David Mathison, founder of the CDO Club and curator of the CDO Summit, summed up the importance of Chief Digital Officers and Chief Data Officers in one tweet: “If you’re lacking a digital transformation strategy, it’s not just your company that’s at risk. Entire industries are at risk,” Mathison said at the inaugural U.K. CDO […]
Chief Digital Officers Sree Sreenivasan and Perry Hewitt on Digital Transformation in the Arts and Education [VIDEO]
One would be hard pressed to find more fitting representatives for the digital transformation in arts and education than Chief Digital Officers Sree Sreenivasan, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Perry Hewitt, at Harvard University. They spoke about their roles heading the digital departments of the two legendary cultural institutions at a keynote panel […]
McKinsey: 30% have a Chief Digital Officer on their executive team
NEW YORK, NY September 12, 2013: McKinsey & Company’s annual global survey, Bullish on Digital, concludes that Chief Digital Officers are already playing critical roles in the C-suites of major global organizations: Thirty percent of respondents also report a chief digital officer (CDO) on their companies’ executive teams, a sign of the widespread awareness that […]
Should Your CIO Be Chief Digital Officer?
CAMBRIDGE, MA, August 2, 2013 (Via Harvard Business Review blog) – The CDO’s job is to turn the digital cacophony into a symphony. It’s OK to experiment with new businesses and tools, but experimentation must be coupled with building scalable, efficient capabilities. The CDO creates a unifying digital vision, energizes the company around digital possibilities, […]