Data-Driven Innovation And Change At Nationwide

Any agile and aware organization is going to have activities in flux with regard to the fast-changing areas of big data, analytics, and AI. To learn about what the company is doing in the data space, we interviewed Jim Tyo, the company's Chief Data Officer (CDO). He told us that Nationwide has an aggressive level of activity underway, while focusing on the structure and organizational priorities for these important resources through a time of change. Tyo has been the company's CDO since 2016, and he reports to Jim Fowler, who arrived at Nationwide as Chief Information Officer in 2018. Fowler was previously the CIO at GE, and he is bringing in some of the same innovative ideas that GE Digital introduced to that company. For example, Fowler argues that Nationwide is a technology company, so his title has been changed to Chief Technology Officer, and his business function is now called Nationwide Technology.