Akhrieno LemzoriChief Information Officer · Essays & perspective

Chief Information Officer
India
Practice / Perspective

Carry the context across every connection

Akhrieno Lemzori / Published perspectives
No.The ideaSubject / reading
01

The phone number is correct, but the communication may still be wrong

Service communication and digital context
5 min read
02

A recovered database can leave the service without its context

Technology resilience and service evidence
5 min read
03

An outreach sync should preserve the question it cannot answer

Distributed service records and accountable reconciliation
5 min read
Portrait of Akhrieno Lemzori

The practitioner

Akhrieno Lemzori

The restored application opened normally. The database checks also completed. Yet two of the seven datasets in our exercise had missing attachment references, so the result was not the recovery our service owners needed. That experience is a useful introduction to my work. I ask what a technical completion means to the person who must use it, and whether the evidence includes the context needed for their decision.

Open to Board appointments

Start a conversation
  • 01 / Reconciliation after interrupted connectivity
  • 02 / Communication preferences in shared-phone settings
  • 03 / Accountable remote supplier access
  • 04 / Recovery exercises with service context
Computing and service-system experience
21 years
Career begins July 2005
IT colleagues
19
Led through three managers
Annual IT operating expense
₹5.2 crore
₹1.1 crore approved capital expenditure

Carry the context across every connection

I lead technology at Fervali Hearing Services from Kohima. Our three centres in Kohima, Dimapur and Guwahati support scheduled appointments and outreach. The company has 230 employees and recorded ₹48 crore revenue in the year ended March 2026. I lead nineteen IT colleagues through three managers, with ₹5.2 crore annual operating expense and ₹1.1 crore approved capital expenditure. My work supports clinical and service teams; it does not give me authority to make a hearing assessment or prescribe a device.

I began in software support in 2005, moved into care-service administration and learned that a technically successful transaction can leave an important question unresolved. A record arriving from an outreach visit may duplicate an existing entry. An appointment reminder may reach a phone shared with someone else. A vendor account may remain enabled after its internal sponsor has left. A restored database may open while the attachments needed to interpret it are absent. These are different problems, and I do not group them under a single claim of digital transformation.

The cases below show how we examined those boundaries. Clinical colleagues owned the reconciliation of disputed records. People using the service helped explain communication preferences. Managers had to take responsibility for vendor access, and service owners participated in recovery exercises. The costs and populations are stated so that the result can be assessed at its actual scale. Our mission-oriented ownership gives us reasons to care about access, but it does not turn an IT intervention into evidence of clinical benefit or establish a charitable status.

Six records needed a human reconciliation

Among eighty-four outreach visits, six duplicate entries required review. We funded ₹36 lakh of synchronisation and reconciliation work, retaining clinical ownership of record decisions instead of merging entries automatically.

A shared phone changed the reminder design

A preference review covered ninety-six accounts; thirty-one raised shared-phone concerns. A ₹22 lakh redesign introduced neutral notifications and clearer choices. It did not certify that every communication or legal requirement was satisfied.

A database restore was only part of the test

A seven-dataset recovery exercise found two missing attachment references. We funded ₹49 lakh of corrective work and repeated the exercise successfully for all seven at the tested point. That result was not a promise about every future recovery.

Current focus

I am making the handoffs between outreach, centres and technical suppliers easier to question. The priority is a usable account of what arrived, what remains uncertain, who can decide and what evidence supports the reported completion.

Conversations I welcome

I am exploring a first external board appointment with a technology-risk contribution, provisionally eighteen days a year and subject to preparation, employer consent and the actual duties involved.

Beyond the page

The record behind the perspective.

Formation

  • BSc in ComputingZelvori Computing College · 2005
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Information Management, part-timeArelvi Information Institute · 2013
Akhrieno kept the recovery objective open when the application ran but its supporting attachments were incomplete. Her report recognised the technical work already done while showing why the service still needed a repeat exercise.
Temjen NerzovarChief Executive Officer, Fervali Hearing Services
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Contact

I am exploring a first external board appointment with a technology-risk contribution, provisionally eighteen days a year and subject to preparation, employer consent and the actual duties involved.

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