This category recognizes the CEO who has developed a strategy to create a digitally transformed enterprise. This CEO’s vision follows an agenda aligned with the emerging digital economy, responding to new customer requirements, capabilities, critical infrastructure, and industry ecosystems. This CEO is an excellent storyteller, and he or she is successful in delivering this message to the rest of the organization. He or she continuously stresses the need for a digital enterprise as part of overall brand and strategy in response to the region’s fast-growing digital economy. His vision includes working with partners within the ecosystem to develop new products, services, and experiences, built by a digitally capable workforce in a data-driven organization. The winner of this category must be the CEO of the entire business/group and not just a division or department, or hold a Managing Director position for the entire Asia/Pacific or APEJ (Asia/Pacific excluding Japan) business.
The DX CEO
- Defines the organization’s value, role, and partners in the digital economy
- Ensures critical infrastructure is in place to successfully deliver reliable digital services and experiences and create pervasive experiences
- Focuses on creating empathy with customers at scale and engenders trust with customers, pivoting operations from throughput and efficiency to market-driven
- Grows the enterprise into an intelligent organization by creating a dynamic work model to deliver innovative services and experiences at scale
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