Last year, eleven (11) Chief Digital Officers became CEO and five (5) CDOs became board directors/non-executive director (NED). That number has grown every year since we started tracking it in 2011. That’s partly because, as digital strategy becomes integral to an organization’s overall strategy, the skills and leadership required of a CDO become necessary for the CEO, and […]
Digital Success Principles with Chief Digital Officers from the City of Boston, IBM, and SAP, at the NYC CDO Summit
Create a list of your top success principles for digital transformation. 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? While no two organizations (or Chief Digital Officers) are the same, the very best strategies share some common threads such […]
DMA, CDO Club Launch Ground-Breaking Online Education Initiative
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and CDO Club have partnered to provide online courses to our members! As part of the CDO Club’s new education initiative, CDO Academy, we’ve hand-picked four DMA on-demand marketing courses based on their relevance to digital and data strategy for today’s digital leaders. Because the schedule of a Chief Digital Officer […]
Driving and Measuring Digital Transformation at the NYC CDO Summit
If digital transformation has no end because it is said to be a journey, then how does a Chief Digital Officer measure success? The answer isn’t simple. Innovation is happening all the time, in every sector, with media, telecom, healthcare and financial services executives still anticipating “massive” change in the next 12 months. Leaders from […]
Choosing the Right Digitization Strategy with Cisco Chief Digital Officer Kevin Bandy at the NYC CDO Summit on April 27
“As every CDO knows, the cost, speed, and volume of innovation in today’s hyper-connected markets are driving forces behind the imperative to digitize, demanding that organizations re-architect their business models in order to compete and thrive,” said Kevin Bandy, Chief Digital Officer at Cisco Systems. The hiring of a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) usually indicates […]