Rhythm of Life Technology

Rhythm of Life Technology Name Institution Rhythm of Life Technology Rhythm of Life Technology is a company that has ventured in to the health sector having made its technological achievement by designing a gadget called a Health Watch. The Health Watch is like a normal watch only that it monitor’s the customer’s health by tracking and recording certain health measurements and notify the owner when their health conditions are not optimum or normal. In the company, I am the Chief Information Officer in charge of computer system strategies that are obliged to support the company in its aim of achieving its goals (Schuler & Marshchall, 2014). My specific responsibilities in the company are technical projects such as formulating the vision and mission of the organization, delegating day-to-day information technology operations as well as supervising the company’s team of on their responsibilities in the field of information technology. Moreover, I work with the team of the management department to ensure that the company is managed utterly well. Theory of the Role (research) My position, like any other function in a company, has its own organizational challenges and issues related with operation. Furthermore, considering the fact that Rhythm Life Technology is a new but rapidly growing company, the CIO is ought to be the best employee to ensure that the company is ultimately successful. Therefore, having done endless research on the function and how it can be made efficient and successful, there are several hard skills that a CIO requires. Firstly, a CIO should be proficient in Information Technology services that the company is supposed to offer and create security policies to ensure that the company’s information can only be obtained by the company (Schuler & Marshchall, 2014). Secondly, a CIO should have a great taste in recruiting new individuals, supervising and directing IT personnel. Thirdly, he or she should have good qualities of engaging employees in the performance of their jobs as well as have plausible management, project management and finance management skills. Lastly, a CIO should have the right social skills required for establishing partnerships with other personalities and companies. In addition, Schuler & Marshchall (2014) state that other than hard skills, a CIO is supposed to have certain soft skills of performance such as having the ability to build positive relations with other members of the team, having gratitude, integrity, empathy, the spirit of teamwork and a sense of humor to keep Rhythm Life Technology lively. Division/Function structure Rhythm of Life Technology has both functional and divisional structures. However, since I am in the Information Technology department, I will explain the primary responsibilities of the division, the types of jobs that the division offers and the number of employees in the department as well as their specific functions. Therefore, the first responsibility of the IT division in our company is governance (Gelfond et al., 2017). This implies that it is the responsibility of the division to create parameters of operation and use of architecture, information systems and networks in the company. In other words, the division sets background rules on the type...