Do you need a Chief Digital Officer?

As shown in The Imagination Gap, many companies remain unprepared for the digital transformation of their industries.

This Strategy& study tells you more about the need for and role of the Chief Digital Officer (CDO), see Adapt, disrupt, transform, disappear - The 2015 chief digital officer study.

Consider that in 2014, global mobile data traffic reached 2.5 exabytes per month — that’s 2.5 billion gigabytes, a figure that is 30 times larger than all of the traffic on the Internet back in 2000. And the Internet of Things will be way bigger (see also this graph I posted in May).

So, will you disrupt or be disrupted, with or without CDO?