Welcome back to our Chief Digital Officer JOBS Update, through July 2016. In this issue, we list over FOURTEEN new CDO appointments for July alone; we tracked 45 CDO ARTICLES and hand-picked over a DOZEN CDOs who made the news last month; and we posted more new open global CDO positions on our CDO Career page (TWENTY total jobs). These […]
Customer Personalisation and Data: Are You Being Creepy, or Cool? [VIDEO]
Last year two million Australians received a message from melanoma. The deadly skin cancer “liked” and commented on beach or poolside pictures posted by people on social media. It also provided information on identifying and preventing melanoma. Melanoma, in this case, was actually an algorithm developed by agency GPY&R. The goal was to raise awareness […]
UTS Students Propose Revolutionary Life-Saving Initiative at Sydney CDO Summit
Imagine: You collapse from a heart attack. A sensor in your wearable Apple Watch detects an irregular heartbeat and immediately notifies emergency services. But an ambulance is too far away to help in time, because every minute your survival rate drops by 10%. Instead, a registered “Citizen Hero” with first-aid training gets an alert on […]
Top 5 Skills Chief Digital Officers Need to Become CEOs and Board Directors, with Larry Kramer [VIDEO]
Why are Chief Digital Officers increasingly being tapped to become CEOs or board directors? Just ask Larry Kramer, who serves on the boards of TheStreet.com; Gannett Co. Inc.; Harvard Business School Publishing; and MDC Partners; and is a trustee of Syracuse University. He was previously board director at American Media Inc, Answers.com, and Discovery Communications. He […]
Cisco Chief Digital Officer Kevin Bandy Reveals Digitization Strategy [VIDEO]
“Technology is now the catalyst of every business strategy that’s happening,” said Kevin Bandy, Chief Digital Officer at Cisco Systems. “Operating models are changing every 18 to 24 months…. You’re seeing leadership teams really challenged with the pace of change.” The hiring of a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) usually indicates big change in an organization. That’s why […]