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 […]
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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
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6/28/24: Congratulations to Doug Fisher, Chief Security & AI Officer at Lenovo!
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6/27/24: Congratulations to Stefan Hoejmose, Group Chief Data and AI Officer at ITV!
Read all about it: ITV has recruited Stefan Hoejmose as its new Group Chief Data and AI Officer -
6/25/24: Congratulations to Anthony Manson, Chief Digital Officer at Healio!
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6/24/24: Congratulations to Alain Biem, Chief Data Science Officer at New York Life!
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6/19/24: Congratulations to Lisa Rosenmerkel, Chief Data Officer at Department of Veterans Affairs!
Read all about it: Lisa Rosenmerkel Sworn in as Chief Data Officer at Department of Veterans Affairs
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 […]
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