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 […]