For Whittaker, it's about trying new things and not being afraid to implement them. He joined Discovery a decade ago, and is presently the chief digital officer, responsible for defining and developing Discovery's digital assets and digital transformation.
"I've been head of digital, head of development, and head of marketing, all of which are related, and it's typically around working in the spaces that have a user interface or contact with the user."
He says today, the CIO is getting more involved in the big data space. "It's becoming a question of how we can free up data about clients and staff and use it to define new products and democratise the data to give it back to the users."
With focus on web and mobile at Discovery, he has helped `to push the boundaries a bit on how we deal with customers and our users as a whole'.
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