Interview Of The Week

Interview Of The Week: Chema Alonso, Telefónica’s Chief Digital Officer

Who: Chema Alonso is a member of Telefonica’s Executive Committee and is currently the company’s Chief Digital Officer

Topic:  Telefonica’s digital transformation and what he has learned about innovating at a large established company.

Quote: “My experience tells me that skipping a wave of technology disruption does not help your organization in its transformation. You must be able to transform the company taking the best of every technology wave. The Cloud, Big Data, AI, everything, otherwise, you will not be able to survive.” Chema Alonso is a member of Telefonica’s Executive Committee and is currently the company’s Chief Digital Officer.

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.