C-suite
nounEtymology From C in chief + suite.
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Management The group of officers of a business organization who have the word chief in their titles.
- Near-synonym: CXO
- THE customer is king. So some firms have started appointing chief customer officers (CCOs) to serve the king more attentively. These new additions to the (already crowded) C-suite are supposed to look at the business from the customer’s point of view.2012 September 22, “Schumpeter: The magic of good service”, in The Economist:
2
Management Senior headquarters executives: the chiefs and their immediate subordinates.
- Hyponyms
- chief accounting officer, chief audit officer, chief behavioral officer, chief compliance officer, chief customer officer, chief data officer, chief design officer, chief diversity officer, chief executive officer, chief experience officer, chief financial officer, chief human resources officer, chief information officer, chief information security officer, chief learning officer, chief legal officer, chief marketing officer, chief operating officer, chief risk officer, chief scientific officer, chief security officer, chief strategy officer, chief technology officer, CXO