Russell Reynolds Associates: What Makes a Great Chief Digital Officer?

Russell Reynolds Associates discusses the growing need for leaders in a new c-suite role, the Chief Digital Officer (CDO), in industrial companies. With digital disruption causing the industry to depend more on data-based strategy and tech-related services helping to increase business, a CDO who can both automate previously manual processes and as well as have insight and vision for a company-wide technical transformation is in high demand.

Russell Reynolds conducted an assessment of 28 successful digital transformation leaders to help understand what industrial businesses should look for in a digital leader. The study found the following three areas where these leaders were stronger than other industrial executives:

• Innovation
• Disruption
• Social Adeptness

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