Activity # 3.__,,*Dr. Brian Chrch (operation director) *,,__

"Dr. Brian Church the operation director is responsible among other things for inventory levels in the company, setting inventory budget, for achievement inventory budget, for monitoring all aspects of inventory, age of inventory, for setting policy stock levels and all those sort of aspects".
I used the system for inventory management to understand what inventory we have it. I tend not use the system directly. There is one or two that I used. Usually I run a query, which I write myself which extracts information I want. I have macro set up there in a spreadsheet so that each month I can run the macro on the file and print it out whenever I want. It used to take me 3 and half hours to pro the produce the report. It’s more accurate, it’s a better form. I’m benefiting is that I can get the information I want. In 14 months, I’m beginning to think that a part of our implementation was probably done incorrectly. So, we used to plan manually and computerized it. And doing that is more accurate and reliable. It appears to me, and I’m not at the sharp end. I detached from it so what I say tends to be colored by that my people tell me, the problem is in the production area. There’s no question about that. My feeling is that, at the grass roots level not all the senior level, that the production people are not signed on to what we were doing. They are not committed to it, they don’t see it as theirs, and they feel it is something that has been forced on them. They don’t understand what the system is about; they don’t understand what we want to do with the system. Because of that it isn’t working in that area, and that’s causing problems at the interface with other department.
I think the problem is at the supervisor and manager level. When we are having a training session they didn’t turn up for a lot of them. Everybody told us that whatever training you do, you won’t do enough. The thing they didn’t tell us was that you’ve got to do the right sort of training. They just don’t know understand what we’re trying to do, what the system is meant to achieve. Because of that if they get a transaction wrong, they don’t understand that it’s going to come back and cause them a problem.
Since MIS took over before, I can’t say what other problems occur. At the beginning of the project, we said this is not an MIS projects, it’s a people projects. The manager was on the project team. It was no more; it was no less than anybody else. And since I took them over now, I said to them, you were involved as much as any department. As far as I concern, we will continue to be, that we want to continue to be capable of being upgraded as new releases come along. There is no such person, as analyst/programmers. As long as they are answered the problems/question given to them they don’t even tell how to solve it. Because they don’t understand the problems, but there thinking of ideas all the time, because that’s what programmers are. MIS respond to different department’s requirements without seeing the impact as a whole.
We need to get MIS under control, pull the reins in on some of the work that’s going on in there.

Activity # 2.__,,*CASE STUDY*,,__

1. "Information System Development Plan"

The Information Systems Development Plan always serves as the outlined plan to reach organizational plans and everyone as part of the same system must plan everything first to have worthwhile outcomes. The organizational goals to be reached lies ahead after setting everything in the list and securing it to happen the way it was supposed to be. The time to think purposely and to plan it rightly must have big portion of attention for planning includes all the activities required to select a systems analysis team, assign members of the team to appropriate projects, estimate the time required to complete each task, and schedule the project so that tasks are completed in a timely fashion like the way the Company Y had handled the situation. It all started with the grappling problems that they had encountered and in order to overcome the problem they think for possible solution, SAPI in return. They had gone planning and case study in which they had assigned different people in each different departments with different assignment dealing with a great feeling of enhancing, building and encouraging team work. They equipped their selves with trainings from the idea that there is that need of much training to bring fundamental changes in some areas. It is important to be in right track. The steps, purposes and limitations hold one great factor of making success and with the ISDS as a key factor in developing and implementing project operations. Everything turns out to be a success. As quoted by Disraeli, “The secret of success is constancy to purpose”.

Purpose:

SAPI system in Company Y has always had a “progressive” view on the use of this Information Technology. The establishment desires to develop a company- wide system that would essentially and drastically change not only the warehouse department’s classic card based warehouse stock system but the whole Manufacturing, Accounting and Production Information Control Systems. A system that would address the financial planning and operational planning in units, improving not only the transaction process of the department but also the way they would respond to these processes to bring the costs down, allowing them to be more competent in the field.

Scope:

The system is to be used by the accounts department to continually automate repetitive manual processes such as Payroll, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Financial Modeling and Standard Costing. It is also to benefit the Warehouse department, changing the usual card stock system, and the whole company even to have common database, thus determining same and accurate inventory counts. Also enabling them to gain more benefits with the following system functions (how it should and can operate).

Objectives:

To plan the resources more effectively, even maximize the utilization of the human resources.To support the business in making chemicals for their customers at high quality and low cost. To have accurate inventory records. To do a lot of team building and encourage teamwork. To be a solution to their problems.To have better quality and quantity control, ensuring materials are available for production and that the company would only manufacture those which are needed.

2. Relationship of IS and the organization.

Information System is an organizational improvement process which are built and rebuilt organizational benefits. It has something to do with the new improvements of the system. Nowadays, an organization needs a powerful system in able to have a better production. Computers are very essential today as what I have observed, because it makes our works faster and easier. The relation of IS and the organization is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization. In an organization it needs people (employee), equipment, procedure and data.
Information is the vital of any organization.The organization it involves IS manager, system analyst, programmer, business manager and technician.Those people have an assigned responsibility in the organization.Information systems which people operate that could help the organization to better manage and assure the security of their data. Information systems also improve the task of individuals particularly the employees in the organization.
An information system is also a system but differs from other kinds of systems because its objective is to monitor and document the operations of other systems. Information system functions maybe at work place and processes data as well.

3. Describe the impact of the IS.

4. Negative impact of the IS in the Organization.

•When the company don’t have the illiterate person who can handle the Information System.
So it needs to have an IT expert who will be handling the input and output of the system in a certain company. Because nowadays companies are into system storage of their processing unlike for the past few years that they use manual manipulation of the companies processed. So now, luckily we’ve been in a long run that technology develops or revolotunize which in turn help every individual make an easy and precise work using a system.
•Sometimes Information System in a company has its negative impact in terms of the company’s line of production.
Because not all companies require Information System that would manipulate their processing but it’s a big help in a company to have Information System because when communicating and evaluating ever y company it needs to have any presentation related to their works though some of them don’t like but they have to because it require in every organization to have this kind of system.
•In general as we all know in every recommendation in a company sometimes lead them into side effects or shall I say it will make them unsuccessful.
“IF” they don’t mind the person who will manage this and only the person who will be entitled to this is has the skill to a computer which is an IT. Though, in gaining this system it needs to educate all the clients. Because some of the works will not be only on computer literate but also to those who work in the organization. Problems also encountered when clients don’t know how to operate the system so it is important to introduce the new system or any changes in this for them or for the organization to avoid problems and crushes in the system.



5. Reflection on the ethical issues relating to the give planning and implementation.
I realized that the IS Planning and Implementation greatly affects business life.Today, teams and organizations face rapid change like never before. Globalization has increased the markets and opportunities for more growth and revenue. However, increasingly diverse markets have a wide variety of needs and expectations that must be understood if they are to become strong customers and collaborators. Concurrently, scrutiny of stakeholders has increased as some executives have been convicted of illegal actions in their companies, and the compensation of executives seems to be increasing while wages of others seems to be decreasing or leveling off. Thus, the ability to manage change, while continuing to meet the needs of stakeholders, is a very important skill required by today's leaders and managers.

Leaders and managers continually make efforts to accomplish successful and significant change -- it's inherent in their jobs. Some are very good at this effort (probably more than we realize), while others continually struggle and fail. That's often the difference between people who thrive in their roles and those that get shuttled around from job to job, ultimately settling into a role where they're frustrated and ineffective. There are many schools with educational programs about organizations, business, leadership and management. Unfortunately, there still are not enough schools with programs about how to analyze organizations, identify critically important priorities to address (such as systemic problems or exciting visions for change) and then undertake successful and significant change to address those priorities.

The relationship between planning and implementation of the system, and the ability to obtain a competitive edge is generally assumed but not empirically verified. Using a question and answered approach, the study answered a lot of questions concerning the system. The results show that the quality of the planning system, measured in terms of scope/comprehensiveness and adaptiveness, had significant moderating influences on the relationship between the perceived need for strategic change and implementation success. That is, all other things being equal, planning systems helped firms to better focus on their performance-deficiency areas and the people involved in it., thereby enabling superior performance and greater satisfaction with their systems.

My Masterpiece

As an IT student, I can’t imagine that I can create a very simple program, but difficult to do through your own will. I’m trying to be the very best as I can. Programming is not an easy field in my part. I do more practice to hone up this field. Here below, you can see a program that was familiar to your naked eyes.
#include
#include
int main()
{
float a,b,c,d,scores;
float grade;
printf("_______\n");
printf(" \t\t\t\tGrade Computation Program\n");
printf("_______\n");
printf("\n");
printf("\tInput Score for Term Exam: ");
scanf("%f",&a);
printf("\n");
printf("\tInput Score for Quiz: ");
scanf("%f",&b);
printf("\n");
printf("\tInput Score for Assignment: ");
scanf("%f",&c);
printf("\n");
printf("\tInput Score for Attendance: ");
scanf("%f",&d);
printf("\n");
grade=(a*.40)+(b*.30)+(c*.20)+(d*.10);
printf("\n");
printf("_______\n");
printf("\t\tYour grade: %f%%",grade);
printf("\n");
printf("\n");
if(grade>=90)
{
printf("\t\tEXCELLENT\n");
}
else if(grade>=80)
{
printf("\t\tVERY GOOD\n");
}
else if(grade>=70)
{
printf("\t\tGOOD\n");
}
else if(grade>=60)
{
printf("\t\tJUST PASSING\n");
}
else if(grade<60)
{
printf("\t\tFAILED\n");
}
printf("\n");
system("pause");
return 0;
}
Example:
Input Score for Term Exam: 45
Input Score for Quiz: 65
Input Score for Assignment: 34
Input Score for Attendance: 54
Output:
Your Grade: 49.700001%

FAILED

Note: You, as a USER try to open this program to DEV C++, enable for you to satisfied the result if it is correct.

Nobody, Nobody but ME

I am Rovelyn M. Branzuela, a student of Central Mindanao University taking Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.
About me, they say that I am friendly, and that is true. Respectful, is an attitude that I might choose those people who respect also in me. But the good thing is, “RESPECT the ELDERS”. Being strict is a part of me, strict? It’s because of my EYES, and it’s because of those things that I hate, especially people who irritates me.
Nobody, nobody but me is like a codes in program when one is missing the program will not run and my life is like a program that you must have to keep it complete so that you can’t make it run eternally and you must keep your program from any virus and hacker that keep trying to destroy your program and in myself. I’ve keep it from the person who keep trying to destroy me and you must have to find a good protection to your program so that the virus and hacker will not destroy your program easily, in life it’s like finding a true friends that protecting me to all the person that try to destroy me. The video card can’t do it to me because it always told, that I’m the one who give them brightness because every time they need always come bright up their day. My life is like computer software that I must upgrade every time so that I will not become slow and not so accurate in solving my problem. In life when I have strength in solving my problem and facing the up’s and downs of life I must faster in the way of thinking for solution in my problem of that I will not depress on it accurate in finding solution any of my problem so that I will not make a wrong solution and make it big and more problematic to me. My life is like an old computer that need to be repair and make it new so that you can use it again, in life it’s like yourself very depress it’s a problem and you must have to get up and start again so that you will never waste your life.
In my carrier right now, I want to be an expert of what field where I belong. Taking this course is not easy, be patient of everything because it might be a success of my life someday. “Put God first in everything you do”, without God, I am nothing. :)

Nano Technology

Nanotechnology (sometimes shortened to "nanotech") is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with structures sized between 1 to 100 nanometre in at least one dimension, and involves developing materials or devices possessing at least one dimension within that size. Quantum mechanical effects are very important at this scale, which is in the quantum realm.
Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, from developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale to investigating whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale.
There is much debate on the future implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology may be able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics, biomaterials and energy production. On the other hand, nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as any new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their potential effects on global economics, as well as speculation about various doomsday scenarios. These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted.
Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. This covers both current work and concepts that are more advanced. In its original sense, nanotechnology refers to the projected ability to construct items from the bottom up, using techniques and tools being developed today to make complete, high performance products.
One nanometer (nm) is one billionth, or 10−9, of a meter. By comparison, typical carbon-carbon bond lengths, or the spacing between these atoms in a molecule, are in the range 0.12–0.15 nm, and a DNA double-helix has a diameter around 2 nm. On the other hand, the smallest cellular life-forms, the bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma, are around 200 nm in length. By convention, nanotechnology is taken as the scale range 1 to 100 nm following the definition used by the National Nanotechnology Initiative in the US. The lower limit is set by the size of atoms (hydrogen has the smallest atoms, which are approximately a quarter of a nm diameter) since nanotechnology must build its devices from atoms and molecules. The upper limit is more or less arbitrary but is around the size that phenomena not observed in larger structures start to become apparent and can be made use of in the nano device. These new phenomena make nanotechnology distinct from devices which are merely miniaturised versions of an equivalent macroscopic device; such devices are on a larger scale and come under the description of microtechnology.
To put that scale in another context, the comparative size of a nanometer to a meter is the same as that of a marble to the size of the earth. Or another way of putting it: a nanometer is the amount an average man's beard grows in the time it takes him to raise the razor to his face.
Two main approaches are used in nanotechnology. In the "bottom-up" approach, materials and devices are built from molecular components which assemble themselves chemically by principles of molecular recognition. In the "top-down" approach, nano-objects are constructed from larger entities without atomic-level control.
Areas of physics such as nanoelectronics, nanomechanics, nanophotonics and nanoionics have evolved during the last few decades to provide a basic scientific foundation of nanotechnology.