Despite the phenomenal growth in the number of Chief Digital Officers and Chief Data Officers, it appears—oddly—that the majority of corporate boards still lack digital depth. “This is crazy!” said David Mathison, founder of the CDO Club and curator of the CDO Summit, when discussing the digital talent gap in the boardroom during his CDO […]
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Resource Guide: Preparing for the Tidal Wave of Chief Data Officer Jobs (SXSW)
As we mentioned last week in our CDO JOBS Update for Chief Data Officers, in 2012, the Harvard Business Review named the Chief Data Scientist as the ‘sexiest job of the 21st Century‘. Just last month, one of the co-authors of that article, D.J. Patil, was named the first-ever Chief Data Scientist of the U.S. This […]
From Chief Digital Officer to CEO: 6 Tips from HarperCollinsUK CEO Charlie Redmayne
“The reason that I’m the CEO of HarperCollins is that my business is fundamentally challenged by the things that I do,” said Charlie Redmayne, CEO at HarperCollins U.K., at the inaugural U.K. Chief Digital Officer Summit at the BBC in London, England, on October 29, 2014. “All of our businesses are fundamentally challenged by the things […]