On the assumption that you heard/read the SONA of the President last month, (July 2000), identify at least 3 areas related to ICT and identify how these areas can improve our quality of life.
These are some issues that President Gloria Arroyo once said in her last State of the Nation Address in relation with ICT.
First one is:
“Sa telecommunications naman, inatasan ko ang Telecommunications Commission na kumilos na tungkol sa mga sumbong na dropped calls at mga nawawalang load sa cellphone. We need to amend the Commonwealth-era Public Service Law. And we need to do it now.”
This statement talks about vanishing cellphone loads in telecommunication companies. We all know that cellphone now a days are very essential in our daily needs especially the way we communicate. Using cellphones is the best and faster way in communicating. Me as a cellphone user it is essential for me to have a load in order for me to have contact with my family, friends, and etc., so having these issues such as vanishing of loads and dropped calls is a problem that needs to be solved.
The second one is:
“Kung noong nakaraan, lumakas ang electronics, today we are creating wealth by developing the BPO and tourism sectors as additional engines of growth. Electronics and other manufactured exports rise and fall in accordance with the state of the world economy. But BPO remains resilient. With earnings of $6 billion and employment of 600,000, the BPO phenomenon speaks eloquently of our competitiveness and productivity. Let us have a Department of ICT.”
Having a Department of ICT is a great move in the part of our economy, because it can help us in boosting our economic growth using all the technology in hand despite being a third-world country. And also Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) which help our fellow Filipino workers in having jobs abroad aiding the unemployed ones.
The third one is:
“In technical education and skills training, we have invested three times that of three previous administrations combined. Narito si Jennifer Silbor, isa sa sampung milyong trainee. Natuto siya ng medical transcription. Now, as an independent contractor and lecturer for transcriptions in Davao, kumikita siya ng P18,000 bawat buwan. Good job.”
Also free training for our fellow Filipinos in order to have jobs for sustaining there own family. One example is technical education such as medical transcription which is using technology in converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by a healthcare professional, into text format. If more people are trained it can also help unemployed one plus gaining enough money for there needs.
And lastly,
“As the process of fundamental political reform begins, let us address the highest exercise of democracy…voting!
In 2001, I said we would finance fully automated elections. We got it, thanks to Congress.”
Having an automated election is a good way of preventing if not maybe lessens cheats in elections. As we all know cheating is part of Philippine politics so this is a good way of preventing at least. It can also make election process fast and easy having results faster. So let me give this one two-thumb up.
Reference:
pinayads.com/2009/07/transcript-of-gloria-macapagal-arroyo-last-sona-2009/
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Assignment 6
If you were hired by the university president as an IT consultant, what would you suggest (technology, infrastructure, innovations, steps, processes, etc) in order for the internet connectivity be improved? (3000words)
If the University of Southeastern Philippines president would hire me as an IT consultant, I would suggest technology, infrastructure, and innovations. But for me I will be focusing more on infrastructure.
TECHNOLOGY
First I will define each of the following. What is technology? According to Wikipedia.com, technology is a broad concept that deals with human as well as other animal species usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species ability to control and adapt to its environment. However, a strict definition is elusive; "technology" can refer to material objects of use to humanity, such as machines, hardware or utensils, but can also encompass broader themes, including systems, methods of organization, and techniques. The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include "construction technology", "medical technology", or "state-of-the-art technology". Technically speaking, technology is the process by which humans modify nature to meet their needs and wants. Most people, however, think of technology in terms of its artifacts: computers and software, aircraft, pesticides, water-treatment plants, birth-control pills, and microwave ovens, to name a few. But technology is more than these tangible products. Technology includes the entire infrastructure necessary for the design, manufacture, operation, and repair of technological artifacts, from corporate headquarters and engineering schools to manufacturing plants and maintenance facilities. The knowledge and processes used to create and to operate technological artifacts -- engineering know-how, manufacturing expertise, and various technical skills -- are equally important part of technology.
Technology is essential to improve the connectivity of internet in our university. Without a proper and good technology we can’t boost the use of the internet connectivity. Without good computers even if you have a good internet connection still you can’t use it to its maximum usage. Internet connection is dependable on your computer capability. You have a good connectivity but you have a slow computer still your loading time is slow making it slow. So a good computer unit can have a give an edge on your internet connectivity.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Second what is an infrastructure? According to Wikipedia.com, infrastructure can be defined as the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, power grids, telecommunications, and so forth. In information technology and on the Internet, infrastructure is the physical hardware used to interconnect computers and users. Infrastructure includes the transmission media, including telephone lines, cable television lines, and satellites and antennas, and also the routers, aggregators, repeaters, and other devices that control transmission paths. Infrastructure also includes the software used to send, receive, and manage the signals that is transmitted. In some usages, infrastructure refers to interconnecting hardware and software and not to computers and other devices that are interconnected. However, to some information technology users, infrastructure is viewed as everything that supports the flow and processing of information.
Infrastructure companies play a significant part in evolving the Internet, both in terms of where the interconnections are placed and made accessible and in terms of how much information can be carried how quickly.
In the present world, which is dynamic and knowledge based, universities have a much wider role to play in creating, preserving, organizing, transmitting and applying knowledge. Modern educational technologies developed from information technology will certainly change in terms of access, interaction, curriculum and instruction etc. The physical locations and facilities will be less important in defining a college or a university due to the easy on-line access of the educational resources of a higher educational institution to the urban as well as rural public. This will provide opportunities to our high school graduated youths from rural areas as well as urban youths to access higher education without a need to forgo their working and earning opportunities to physically attend a college or a university. So universities need to adopt modern education technologies to provide increase access to knowledge resources.
Online technologies are going to make traditional class room teaching less important in many subjects except where it is absolutely necessary. Therefore interaction between teachers and students will have to play a vital role in imparting higher quality education. This means that more frequent and effective internal mechanism of interaction between university faculty and students need to be developed. This, in turn, causes an external relationship between universities and non-university communities. Such external relationship will necessitate universities to respond quickly to the changes in the outside world. Therefore a mechanism to increase both the internal and external interaction efficiencies has to be developed.
The curriculum and instruction are going to be changed greatly. Because the new technologies make the learning and teaching easier, the contents of some courses will be expanded, a considerable number of new courses will be generated, interdisciplinary courses and studies will be more possible. Students and faculties will contribute together to the development of curriculum.
Modern higher education technologies will also change present instructional methods to a more effective one. The faculties will have to adopt an instructional method best suited to the class of students whom they target or to develop new methods best suited for them based on their feedback. Video conferencing techniques, simulators and on-line access too many practical training kits will revolutionize instructional methods.
So in order to have good internet connectivity, we should have if not the best at least a good and efficient network infrastructure. In order to attain good infrastructure there should be a proper planning to it, analyze the plan with all the necessary data collection in order to attain the best infrastructure that we need to have better internet connectivity. From hardware, software, server, topology, and let’s include the people managing. All these points are essential in a creating a very good infrastructure.
INNOVATION
And lastly, what is innovation? According to Wikipedia.com, innovation refers to a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. A distinction is typically made between invention, an idea made manifest, and innovation, ideas applied successfully. (Mckeown 2008) In many fields, something new must be substantially different to be innovative, not an insignificant change, e.g., in the arts, economics, business and government policy. In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.
Innovation is an important topic in the study of economics, business, design, technology, sociology, and engineering. Colloquially, the word "innovation" is often synonymous with the output of the process. However, economists tend to focus on the process itself, from the origination of an idea to its transformation into something useful, to its implementation; and on the system within which the process of innovation unfolds. Since innovation is also considered a major driver of the economy, especially when it leads to increasing productivity, the factors that lead to innovation are also considered to be critical to policy makers. In particular, followers of innovation economics stress using public policy to spur innovation and growth.
Those who are directly responsible for application of the innovation are often called pioneers in their field, whether they are individuals or organizations.
What is innovation in an organization? A convenient definition of innovation from an organizational perspective is given by Luecke and Katz (2003), who wrote:
"Innovation . . . is generally understood as the successful introduction of a new thing or method . . . Innovation is the embodiment, combination, or synthesis of knowledge in original, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services.
Innovation typically involves creativity, but is not identical to it: innovation involves acting on the creative ideas to make some specific and tangible difference in the domain in which the innovation occurs. For example, Amabile et al. (1996) propose:
"All innovation begins with creative ideas . . . We define innovation as the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization. In this view, creativity by individuals and teams is a starting point for innovation; the first is necessary but not sufficient condition for the second".
For innovation to occur, something more than the generation of a creative idea or insight is required: the insight must be put into action to make a genuine difference, resulting for example in new or altered business processes within the organization, or changes in the products and services provided. A further characterization of innovation is as an organizational or management process. For example, Davila et al. (2006), write:
"Innovation, like many business functions, is a management process that requires specific tools, rules, and discipline."
From this point of view the emphasis is moved from the introduction of specific novel and useful ideas to the general organizational processes and procedures for generating, considering, and acting on such insights leading to significant organizational improvements in terms of improved or new business products, services, or internal processes.
Through these varieties of viewpoints, creativity is typically seen as the basis for innovation, and innovation as the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization (c.f. Amabile et al. 1996 p.1155). From this point of view, creativity may be displayed by individuals, but innovation occurs in the organizational context only.
It should be noted, however, that the term 'innovation' is used by many authors rather interchangeably with the term 'creativity' when discussing individual and organizational creative activity. As Davila et al. (2006) comment,
"Often, in common parlance, the words creativity and innovation are used interchangeably. They shouldn't be, because while creativity implies coming up with ideas, it's the "bringing ideas to life" . . . that makes innovation the distinct undertaking it is."
The distinctions between creativity and innovation discussed above are by no means fixed or universal in the innovation literature. They are however observed by a considerable number of scholars in innovation studies.
So y I also recommend innovations? For me it is really important to include innovations, looking for new ways to solve current problems and issues, finding new ways/new techniques for better internet connectivity. As technology is on arising, we should also be innovative in order to be progressive. Having a good technology, plus a stable infrastructure with innovative mind can lead to a very good change for the better. So as an IT consultant these are my suggestions for better internet connectivity.
References:
mlsu.org/cc/itinf.htm
nae.edu/nae/techlithome.nsf/weblinks/KGRG-55A3ER
searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid80_gci212346,00.html
wikipedia.org
If the University of Southeastern Philippines president would hire me as an IT consultant, I would suggest technology, infrastructure, and innovations. But for me I will be focusing more on infrastructure.
TECHNOLOGY
First I will define each of the following. What is technology? According to Wikipedia.com, technology is a broad concept that deals with human as well as other animal species usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species ability to control and adapt to its environment. However, a strict definition is elusive; "technology" can refer to material objects of use to humanity, such as machines, hardware or utensils, but can also encompass broader themes, including systems, methods of organization, and techniques. The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include "construction technology", "medical technology", or "state-of-the-art technology". Technically speaking, technology is the process by which humans modify nature to meet their needs and wants. Most people, however, think of technology in terms of its artifacts: computers and software, aircraft, pesticides, water-treatment plants, birth-control pills, and microwave ovens, to name a few. But technology is more than these tangible products. Technology includes the entire infrastructure necessary for the design, manufacture, operation, and repair of technological artifacts, from corporate headquarters and engineering schools to manufacturing plants and maintenance facilities. The knowledge and processes used to create and to operate technological artifacts -- engineering know-how, manufacturing expertise, and various technical skills -- are equally important part of technology.
Technology is essential to improve the connectivity of internet in our university. Without a proper and good technology we can’t boost the use of the internet connectivity. Without good computers even if you have a good internet connection still you can’t use it to its maximum usage. Internet connection is dependable on your computer capability. You have a good connectivity but you have a slow computer still your loading time is slow making it slow. So a good computer unit can have a give an edge on your internet connectivity.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Second what is an infrastructure? According to Wikipedia.com, infrastructure can be defined as the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, power grids, telecommunications, and so forth. In information technology and on the Internet, infrastructure is the physical hardware used to interconnect computers and users. Infrastructure includes the transmission media, including telephone lines, cable television lines, and satellites and antennas, and also the routers, aggregators, repeaters, and other devices that control transmission paths. Infrastructure also includes the software used to send, receive, and manage the signals that is transmitted. In some usages, infrastructure refers to interconnecting hardware and software and not to computers and other devices that are interconnected. However, to some information technology users, infrastructure is viewed as everything that supports the flow and processing of information.
Infrastructure companies play a significant part in evolving the Internet, both in terms of where the interconnections are placed and made accessible and in terms of how much information can be carried how quickly.
In the present world, which is dynamic and knowledge based, universities have a much wider role to play in creating, preserving, organizing, transmitting and applying knowledge. Modern educational technologies developed from information technology will certainly change in terms of access, interaction, curriculum and instruction etc. The physical locations and facilities will be less important in defining a college or a university due to the easy on-line access of the educational resources of a higher educational institution to the urban as well as rural public. This will provide opportunities to our high school graduated youths from rural areas as well as urban youths to access higher education without a need to forgo their working and earning opportunities to physically attend a college or a university. So universities need to adopt modern education technologies to provide increase access to knowledge resources.
Online technologies are going to make traditional class room teaching less important in many subjects except where it is absolutely necessary. Therefore interaction between teachers and students will have to play a vital role in imparting higher quality education. This means that more frequent and effective internal mechanism of interaction between university faculty and students need to be developed. This, in turn, causes an external relationship between universities and non-university communities. Such external relationship will necessitate universities to respond quickly to the changes in the outside world. Therefore a mechanism to increase both the internal and external interaction efficiencies has to be developed.
The curriculum and instruction are going to be changed greatly. Because the new technologies make the learning and teaching easier, the contents of some courses will be expanded, a considerable number of new courses will be generated, interdisciplinary courses and studies will be more possible. Students and faculties will contribute together to the development of curriculum.
Modern higher education technologies will also change present instructional methods to a more effective one. The faculties will have to adopt an instructional method best suited to the class of students whom they target or to develop new methods best suited for them based on their feedback. Video conferencing techniques, simulators and on-line access too many practical training kits will revolutionize instructional methods.
So in order to have good internet connectivity, we should have if not the best at least a good and efficient network infrastructure. In order to attain good infrastructure there should be a proper planning to it, analyze the plan with all the necessary data collection in order to attain the best infrastructure that we need to have better internet connectivity. From hardware, software, server, topology, and let’s include the people managing. All these points are essential in a creating a very good infrastructure.
INNOVATION
And lastly, what is innovation? According to Wikipedia.com, innovation refers to a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. A distinction is typically made between invention, an idea made manifest, and innovation, ideas applied successfully. (Mckeown 2008) In many fields, something new must be substantially different to be innovative, not an insignificant change, e.g., in the arts, economics, business and government policy. In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.
Innovation is an important topic in the study of economics, business, design, technology, sociology, and engineering. Colloquially, the word "innovation" is often synonymous with the output of the process. However, economists tend to focus on the process itself, from the origination of an idea to its transformation into something useful, to its implementation; and on the system within which the process of innovation unfolds. Since innovation is also considered a major driver of the economy, especially when it leads to increasing productivity, the factors that lead to innovation are also considered to be critical to policy makers. In particular, followers of innovation economics stress using public policy to spur innovation and growth.
Those who are directly responsible for application of the innovation are often called pioneers in their field, whether they are individuals or organizations.
What is innovation in an organization? A convenient definition of innovation from an organizational perspective is given by Luecke and Katz (2003), who wrote:
"Innovation . . . is generally understood as the successful introduction of a new thing or method . . . Innovation is the embodiment, combination, or synthesis of knowledge in original, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services.
Innovation typically involves creativity, but is not identical to it: innovation involves acting on the creative ideas to make some specific and tangible difference in the domain in which the innovation occurs. For example, Amabile et al. (1996) propose:
"All innovation begins with creative ideas . . . We define innovation as the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization. In this view, creativity by individuals and teams is a starting point for innovation; the first is necessary but not sufficient condition for the second".
For innovation to occur, something more than the generation of a creative idea or insight is required: the insight must be put into action to make a genuine difference, resulting for example in new or altered business processes within the organization, or changes in the products and services provided. A further characterization of innovation is as an organizational or management process. For example, Davila et al. (2006), write:
"Innovation, like many business functions, is a management process that requires specific tools, rules, and discipline."
From this point of view the emphasis is moved from the introduction of specific novel and useful ideas to the general organizational processes and procedures for generating, considering, and acting on such insights leading to significant organizational improvements in terms of improved or new business products, services, or internal processes.
Through these varieties of viewpoints, creativity is typically seen as the basis for innovation, and innovation as the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization (c.f. Amabile et al. 1996 p.1155). From this point of view, creativity may be displayed by individuals, but innovation occurs in the organizational context only.
It should be noted, however, that the term 'innovation' is used by many authors rather interchangeably with the term 'creativity' when discussing individual and organizational creative activity. As Davila et al. (2006) comment,
"Often, in common parlance, the words creativity and innovation are used interchangeably. They shouldn't be, because while creativity implies coming up with ideas, it's the "bringing ideas to life" . . . that makes innovation the distinct undertaking it is."
The distinctions between creativity and innovation discussed above are by no means fixed or universal in the innovation literature. They are however observed by a considerable number of scholars in innovation studies.
So y I also recommend innovations? For me it is really important to include innovations, looking for new ways to solve current problems and issues, finding new ways/new techniques for better internet connectivity. As technology is on arising, we should also be innovative in order to be progressive. Having a good technology, plus a stable infrastructure with innovative mind can lead to a very good change for the better. So as an IT consultant these are my suggestions for better internet connectivity.
References:
mlsu.org/cc/itinf.htm
nae.edu/nae/techlithome.nsf/weblinks/KGRG-55A3ER
searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid80_gci212346,00.html
wikipedia.org
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Assignment 5
Based on your adopted organization(s), identify and discuss barriers in their IS/IT implementation ..(2000words)
First, I will just make an introduction in order for me to reach the 2000 words that our instructor required us to make. I only have few resources about the topic but I will do some research in order to attain my goal. And I am finding it hard to search some resources/article regarding barriers in IS/IT implementations. But I will try all my best in giving you all the information you need regarding with the topic.
To start, I will discuss what company we adopted and the company that we adopted is the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) located at Ponciano Reyes Street, Davao City. But before that let me discuss to you what a barrier is.
What is a barrier? Let me define first what is a barrier, a barrier is a natural formation or structure that prevents or hinders movement or action. If we relate it to the question, in connection to IS/IT implementations, it is simply to prevent or preventing a new program/system in implementing or to apply in the organization. In relation to my adopted company, I will identify and discuss these barriers in IS/IT implementations. But I will just discuss first about my adopted company which is the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC).
As we all know Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) is the main source of electrical power all over Davao City. It supplies electrical power to residence, companies, and all other infrastructures here in Davao City. And as the leading power corporation here in Davao City, we can say that there are barriers in IS/IT implementations. As an organization it is part in there daily company activities. Each company must find ways to make solutions to daily problems.
As what I have gathered during our interview, Davao Light and Company (DLPC) are also experiencing barriers during IS/IT implementations. And we can’t deny the fact that every new program that is being implemented in an organization there are factors that involves in every step they make; such as, adaptation/adjustment in the new program. Employees will be having a hard time trying to adjust or adopt the new system. There is lot of factors that involves in implementing new system/program within the organization. I will identity and discuss what are those barriers that prevents Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) in implementing those new systems.
These are the following barriers:
1. Resources
2. Security
3. Workforce
4. Time
RESOURCES
So I will discuss each of these barriers. The first barrier in IS/IT implementation is the resources. Does the company have the resources to support the new system? Does the company knew about the risks associated in IS/IT implementations. Is the company ready in all the process in implementing a new system? Implementing would mean installation, maintenance and repair, and etcetera. So these are some of the question that needs to be answer if we talk about resources in an organization. Money is the most important factor in implementing an information system. Without this factor they could not run the new system. So it is very important in a company that you have the enough resources to support the new system. In relation to our company the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC), in my opinion they have all the enough resources at hand to support the new system that is being implemented. Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) also told us during our interview that if they really need to support the new system they spend enough money in order to support it, because they knew that they will still benefit from it. But why spend too much money in a new system if they really don’t need a new one, also stated by the IT personnel we interviewed.
SECURITY
Second is security. The main thing that focuses Davao Light and Power Company is their increasing number of data that is in stored. As the number of data being stored it also increases the chances of unwanted attacks, or being prone to viruses. The data is the most essential and important thing in a company. Without it, I don’t know what will happen to the company. Data collection for developing systems is the hardest and most complex part in the whole data collection process. It’s the most tiresome yet important part because it tells us what the system should be, and what is its range and limitations. Normally, databases are protected from external attacks by the use of firewalls and etcetera. But if it is networked already it is prone to malicious attacks. So traditional firewalling is not enough to protect the database from external attacks. But in connection to Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) they are a big company, and when you are a big company you also have big data’s in stored. So it is in a networked connection thus it is prone to unwanted attacks from external connections. So they must find ways in order to have a very stable database. We can never have a perfect database or a system, all we can do is to minimize all the possible errors in the database. In the part of Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) they still manage to maintain their system in good shape. From Clipper they changed to Oracle. I think in my opinion in the business world when we talk about databases of a company first thing that mostly IT professionals would take importance is SECURITY, why? For the reason it keep it from external attacks, for we all know they can benefit from doing such things as cracking systems. So security is one of the barriers of IT/IS implementations.
WORKFORCE
Third is workforce. This is the people that are working 8 hours a day for them to sustain their daily needs. We all know without the people working we cannot implement things. So also this is one of the barriers in IS/IT implementations. Why can we say that it is a barrier in IS/IT implementations? The reason is simple as stated a while ago that without the people who are working we cannot implement things. So without proper training within the employees in an organization they will find it hard to implement things. It also includes workstations, if you are a big company with a small workstation; it will take years before you can accomplish enough jobs to do. So this is also a barrier in IS/IT implementations to it delay works that needs to be accomplish in order to implement things. No proper training, not enough workforce, limited workstations. These are also some of the barriers in IS/IT implementations.
TIME
And lastly, time can also be considered as a barrier since it gives us limitations that we must follow. Such limitations can affect the developing process and the output. In a saying that is stated “Time is Gold”.
So to summarized things, there are many factors that affect in IS/IT implementations. I just stated some of it in relation to my adopted company. So in order to have a good profit every company should analyze and think what those barriers are and how to overcome these barriers. Every company know what are the risks involving those barriers. As we all know in every advantage there are also disadvantages. In relation to the topic every time you implement something in the company is ready with the risks that you will be sacrificing in order to achieve what you want.
First, I will just make an introduction in order for me to reach the 2000 words that our instructor required us to make. I only have few resources about the topic but I will do some research in order to attain my goal. And I am finding it hard to search some resources/article regarding barriers in IS/IT implementations. But I will try all my best in giving you all the information you need regarding with the topic.
To start, I will discuss what company we adopted and the company that we adopted is the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) located at Ponciano Reyes Street, Davao City. But before that let me discuss to you what a barrier is.
What is a barrier? Let me define first what is a barrier, a barrier is a natural formation or structure that prevents or hinders movement or action. If we relate it to the question, in connection to IS/IT implementations, it is simply to prevent or preventing a new program/system in implementing or to apply in the organization. In relation to my adopted company, I will identify and discuss these barriers in IS/IT implementations. But I will just discuss first about my adopted company which is the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC).
As we all know Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) is the main source of electrical power all over Davao City. It supplies electrical power to residence, companies, and all other infrastructures here in Davao City. And as the leading power corporation here in Davao City, we can say that there are barriers in IS/IT implementations. As an organization it is part in there daily company activities. Each company must find ways to make solutions to daily problems.
As what I have gathered during our interview, Davao Light and Company (DLPC) are also experiencing barriers during IS/IT implementations. And we can’t deny the fact that every new program that is being implemented in an organization there are factors that involves in every step they make; such as, adaptation/adjustment in the new program. Employees will be having a hard time trying to adjust or adopt the new system. There is lot of factors that involves in implementing new system/program within the organization. I will identity and discuss what are those barriers that prevents Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) in implementing those new systems.
These are the following barriers:
1. Resources
2. Security
3. Workforce
4. Time
RESOURCES
So I will discuss each of these barriers. The first barrier in IS/IT implementation is the resources. Does the company have the resources to support the new system? Does the company knew about the risks associated in IS/IT implementations. Is the company ready in all the process in implementing a new system? Implementing would mean installation, maintenance and repair, and etcetera. So these are some of the question that needs to be answer if we talk about resources in an organization. Money is the most important factor in implementing an information system. Without this factor they could not run the new system. So it is very important in a company that you have the enough resources to support the new system. In relation to our company the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC), in my opinion they have all the enough resources at hand to support the new system that is being implemented. Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) also told us during our interview that if they really need to support the new system they spend enough money in order to support it, because they knew that they will still benefit from it. But why spend too much money in a new system if they really don’t need a new one, also stated by the IT personnel we interviewed.
SECURITY
Second is security. The main thing that focuses Davao Light and Power Company is their increasing number of data that is in stored. As the number of data being stored it also increases the chances of unwanted attacks, or being prone to viruses. The data is the most essential and important thing in a company. Without it, I don’t know what will happen to the company. Data collection for developing systems is the hardest and most complex part in the whole data collection process. It’s the most tiresome yet important part because it tells us what the system should be, and what is its range and limitations. Normally, databases are protected from external attacks by the use of firewalls and etcetera. But if it is networked already it is prone to malicious attacks. So traditional firewalling is not enough to protect the database from external attacks. But in connection to Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) they are a big company, and when you are a big company you also have big data’s in stored. So it is in a networked connection thus it is prone to unwanted attacks from external connections. So they must find ways in order to have a very stable database. We can never have a perfect database or a system, all we can do is to minimize all the possible errors in the database. In the part of Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) they still manage to maintain their system in good shape. From Clipper they changed to Oracle. I think in my opinion in the business world when we talk about databases of a company first thing that mostly IT professionals would take importance is SECURITY, why? For the reason it keep it from external attacks, for we all know they can benefit from doing such things as cracking systems. So security is one of the barriers of IT/IS implementations.
WORKFORCE
Third is workforce. This is the people that are working 8 hours a day for them to sustain their daily needs. We all know without the people working we cannot implement things. So also this is one of the barriers in IS/IT implementations. Why can we say that it is a barrier in IS/IT implementations? The reason is simple as stated a while ago that without the people who are working we cannot implement things. So without proper training within the employees in an organization they will find it hard to implement things. It also includes workstations, if you are a big company with a small workstation; it will take years before you can accomplish enough jobs to do. So this is also a barrier in IS/IT implementations to it delay works that needs to be accomplish in order to implement things. No proper training, not enough workforce, limited workstations. These are also some of the barriers in IS/IT implementations.
TIME
And lastly, time can also be considered as a barrier since it gives us limitations that we must follow. Such limitations can affect the developing process and the output. In a saying that is stated “Time is Gold”.
So to summarized things, there are many factors that affect in IS/IT implementations. I just stated some of it in relation to my adopted company. So in order to have a good profit every company should analyze and think what those barriers are and how to overcome these barriers. Every company know what are the risks involving those barriers. As we all know in every advantage there are also disadvantages. In relation to the topic every time you implement something in the company is ready with the risks that you will be sacrificing in order to achieve what you want.
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