3 Things Every CDO Needs to Become a Board Director
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 and data depth.
For example, the Harvard Business Review reported that only nine companies – less than 2% of the Fortune 500 – have boards that are considered to be “highly digital.”
Similarly, the Telegraph article revealed that only three companies on the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 have three or more tech-savvy board members.
In spite of these troubling statistics, the demand for digitally savvy board members is there.
Almost a dozen CDOs became board members in the last two years, including Starbucks CDO Adam Brotman, who joined the board of Neiman Marcus Group.
What do CDOs need to know to succeed on this path?
A good start would be to watch this video of the fireside chat between CDO Club founder David Mathison and Index Ventures Partner Saul Klein from the CDO Summit in London at the BBC.
Saul covers a few things every CDO must understand to succeed in the boardroom:
FROM CDO TO NED: 3 TIPS EVERY CDO NEEDS TO KNOW:
1. Think like a Chief Security Officer. Avoid the breach!
2. Money is easy to get, good advice is not. Seek out mentors!
3. Everything is global. See the bigger picture!
Johanna Murphy
Chief Marketing Officer
and Digital Director
Ivanka Trump
Dr. Didier Bonnet
Senior Vice President and Global Practice Leader
Capgemini Consulting
Jessica Federer
Chief Digital Officer
Bayer
Ganesh Bell
Chief Digital Officer & GM,
Software and Analytics
General Electric
Alexander van Boetzelaer
Managing Director
R&D Solutions
Elsevier Inc.
Fernando Alvarez
Chief Digital Officer
Capgemini Consulting
Jim Rosenberg
Chief of Digital Strategy
UNICEF
Brock Weatherup
Chief Digital Officer / SVP
PetSmart
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Join us for the 3rd annual Chief Digital Officer summit, presented by Capgemini and hosted by Thomson Reuters on 29 April 2015. We’re excited to announce a partial list of speakers below:
Fernando Alvarez: Chief Digital Officer at Capgemini Consulting
Rajesh Anandan: Senior Vice President at UNICEF Ventures
Ganesh Bell: Chief Digital Officer & GM, Software and Analytics at General Electric
Dr. Didier Bonnet: SVP and Global Practice Leader at Capgemini Consulting
Jessica Federer: Chief Digital Officer at Bayer
Tony Fross: Vice President of North America Practice Lead, Digital Customer Experience at Capgemini Consulting
David Mathison: Curator, CDO Summit; Founder, CDO Club
Jen McClure: Vice President, Digital & Social Media at Thomson Reuters
Johanna Murphy: Chief Marketing Officer and Digital Director at Ivanka Trump
Keyvan Peymani: Managing Director, Digital Strategy Division at ICM Partners
Jaime Punishill: Head of Cross Channel Customer Strategy at TIAA-CREF
Jim Rosenberg: Chief of Digital Stragey at UNICEF
Jo Ann Saitta: Chief Digital Officer at The CDM Group
Steven Schwartz: Global Managing Director, Reuters News Agency at Thomson Reuters
Sumita Singh: Senior Vice President Marketing, Corporate Markets at Elsevier
Sree Sreenivasan: Chief Digital Officer at Metropolitan Museum of Art
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