Data as Strategy: How Platforms Solve Problems and Ecosystems Can Transform the Industry

<p><strong>Data as Strategy: How Platforms Solve Problems and Ecosystems Can Transform the Industry</strong></p><p>Many organizations talk about the power of data but too few really understand the full potential. Utilizing a strategic framework that redefines the roles of collaboration and innovation, see how one organization built competitive differentiators by expanding upon the concept of a data analytics platform to create a data operating system and beyond enterprise analytics to facilitating an ecosystem.</p><p><strong>Biography</strong></p><p>Tom Andriola is Vice Chancellor, Information, Technology and Data; Chief Data Officer, UC Irvine and UCI Health. He is responsible for ensuring the effective and strategic use of data and technology across all aspects of the UCI enterprise. Prior to joining UCI, he served as Vice President &amp; Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the University of California System, working with campus and healthcare leaders to expand the use of technology strategically and realize operational synergies. Among his accomplishments, he created the organizational platform to support the collaboration of 8,000 IT professionals across the University, launched a nationally-recognized IT Leadership Academy, and played a leading role in developing UC Health’s big data strategy, which led to the creation of the UCwide clinical data warehouse representing 16 million patients. Prior business accomplishments include enabling the first national mammography program in Europe, introducing a virtual care solution for intensive care patients in India, and collaborating with Peking University and the China Association for Cardiologists to build its first clinical data repository of cardiology patients in China.</p><p>He has built innovation teams in India, China, Israel, and Brazil. Andriola spent the earlier years of his career as a leader for multi-billion dollar enterprises in the capacity of a global CIO and business transformation officer with organizations such as Royal Philips, Marconi PLC, Sap