By Sanius Health
Satya Nadella might be the CEO of Microsoft, but he is also the unofficial poster child for what a Chief Data and Information Officer should be.
Jacky Wright, formerly Microsoft’s CDIO in the US and now McKinsey’s Chief Technology and Platform Officer, carries similar weight.
Atif Rafiq, who injected digital into both Volvo and McDonald’s, proved transformation does not stop at the drive thru. Mike Bracken, the UK government’s first CDIO, deserves credit for hauling Whitehall into the digital century, one API at a time.
These are the names that shape how we think about data-driven leadership.
Ask most people to name a CDIO from the NHS, and you get a long pause, or a grimace at the memory of the National Programme for IT, a well-funded cautionary tale that still echoes down the corridors of policy.
Quietly, almost sotto voce, the NHS has been staging a transformation of its own. A
t its centre stands Ming Tang, the first CDIO of Asian heritage and the sixth woman among the last eleven CDIO
