Few industries have been as heavily disrupted by digital as the media industry. So perhaps the most pertinent question relating to Seven West Media’s decision to appoint its first chief digital officer late last year is: Why did it wait so long?

Some chief digital officers have responsibility for the digital transformation of a brand or company. For Cat Matson in Brisbane, her responsibilities scale out to the transformation of an entire city.

Australian marketers are entering the second wave of digital transformation where digital evolves from a channel play and experiment and becomes the engine across organisations, workflows and customer experience enablement.

More than half of Australian organisations plan to have a chief digital officer in place within the next two to three years to manage the transition to the “new normal” of digital-first business, a new report claims.

Etihad Airways is rolling out Adobe’s marketing, creative and document management solutions in order to lift the group’s digital guest experiences and capabilities to new heights. The new partnership reflects a $25 million investment into improving guest services, and is just one element of a transformative technology strategy that stretches across the group’s customer, digital, analytics and operational activities.

An organisation’s digital strategy ultimately needs to come back to customer experience and the journey from awareness to advocacy, RSPCA’s former digital chief claims.

Following CMO, CIO and ADMA’s recent Executive Connections event for CMOs and CIOs, entitled ‘Mastering Digital Transformation’, we ask Adobe head of strategy and digital transformation, Mark Henley, his advice on how organisations tackle and master digital change.

Penguin Group’s innovative spirit harks back to its founder, Sir Allen Lane, a maverick of his time who disrupted the book publishing world by producing high-quality paperbacks that made reading affordable for the masses. But what does that culture and thinking look like in a digital context?

The future of TV broadcasters is about being involved in all forms of TV content development and streaming whatever the connected device, Seven West Media’s chief digital officer claims.

The primary job of the chief digital officer could be to make themselves redundant, according to a panel of digital and technology specialists.

Too many businesses are still obsessed by their competitors and fail to put enough emphasis on what their customer wants, according to Pandora Media’s managing director, Jane Huxley.

Digital disruption equals accelerated change and requires organisations to fundamentally transform their capabilities and corporate values, ANZ’s chief technology officer claims.

The rapid evolution of digital, mobile and social technologies has propelled the financial industry into an era of transformative agility and adaptability.

Technology is shifting to intelligent machines with a capability to reason, said IBM Chairman and CEO Virginia Rometty at Gartner's Symposium ITxpo. These machines won't replace humans, but will augment them. It is a technology that will transform business, she said.

Nissan's latest concept car will pass the digital cool test but it won't do much to stop distracted driving: the entire dashboard is one huge display on which drivers and passengers can post anything.

There’s no doubt brands are increasingly looking to innovation as a way of coping with digital disruption. But according to Anthony Johnston, head of new commercialisation business, OgilvyVentures, many are still struggling with how to take a new idea and turn it into a viable model that the business will actually support.

Digital transformation is one of the key drivers behind leading fitness and music provider Les Mills strategy to leverage customer engagement with over 17,000 clubs around the world, according to Les Mills International CIO, Aaron O’Brien.

During her time as Dan Murphy's CDO, Faye Ilhan has helped drive a number of innovations, including being the first retailer to launch click-and-collect across all outlets, and introducing Dan Murphy’s ShipSmart, which enables customers to receive unlimited deliveries.

Myer appointed Mark Cripsey into the newly created role of chief digital and data officer, as part of the retail giant's focus on omni-channel retailing and customer data.

Chief digital officers are becoming an increasingly common fixture in Australia’s c-level executive suite. Nine months ago, pizza retailer, Domino’s, joined these ranks, appointing Michael Gillespie as its first CDO.

As the largest business bank in Australia with a 160-year history of serving customers, NAB prides itself on being able to converse and connect with customers in a way that meets their expectations. And it’s this very focus on customer experience that is now fuelling the organisation’s digital transformation fire.