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Jim Dudley, Enterprise Architect, Piedmont Natural Gas

Jim Dudley is a senior IT Leader with over 20 years of experience across multiple industries. He currently serves as Enterprise Architect at Piedmont Natural Gas in Charlotte, NC. During his tenure at Piedmont, Mr. Dudley has served in leadership roles in IT strategy and planning, business relationship management, application management, project management, and enterprise architecture. Prior to joining Piedmont, Mr. Dudley was Principal Consultant at Keane (now NTT Data) where he worked with clients in telecommunications, banking, manufacturing, utilities, and retail. A member of PMI, he has served on the Leadership Council for PMI’s Utility Industry Community of Practice, advising small businesses and technology startups, and providing PM knowledge resources and services to thousands of industry practitioners worldwide.

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SESSION

Recalibrating Your Data Architecture/Governance Strategies for Big Data and IoT
Track: Governance
Jim Dudley, Enterprise Architect, Piedmont Natural Gas

Leading organizations have made great strides in formalizing data governance, but are these programs viewed by business leaders as a strategic instrument for innovation, or simply a necessary tactical measure? Many organizations are not well positioned to realize the maximum benefits from the changing landscape of big data, cognitive computing, and IoT. These organizations must realign their IT strategy, information architecture and data governance disciplines to realize the full potential of their proliferating data assets. This presentation takes an industry and technology agnostic journey into the concepts of recalibration, right-sizing and realignment to build new capabilities that have a meaningful impact on the business model.