Jo-ann Olsovsky, CIO of BNSF Railway

Summary: In this interview, Jo-ann Olsovsky, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of BNSF Railway discusses principles two, Infrastructure, and four, IT-Business Partnerships of World Class IT with Metis Strategy. Some of the topics discussed include: Technology in the rail industry Need for collaboration and inter-operability Life after the Berkshire Hathaway acquisition Mindset of a CIO in a B2B Company Learning a new industry and company Eye on the trends: BNSF's use of mobile computing to help its customers track their freight, the challenges of the consumerization of IT, the evolution of the "always on" hand held device and information at the fingertips without the need to launch applications, the potential for video and imagery in rail, the digital storage boom and power of cloud computing and visualization