summit and the ForgeRock Identity Summit in Amsterdam
We’ve just wrapped up the London CDO Summit and the ForgeRock Identity Summit, and they were a huge success! Hundreds of attendees joined us to talk all things digital transformation, identity, and IoT. Now the CDO Summit is heading to Amsterdam where we’re continuing our partnership with ForgeRock to bring you two great days of […]
Travelex’s Chief Digital Officer Sean Cornwell to Explore Digital Transformation at CDO Summit Amsterdam
Arguably one of the most important topics discussed during the CDO Summit is digital transformation and the role of the Chief Digital Officer. That’s why Sean Cornwell, Chief Digital Officer at Travelex, caused quite a stir with his keynote “Insights and Learning from Travelex’s Transformation” at the 2nd annual U.K. CDO Summit on 7 October […]
Look What Happened at the UK Chief Digital Officer Summit
The CDO Club held its 2nd annual U.K. CDO Summit, presented by Accenture Strategy, on Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 at 30 Euston Square, London. The CDO Summit addressed the challenges and opportunities arising from big data, the cloud, digital disruption, and social and mobile media, with an emphasis on the ascendant role of the Chief […]
Google’s Head of Digital Transformation to Keynote at the Chief Digital Officer Summit in Amsterdam
Great news for digital and data leaders in Europe: Joris Merks-Benjaminsen, Head of Digital Transformation at Google, is returning to his hometown for the inaugural CDO Summit Amsterdam on November 4th, 2015 at the Conservatorium Hotel. He will be repeating his keynote from London, one of the most talked about presentations at the summit, titled […]
CDO Club Names Guardian News and Media’s Tanya Cordrey U.K. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2015
NEW YORK and LONDON, 7 Oct. 2015 – Tanya Cordrey, Chief Digital Officer at Guardian News and Media (GNM), today was named the 2015 U.K. Chief Digital Officer of the Year by the CDO Club, the world’s first and largest community of C-suite digital leaders. Cordrey was named the recipient of the award during CDO […]
How to Future-Proof Your Brand, with Google’s Head of Digital Transformation, Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
“The majority of digital strategy has traditionally been focused on driving short term sales,” says Joris Merks-Benjaminsen, Head of Digital Transformation at Google and author of Online Brand Identity. “You can’t lead a company with short term focus, particularly not in a world of exponential change.” It’s clear that digital transformation is a long-term, strategic […]
Fast Forward to Being Digital: A Strategic Guide for CDOs
By Bruno Berthon: Global Managing Director Cross Industry Strategy, Accenture Strategy at Accenture It is one thing to acknowledge that digital technologies create new threats and even more opportunities. It is quite another to be sure that you have the right digital strategy in place to ride that wave of uncertainty. Business leaders across the world […]
Avoiding Ashley Madison: Balancing Big Data Initiatives With User Security and Consent
Arguably the biggest trust issue facing organisations today in the wake of digital transformation and big data is how users’ data is used. A 2014 TRUSTe consumer data privacy study showed that 92% of US internet users are worried about online privacy, and 89% actively avoid doing business with companies they feel do not protect […]
Chief Digital Officer Sean Cornwell to keynote on “Insights and Learnings from Travelex’s Transformation” at the U.K. CDO Summit
Chief Digital Officer Sean Cornwell will keynote on “Insights and Learnings from Travelex’s Transformation” at the 2nd annual U.K. CDO Summit on 7 October 2015 at 30 Euston Square in London. To hear his keynote, register now. In February 2014, Travelex, the world’s largest foreign exchange bureau, sealed its commitment to digital transformation by hiring their first-ever Chief Digital Officer. Travelex […]
Chief Digital Officer of The Economist Jora Gill to keynote on “How to compete in a constantly changing digital world” at the U.K. CDO Summit
Jora Gill is proof that strategic thinking, innovation, and leadership abilities are three of the most important skills required of the Chief Digital Officer position. Gill is one of an increasing number of CTOs who have made the transition to CDO. Previously Chief Technology Officer at Elsevier and Standard and Poor’s, Gill became Chief Digital Officer […]
Where Should Chief Digital Officers Focus Their Digital Transformation Efforts – Internally or Externally?
The verdict is in: every organization, regardless of sector or market, needs to embrace digital transformation to survive. Not only have 48% of successful companies relied on hiring specialist digital talent in the wake of disruption, but those who have digital masters are 26% more profitable than their competitors. But before spending your budget on […]
Is Big the Next Big Thing? Find out at the 2015 U.K. Chief Digital Officer Summit
What do you imagine when you hear the words “digital disruptor?” Is it a San Francisco-based startup coming into an established market and bankrupting 50-year old legacy organisations through revolutionary digital innovation? Such a characterization isn’t completely inaccurate, as since 2000, 52% of F500 companies have gone bankrupt, been acquired, or ceased to exist. Yet […]
Buy one ticket to the CDO Summit; get two free passes to the ForgeRock Identity Summit!
We’ve got great news! ForgeRock and the CDO Club have partnered to bring you two days of digital business focused sessions and networking to London: On 07 October at the U.K. CDO Summit, Mike Ellis, CEO of ForgeRock, will be a keynote speaker and discuss the importance of identity in enabling engaging, consumer-focused, digital initiatives. The Chief Digital Officer […]
England’s Rugby World-Cup-Winning Coach Sir Clive Woodward to Be Featured Speaker at U.K. CDO Summit
Sir Clive Woodward OBE, the head coach who led England’s team in their 2003 World Cup victory in Australia, will be the Featured Speaker at the 2nd annual U.K. CDO Summit in London on 7th October 2015 at 30 Euston Square and presented by Accenture Strategy. “Sir Clive Woodward’s legendary leadership and team building skills […]
Don’t Miss “From Bytes to Board: The Journey from Technology to the Boardroom” at the 2015 U.K. Chief Digital Officer Summit
Since its inception in 2011, the CDO Club has been tracking the Chief Digital Officer to CEO/NED career trend, and for good reason: An increasing number of CDOs are making the leap to CEO. So far, in 2015 alone, 10 Chief Digital Officers have become CEO/President, while four have become Non-Executive Board Directors. In 2014, […]
U.K. Chief Digital Officer Summit Announces Agenda and Speakers for 2nd Annual Event in London on 7 October 2015
Did you know the number of Chief Digital Officers is on track to double again in 2015, to 2,000 CDOs globally? Hundreds of those are based in the U.K. where we are witnessing the exact same trend. Also, in 2015 alone, 10 Chief Digital Officers have become CEO/President, while four have become Non-Executive Board Directors, […]
Top 5 Tips for Chief Digital Officers in the Public Sector
Last week we took a look at what inspired the digital and data revolution that fundamentally transformed the way the United Kingdom’s government does business. While there’s no doubt that top-down political leadership helped push digital transformation, it was up to Chief Digital Officers in the U.K.’s various civil service agencies and local governments to […]
What Chief Digital Officers can learn from the Digital and Data Revolution in the U.K.
“Incredible change is happening in government,” said Rohan Silva, Co-Founder at Second Home. He should know. As a senior policy adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2013, Silva helped spearhead the open data revolution in the United Kingdom’s government. “The good thing about being away from government is that, for starters, you […]
Chief Digital Jobs for July 2015
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through July 2015: New Chief Digital Officer placements (through July 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Digital Officers at ACT Government, Barnes & Noble, Cisco, NHS Blood and Transplant, Playboy Enterprises, The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), and The Ministry of Justice, among others. Welcome to […]
The Chief Digital Officers Guide to Digital Transformation
“I’m going to quote Mike Tyson here: ‘Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face,’” said Jonathan Sackett, President and CEO at MashburnSackett. For many organizations, digital transformation can seem like a heavyweight fight, with organizations at the forefront of innovation rarely getting there without a couple of black eyes, or even […]
Chief Data Officer Jobs for July 2015
Welcome back to our Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update, through July 2015: New Chief Data Officer placements (through July 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Data Officers at Callcredit, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology, Exabeam, Figure.NZ, Fishbowl, GlaxoSmithKline plc., Ieso Digital Health, and TurboAppeal, among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief Data Officers ‘In the News’: How […]
Making the next BIG discovery, with experts from Bayer, Elsevier, IBM Watson, & Harvard
The first time most people heard of Watson, IBM’s artificially intelligent computer, was when it won the quiz show Jeopardy against two brilliant former (human) champions in 2011. A few years later, Watson moved on to a more ambitious challenge: the cure for cancer. In partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine, Watson looked through […]
Companies with Digital Masters are 26% more profitable than their industry competitors
Digital Masters “are 26% more profitable than their average industry competitors,” revealed Dr. Didier Bonnet, Senior Vice President and Global Practice Leader at Capgemini Consulting. At a keynote address given at the 2015 CDO Summit on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, hosted at Thomson Reuters in New York City, Dr. Bonnet discussed research from his new book, […]
Chief Digital Officer Jobs for June 2015
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through June 2015: New Chief Digital Officer placements (through June 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Digital Officers at City of New York, Kwittken, Margaritaville Enterprises, Men’s Warehouse, Michelin, and Olympique Lyonnais, among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief Digital Officers ‘In the News’: Over […]
Top Advertising Tips for Chief Digital Officers: “You can’t annoy people into liking you.”
No question about it: The advertising sector has been at the forefront when it comes to digital transformation. Last year, a whopping 36% of Chief Digital Officers were in the Advertising sector, according to research conducted by The CDO Club. The next sectors with the most CDOs, Media and Publishing, had approximately just 18% each. […]
Chief Data Officer Jobs for June 2015
Welcome back to our Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update, through June 2015: New Chief Data Officer placements (through June 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Data Officers at Clinical Ink; Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP; Movio; and TechTarget among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief Data Officers ‘In the News’: How did these Chief Data Officers make news in June: Kanishka Agarwal, […]
How Chief Digital Officers can use Storytelling for Successful Content Marketing – with Top Gear, Dr. Who, and the BBC
“Great brands are the same as great stories,” said Amanda Hill, Chief Brands Officer at the BBC Worldwide, at a keynote presented at the inaugural U.K. CDO Summit at the BBC in London, England, on October 29, 2014. The BBC has told engaging stories for the last 90 years. Yet the conversation has been purely […]
What Every Chief Digital Officer Must Know about Identity, with ForgeRock’s Neil Chapman
“What do I replace ‘the man from the Pru’ with?” asked Neil Chapman, SVP and MD International at ForgeRock, at a keynote presented at the inaugural U.K. CDO Summit at the BBC in London, England, on October 29, 2014. “The man from the Pru,’” the classic tag line from Prudential, is not simply one of […]
Chief Digital Officer Jobs for May 2015
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through May 2015: New Chief Digital Officer placements (through May 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Digital Officers at Atkins, Chicago Public Media, Domino’s Pizza, Republican National Committee, Vancouver Public Schools, and ZenithOptimedia Spain, among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief Digital Officers ‘In the News’: How […]
FinTech Chief Digital Officers Share 7 Top Digital Transformation Strategies [VIDEO]
“The differentiators and the people who will succeed…are those who figure out how to redefine the relationship with the end consumer and perhaps to monetize it in different ways,” said Sean Cornwell, Chief Digital Officer at Travelex. He joined several experts from the financial sector at the “Digital Innovation & Disruption in Fintech” panel, held […]
The CDO Hall of Fame: Chief Digital Officers Who Have Become CEO and Board Directors
As our readers know, the CDO Club is the only company tracking Chief Digital Officers and Chief Data Officers who have become Chief Executive Officer or Board Director/Non-Executive Director. Our research shows, in the first half of 2015 alone, SIX CDOs have graduated to CEO, while THREE CDOs became Board Director/NED. Incredibly, these numbers have already surpassed all of […]
Chief Data Officer Jobs for April and May 2015
Welcome back to our Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update, through May 2015: New Chief Data Officer placements (through May 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Data Officers at Boeing Defense Space & Security, OgilvyOne China, Time Inc., and Wunderman, among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief Data Officers ‘In the News’: How did these Chief Data Officers make news in May: A. Charles Thomas, […]
Most Purchases Today Decided Online: 5 Retail Trends for Chief Digital Officers [VIDEO]
5 Key Retail Trends Every Chief Digital Officer Must Understand “Digital already influences the majority of store sales,” said Michael Burgess, President of HBC Digital at Hudson’s Bay Company. “If you look at the weight and volume of digital visits, it’s rapidly moving towards influencing 100% of retail sales.” Burgess outlined 5 important developments for […]
Who’s Hiring Chief Digital Officers and Chief Data Officers – RIGHT NOW?
We’ve recently added DOZENS of new C-level jobs for digital and data professionals, including those available from the following companies and organizations: AXA Equitable, bankINNOVATE, Barclays, Boostinsider, Christiana Care Health System, DST Systems, Graduate Center, CUNY, Leidos, Manulife, U.S. Marshals Service Department Of Justice, University of Minnesota and many more. CDO Club members have exclusive access […]
6 Ways Chief Digital Officers Can Take Publishing International [VIDEO]
“Technology is changing the way we acquire and monetize audiences like never before,” said Daniel Heaf, former Chief Digital Officer at BBC Worldwide, at the “Publishers Going Global” panel, held at the 2014 CDO Summit at the Time Warner Center in New York City on April 23. Success in digital is a juggling act for […]
Chief Digital Officer Jobs for April 2015
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through April 2015: New Chief Digital Officer placements (through April 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Digital Officers at Assembly, Cabinet Office, Coyne PR, Mavin Records, McCann, and Ologie, among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief Digital Officers ‘In the News’: How did these Chief Digital Officers make […]
Unholy Matrimony: 5 Ways Chief Digital Officers Can Mix Content and Commerce [VIDEO]
“There has always been a separation of church and state between content and commerce,” said Shane Norman, Chief Digital Officer at Douglas Shaw & Associates. He made his remarks at the “Content and Commerce: Natural Partners or a Shotgun Marriage?” panel held at the inaugural U.K. Chief Digital Officer Summit at the BBC in London, […]
Chief Data Officer Jobs for March 2015
Welcome back to our Chief DATA Officer JOBS Update, through March 2015: New Chief Data Officer placements (through March 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Data Officers at Catalina, MindShare, OrderUp, US Dept of Commerce, Veda Group, and Wunderman among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief Data Officers ‘In the News’: How did these Chief Data Officers make news in March: Bringham […]
Job Opportunities at the Chief Digital Officer Summit and CDO Club
Looking for fulfilling work? Know someone who is? The Chief Digital Officer Summit and CDO Club is hiring: VP & General Manager, Online: We’re looking for a General Manager with 10-15 years experience in operating and running online platforms as a profit center. You will be responsible for the CDOClub.com blog, and all CDOSummit.com sites (such as New […]
Chief Digital Officer Jobs for March 2015
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through March 2015: New Chief Digital Officer placements (through March 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Digital Officers at Athlon Media Group, IAG, McCann Worldgroup, New York & Company, Team Detroit, WPP, Wyndham Hotel Group, the White House, WPP, and Yell, among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief […]
Number of Chief Digital Officers Doubled Again in 2014 — As Many CDOs Were Elevated to CEO and Board Directors in Q1 2015 as in All of 2014, According to the CDO Club
The CDO Club held its 3rd annual CDO Summit, sponsored by Capgemini, on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, hosted at Thomson Reuters in New York City. The CDO Summit addresses the challenges and opportunities arising from Big Data, the cloud, digital disruption, and social and mobile media, with an emphasis on the ascendant role of the […]
CDO Club Names Starbucks Coffee Company’s Adam Brotman U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year 2015
NEW YORK, April 29, 2015 – CDO Club, the world’s first and largest community of C-suite digital leaders, with over 1,000 members, today named Adam Brotman, Starbucks Coffee Company’s Chief Digital Officer, the 2015 U.S. Chief Digital Officer of the Year. Brotman was named the recipient of the award during CDO Club founder David Mathison’s […]
Why and How Chief Digital Officers Must Respond to the Collaborative Economy, with Jeremiah Owyang
Analysts agree that more Chief Digital Officers will be hired in 2015 than ever before, continuing the trend predicted by CDO Club founder David Mathison that the number of CDOs would double every year. So many Chief Digital Officers are being hired for a reason—usually to deal with digital disruption. According to Capgemini and the […]
Capgemini and MIT Reveal Why Every Organization Must Become a “Digital Master” at the Chief Digital Officer Summit (April 29 2015)
New Chief Digital Officer (CDO) hires have doubled every year since 2005, and now number over 1,000 globally. Today more than 250 Chief Data Officers have entered business portals, up from zero in 2002, according to the CDO Club. In the last few months alone, the White House nominated its first-ever Chief Digital Officer, Jason […]
Chief Data Officer Jobs for February 2015
Welcome back to our Chief Data Officer JOBS Update, through February 2015: New Chief Data Officer placements (through February 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Data Officers at the US Department of Energy, Lloyd’s of London, the Office of the Chief Technology Officer at the Government of the District of Columbia, and the White House […]
Why the IRS needs a Chief Digital Officer: How HMRC’s CDO made UK taxes easy
Chief Digital Officers are often tasked with transforming an incumbent organization. One of the primary drivers for this change is the way in which digital has transformed the customer experience–making interactions easier, faster, and more efficient for all parties involved. Can you think of a process more deserving of the digital treatment than taxes? Outside […]
Chief Digital Officer Jobs for February 2015
Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through February 2015: New Chief Digital Officer placements (February 2015): Congratulations to the new Chief Digital Officers at American Apparel, Best Friends Animal Society, DaviesMoore, Havas Worldwide, Hindustan Times Media, New York Post, PHD China, among others. Welcome to the CDO Club! Chief Digital Officer ‘movers […]
8 Strategies for Digital Transformation with Ralph Rivera, the Man Who Helped Transform the BBC
Four years is a lifetime in digital. When Ralph Rivera joined the BBC in 2010 as Director of Future Media, the future of that lauded British organization was being openly questioned. “There is no such thing as ‘The’ BBC,” Rivera said. “In fact, BBC is more like AOL Time-Warner than IBM…. It’s actually more like […]