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Energize at E-park

You want some fresh air? Then here’s the right place for you. Energy park or commonly known as E-park is located at Apokon, Tagum City.

It is a place where you can enjoy the gift of nature without lessening your bucks.

    For those who love stretching early in the morning, E-park is the perfect match for you. Where in, you can jog through its big and glaring aisle while feeling the soft touch of the cold air. For those who love soccer, there’s also a big place allotted for you.

More than that, E-park is also suitable for gatherings, relaxation and bonding. It’s simple yet well- constructed pavilions are good enough to held different occasions such as, birthday, anniversary, wedding and other important events you would like to celebrate. On the other hand, for those families who love to hang out together, its open  ground can offer you a smooth and risk-free terrain while having your picnic or playtime. In addition, e-park is also a picky place for those groups of friends who love to converse together while lying in the soft grass.

At night, you can jam with its colorful lights set on the trees and trails. From which, lovers can spend their passionate moment behind the dancing trees while seating at the paved chairs.

There’s more! E-park is also connected at the BFAD where you can see the little zoo and the sumptuous garden of vegetables, as well as, the gathered and preserved saplings of different trees. If you get hungry while wandering, there’s also a small store which can offer you an affordable foods and drinks.

            To end, e-park will let you bond with the stunning bequest of nature whenever you like. So go and  surely you will enjoy!

MIS- Reflection about Automated Election

Your thoughts on automated elections with reference to the current situation ... (1000 words)

Now days, technologies are very important to us people. These existing materials give us a gratification and satisfaction for our daily urgencies in everyday life.

As a correlation to this, regarding with the process of election last 2006, it causes such hustles, troubles and issues because of the lack assessments and some election frauds of the voters profile that brought many negative feedbacks about the voting results.

In addition, there are some possibilities of having an issue to manipulate peoples vote during election. From those who have the power or the capability considering that they are in the high position in office.

And for this coming election the government wanted to implement the new process of electoral system with the use and application of the highly evolve technologies. In consideration for the fast and well organize voting process.

This new proposed electoral system is precisely known as “Automated Election”. An Automated election system is type of a system that using appropriate technology for voting and electronic devices to count votes and canvass/consolidate results. The question now is, How secured the comelec voting system that they urge to use the automated election this 2010? I think the system can be hacked and manipulate the results by the computer experts. If the National Security systems of U.S have millions of attempts to hacked and control their system, how much more here in the Philippines.

There are also advantages and disadvantages of implementing the automated system for election. It provides efficient way for voting with less hassle. Voters cannot prolong the process of voting and lined up in a crowd. But a thought came across my mind. This could be the cause to worsen political situation. Possibilities for the candidates can hire a computer experts to hack the system and manipulate the entire votes. Unless if the system is fully secured.

But on the other hand, this new electoral system can also be cheated and deceit. We can’t be sure that about the confidentiality and security of our votes, so that we us a voter will can assure for the proper and official results of our votes without any doubt and suspicions about any foolish exploitation of our votes . Considering to the fact that this process of election can also be cheated and manipulate by others that is very disparate to win in for an office position.

By these views, I, as a student and to vote nationally for the first time, can state that whether it is manual or Automated election, the coming election will end up properly and fairly, if the existence of many election frauds will desist and hinder.

HRM- Prefer IT_Job in the future

Don’t dream it, be it…..! Aim high Usepian…

From the start, I never decided yet what am I desired to be in a profession or what kind of a job I should pursue that suits to my knowledge, capability and competence as an IT student. But since then, I had realize a millions of opportunities waiting for me in the near future and as an advantage, I can be one of the next products of USEP’s globally competitive students and proficient professionals.

An individual with power of mine and competence to govern the technological world today. There are many offered job opportunities for in Information Technology graduate. Such as, IT Specialist (System & Software Analyst) , I.T. Service Management Consultant, Project Manager (infrastructure project) , Network & Systems Administrator, Systems Administrator (remote infrastructure), Database and Network Administrator (Training and Consulting Group-TB LINC Program), IT/SYSTEMS Administrator and etc,. But my choice is, I want to an IT Manager someday. Because as manager, it sounds like you’re the head and a president in a company. Very nice to hear, right?!

An Information technology (IT) manager should plan, administer and review the acquisition, development, maintenance and use of computer and telecommunications systems within organizations. The IT manager is often the most senior person in the IT department and in large organizations may be called the IT Director or Chief Information Officer.

The following links are some Duties and tasks that an IT Manager should perform:

• work out current and future IT needs by consulting with people at all levels about the current work systems and deciding how improvements could be made
• analyze the information needs of an organization and develop technological solutions to satisfy those needs
• prepare or direct IT policy and plan strategy development
• direct activities to select and install major IT facilities
• oversee the provision of training for users and clients
• direct the integration of IT operations, computer hardware, operating systems, communications, software applications and data processing
• work out priorities for systems developments, maintenance and operations
• control the security aspects of IT systems
• Provide advice to other senior managers and boards on IT issues and planning.

Remarks:

The best changes often start as a single, simple thought. Think big, and discover the ways to make your dreams real. With all my strength, courage, and confidence in every experience in which I really stop to look fear in many faces. I must do the things in which I think can do.

MIS- Best practices

Best Practices:

NCCC as a huge company and provides a large merchandising of products that may also help to up-lift the economic stability of the country today and in the vicinity of future. It is not quite easy to handle simultaneously the assets, production and distribution of the products widely.

Now, to manage contiguously and properly the systems. The management had propose the following best practices as a standard principles provided for the management security, affectivity and efficiency.

List of the Best practices amended:

*PROPER DOCUMENTATION

Proposal of legal papers that sight the objectives and goals for the possible changes that may help for the management progress and expansion. This also serves as evidence in any manipulations undergone by the management.

*PROCEDURES/STEPS

Same as with other methods and process. The NCCC adopt effective procedures before even pursuing an act upon.

Examples:

*Hosting Service

-website of NCCC hosted outside.

*Point of Sales (POS)

-acquires efficient distribution. This should be presented by a legalized documentation.

*Changes in OS application

*Upgrading of System, information and devices.

*POLOCIES

Same as trough with proceedings of any action, there are policies amended within the management to secure its volubility, sales confidentiality and efficiency.

These are some of the common practices that the NCCC management had espoused and apply in every sanction and decisions that the management should face and handle.

Interview NCCC- HD Supervisor:

Mr. Hervin Piklat

MIS- What do you think are the risks associated with buiseness and it/is change?.

Behind the NCCC's success as one of the leading company in the country. We can't deny that it has a must effective Management Information System, when it comes to business efficiency and services.

Now, let me share to you some important facts and details I'd gather from the interview we had conduct last July 4,2009 (Saturday) among with my co-IT students to Mr. Hervin Piklat, the NCCC- Hardware Security Supervisor.

Regarding with the question, What do you think are the risks associated with business and IT/IS change?.

The following are some of the important discussions and explanations of Mr. Hervin Piklat.

According to Sir Hervin:

“In everything we do and to pursue our goals, the case is not actually a risks but a challenge in our management”.

In defend, Sir Hervin sight an specific examples of situations.

Example 1: Why our company has an Merchandise Management System (MMS)?.

At the start, NCCC only issue a manual receipt ti the customers. Now, pertaining to a situation that there are two competitors with the same sales and same price of products. Now, if am the customer, of course i must prefer to choose the one with fast accommodation of services compared to the other.

Risk Involve:

In that situation, the management will plan for the suitable system that can be applicable for the business proficiency.

Example 2: OS of the Management.

Comparing to the 2000 Os and 2008 OS application, of course the 2008 OS is much better to apply that the 2000 OS, because it's more advance, efficient and have many new features than the 2000 OS.

Risk Involve:

If the Management may not adopt the 2008 OS, it may lead to a possible new features that the Management will not make. If this is the case, the competency of the NCCC may lessen compared to it's other business competitors.

Example 3: Firewall

The situation is comparing the old to the latest firewall. A firewall have an Unified Technology System (UTM).

Risk Involve:

If the company will decide to change the UTM?

The first thing that the management should priorities is to upgrade their systems information because if not, it may cause restrictions to the system's security.

NOTE:

“In every IT change there is a risk involve”.

With these examples, Sir Hervin added that before any risks and decisions to pursue the management should make first a business case study and analysis to determine the most profitable ways and steps in business plans and changes.

IS/IT LEADERSHIP ROLES

Assignment:

IS/IT LEADERSHIP ROLES:

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 91,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.3 billion for the 12 months ended Oct. 3, 2008.

For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.

Information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) leadership roles have undergone fundamental changes over the past decade. And according to what I have researched, on 1996 Computer Science Corporation (CSC) has suggested six new IS leadership roles which are required to execute IS’s future agenda: chief architect, change leader, product developer, technology provocateur, coach and chief operating strategist. Below are the descriptions of the Six IS Leadership roles.

1. Chief architect. The chief architect designs future possibilities for the business. The primary work of the chief architect is to design and evolve the IT infrastructure so that it will expand the range of future possibilities for the business, not define specific business
outcomes.

2. Change leader. The essential role of the change leader is to orchestrate all those resources that will be needed to execute the change program.

3. Product developer. The product developer helps define the company’s place in the emerging digital economy.

4. Technology provocateur. The technology provocateur embeds IT into the business strategy. The technology provocateur works with senior business executives to bring IT and realities of the IT marketplace to bear on the formation of strategy for the business.

5. Coach. The coach teaches people to acquire the skill sets they will need for the future. Coaches have to basic responsibilities: teaching people how to learn, so that they can become self-sufficient, and providing team leaders with staff able to do the IT-related work of the business.

6. Chief operating strategist. The chief operating strategist invents the future with senior management. The chief operating strategist is the top IS executive who is focused on the future agenda of the IS organization. The most important, and least understood, parts of the role have to do with the interpretation of new technologies and the IT marketplace, and the bringing of this understanding into the development of the digital business strategy for the organization.

Although these roles produced by the CSC without any scientific approach, many people noticed that they seem very well tailored for scientific investigation into IS leadership roles. People who fill these roles do not necessarily head up new departments or processes, but they exert influence and provide leadership across the organizational structure.

For more information, visit this link:
http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:gYmbzKD8kRUJ:csdl2.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2000/0493/07/04937055.pdf+leadership+roles+of+IT/IS.csc&cd=4&hl=tl&ct=clnk&gl=ph

On the methods used to accomplish these functions, for example, Mint berg’s role typology, have been proposed. According to Mint berg (1990), the manager's job can be

Described in terms of various roles:

1. Informational Roles. By virtue of interpersonal contacts, both with subordinates and

With a network of contacts, the manager emerges as the nerve center of the organizational unit. The manager may not know everything but typically knows more than subordinates do. Processing information is a key part of the manager's job. As monitor, the manager is perpetually scanning the environment for information, interrogating liaison contacts and subordinates, and receiving unsolicited information, much of it as a result of the network of personal contacts. As a disseminator, the manager passes some privileged information directly to subordinates, who would otherwise have no access to it. As spokes person, the manager sends some information to people outside the unit.

2. Decisional Roles. Information is not an end in itself; it is the basic input to decision making. The manager plays the major role in a unit's decision-making system. As its formal authority, only the manager can commit the unit to important new courses of action; and as its nerve center, only the manager has full and current information to make the set of decisions that determines the unit's strategy. As entrepreneur, the manager seeks to improve the unit, to adapt it to changing conditions in the environment. As disturbance handler, the manager responds to pressures from situations. As resource al locater, the manager is responsible for deciding who will get what. As negotiator, the manager commits organizational resources in real time.

3. Interpersonal Roles. As figurehead, every manager must perform some ceremonial duties. As leader, managers are responsible for the work of the people of their unit. As liaison, the manager makes contacts outside the vertical chain of command.

As a student in the Initiative, I learn a lot about the computer and component manufacturers commit to producing products that meet specified power-efficiency targets, and corporate participants commit to purchasing power-efficient computing products and adopting policies and practices to increase power efficiency throughout their organizations by scanning and reading those stated leadership roles in IS/IT.

IT 313-Management Information System

ASSINGMENT:

1.) Why “MIS” describe as Management Information System?

University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) as one of the premiere university in the country, one of its major purposes is to produce not just nationally but globally competitive students. Through this, the university provides courses for us students to pursue our desired carriers even if it’s hard. And one of its offered courses is the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology or BSIT under the Institute of Computing department.

As a 3^rd year BSIT student under the guidelines of the IC department. I and among of my classmates provided those subjects that will enhance our analyzing and computing skills. One of those assigned subjects is the “MIS” known as Management Information System, under the supervision of a strict but they said a cute instructor, Randy S. Gamboa.

“MIS” or subjectively known as Management Information System, because it is provided by the IC faculty among the students. Sometimes the term MIS and information system are often confused. Information systems include systems that are not intended for decision making. The area of study called Management Information System is sometimes referred to, in a restrictive sense, as information technology management. That area of study should not be confused with computer science. IT service management is a practitioner-focused discipline, which has also difference with other applications.

In addition, Management Information Systems (MIS) is the term given to the discipline focused on the integration of computer systems with the aims and objectives on an organization. By this definition, it make sense that “Management Information System” was focused on the development and management of information technology tools assists executives and the general workforce in performing any tasks related to the processing of information. With this, “MIS” systems are especially useful in the collation of business data and the production of reports to be used as tools for decision making for more valuable results.

At the start, in businesses and other organizations, internal reporting was made manually and only periodically, as a by-product of the accounting system and with some additional statistics, and gave limited and delayed information on management performance. Contagiously, the terms is now broadly used to assist systems applied in many industries and were used for the practical business of computing the payroll and keeping track of accounts payable and accounts receivable. As applications were developed that provided managers with information about sales, inventories, and other data that would help in managing the enterprise, the term "MIS" arose to describe these kinds of applications. Today, the term is used broadly in a number of contexts and includes decision support systems, resource and people management applications, project management and database retrieval application.

Furthermore, Management information systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization. It also act as a subset of the overall internal controls of a business covering the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures by management accountants or personnel in solving business problems such as costing a product, service or a business-wide strategy.

Academically, the term is commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making and other information systems.

In other words, an “Management Information System” is a planned system of the collecting, processing, storing and disseminating data in the form of information needed to carry out the functions of management. In a way it is a documented report of the activities those were planned and executed.

“Management Information System” as of it keyword management, are now govern the social and economic life of many individuals through the wide use of many applied information systems and the contagious existence of the fast growth technologies.