The document discusses future C-suite roles that may become more common, including the Chief Ecosystem Officer, Chief User Experience Officer, Chief Automation Officer, Chief Freelance Relationship Officer, Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Privacy Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer. These roles would focus on areas like partnerships, user experience, automation opportunities, the growing freelance workforce, intellectual property laws, data insights, privacy, compliance, talent, and administrative tasks to allow CEOs to focus on bigger picture decisions.

1. Future C-Suite Roles
WHO WILL BE TAKING DECISIONS
IN THE BOARDROOM OF THE FUTURE

2. Chief
Ecosystem
Officer
Putting one person in charge of industry dynamics
and partnerships will soon be a mainstay of the
corporate structure, suggests Bill Briggs, chief
technology officer of Deloitte Consulting.

3. Chief
User Experience
Officer
User experience used to be an afterthought for hardware
and software designers. Now that bulky instruction
manuals are largely (and thankfully) a thing of the past,
technology companies need to ensure that their products
are intuitive from the moment they’re activated.

4. Chief
Automation
Officer
As jobs continue to get automated out of existence,
Frey believes a member of the core leadership team
of the future will be put in charge of identifying
opportunities for companies to become more
competitive through automation.

5. Chief
Freelance
Relationship
Officer
Fifty-three million Americans, or 34% of the U.S.
workforce, are considered contingent, temporary,
diversified, or freelance employees today, with that
number expected to reach 40% by the year 2020.

6. Chief
Intellectual
Property
Officer
The world of intellectual property law is only getting more vast
and complicated as new innovations hit the market. Not only will
companies in the near future need a core leadership team member
who can wade through the dizzying sea of intellectual property
laws and patents to ensure their own compliance, but also remain
vigilant to protect their own company against infringement.

7. Chief
Data
Officer
Chief data officers will help CEOs and COOs run more
profitable and streamlined companies by wading
through the sea of information now available to them
in order to draw valuable insights.

8. Chief
Privacy
Officer
As companies hang on to more data, the onus
to keep that data safe is growing, with the PR
nightmare that ensues following a breach becoming
more than most can handle.

9. Chief
Compliance
Officer
One of the few barriers that remain for businesses
of all sizes that want to operate beyond their national
borders is the issue of compliance. Organizations have
gone so far as to designate a chief compliance officer
to ensure that all rules of international trade are being
met, and many feel that the importance of this role will
expand moving forward.

10. Chief
Human
Resources
Officer
Already an established position within many major
organizations today, but the role of chief human
resources officer is evolving from one of compliance
to core leadership as competition for talent intensifies.

11. Chief
Administrative
Officer
As CEOs delegate tasks to their expanding teams
of C-suite executives, they will be required to handle
more complex, high-level decisions. As such, chief
administrative officers will help relieve CEOs and
COOs of some of their day-to-day tasks, allowing
them to put their time and effort towards critical,
big-picture decisions.

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