“At a senior level, demand is evident in the rise of the chief digital officer — the number of digital chiefs is expected to double this year to 2,000, according to the CDO Club, an executive community.

“Some CDO think their functions could be brought to disappear in the coming years once all companies have been ‘digitized.’ We believe, however, that this function CDO should strengthen and develop in the coming years, potentially cannibalizing other business functions such as Marketing and / or Sales Management. Some might be appointed to positions in […]

“The role isn’t new. In fact it has been around for more than a decade. But it was in 2012 that organisations really started taking notice and by the end of 2014, the world’s largest network of chief digital and data officers, the CDO Club, said that about 1,000 CDOs had been recognised worldwide