“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 […]

How to Future-Proof Your Brand, with Google’s Head of Digital Transformation, Joris Merks-Benjaminsen

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 […]

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 […]

‘Transformer In Chief’: The New Chief Digital Officer
“While the position isn’t exactly new, what’s required of the average CDO is. Gone are the days of being responsible for introducing basic digital capabilities and perhaps piloting a handful of initiatives. The CDO is now a “transformer in chief,” charged with coordinating and managing comprehensive changes that address everything from updating how a company […]