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.

Tourism Australia has appointed its chief financial officer as the first general manager for digital transformation as it looks to ramp up its digital focus.

LGsuper has appointed Brett Barber to the newly-created role of chief digital officer responsible for IT and marketing divisions.

In the last five years, Simplot CMO and chief digital officer, Fiona Allen, has made a concerted effort to become a digital transformation leader. And it's this quest for reinvention that led her to to the post of CMO and chief digital officer at Australian food manufacturer, Simplot.

Standard Chartered has appointed Philips Asia-Pacific marketing leader, Damien Cummings, as its new global head of digital marketing.

Being a digital-first business requires learning how to be brave, to move quickly, and to embrace completely new ways of working, a leading chief digital officer claims.

Domino’s Pizza has appointed its first chief digital officer in a bid to accelerate growth in the online sphere.

Culture is one of the biggest hurdles AGL faces as it seeks to tackle digital disruption head-on and better respond to rising customer expectations.

Organisations and marketers will struggle if they don’t find a way to make digital a relevant part of every piece of customer experience.

Digital projects are not just about new delivering new technology capabilities, they also require a rethink around how people collaborate, assess risk and embrace change.

Organisations trying to embrace digital disruption must combine quick, visible wins as well as significant technology investments and cultural change if they hope to achieve long-term and transformation gains, Telstra’s digital chief claims.

Digital and technology may have already triggered bucket loads of change within our organisations and transformed our interactions as consumers, but Mars Australia’s chief digital officer claims we’re only halfway into the digital journey.

The rise of digital within all facets of business has been followed swiftly by the rise of the chief digital officer (CDO) role as saviour and administrator. But truly understanding how this position fits within an organisation’s long-term strategy and culture is fraught with complexity.

Digital is becoming a cornerstone of competitive advantage and innovation for all businesses, so no one should be surprised that a new dedicated c-suite role, the chief digital officer, is being offered up as the key to success.

More than 20 per cent of government departments around the world will appoint a chief digital officer as part of their digital strategies, according to new Gartner research.

In the second of CMO’s new series looking into what three marketing and digital chiefs think about a key topic or trend influencing their business performance, we ask the former CMO of Commonwealth Bank and highly experienced marketer, Andy Lark, whether marketing chiefs should own digital strategy.

The role of chief digital officer (CDO) is set to invade Australian organisations and could well be at the expense of the CIO, a new report claims.