CDO vs. CIO:
Who is the Digital Champion?!?

 

XING Puls’ virtual event was all about digitization and digital transformation. The topic of the evening was the differences between the CDO and the CIO: Who is the digital champion?!?

“In recent years, Chief Digital Officers (CDO) have been celebrated like rock stars as the saviors of many entrepreneurs’ digital strategy.

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) became unpopular and was mostly only responsible for cutting costs. After all, who likes their corporate IT?

But Covid-19 and the first PoC’s reshuffled the cards! Reason enough to take a closer look at the status quo and invite three Chief Officers for 15-minute impulse statements.” ~ XING Puls Digitalisierung Köln

Speakers

Agenda

Come together and welcome by the hosts Michael & Michael.

Introduction

Introduction to the topic by Thomas Fabula, Founder & Owner, TF Consulting. Both CDO roles are relatively new, so there are no established standards for job descriptions (yet). Enclosed are exemplary tasks and responsibilities:

Chief Digital Officer Chief Data Officer
  • Vision & Strategy: Digital Transformation
  • Orchestrating Digital Transformation
  • Scouting & Innovation Radar
  • Involving Business Stakeholders
  • Change Manager & Communication
  • Define data & IT strategy (MDM), and analytics strategy.
  • Data Analytics, AI, ML (machine learning)
  • GRC: Data Protection, Governance, Risk Management
  • Ensures compliance, quality, security
  • Define new business models, products & services
  • Improve customer experience
  • Implementation in processes
  • Data-driven services (SaaS)
  • Process-driven transformation
  • Drive implementation across the entire organization
  • Data-driven transformation
  • Responsibility for IT & Data Management
Cooperation between both CDOs
  • Derive innovation and business value from new technologies
  • Interact throughout the innovation & transformation process
  • Ensuring end-to-end implementation

 

Impulse lectures

Dirk Müller, Chief Ecosystem Officer – CIO/CDO, Q&A Round

 

Marko Hein, Group Director Digital / CDO, Q&A Round

Ralf Werner, CDTO at OGE, Q&A Round

Finally, networking sessions in breakout rooms provided space for interesting discussions.

Outlook

The next event will take place online again on May 25 at XING Puls Tech Düsseldorf.

Further information

www.xing.com/…/cdo-vs-cio-digital-champion