​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.

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.

Creative agency, Imagination, has opened an innovation lab in Sydney aimed at educating brands and marketers on better utilising emerging and digital technologies for customer engagement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC) has undergone a significant digital transformation as part of efforts to shift from regulatory watchdog to customer-centric services provider.

Footwear company, EMU Australia, has seen online conversions jump by 43 per cent and average customer order value lift by 12 per cent after overhauling its global digital presence.

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.