“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 […]
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
Breaking CDO and CAO News:
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5/23/2024: Congratulations to Jason Nadeau, Chief AI Officer at Fidelity National Financial!
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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 […]
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