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Digital transformation for Australia Post is less about the next set of products and services coming through, and more about creating an organisation that can adapt and create new business models quickly.
CMO and CIO magazines in partnership with ADMA held the latest Executive Connections series event in Melbourne on 3 March to discuss how organisations can shift from digital disruption to customer-led innovation. Here are pictorial highlights from the day.
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Digitising every aspect of business, as well as harnessing the data that comes from it for customer gain, are imperatives if organisations want to survive over the next three to five years, according to global CMO of enterprise information management vendor, OpenText.
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Innovation is happening across every organisation, continuously. But it’s the ability to harness and scale those ideas, as well as disrupt traditional power hierarchies and corporate structures, that will make or break how established organisations compete in a digitised, customer-centric world.
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ANZ has snatched Google A/NZ boss, Maile Carnegie, as its new group executive of digital banking, uniting its digital and innovation strategy and remit under one leadership post.
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Sydney Opera House has struck a two-year partnership with Adobe to roll out the vendor’s complete Marketing Cloud stack as part of its digital transformation plans.
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Australian food manufacturer, Simplot, has thrown its weight behind a startup incubation program in order to bring more innovative food tech ideas to market.
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Digital agency, Deepend, has created a new app prototype for Village Cinemas following a three-day innovation challenge aimed at improving the movie goer experience.
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Most organisations know by now that digital transformation is less about the technology, and more about the cultural and changes necessary to introduce a new, digitised way of working. What’s less obvious is how to ensure staff are taking the journey with you. Here, Starlight shares how it's done it with aplomb.
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Digital disruption is not a negative thing for children’s charity, Starlight Foundation, it’s an opportunity. The charity shares how its quest to utilise technology and digital capability for good has triggered an organisation-wide transformation.
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ANZ plans to appoint a dedicated group executive responsible for digital transformation as part of a leadership restructure.
High-end department store Neiman Marcus wants to improve more than its customer online buying experience. The company is working to use technology to merge its online and brick-and-mortar efforts.
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Demand for strategic digital and editorial skills is expected to dominate recruitment trends in the marketing during the first quarter of this year, a new report claims.
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Ford Motor Company has revealed details of the 18-month, customer-centric innovation process that is seeing the group transform into an auto and mobility company and triggered the launch of its ambitious new FordPass offering.
Chief digital officers are in scarce supply at large global companies, says consultant PwC. But it doesn’t matter, as the role is largely transitional in nature and the CIO continues to rule IT.
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With 2015 coming to a close, we thought it would be a good time to look into the most read articles of 2015 on the CMO website to see what was top of mind for modern marketing leadership this year.
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BT Financial Group has confirmed it is looking to recruit its first digital chief as well as a new marketing leader following the departure of CMO, Mark Murray.
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The Royal Automobile Club in Western Australia has gone live with its mobile-first online member portal, the inaugural step in a multi-pronged digital transformation program aimed at delivering better experiences to customers.
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Four out of five Australian consumers claim security issues can affect their online experience with brands, and more than half are worried about data privacy, a new report claims.
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Organisations looking to survive the digital age must harness the triumvirate of customer sentiment, operational excellence through technology, and experimentation via new business models, Capgemini’s global head of sectors claims.
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Australian businesses are underutilising existing data and analytics capabilities to drive strategic and competitive advantage as executives struggle to come to grips with the new realities of data-driven decision making.
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In the third and final episode of our 3-part CMO50 video series exploring modern marketing and why it’s become a matter of trust, we’re delighted to be joined by Telstra’s former CMO and now digital services and sales executive, Jeremy Nicholas, and Adobe VP Marketing Asia-Pacific and Japan, Duncan Egan.
Flash back to the classic film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Television-obsessed Mike insists on becoming the first person to be ‘sent by Wonkavision’, dematerialising on one end, pixel by pixel, and materialising in another space. His cinematic dreams are realised thanks to rash decisions as he is shrunken down to fit the digital universe, followed by a trip to the taffy puller to return to normal size.
Why is it there is no shortage of leadership development materials, yet outstanding leadership is so rare? Despite having access to so many leadership principles, tools, systems and processes, why is it so hard to develop and improve as a leader?
As a nation united by sport, brands are beginning to learn money alone won’t talk without aligned values and action. If recent events with major leagues and their players have shown us anything, it’s the next generation of athletes are standing by what they believe in – and they won’t let their values be superseded by money.
