CIO Interview Analysis: National Geography and Vodafone

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Introduction
Chief Information officer is the senior most technical executives working for any
organization. This particular designation is available in government, non-profit organizations,
business and even in government offices as well. The responsibility of CIO is to set as well as
lead advanced technical strategies to give their organizations a competitive edge and higher
commercial revenue structure as well.
The CIO interview nominated for this essay is Marcus East- CIO of National Geography
channel and Jorge Fernandes, Vodafone, CIO interview. Both of these interviews are analyzed
considering technical spectrums and its operational and functional activities. The roles of the
CIO in the businesses are elaborated in this paper. Apart from this, the way through which
management information system can identify the issues and ongoing problems of an organization
are also elaborated in this paper. In addition to that, the future strategies that a CIO needs to
pursue for mitigating the identified risks and challenge are also discussed in this essay.
Investigation and briefly Overview Company’s recent IT history prior to the
interview
Explanation of the theme, clarify and define terms
Marcus East, the chief Technology officer of national geography has discussed about the
three pillars they are using in their technology changing program. It has been identified that with
the help of the technology radical and innovative changes can be incorporated to National
Geography. In order to enhance the digital commercial servicers the National Geography
company authority is working on modernized technology to implement server less and open

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source approaches. In the year of 2017 the national geography channel has reached to its 130th
anniversary and hired the new chief technology officer (or chief information technology officer).
In order to keep the channel much engaged to the audiences the importance of technical
exploitation is identified as a major aspect.
Expansion with references to stories and tasks
Besides visual representation the existing consumers of the channel is currently interested
to gain opportunities from their community as well. The CIO determined that computer weekly
is a very good interview session. In order to improve the current applications they are giving
focus on three different pillars such as new underlying platform, digital experience redesigning
and community product development. These will allow the consumers to explore their interest
area.
Recent IT history of company
The company was not focused on being more technical and innovative in previous days
as a result they were failing to communicate effectively with their consumers. Even the company
was lagging from enough of social technology exploration innovative opportunities.
Critically appraise the CIOS’s view, strategy and approaches to the stated theme
After critically appraising the CIO’s view it has been explored that the company is
focused on becoming server less these days. In order to store large set of data and keep them
secured from external and unauthorized access the company is taking cloud service access. The
company is collaborating with 21st Century Fox and together they are designing the server less