Tom Godden, Enterprise Strategist with AWS and Executive advisor shares his experience as both a CIO and CTO on how to drive higher value from data strategies.

Topics include:

• About the Enterprise Strategy team
• Learning from customers using data to go from vision to value
• Speed and agility is the only differentiator
• What it means to be a data-driven enterprise
• How companies like Disney, Formula 1 and Amazon use data as a differentiator
• “Data is the new oil” – CIO Magazine
• 79% of the challenges around the adoption of data are cultural
• 4 “Es” of data – Engage, Enable, Educate, Eliminate
• Insist on having the data
• One way and two-way doors & Two pizza teams
• Decentralize data producers, distribute throughout organization
• Be prepared to re-evaluate your metrics
• Govern to enable, not to restrict
• Building tenets for data policies and procedures
• A data asset is not successfully deployed until it is fully automated
• Think big and execute small
• Building a smarter organization leveraging machine learning
• A mission statements needs to mean something
• Work to eliminate biases
• Avoiding “The Frozen Middle”
• Be clear on the “why” for implementing machine learning
• Start small and think big with AI
• Presentation wrap up