Being a leader is not a matter of having your name up in lights, making speeches or corralling power at the top. It’s identifying the power in other people and unleashing it, former US president, Barack Obama, believes.

The move to tailored, digital experiences for customers and passenger education are key priorities for Metro Trains Melbourne’s first executive-level brand and marketing leader as she officially takes up her new role.

Cricket Australia’s decision to appoint HCL Technologies as its new digital technology partner is about providing a more engaging experience bringing fans, communities, supporters and staff even closer to the game, its technology chief says.

Leadership is not a magic act, it’s a grind, and it’s those who find ways to renew themselves, absorb the fear of their teams and digitise that are going to best succeed.

Attraction and retaining talent is the top issues facing businesses today, according to a new report, with 43 per cent of CEOs globally citing lack of talent and skills as a barrier to future innovation.

Digital transformation has to be the combination of continuous business improvement and driving customer value with talent and people management, Qantas’s digital and mechandising lead, Sheerien Salindera, says.

Customer-led transformation isn’t about ditching the physical in favour of digital, but instead using both to connect with the analogue hearts and digital minds of your customers.

More than 130 marketing and technology leaders joined ​CMO and CIO magazines and ADMA for the 2018 Executive Connections breakfast event in Sydney to discuss the shift from digital to customer-led transformation. here are pictorial highlights from the session.

​Being brutally honest about the challenges your organisation faces, and ensuring teams can trade stories with each other, are vital ingredients in instigating a customer-led transformation.

Organisations that emphasise customer experience over product will win out in the digital disruption game, according to a new global c-suite study.

With Amazon officially opening up shop in Australia, local retailers are ‘bracing for impact’ and grappling with the ensuing business and marketing implications in what’s considered an already tough retail environment.

Trust is playing by new rules in today’s world of digitally driven marketplaces. But human relationships remain pivotal to building successful brand-consumer interactions today and into the future.

Labelled as the great ‘Dubbo disruptor’, online platform, Channel 40, is Australia’s first-ever app connecting drivers and freight owners in an Uber-like system. And its impact has already been felt across the heavyweight trucking industry.

Understanding customers is key to driving a successful business strategy in the age of digital disruption, according to ANZ’s group executive of digital banking, Maile Carnegie, who spoke at today’s Australian-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) event in Sydney.

Nine Entertainment Company has appointed a director of innovation and transformation to help improve its sales division’s ability to embrace digital disruption.

Innovation has become one of marketing’s biggest buzzwords, but what does it really mean for a CMO to be innovative?

The retail space has gone through significant digital disruption over the past few years, making competition to stand out from the crowd fiercer than ever before.

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.

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.

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

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.