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THE RISE OF THE CHIEF 
DIGITAL OFFICER 
How organizations are tackling 
digital transformation from within 
Perry Hewitt 
CDO, Harvard University
1 What is a CDO, anyway? 
2 Digital strategy: one definition 
3 Setting the stage for digital transformation 
4 Mind shifts just for marketers 
5 The post-CDO world
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1 What is a CDO, anyway?
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marketing 
technology language 
 Enterprise responsibility 
marketing, editorial, 
web publishing 
 Agency experience 
scoping, client management, 
high pressure, high volume 
 Software and professional 
services 
always be shipping, product 
management mindset
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Or, more like a 
next 
generation 
Chief 
Telephone 
Officer? 
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“centralized, world-class 
capability…charged 
with removing barriers 
to exceptional … 
service delivery”
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A CDO might help you with the following 
“Born analog” organization eager to adapt 
Licensed experimentation 
Shared guidelines and best practices 
Marketing and IT alignment 
Appetite but not capability for data and analytics 
“We have an agency for that.”
2 Digital strategy: one definition 
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 Share Harvard’s mission of 
excellence in teaching, learning, and 
research while making the University 
and its contributions relatable and 
relevant in an always-on world 
 Enable communications and 
engagement approaches to live 
digitally, and often digital-first to 
enrich our constituents’ experience of 
Harvard 
 Connect and amplify digital initiatives 
build 
amplify 
aggregat 
e 
curate 
COPE 
ship 
measure 
iterate 
mobil 
e 
data 
social 
mm 
/video
speed of spread 
MOOCs 
apps 
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mobile 
social 
visual 
email 
SaaS 
#iot (beyond the screen)
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Heightened expectations: 
mobile, social, frictionless, 
ubiquitous
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 Messaging 
alignment 
 RWD 
 Web platforms 
 Social platforms 
 Community 
engagement
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3 Setting the stage for 
digital transformation
Gather the 
components for 
your own enterprise 
digital remix 
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Get the right 
people in 
matrixed 
reporting and 
project roles 
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Develop digital 
guidelines that 
spread 
knowledge and 
enable user 
contributions 
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Adopt a product 
management 
mindset 
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Create formal 
and informal 
learning paths 
to extend 
digital 
capabilities 
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4 Mind shifts just for marketers 
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Time to rebalance control and influence 
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Influence 
Control
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Head & heart
Marketing analytics is a core competency 
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Death of the 
five-year, and 
maybe even the 
annual plan 
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5 What’s next: the post CDO world 
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RIP TYPISTS 
Just as the typing pool 
gave way to broad 
interaction with tech, 
so advanced digital 
capabilities will spread 
beyond one group 
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THE RISE OF THE CHIEF 
DIGITAL OFFICER 
How organizations are tackling 
digital transformation from within 
Perry Hewitt 
CDO, Harvard University
LESS ABOUT 
EDUCATION 
MORE 
ABOUT 
INTEGRATIO 
N 
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ENOUGH, 
ALREADY. 
QUESTIONS 
?
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THANKS 
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  1. Walk you through what we will cover today …
  2. I grew up in suburban Philadelphia. When I was 10 years old, I became obsessed with riding. By Christmas in 1977, I became fixated on the fat that I would be getting a pony.
  3. My father, in his infinite wisdom, ignored my wished and gave me a TRS 80. Released in November 1977, the TRS 80 was one of the first PCs marketed for home use. The TRS-80 had no hard drive and four kilobytes of memory—for comparison’s sake, Apple’s iPhone 4 has 512 megabytes of memory, and the iPhone 6 has 1 gigabyte of memory. It gave me a lot of skills useful for a CDO: A comfort level with technology – and pretty beta technology at that Ability to try new things Resilience – because when you want a pony, and walk into that, you’re kind of forced to reframe and make the best of it quickly.
  4. I’ve been lucky to work with big brands, start-ups and agencies just as digital was becoming a large part of product and marketing. My career has been marked by constant change. When I began my career at Houghton Mifflin, I worked on a groundbreaking new information delivery system called CD-ROM. By the time I reached Crimson Hexagon, the idea of using an algorithm to infer meaning from unstructured text on the social web was a thing. Talk about change!
  5. But back to the rather ominous CDO title. First mental image is something like this – something at once sinister and anonymous. Is a Chief digital officer some kind of robotic mechanism to turn us into ones and zeros.
  6. And the title is vaguely ridiculous. How can one person be charged with digital, when everything is patently digital? Is it like having a chief telephone officer, when every desk and pocket has a telephone.
  7. I use an analogy of components and remix a lot. When people talk about enterprise, they think of the monolithic systems that power it. But there is increased fragmentation: sometimes good, and sometimes bad. A CDO may come in with internal and external components, but their remit is the remix.
  8. Which means – always be recruiting. And if you work in the enterprise, that means partnering with HR to think about jobs very differently. Another handy saying – nothing promotes collaboration more than an exchange of hostages
  9. We spend a lot of time on guidelines and standards, created collaboratively with our constituents.
  10. Which means – always be shipping – and iterating – and shipping. We take this approach to software platforms we manage, like Wordpress for the Harvard Gazette, to aligned IT initiatives that power websites across Harvard, to the social strategy, to the mobile applications.
  11. Everything from Agile training and conferences for formal development To digital roundup, a monthly newsletter and event for informal development
  12. Little yellow book of brand Leverage the content creators within and beyond your institution Harvard examples: relaunching a semi automated Harvard homepage in 2011. distributing our content across social channels Also,
  13. Plant grass not pull weeds This is a core tenet of inbound marketing in general. The weedpulling method was really effective in a world where “finite” was a thing.
  14. One example of how we have effectively planted the grass 2009: Harvard Gazette was 200,000 page views Print first, selectively and manually published to web Optmized for IE Predominantly text Thought of solely as destination, not feed Built as single celled organism 2014: 8 million page views Digital first – with one commencement edition Optimized for multiple mobile form factors Incorporated audio, video, GIFs, Soundcloud Built as complex living structure of stitched together web services
  15. Identify influencers. This isn’t entirely different behavior from Business Partner Marketing programs in the 1990s, but the potential and scale are far greater.
  16. This is a tool called social rank we experiment with. Top ten followers within50 miles of NYC. Sortable by geo, keyword, verified status.
  17. Head and heart for mass connection, peer to peer sharing
  18. Marketing has always been a quantitative business from market sizing to revenue attribution. But now it’s everywhere. Culture of continuous optimization.
  19. I miss the days of marketing canons. (one N). Planning is still essential, but what we’re planning for is uncertainty and agility.
  20. If any kind of center of excellence makes sense for digital, it should be heavily invested in distributing knowledge.
  21. Because this is the broader landscape we are addressing. Sure we have centers of excellence and the role, but that is more of a reaction to the reality that the consumerization of IT and digital everywhere have transformed business from customer to employee to leadership.
  22. But, to play devil’s advocate, why might this role stick around for a while? The heart of why this position exists is not just about digital fluency, but about communication across functions. No shortage of work to do. This ultimately is the role of the CMO, but enough work to be done. See also the rise of the Chief Experience Officer -