ASX-listed banking and wealth management group, MyState, has appointed its first group general manager of digital and marketing to put both at the centre of its business strategy.

SXSW 2019 has confirmed the extent to which technology will impact every aspect of our lives in deep and profound ways. I’m 15 sessions in, spanning a range of topics from flying vehicles, smart cities, neuro-science, nano-technology, to how the CIA uses creativity to solve complex counter-terrorism challenges.

Organisations are fast shifting from the ‘pioneering’ phase of testing artificial intelligence (AI) applications into implementation as a way of digitally transforming their businesses, IPsoft’s chief commercial officer, Jonathan Crane, believes.

Cross-functional teams empowered to make decisions based on what needs to change as well as customer feedback have been key to making digital sales transformation successful at Westpac.

The world is experiencing a crisis of trust as digital and the fourth industrial revolution disrupt industries and jobs. And it's the way organisations harness technology for customer good that will get us through it.

Seven West Media chief digital officer, Clive Dickens, will leave the organisation to join Optus, a move triggering a series of leadership digital, technology and content leadership changes at the ASX-listed SWM group.

An AI project aimed at improving business processes by automatically recognising and tagging thousands of images used across its sites has resulted in a host of unexpected customer experience benefits for Carsales.

Technology and marketing leaders gather for the third annual CIO and CMO Executive Connections in Auckland. Here are pictorial highlights from the event.

Medibank recently underwent a digital experience transformation, a move that's resulted in the My Medibank app becoming the highest-rated private health insurance app in the Apple Store in June 2017 and led to a raft of other benefits.

Being able to deliver a virtual personalised assistant to every staff member and student on campus is a step closer to reality for the University of Canberra after it signed up to a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot platform.

Krispy Kreme’s Australian business chalked up a 23 per cent increase in conversions in just one month after becoming the brand’s first team globally to rollout a cross-channel payments solution.

The University of NSW has thrown its dollars behind Adobe’s Experience Cloud as part of a digital experience transformation aimed at lifting its reputation and standing to the top echelons of tertiary providers globally.

For many organisations, the emergence of digital channels necessitated creation of an entirely new business function to support them. A key question then is where to house that function – within marketing, IT, operations, customer, or someplace else?

Industries are being won or lost based on user experience that drives an emotional response from customers.

Stratton Finance has secured $6 million in incremental loan financing business and opened up two new customer segments just one month after launching a complete end-to-end digital product offering.

​An aggressive four-month transformation program has delivered Sydney Olympic Park Authority (SOPA) the streamlined systems, customer journey roadmap and data foundations vital to fulfilling its 2030 masterplan for a revitalised residential and events destination.

The Australian Government is planning to have all citizen services online by 2025 in an ambitious plan to redesign the way government interacts with constituents.

EY says its acquisition of Australian and APAC consulting house, Adelphi Digital Consulting Group, is aimed at expanding its full-service digital services capabilities.

Vocus general manager of consumer and digital, Stu French, believes the only way to drive transformation home is to literally start changing things, then ask for forgiveness later. ​So that’s the approach he’s adopted as he strives to digitise the ASX-listed company’s ailing Dodo $800 million consumer telecoms and energy consumer business

You may never have heard of New Era Cap Co, but you have probably seen its products, given they have been worn by celebrities and sporting luminaries from Jennifer Lopez to Babe Ruth.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is cementing its place in digital commerce, with a recent Gartner survey finding 70 per cent of digital commerce organisations report that their AI projects are very or extremely successful.