02 - The Tech Executive Alphabet Soup: CIO CTO CDO… now CAIO? – Guest: Janet Sherlock, CEO Org.Works

How many tech chiefs does it take for a company to succeed? CIO CTO CDO—and now CAIO: are companies really building the leadership team they need for the digital age, or is this alphabet soup of roles just making things more complicated? In this episode, Joe and Martin talk with Janet Sherlock, CEO of Org.Works and former CIO, CDO & CTO at Ralph Lauren, about the proliferation of technology roles in organizations.  Janet has been in various tech executive roles throughout her career and studied “The Organizational Impacts of Executive Technology Leadership Role Proliferation” in her doctoral dissertation.  Dr. Janet Sherlock on LinkedIn:   / janet-sherlock   * * Links: IBM study mentioning 76% of organizations having a CAIO: https://tinyurl.com/IBMCAIO Janet’s dissertation: https://tinyurl.com/JanetDiss Study of CIO role, tenure: https://tinyurl.com/CIORoleTenure Survey highlighting the “confusion problem”: https://tinyurl.com/TWTechTitles Janet on “The Chief AI Officer Isn’t the Answer”: https://tinyurl.com/CAIONotAnswer WSJ on the FDE role: https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/the-h..., https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-start... Research on the implications of who CIOs report to: https://tinyurl.com/CIOReportingStruct Galbraith’s STAR model: https://tinyurl.com/GalbSTAR “Designed for Digital”: https://tinyurl.com/D4DMITPress “Clarifying the Ambiguous Role of the CIO” in MISQE, identifying different types of CIOs: https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol10/... “SuperTech Leader” definition: https://tinyurl.com/bdkdpya3 HBR article showing a decline in CDO role titles, but an incline in combined tech roles: https://tinyurl.com/4xu6s25c * * Doing Digital Differently is a podcast for leaders, changemakers, and curious minds who believe that digital transformation isn’t just about adopting new technologies — it’s about rethinking how we work, lead, and create value in a rapidly changing world. Doing Digital Differently is produced in association with _MIS Quarterly Executive_, your source of practical insights for digital leaders.   / mis-quarterly-executive     Joe Peppard:   / joe-peppard-5868513   Martin Mocker:   / martin-mocker   Podcast License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...