INTRICT Diaries - Week 13
This was our final INTRICT week before the Final Exam.
Sir Oli explained to us a brief information about our subject next term (if we pass INTRICT) which is ORGMGNT which stands for Organizational Management. He told us in advance that we should ask our parents if they know a company needing an IS. And we should be in a group of 3, a group of our choice. This time, I won't let the incident during the making of the term paper to happen again where my groupmates were slackers and had to be spoonfed with tasks. This time, ayoko nang grupong di nagtatrabaho. I want a group that I can get along with, is reliable, and cooperative. Ofcourse we should be able to agree on specific terms and plans in the least possible amount of time, para walang delay. The group we will be choosing will be the group we will be working with for the whole term for our ORGMGNT subject.
We were also told that what's unique about ICTM students is that they have defense every term. So come, second and third year, we must already get used to defending and reporting. Wala na dapat Mahiyain.
Sir Oli also made us go on a Friday to give us a bonus test para bumawi sa term paper namin. Because the passing was 70 and the highest was 72 and the lowest was 32. Sana di grupo ko yung 32. It was about the Organizational Units thingy and it was hard.
So it was my first time that I studied for one subject for 4 days straight (from Saturday to Tuesday). I wasn't able to read the last chapter pero the TODO PUYAT MODE and the massive wasting of a lot of papers to print the whole reviewer was worth it. I found the test to be err... OKAY LANG (except for the Sales thingy part). I was even able to answer the bonus questions with ease. Akala ko tapos na ko! Wala na toh! Now I'm sure I'll pass INTRICT! Sayang naubusan ako ng Upperbox tix sa ADMU-DLSU game! Now I'll have to go to Ticketnet early on September 1 but for now, TODO focus ko muna for CCSALGE Finals on Friday.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Everybody Dance Now!
INTRICT Diaries - Week 12
As a punishment for getting negative points on the Database Exercise we had the previous week each group... MUST DANCE!
THE INTRICT DANCE SHOWDOWN!
GOD: "There is a new Commandment, (Commandment XI) THOU SHALT DO THE DANCE!"
Every ICTM block must dance. I think Sir Oli mentioned that only one group in the whole bacth won't dance. In short, ALL but that group danced. Were given choices of which to dance, the following songs were:
1. The Way I Are
2. Forever
3. Move Shake & Drop
4. Take You There
5. Closer
6. What is it
7. Get Low
8. Lollipop
*Remixes were allowed.
It was that day that I caught a fever. Nagpadala ako sa school. Kung kelan pa masama pakiramdam it had to be the day of the dance. This is where I sacrificed my health
Me: Sir pano yan? May lagnat ako!
Sir Oli: Okay lang yan kahit umupo ka nalang at manood
Me: (Nag-isip ng malalim) SIR SAYAW NALANG AKO! AYOKO IWANAN GRUPO KO SA ERE!
Na-guilt trip ako hahaha...
Here are the things I liked to share about the dance:
As a punishment for getting negative points on the Database Exercise we had the previous week each group... MUST DANCE!
THE INTRICT DANCE SHOWDOWN!
GOD: "There is a new Commandment, (Commandment XI) THOU SHALT DO THE DANCE!"
Every ICTM block must dance. I think Sir Oli mentioned that only one group in the whole bacth won't dance. In short, ALL but that group danced. Were given choices of which to dance, the following songs were:
1. The Way I Are
2. Forever
3. Move Shake & Drop
4. Take You There
5. Closer
6. What is it
7. Get Low
8. Lollipop
*Remixes were allowed.
It was that day that I caught a fever. Nagpadala ako sa school. Kung kelan pa masama pakiramdam it had to be the day of the dance. This is where I sacrificed my health
Me: Sir pano yan? May lagnat ako!
Sir Oli: Okay lang yan kahit umupo ka nalang at manood
Me: (Nag-isip ng malalim) SIR SAYAW NALANG AKO! AYOKO IWANAN GRUPO KO SA ERE!
Na-guilt trip ako hahaha...
Here are the things I liked to share about the dance:
- Kreeno the best. It was funny seeing him trying to catch up to his group.
- Si Quino IDOL! Magaling sumayaw at mangwarta ng pera! hahahaha
- Jet and Patrick looked like twins that day
- Ang lupet sumayaw nina Alvin at AC! Todo hataw! Astig!
- For the first time, I danced with a fever. I sucked in dancing cause Mark's moves were hard and I was sick.
- Sina Kim, Cesz, at Kris nag miniskirt! Kami ni Mark and Kevin: jacket, slacks, at cap lang! hahahahaha
- Nakaka-LSS yung mga kanta. Lalo na yung Forever by Chris Brown
Database, Storage, And The Y2K Conspiracy
INTRICT Diaries - Week 11
Monday:
As an introduction to Databases, We were group into 6 or 7 members randomly by counting. we were all given an exercise pretending to be consultants for a certain company. He gave us a list of Cars: the brands, the number manufactured, the number sold, the sales each year for every brand, and the cities they sold in. We were given questions to gather certain data such as how many cars were sold during a certain, What brand of cars made the most money in a year, What cities did were certain car brands dominant and how many were sold there, etc. Each question must be completed in 5 minutes. We we did all our best with our full cooperation but sadly, no group was perfect. We had less time to do stuff and our reports were inaccurate. We all incurred negative points.
Then Sir Oli showed us an example of a database system with query. He explained to us that this System does the same job we did. Only, it releases reports in less than a minute and are incredibly accurate because there are no man made errors, IBA NA TALAGA TECHNOLOGY!
Wednesday:
This is the day where we focused on the topic of Storage Devices, but first Sir Oli made an ending story to finish our topic about databases. He made us recall the Y2K issue that was feared during the Millenium's arrival.
Dito ko na nalaman yung totoong issue ng Y2k. Akala ko end of the world yun eh as in gugunaw na mundo sa year na toh, literally. It was actually a big problem for Programmers and Database Admins because the year will become 2000 and the numbers will be zeroes which will cause a very FATAL logical errors because systems that do a formula for their reports that require the year: such as banks, offices, accounting firms etc. will cause an unreasonable and inaccurate data. Programmers had to do massive re-programming of their Math codes to avoid the zeroes from causing a worldwide chaos. Ofcourse, nobody would want their sales to be zeroes or the amount of their bank accounts to be zero. La Salle faced this problem too, they didn't want all the ID Numbers of future students to become all 00000000 and so on.
Programmers started to act immediately since 1992. An 8 year preparation to counter the Y2k Conspiracy. Sir Oli even told us that many programmers didn't have a vacation during new year's eve because the programmers and Database Developers had to observe what will happen to the functionality of their system when the clock strikes 12. Luckily there are countries that conquered the Y2K issue but there were unfortunate countries who didn't. The Philiipines successfully evaded the Y2k. Natalo pa natin Australia, which failed to beat Y2K.
OKAY BACK TO STORAGE DEVICES, One of the interesting things I learned was the sizes of floppy disks. Floppy disks before were the sizes of envelopes then they gotten smaller and smaller till they were no longer used and new storage devices were made. But as time goes on, the storage devices' capacity increases but the size decreases from a enveloped size floppy disk that can store only bytes to palm-fit flash disk that can store Gigabytes of files.
This goes to show that for Storage Devices:
Monday:
As an introduction to Databases, We were group into 6 or 7 members randomly by counting. we were all given an exercise pretending to be consultants for a certain company. He gave us a list of Cars: the brands, the number manufactured, the number sold, the sales each year for every brand, and the cities they sold in. We were given questions to gather certain data such as how many cars were sold during a certain, What brand of cars made the most money in a year, What cities did were certain car brands dominant and how many were sold there, etc. Each question must be completed in 5 minutes. We we did all our best with our full cooperation but sadly, no group was perfect. We had less time to do stuff and our reports were inaccurate. We all incurred negative points.
Then Sir Oli showed us an example of a database system with query. He explained to us that this System does the same job we did. Only, it releases reports in less than a minute and are incredibly accurate because there are no man made errors, IBA NA TALAGA TECHNOLOGY!
Wednesday:
This is the day where we focused on the topic of Storage Devices, but first Sir Oli made an ending story to finish our topic about databases. He made us recall the Y2K issue that was feared during the Millenium's arrival.
Dito ko na nalaman yung totoong issue ng Y2k. Akala ko end of the world yun eh as in gugunaw na mundo sa year na toh, literally. It was actually a big problem for Programmers and Database Admins because the year will become 2000 and the numbers will be zeroes which will cause a very FATAL logical errors because systems that do a formula for their reports that require the year: such as banks, offices, accounting firms etc. will cause an unreasonable and inaccurate data. Programmers had to do massive re-programming of their Math codes to avoid the zeroes from causing a worldwide chaos. Ofcourse, nobody would want their sales to be zeroes or the amount of their bank accounts to be zero. La Salle faced this problem too, they didn't want all the ID Numbers of future students to become all 00000000 and so on.
Programmers started to act immediately since 1992. An 8 year preparation to counter the Y2k Conspiracy. Sir Oli even told us that many programmers didn't have a vacation during new year's eve because the programmers and Database Developers had to observe what will happen to the functionality of their system when the clock strikes 12. Luckily there are countries that conquered the Y2K issue but there were unfortunate countries who didn't. The Philiipines successfully evaded the Y2k. Natalo pa natin Australia, which failed to beat Y2K.
OKAY BACK TO STORAGE DEVICES, One of the interesting things I learned was the sizes of floppy disks. Floppy disks before were the sizes of envelopes then they gotten smaller and smaller till they were no longer used and new storage devices were made. But as time goes on, the storage devices' capacity increases but the size decreases from a enveloped size floppy disk that can store only bytes to palm-fit flash disk that can store Gigabytes of files.
This goes to show that for Storage Devices:
Physical Size Decreases = Storage Capacity Increases
The Term Paper and My RELIABLE(?) Group
INTRICT Diaries - Week 10
I think this will be more of a personal story than informative. GOTTA PUT MY ANGER OUT
This was one of my hell weeks. Monday, we were told to do a term paper about our field trip in Makro the previous week. 5 Chapters about how their System goes and we will be a group of 4. Those 4 memebrs in a group will be the same as the group during our Cocojuice Analysis Test. And the deadline was.... WEDNESDAY!
This was the week were I really was irritated with my group! Why? It was a Tuesday, we had to do the term paper ASAP at GUSTO NILA MUNANG MAG DOTA SA SHERWOOD! FINE! Pinagbigyan ko sila dahil promise nila isang oras lang! Sumama ako sa kanila so I wouldn't have a difficult time contacting them. Duh! Then after that di na sila tumigil. I was really Irritated! Nag Bilyar pa sila at naglaro nung shooting arcade machine sa Sherwood. While the other groups were already starting with theirs, I was already boiling my blood irritated at my groupmates laxing at a critical time.
After that there was only little time left till our Lab, my groupmates went to the labs and was that they were full, what did they do? TUMAMBAY MUNA! WHAT A SOLUTION! I was really iritated, I left them during that time went to the Conserv where my other blockmates and are actually DOING THEIR WORK. I told them my "Maala Mo Kaya" quality story and decided to help me do my Term Paper till Lab time comes.
It was Lab, Luckily one of my groupmates was able to finish his assigned chapter, chapter 1 which he started last night.
To make the long story short they were able to do their work but I had to massive improvement because what they did wasn't really considered a chapter. Half of the class was still awake at until 5am and my groupmates slep at about 12! WOW GALING! I WAS SABAW COMPLETING THE TERM PAPER TILL 4:30. They did was only minimal. May isa diyan seven sentences lang assigned chapter niya!
We were suppose to do chapter 2 altogether since it was the hardest but hell I had to do it myself!
Anyways our guess was that Makro had the ff. departments:
I think this will be more of a personal story than informative. GOTTA PUT MY ANGER OUT
This was one of my hell weeks. Monday, we were told to do a term paper about our field trip in Makro the previous week. 5 Chapters about how their System goes and we will be a group of 4. Those 4 memebrs in a group will be the same as the group during our Cocojuice Analysis Test. And the deadline was.... WEDNESDAY!
This was the week were I really was irritated with my group! Why? It was a Tuesday, we had to do the term paper ASAP at GUSTO NILA MUNANG MAG DOTA SA SHERWOOD! FINE! Pinagbigyan ko sila dahil promise nila isang oras lang! Sumama ako sa kanila so I wouldn't have a difficult time contacting them. Duh! Then after that di na sila tumigil. I was really Irritated! Nag Bilyar pa sila at naglaro nung shooting arcade machine sa Sherwood. While the other groups were already starting with theirs, I was already boiling my blood irritated at my groupmates laxing at a critical time.
After that there was only little time left till our Lab, my groupmates went to the labs and was that they were full, what did they do? TUMAMBAY MUNA! WHAT A SOLUTION! I was really iritated, I left them during that time went to the Conserv where my other blockmates and are actually DOING THEIR WORK. I told them my "Maala Mo Kaya" quality story and decided to help me do my Term Paper till Lab time comes.
It was Lab, Luckily one of my groupmates was able to finish his assigned chapter, chapter 1 which he started last night.
To make the long story short they were able to do their work but I had to massive improvement because what they did wasn't really considered a chapter. Half of the class was still awake at until 5am and my groupmates slep at about 12! WOW GALING! I WAS SABAW COMPLETING THE TERM PAPER TILL 4:30. They did was only minimal. May isa diyan seven sentences lang assigned chapter niya!
We were suppose to do chapter 2 altogether since it was the hardest but hell I had to do it myself!
Anyways our guess was that Makro had the ff. departments:
- Accounting
- Inventory and Purchasing
- Sales
- Marketing
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
Are You In or Out?
INTRICT Diaries - Week 9
An Input device is anything that can enter a data into a computer or any other electronic output device. Such examples are a keyboard in which the data you enter is text, A computer mic is also an input device because it also enters data in the form of sound, A PC video camera (more popular as Webcam) is also an input device that enters data such as video, A digital camera also enters data such as pictures, and much much more devices are existing in this technologically evolving world.
As a starter, Sir Oli made us watch a video about the electronic voting (or e-voting) scheme which will be experimented on the ARMM elections. Then he discussed about two possible input devices the government is planning to implement on the ARMM electronic elections, It could be either the DRE (Direct Reading Electronic) or the Optical Mark Reader (OMR).
1. The DRE is a proposed e-voting device which makes voters select their candidates by using a touch screen technology. When the voter has made it's vote, he/she will just have to press a button and wait for a small paper to print out of the DRE. That paper contains whoever he/she voted then he/she just needs to drop the small paper in the ballot box before exiting the precinct.
2. The OMR is another proposed e-voting device scans light patterns on paper. These papers are similar to when we took our college entrance test or diagnostic exams. We shade our answer and our paper will be "electronically read". The OMR is the one that read our sheets. The process on voting will be that voters will get an answer sheet containing choices of candidates they wants. They just need to shade their choice of candidate and when their done voting, they will just give to the election officials they're sheet and the officials will put it in the ballot box. When canvassing comes, the officials just have to enter the answer sheets into the OMR.
Advantages of e-voting:
Disadvantages:
Every Advantage has got it's competing counterpart, the Disadvantages (Most of them though counter the efficiency of DRE):
"An input and an output can never be separated. They must always be together for them to function"In this week of our INTRICT meeting we tackled on Input devices.
An Input device is anything that can enter a data into a computer or any other electronic output device. Such examples are a keyboard in which the data you enter is text, A computer mic is also an input device because it also enters data in the form of sound, A PC video camera (more popular as Webcam) is also an input device that enters data such as video, A digital camera also enters data such as pictures, and much much more devices are existing in this technologically evolving world.
As a starter, Sir Oli made us watch a video about the electronic voting (or e-voting) scheme which will be experimented on the ARMM elections. Then he discussed about two possible input devices the government is planning to implement on the ARMM electronic elections, It could be either the DRE (Direct Reading Electronic) or the Optical Mark Reader (OMR).
1. The DRE is a proposed e-voting device which makes voters select their candidates by using a touch screen technology. When the voter has made it's vote, he/she will just have to press a button and wait for a small paper to print out of the DRE. That paper contains whoever he/she voted then he/she just needs to drop the small paper in the ballot box before exiting the precinct.
2. The OMR is another proposed e-voting device scans light patterns on paper. These papers are similar to when we took our college entrance test or diagnostic exams. We shade our answer and our paper will be "electronically read". The OMR is the one that read our sheets. The process on voting will be that voters will get an answer sheet containing choices of candidates they wants. They just need to shade their choice of candidate and when their done voting, they will just give to the election officials they're sheet and the officials will put it in the ballot box. When canvassing comes, the officials just have to enter the answer sheets into the OMR.
Advantages of e-voting:
- Reliable - The chances of cheating can diminished. BEAT THAT CORRUPT OFFICIALS! Although this won't be reliable for OMR.
- Speed of data capture improves - Devices like the DRE can lessen processing time. It can even abolish the process of Canvassing, which can be a possible loophole for cheating
- Accurate and Correct - With e-voting, the device makes sure that the user voted a valid candidate. Because Filipinos love "Kalokohan", they would put names that are not on the candidates' list.
- Completeness - e-voting makes sure that the voter has completed all the necessary items to be answered. Many Filipinos leave many blanks on the voting sheets causing imbalance in vote counts for candidates.
- WOW I LIKE IT - Because of their user-friendliness, voters understand the convenience of e-voting.
Disadvantages:
Every Advantage has got it's competing counterpart, the Disadvantages (Most of them though counter the efficiency of DRE):
- The DUGYOT Factor - There are many dugyots in the country. Dugyot meaning unhygienic. This is a big threat for DRE devices. There's a greater possibility that the DRE will end up KADIRI. Many would not care and just press a button, after they pick their noses or wiped their asses. YUCK! What about those pressing the DRE machine? The touch screen's now full of booger and other personal dirt! Eeew... Better bring gloves and either an alcohol or sanitizer when the government decides to use this one. In fact, mag benta ka ng hygiene tools during elections. KIKITA KA!
- Disability Considerations - What about those with disabilities like a broken arm or hand? They are going to have a hard time. The same thing goes for the old folks. They won't really get to manipulate technology as easy as us.
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks"
- Cost and Life of Device - It is a fact that devices like the DRE won't last a day. When election ends, the DRE most likely are now dirty and destroyed. Because there are some that press really hard that it increases the possibility of getting broken plus, the Dugyot factor can be relaative with this disadvantage. The governement should also consider the number of people to vote and how long would it take for e-voting to complete the process. IMAGINE, how many DRE devices would the government supply for each precinct? How many voters are registered per Precinct? And how many precincts are there in the Country? THAT'S A BIG FINANCIAL CRISIS.
- Environmental Capability - Safety and Security of the devices is a must. Places like Basilan or NPA dominated areas are a great risk to place e-voting devices.
- Amount of Data to be stored - Data Storage is a big problem for e-voting devices. Would you just imagine the number of candidates running for a position, the number of positions there are, and the number of candidates each voter must vote. A party list for example, has an estimate 3000 parties running every elections, Fit that in a DRE or an OMR Sheet! This might make the DRE have a VEEEERRY LONG SCROLLBAR, and the OMR Sheets might become Paperback books! hahahahaha
Important Key Factors
INTRICT Diaries - Week 8
This week, Sir Oli gave us each an index card with different colors (yup nakakatuwa) and mine is yellow. Sayang! Ba't di green? For La Salle! :))
The Index Card contains important Key Factors you should know to be an excellent I.S. person.
I. Stages of Information Systems Development:
This week, Sir Oli gave us each an index card with different colors (yup nakakatuwa) and mine is yellow. Sayang! Ba't di green? For La Salle! :))
The Index Card contains important Key Factors you should know to be an excellent I.S. person.
I. Stages of Information Systems Development:
- Planning
- Analysis
- Design of the target Information Systems
- Implementation
- Support and Maintenance
- Sales
- Marketing
- Customer Service
- Production
- Distribution
- Inventory and Purchasing
- Human Resources (HR)
- Accounting
- Product Development or Engineering
- External Environment of the Organization (a 10th entry. this one's new)
- Data Capture
- Data Storage
- Information Processing
- Distribution and Access to Information
- Presentation of Information
- Hardware
- Software
- People
- Process/Procedures
- Data
- Network
The Ultimate Battle: The Systems Analyst and The Coco Juice Crisis
INTRICT Diaries - Week 7
We were told by Sir Oli to form a group of 4 members. For me, I'd rather get my seatmates than to choose anyone else (I had my lesson learned on selecting group mates haha). In that case, my group mates were Marion, Kreeno, and Gab.
Sir Oli gave us an exercise/test to train us to be good Systems Analyst and what better way to test our critical thinking ability and problem-solving skills but to analyze a fictional crisis that's going on with a fictional Cocojuice making company.
The Problem: The Cocojuice company was doing good in business for years until:
1.The sales of their Cocojuice went down because not much customers were buying their product any longer.
2. Their Coco supply easily gets spoiled and the amount of Cocojuice that didn't sell also gets spoiled. Thus, increasing spoilage rate to much worse number
3. Now they need your skills to handle the situation and help the company get back up on it's feet.
After minutes of analyzing the problem and asking the manager questions that might aid in handling the situation, none of us got the exact answer. I wasn't saying all groups are wrong, the majority of our answers were correct but none of them are EXACT and STRAIGHT TO THE POINT in getting the problem to be solved.
Sir Oli mentioned a possible solution that might get rid of the crisis quickly.
First, he mentions to us that a Systems Analyst must have proper knowledge of the business functional units. Having to know the units well and how to deal with them is an advantage for a Systems Analyst to solve a problem.
Apparently, that must work together to resolve the situation: Sales and Distribution
We were told by Sir Oli to form a group of 4 members. For me, I'd rather get my seatmates than to choose anyone else (I had my lesson learned on selecting group mates haha). In that case, my group mates were Marion, Kreeno, and Gab.
Sir Oli gave us an exercise/test to train us to be good Systems Analyst and what better way to test our critical thinking ability and problem-solving skills but to analyze a fictional crisis that's going on with a fictional Cocojuice making company.
The Problem: The Cocojuice company was doing good in business for years until:
1.The sales of their Cocojuice went down because not much customers were buying their product any longer.
2. Their Coco supply easily gets spoiled and the amount of Cocojuice that didn't sell also gets spoiled. Thus, increasing spoilage rate to much worse number
3. Now they need your skills to handle the situation and help the company get back up on it's feet.
After minutes of analyzing the problem and asking the manager questions that might aid in handling the situation, none of us got the exact answer. I wasn't saying all groups are wrong, the majority of our answers were correct but none of them are EXACT and STRAIGHT TO THE POINT in getting the problem to be solved.
Sir Oli mentioned a possible solution that might get rid of the crisis quickly.
First, he mentions to us that a Systems Analyst must have proper knowledge of the business functional units. Having to know the units well and how to deal with them is an advantage for a Systems Analyst to solve a problem.
Apparently, that must work together to resolve the situation: Sales and Distribution
Sales - Responsible for selling the product
Distribution - Responsible for delivering the products and receiving ordered raw materials from suppliers
SOLUTION: Since Sales are in charge of selling the Cocojuice, they must know the quantity they must only sell to prevent spoilage. Distribution are only in charge of contacting the supplier for delivery of materials, in that case, the coconuts. The thing is that the Distribution has no knowledge of how to handle the spoilage issues. Sales and Distribution should cooperate with each other, a system must be made between the two units. Sales should know how many coconuts must they only need and they shoul regularly inform this to the Distribution. The Distribution should ensure that they are able to contact the supplier and inform them the amount (as given by sales) of coconuts they must only deliver. With Sales able to give Distribution the quantity to be ordered and Distribution able to inform the supplier of the quantity to be delivered, Spoilage issues become a threat no longer.
As for why they don't sell much, the reason is that the Cocojuice company now has a competitor in their industry. The Systems Analyst no longer has this problem covered up, it is now an outside issue and it's up to the company this time to decide on how to beat the existing competition.
Distribution - Responsible for delivering the products and receiving ordered raw materials from suppliers
SOLUTION: Since Sales are in charge of selling the Cocojuice, they must know the quantity they must only sell to prevent spoilage. Distribution are only in charge of contacting the supplier for delivery of materials, in that case, the coconuts. The thing is that the Distribution has no knowledge of how to handle the spoilage issues. Sales and Distribution should cooperate with each other, a system must be made between the two units. Sales should know how many coconuts must they only need and they shoul regularly inform this to the Distribution. The Distribution should ensure that they are able to contact the supplier and inform them the amount (as given by sales) of coconuts they must only deliver. With Sales able to give Distribution the quantity to be ordered and Distribution able to inform the supplier of the quantity to be delivered, Spoilage issues become a threat no longer.
As for why they don't sell much, the reason is that the Cocojuice company now has a competitor in their industry. The Systems Analyst no longer has this problem covered up, it is now an outside issue and it's up to the company this time to decide on how to beat the existing competition.
Information + System
INTRICT Diaries - Week 6
So first we all should know what a System is. A System is a set of components that interact to achieve a common goal
An Information System has the following elements:
1. Hardware
2. Software
3. Data
4. People
5. Procedures
Therefore an Information System is a collection of hardware, software, data, people, and procedures that work together to produce quality information.
Now we all know those are the 5 elements of an Information System
BUT WAIT! WE ARE FORGETTING SOMETHING!
There is a missing link here. A 6th element. An Information System cannot be an effective tool without this.
Remember the term "work together" as an interacting activity. All these elements combined make an Information System but they can never successfully be WORKING TOGETHER when there is no proper INTERACTION, when there is no NETWORK that keeps each collection in touch with each other.
That's right! The sixth element of an Information System is a Network!
Thus, the Information System are composed of six elements:
So first we all should know what a System is. A System is a set of components that interact to achieve a common goal
An Information System has the following elements:
1. Hardware
2. Software
3. Data
4. People
5. Procedures
Therefore an Information System is a collection of hardware, software, data, people, and procedures that work together to produce quality information.
Now we all know those are the 5 elements of an Information System
BUT WAIT! WE ARE FORGETTING SOMETHING!
There is a missing link here. A 6th element. An Information System cannot be an effective tool without this.
Remember the term "work together" as an interacting activity. All these elements combined make an Information System but they can never successfully be WORKING TOGETHER when there is no proper INTERACTION, when there is no NETWORK that keeps each collection in touch with each other.
That's right! The sixth element of an Information System is a Network!
Thus, the Information System are composed of six elements:
- Hardware
- Software
- Data
- People
- Procedures
- Network
What I know on Managers
INTRICT Diaries - Week 5
We only had one INTRICT meeting on our Week 5 in school. Apparently, Typhoon Frank's strength was so powerful that the College also had to cancel classes.
Back to the topic. We all made our powerpoints about our interview with a Operational and Tactical Manager but only two groups will present and will be selected via drawlots. Only one group was able to present and that was Sherv's group. I still wonder up to this day if the drawlots were fixed or not because Sherv had Jet and Jet was Sir Oli's favorite student. lol. The other group (DC's group) volunteered instead but wasn't able to finish their report well because of the little amount of time left.
Anyways, I don't really remember the full knowledge of how a Operational and Tactical Manager differ from each other. but all I know is:
We only had one INTRICT meeting on our Week 5 in school. Apparently, Typhoon Frank's strength was so powerful that the College also had to cancel classes.
Back to the topic. We all made our powerpoints about our interview with a Operational and Tactical Manager but only two groups will present and will be selected via drawlots. Only one group was able to present and that was Sherv's group. I still wonder up to this day if the drawlots were fixed or not because Sherv had Jet and Jet was Sir Oli's favorite student. lol. The other group (DC's group) volunteered instead but wasn't able to finish their report well because of the little amount of time left.
Anyways, I don't really remember the full knowledge of how a Operational and Tactical Manager differ from each other. but all I know is:
- Tactical Managers plan short-term effective plans. Thus, Tactics
- Operational Managers ensure that every department and it's employees are doing their job
- Operational Managers also make sure that when they do their job, they do it well and has an effective positive output in the end. They make sure of it by collecting reports from each department/area head
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
What I Learned in PERSEF1
1.) The two favorite sessions are when we did the school part and the clay part because me and my groupmates got to show our creativity through our activity.
2.) I've learned a lot in PERSEF1 like choosing a career, etiquette, what certain gestures mean in certain countries, what is Love, and a lot more. There are too many to mention, there are just so many things you can learn from PERSEF.
2.) I've learned a lot in PERSEF1 like choosing a career, etiquette, what certain gestures mean in certain countries, what is Love, and a lot more. There are too many to mention, there are just so many things you can learn from PERSEF.
Leadership Style
According to Wikipedia, the word leadership can refer to:
- Those entities that perform one or more acts of leading.
- The ability to affect human behavior so as to accomplish a mission.
- Influencing a group of people to move towards its goal setting or goal achievement. (Stogdill 1950)
I feel I have all three whenever I become a leader I just have to balance them both and learn when to be nice or to make them disciplined.
Career Interview
Fine! If you really can't read the questions well then I'll re type them for you guys
I interviewed one of the store watchers of an Internet shop near my home. I only know him of "Kuya Jun". He graduated with a similar Degree Program that I'm currently taking here in La Salle.
1. What is the nature of your career and job?
- Kuya Jun's daily tasks are to ensure to turn on all the computer's in the morning and all of them off at closing time. He also says that he's tasks too are to check if each computer unit and all it's peripherals are functioning well or else he will repair it and that he will assist a client in need when he/she is having a hard time to operate the the computer or if something happens to it. What's very stressful for him is when he receives complicated technical problem and when he has to reformat, reprogram or clean every computer unit.
2. What are the skills/interest that made you choose your job?
- "Nahilig ko computers, feeling ko nasa Tech side career ko" this was Kuya Jun's reply. He mentioned it was his interest in the fast changing technology that fascinated him to the IS field he even mentioned that his good problem-solving skills might even enhance in this field.
3. What do you like and dislike about your job?
- He just didn't like about noisy dirty mouthed youth playing on his net shop and very complicated technical problems but above all that, he just likes his job just the way it is.
4. What did you learn in College which is most helpful now?
- Kuya Jun mentions: "Matututo ka kung paano at ano gagawin mo under pressure then dun nag improve ang thinking skills ko sa pagsosolve ng problema tulad ng pag aayos ng sirang unit or whatever tapos dun ko din natutunan ang mga technical na bagay".
5. Given a chance, would you change your job?
- Kuya Jun says if it would, it would still be job relating to his job field.
6. In one/two sentences how will you summarize your current sense of accomplishment? What factors lead you to feel this way?
- He mentions that all he has learned wasn't a waste because he gets to apply it and mentions that someday he will no longer be a net shop assistant but something bigger and related to his field. He's very thankful he still gets to use what he learned.
Career Goals and Plans
The image on the first side are lines found on a PCB or electronic board, adjacent are institutions like government offices, then below is the third which are groups of information, then last to it is a laptop. MY career goals and plans for now is to become a successful IS professional, one who is able to integrate Information and Technology together.
Ever since I was little I already loved computers and I believe it's this that will bring my career to success.
Lasallian Citizen Watch
1. In your few weeks of stay in De La Salle, can you identify one area of concern that affects the quality of life in your school?
- The amount of work I've received has caused to me sleep at unbelievable time of nights. Yes this is college and that's the way it is but I've fallen ill of fever because of stress and lack of sleep. It happened twice this year already and one I just recently recovered in. My body resistance can't stand a lot of work that I unexpectedly get fatigues and headaches which frequently becomes fever.
2. What is your proposed solution to this problem?
- I'm in the stage of development. I try to keep my time managed as well as possible, and I try to keep my body as fit and strong as it can be against stress judging the amount of work that I get and the distance that I travel from my house to La Salle every school day.
3. As an active citizen in De La Salle , what do you commit yourself to do so that this school would become an ideal school?
- Apply the La Sallian values of Faith, Zeal, and Community by heart and by soul to show that a La Sallian is a God loving fellow ready to serve for the people and for the country.
- The amount of work I've received has caused to me sleep at unbelievable time of nights. Yes this is college and that's the way it is but I've fallen ill of fever because of stress and lack of sleep. It happened twice this year already and one I just recently recovered in. My body resistance can't stand a lot of work that I unexpectedly get fatigues and headaches which frequently becomes fever.
2. What is your proposed solution to this problem?
- I'm in the stage of development. I try to keep my time managed as well as possible, and I try to keep my body as fit and strong as it can be against stress judging the amount of work that I get and the distance that I travel from my house to La Salle every school day.
3. As an active citizen in De La Salle , what do you commit yourself to do so that this school would become an ideal school?
- Apply the La Sallian values of Faith, Zeal, and Community by heart and by soul to show that a La Sallian is a God loving fellow ready to serve for the people and for the country.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Describing Love
So what is Love?
According to Wikipedia, Love represents a range of emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction.
Love cannot solely be completely described in words, cannot solely be completely depicted from the emotions and actions of a person but from both words, emotions, and actions simultaneously done.
So what really is Love? It's that MUSHY feeling inside of you that softens your emotions whenever infatuated by something remarkably beautiful like seeing an attractive person of the opposite sex and you start losing attention of the real world and just for a while, you start feeling butterflies in your stomach as you gaze at that pretty look. Having that kind of feeling, all I can say is, "YES! You are in love!!".
Love is that extraordinary sympathy and care you feel about a certain someone may it be your significant other, your friend, your family, or any other person. You love them so much that you are willing to do anything, to suffer anything, and to sacrifice something just for their sake,
That's like what Jesus did to us when he died on the cross, He sacrificed his life to save us from sin. Why? Because he LOVES us so much.
This topic about Love reminds me of a very popular verse in the Bible about God's love for us. Taken from book of John chapter 3 verse16 (John 3:16) and it says:
According to Wikipedia, Love represents a range of emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction.
Love cannot solely be completely described in words, cannot solely be completely depicted from the emotions and actions of a person but from both words, emotions, and actions simultaneously done.
So what really is Love? It's that MUSHY feeling inside of you that softens your emotions whenever infatuated by something remarkably beautiful like seeing an attractive person of the opposite sex and you start losing attention of the real world and just for a while, you start feeling butterflies in your stomach as you gaze at that pretty look. Having that kind of feeling, all I can say is, "YES! You are in love!!".
Love is that extraordinary sympathy and care you feel about a certain someone may it be your significant other, your friend, your family, or any other person. You love them so much that you are willing to do anything, to suffer anything, and to sacrifice something just for their sake,
That's like what Jesus did to us when he died on the cross, He sacrificed his life to save us from sin. Why? Because he LOVES us so much.
This topic about Love reminds me of a very popular verse in the Bible about God's love for us. Taken from book of John chapter 3 verse16 (John 3:16) and it says:
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
My Personal Mission Statement
I believe in...
Equal rights and fair judgement to each and every individual may they be tall or short, black or white, poor or rich, or even well behaved or rowdy.
As a son...
I will doing everything to make my parents be very proud of me. Do things that will make me and them both happy by studying as hard as I could and being a respectful son.
As a brother...
I will help my fellow siblings just like they helped me. To be a good brother and develop a good relationship between them
As a leader...
I will guide my team unto the right path. I will treat each and everyone of my subordinates with equal rights and evenly distribute certain tasks and responsibilities to each one.
As a student...
I will accomplish the student's common goal, to study hard, do well, and learn a lot. Not just doing it for the sake of doing but doing it to learn new things and doing it with all my heart
As a friend...
I will always be there for my friends in good times and bad times, in happy times or sad times. I will do all I can to help my friends in certain problems in whenever way possible. These are traits of being a true friend
As a member of the DLSU-Manila community...
I will be a good LaSallian Achiever for God and Country. I will do things that will make my school proud and keep it's reputation still and strong.
As a citizen of the Philippines
I will do my part for the country despite it's dishonest government by paying my taxes and not abiding the Law
Equal rights and fair judgement to each and every individual may they be tall or short, black or white, poor or rich, or even well behaved or rowdy.
As a son...
I will doing everything to make my parents be very proud of me. Do things that will make me and them both happy by studying as hard as I could and being a respectful son.
As a brother...
I will help my fellow siblings just like they helped me. To be a good brother and develop a good relationship between them
As a leader...
I will guide my team unto the right path. I will treat each and everyone of my subordinates with equal rights and evenly distribute certain tasks and responsibilities to each one.
As a student...
I will accomplish the student's common goal, to study hard, do well, and learn a lot. Not just doing it for the sake of doing but doing it to learn new things and doing it with all my heart
As a friend...
I will always be there for my friends in good times and bad times, in happy times or sad times. I will do all I can to help my friends in certain problems in whenever way possible. These are traits of being a true friend
As a member of the DLSU-Manila community...
I will be a good LaSallian Achiever for God and Country. I will do things that will make my school proud and keep it's reputation still and strong.
As a citizen of the Philippines
I will do my part for the country despite it's dishonest government by paying my taxes and not abiding the Law
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