“Digital is ubiquitous, dude,” said David Shing, the self-titled Digital Prophet at AOL, at a panel that explored digital leadership across a variety of industries, held at the 2014 CDO Summit at Time Warner in New York City on April 22, 2014. The panel identified the similarities and differences in the approach, strategy, and management […]
Number of Chief Digital Officers Doubled in 2013; Seven CDOs Became CEO and Four CDOs Became Board Directors
Who would have thought the famous Moore’s Law on the exponential growth of computing power might also apply to Chief Digital Officers? Well, perhaps it could. According to the latest deep research conducted by the CDO Club, the number of Chief Digital Officers in 2013 doubled again in one year—just as it has been doing […]
Ken Kragen to be Featured Speaker at Chief Digital Officer Summit (April 22-23 at Time Warner in NYC)
When he graduated from Harvard Business School, Ken Kragen saw his classmates go on to run megacorporations like IBM, Kodak, and Proctor & Gamble. Yet he decided instead to manage a young, up-and-coming singing group. Within a year he’d taken that group to the number two selling act on RCA Records behind Elvis Presley. Kragen […]
Digital leaders for Oprah, Lady Gaga, Rachael Ray, and Michael J Fox discuss protecting personal brands at Chief Digital Officer Summit
“It’s so different…with a person, you’re dealing with an emotional relationship and their reputation.” That distinction—how managing fans of a personality, versus those of a product—was shared by Rosemary Maggiore, President of Rachael Ray Digital, at the 2013 Chief Digital Officer Summit Entertainment Panel. Maggiore was one of four prominent digital executives discussing the pitfalls […]