Problems will naturally arise in an organization due to some factors. Apparently, frustrations will come and blow out the minds of the people working in the organization specially between the IS professionals and the users. Like any other activity, planning is so much vital to achieve the desirable results being forecasted. Normally, any business or organization has their own corresponding strategies on how to make their own company expand and at the same time attain their goals being set. Any business involves various risks—it is natural and inevitable. That is why planning is essential to make an organization survive and still compete in the industry knowing that they are involved in the survival of the fittest manner.
As defined, Strategic Information System Planning is the analysis of a corporation’s information and processes using business information models together with the evaluation of risk, current needs and requirements. The result is an action plan showing the desired course of events necessary to align information use and needs with the strategic direction of the company (Battaglia, 1991).
Lederer and Sethi (1988) surveyed 80 organizations to examine the problems faced by information systems managers when they attempt to implement one of three alignment methodologies, BSP, SSP or IE. Barlow (1990) has also examined the SISP methodologies and
has provided some insights into their structure and implementation problems. Bergeron et al. (1991)
examined the issue of application of two ‘impact’ methodologies, Porter’s Value Chain Analysis and
Wiseman’s Strategic Thrust Methodology. These studies and the insights developed by us form the basis of this section which provides a critique of the existing methodologies. The detailed list of problems in implementing SISP methodologies has been classified by Lederer and Sethi as resource, planning process, or output related problem associated with the three methodologies.
According to this survey, the most severe problem identified by IS managers is the failure to secure top management commitment for carrying out the final plan.
Normally, IS managers will somehow feel and experience the burden brought by the various problems, ongoing changes and the inconsistencies of the IS plan of a particular organization. This would really make them feel frustrated. Due to these factors, the plan would not be hundred percent sure that what is thought to be the final plan will be pursued. As the day goes by, changes will come, developments and greater and brighter ideas will arise. This means that the top management which is accountable and responsible for carrying out the goals and plans of the organization will expect to have not-so-good feedbacks from their subordinates. For sure, this would affect the people behind the IS planning and as well as the users. Integrity is diminished because of the inconsistencies and changes.
The second most severe problem identified is the requirement for substantial further analysis after the completion of the IS plan.
Analysis is a critical part of having the planning. After the Information System plan is established, supplementary and advanced study is needed to facilitate and manage the plan; study that would integrate the best propositions being set for the expansion and growth of the organization. Since many ideas are coming from the planning team, the salient things and the detailed fine points necessary to be dealt with will bring confusion to the IS managers—another frustration that needs to be answered.
Both these problems are related to the output of the planning process. Besides these top two, six of the next top eight problems are related to the resources required to carry out the strategic information systems planning (success of the plan depends on the team leader, difficulty in finding the team leader meeting the criteria specified in the study, methodology lacking computer support, planning exercise taking long time, etc.). Among the top ten problems encountered while
implementing one of these methodologies (or, even while implementing an in-house methodology), three are common: difficulty in obtaining top management commitment for implementing the outputs, the requirement of substantial further analysis and difficulty in finding a good team leader.
The results of this survey suggest that IS planners are not particularly satisfied with their methodologies. If the objective of the SISP exercise is to align IS objectives with business goals, then detailed, lengthy and complex SISP may be of limited value. Where the objective is to use IT to impact a business strategy, these methodologies may not generate useful ideas for that purpose.
Bergeron et al. (1990), however, point out that the value chain analysis and Wiseman’s strategic
methodologies do help in achieving that purpose. Barlow (1990) suggests that the large number of
methodologies that have been developed can often ‘add confusion rather than clarity to the (IS)
planning process.’
Salient points which emerge from this and the preceding sections are:
• Although strategic information systems planning is a major concern, most organizations find
it difficult to undertake it. Besides their lack of experience with SISP, absence of a comprehensive, structured, easy to use methodology may also be a main reason for it. It is possible that the advances in Information Technology and their applicability in organizations has outpaced all formal methodologies evolved in the 70s and 80s or evolved in 90s as marginally modified versions of the earlier methodologies, which were largely dominated by IBM’s Business
Systems Planning.
• Further, as pointed out by Barlow (1990) also, the overall success of an integrated business/technology architecture depends upon the organizational structure, the level of IT experience within the company and the availability of information resources. Since these factors differ between firms, there may not be a single best way to view IT planning.
A comprehensive methodology for SISP will need to incorporate both the ‘impact’ and the ‘align’
views. Since it is vital to face the frustrations between the IS professionals and the users, with proper cooperation, and attitude for both parties, success will surely come.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Critical Success Factors
Achieving success would definitely require a massive effort to attain it. The road towards it is not that smooth as others might think of. For some students like me, it would necessitate an assortment of pressures, sacrifices, challenges, failures, discouragements and many other negative things that are inevitable in one’s life. However, if there are goals and plans being set before them, triumph will then have its way. Like any organization or business, success means a big thing. Success would entail and depend on the strategic plans being made and how it is being implemented and managed. Having realistic expectations and timeframe are critical success factors for any project. Prior to the start of any project, the team must discuss all project plans and objectives of the project.
Critical success factors cannot be specifically defined for the masses because success can be defined quite differently by each individual, and for the goal at hand. Therefore, in order to identify critical success factors, it is first necessary to come to terms with your own personal definition of success. Each individual’s own definition of will be influenced by several key factors. Success is subject to individual interpretation based on upbringing, past experiences, role models, personal motivations and goals. Carefully contemplate your definition of success based on your values—not with what other people tell you what it is. Your own definition of personal success directly influences critical factors leading to that success. Your view of success will change at various times throughout your life. Your definition of success will continue to change, so don’t make the error of pursuing an outdated version of it. Success factors will change over time. Personal success is sometimes measurable and sometimes not. Very few people achieve success accidentally. Most people who achieve success first defined it then planned for it; they set a goal to achieve it. Critical success factors change with the goal. Once you have defined personal success for yourself, your next step is to set goals that will lead you to your definition of success. You must create realistic, viable plans to achieve those goals. Follow your plans, be flexible, and enjoy the process. Here are five success factors that will directly affect your success in achieving any goal:
Critical Success Factor # 1: Clearly Identify your Goal
Clearly determine what the goal is. Be specific.
This means that the goals should be precise and detailed so as to avoid any situations that would slow down or hinder the organization to attain success
Critical Success Factor # 2: Identify the Obstacles
List all the obstacles standing between you and the goal. Identify resources, assistance, information or anything else that might be needed to reach the goal. As you're writing, don’t get discouraged by the obstacles– they’re absolutely necessary to help you with the next step in completing your plan.
Critical Success Factor # 3: Know the Tasks Necessary to Overcome Each Obstacle
Taking each obstacle one at a time, write one or more ways the obstacle could be overcome. These are tasks that will comprise your to-do list. Expect to have several tasks per obstacle.
Critical Success Factor # 4: Assign Deadlines
Assign a start and completion date to each task in the plan. It’s ok to be working on several different tasks at the same time, but don’t over do it. Be realistic.
Critical Success Factor #5: Follow the Plan
If your success plan is too long or complicated, try breaking it into several smaller, more manageable plans. Don’t rely on luck or things outside your control as part of your success plan. Be flexible–expect your success plan to change before you complete it. Circumstances change, unexpected events occur, and your plan should be updated to adapt to changes.
Critical success factors, are key areas which you identify from conducting a SWOT, PEST and Porters Five Forces model, market research and competitor analysis. The basic logic is to look at the all the main results:
WEAKNESSES - What are your biggest business weaknesses that need addressing?
OPPORTUNITIES - What areas in the market need exploiting for your business to attain growth?
POLITICAL - Which political factors are important to your business, and need observing?, What is the current legislation?, Has your business achieved/aiming to achieve all the requirements?
ECONOMIC - What is the current economic climate like?, How will this affect business turnover?, What measures are you taking to ensure it does not adversely affect your business?
SOCIAL - What are the current consumer trends?, How can your business exploit them?, What are current consumer pressure groups re-acting to?
TECHNICAL - How is your business exploiting technology to achieve growth?, Is it through improving efficiency? or is it through using technology to aid new product development?
COMPETITOR ANALYSIS - What are your competitors doing?
MARKET RESEARCH - What do the consumers feel about existing/new products and services?
Critical Success Factors are strongly related to the mission and strategic goals of your business or project. Whereas the mission and goals focus on the aims and what is to be achieved. CSF focus on the most important areas and get to the very heart of both what is to be achieved and how you will achieve it.
Critical Success Factors are the areas of your business or project that are absolutely essential to its success. By identifying and communicating these CSFs, you can help ensure your business or project is well-focused and avoids wasting effort and resources on less important areas. By making CSFs explicit, and communicating them with everyone involved, you can help keep the business and project on track towards common goals and aims.
Rockart defined CSF as: The limited number of areas in which results, if they are satisfactory, will ensure successful competitive performance for the organization. They are the few key areas where things must go right for the business to flourish. If results in these areas are not adequate, the organization’s efforts for the period will be less than desired.
He also concluded that CSF are “areas of activity that should receive constant and careful attention from management.”
In reality, identifying your CSFs is a very iterative process. Your mission, strategic goals and CSFs are intrinsically linked and each will be refined as you develop them.
Here are steps that will help you identify the CSFs for your business or project.
Step 1: Establish your business’s or project’s mission and strategic goals.
Step 2: For each strategic goal, ask yourself “what area of business or project activity is essential to achieve this goal? The answers to the question are your candidate CSFs:
To make sure you consider all types of possible CSFs, you can use Rockart’s CSF types as a checklist:
INDUSTRY— these factors result from specific industry characteristics. These are the things that the organization must do to remain competitive.
ENVIRONMENTAL— these factors result from macro-environmental influences on an organization. Things like the business climate, the economy, competitors, and technological advancements are included in this category.
STRATEGIC—these factors result from the specific competitive strategy chosen by the organization. The way in which the company chooses to position themselves, market themselves, whether they are high volume low cost or low volume high cost producers, etc.
TEMPORAL – these factors result from the organization’s internal forces. Specific barriers, challenges, directions, and influences will determine these CSFs.
Step 3: Evaluate the list of candidate CSFs to find the absolute essential elements for achieving success – these are your Critical Success Factors.
As you identify and evaluate candidate CSFs, you may uncover some new strategic objectives or more detailed objectives. So you may need to define your mission, objectives and CSFs iteratively.
Step 4: Identify how you will monitor and measure each of the CSFs.
Step 5: Communicate your CSF along with the other important elements of your business or project’s strategy.
Step 6: Keep monitoring and reevaluating your CSF to ensure you keep moving towards your aims. Indeed, whilst CSF are sometimes less tangible than measurable goals, it is useful to identify as specifically as possible how you can measure or monitor each one.
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Critical success factors cannot be specifically defined for the masses because success can be defined quite differently by each individual, and for the goal at hand. Therefore, in order to identify critical success factors, it is first necessary to come to terms with your own personal definition of success. Each individual’s own definition of will be influenced by several key factors. Success is subject to individual interpretation based on upbringing, past experiences, role models, personal motivations and goals. Carefully contemplate your definition of success based on your values—not with what other people tell you what it is. Your own definition of personal success directly influences critical factors leading to that success. Your view of success will change at various times throughout your life. Your definition of success will continue to change, so don’t make the error of pursuing an outdated version of it. Success factors will change over time. Personal success is sometimes measurable and sometimes not. Very few people achieve success accidentally. Most people who achieve success first defined it then planned for it; they set a goal to achieve it. Critical success factors change with the goal. Once you have defined personal success for yourself, your next step is to set goals that will lead you to your definition of success. You must create realistic, viable plans to achieve those goals. Follow your plans, be flexible, and enjoy the process. Here are five success factors that will directly affect your success in achieving any goal:
Critical Success Factor # 1: Clearly Identify your Goal
Clearly determine what the goal is. Be specific.
This means that the goals should be precise and detailed so as to avoid any situations that would slow down or hinder the organization to attain success
Critical Success Factor # 2: Identify the Obstacles
List all the obstacles standing between you and the goal. Identify resources, assistance, information or anything else that might be needed to reach the goal. As you're writing, don’t get discouraged by the obstacles– they’re absolutely necessary to help you with the next step in completing your plan.
Critical Success Factor # 3: Know the Tasks Necessary to Overcome Each Obstacle
Taking each obstacle one at a time, write one or more ways the obstacle could be overcome. These are tasks that will comprise your to-do list. Expect to have several tasks per obstacle.
Critical Success Factor # 4: Assign Deadlines
Assign a start and completion date to each task in the plan. It’s ok to be working on several different tasks at the same time, but don’t over do it. Be realistic.
Critical Success Factor #5: Follow the Plan
If your success plan is too long or complicated, try breaking it into several smaller, more manageable plans. Don’t rely on luck or things outside your control as part of your success plan. Be flexible–expect your success plan to change before you complete it. Circumstances change, unexpected events occur, and your plan should be updated to adapt to changes.
Critical success factors, are key areas which you identify from conducting a SWOT, PEST and Porters Five Forces model, market research and competitor analysis. The basic logic is to look at the all the main results:
WEAKNESSES - What are your biggest business weaknesses that need addressing?
OPPORTUNITIES - What areas in the market need exploiting for your business to attain growth?
POLITICAL - Which political factors are important to your business, and need observing?, What is the current legislation?, Has your business achieved/aiming to achieve all the requirements?
ECONOMIC - What is the current economic climate like?, How will this affect business turnover?, What measures are you taking to ensure it does not adversely affect your business?
SOCIAL - What are the current consumer trends?, How can your business exploit them?, What are current consumer pressure groups re-acting to?
TECHNICAL - How is your business exploiting technology to achieve growth?, Is it through improving efficiency? or is it through using technology to aid new product development?
COMPETITOR ANALYSIS - What are your competitors doing?
MARKET RESEARCH - What do the consumers feel about existing/new products and services?
Critical Success Factors are strongly related to the mission and strategic goals of your business or project. Whereas the mission and goals focus on the aims and what is to be achieved. CSF focus on the most important areas and get to the very heart of both what is to be achieved and how you will achieve it.
Critical Success Factors are the areas of your business or project that are absolutely essential to its success. By identifying and communicating these CSFs, you can help ensure your business or project is well-focused and avoids wasting effort and resources on less important areas. By making CSFs explicit, and communicating them with everyone involved, you can help keep the business and project on track towards common goals and aims.
Rockart defined CSF as: The limited number of areas in which results, if they are satisfactory, will ensure successful competitive performance for the organization. They are the few key areas where things must go right for the business to flourish. If results in these areas are not adequate, the organization’s efforts for the period will be less than desired.
He also concluded that CSF are “areas of activity that should receive constant and careful attention from management.”
In reality, identifying your CSFs is a very iterative process. Your mission, strategic goals and CSFs are intrinsically linked and each will be refined as you develop them.
Here are steps that will help you identify the CSFs for your business or project.
Step 1: Establish your business’s or project’s mission and strategic goals.
Step 2: For each strategic goal, ask yourself “what area of business or project activity is essential to achieve this goal? The answers to the question are your candidate CSFs:
To make sure you consider all types of possible CSFs, you can use Rockart’s CSF types as a checklist:
INDUSTRY— these factors result from specific industry characteristics. These are the things that the organization must do to remain competitive.
ENVIRONMENTAL— these factors result from macro-environmental influences on an organization. Things like the business climate, the economy, competitors, and technological advancements are included in this category.
STRATEGIC—these factors result from the specific competitive strategy chosen by the organization. The way in which the company chooses to position themselves, market themselves, whether they are high volume low cost or low volume high cost producers, etc.
TEMPORAL – these factors result from the organization’s internal forces. Specific barriers, challenges, directions, and influences will determine these CSFs.
Step 3: Evaluate the list of candidate CSFs to find the absolute essential elements for achieving success – these are your Critical Success Factors.
As you identify and evaluate candidate CSFs, you may uncover some new strategic objectives or more detailed objectives. So you may need to define your mission, objectives and CSFs iteratively.
Step 4: Identify how you will monitor and measure each of the CSFs.
Step 5: Communicate your CSF along with the other important elements of your business or project’s strategy.
Step 6: Keep monitoring and reevaluating your CSF to ensure you keep moving towards your aims. Indeed, whilst CSF are sometimes less tangible than measurable goals, it is useful to identify as specifically as possible how you can measure or monitor each one.
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
is it really worth it?
Thinking about your approved/ proposed system, is it worth the three or more years of learning you get from the university? Discuss how you arrive with the proposal.
Being a student in the tertiary level doesn’t mean that all you have to do is just sit prettily and listen to the professor or the instructor talking and making lectures. It is far different from our kindergarten, elementary and high school years where we could observe that learning is given by means of spoon feeding. As we emerge in taking education, the responsibility as a learner also steps up higher.
The moment I decided to enroll in this university, I never had the idea of what will be the life I will be heading. What is in my mind is that I will just be a student who would go to school daily, go through the rooms—interact, participate and socialize with my colleagues. And what’s certain is that I have just premeditated that after four years, I will be graduating soon, and that is this year 2009. But unfortunately, the four years will be extended due to some unexpected issues. Presently, I am on my fourth year in USeP but most of my subjects are for the third year level. It’s quite funny to think; still this is the bitter reality—and it’s no way out other than facing it. My four-year stay in the university is full of adventure. Be it the positive side or the other.
As an Information Technology student, it is a necessity for us that we are equipped with the better- quality of facilities and the education itself for us to be geared up in the succeeding years. We are accustomed to some sorts of developing simple to complex programs, systems and other computing technicalities that which is essential in our field. In relation to our subject in Systems Analysis and Design I, in which I am currently enrolled, all of the stuffs I have been through are substantial in the said course. For this semester, we are tasked to find any organization and study their system if there exists and if not, we are to come up with a proposal that would answer the need. This seems to be a challenge for us. If I will be asked about the sense of worth and the knowledge I gained within three or more years from the university and correlate it with our proposal, I would say that it is just in the average rate.
For the past three years, during the lecture times, the discussion is easy to comprehend. But then, when the application point comes, I start scratching my nose. Honestly, when it comes to developing programs, I find it hard to do so. However, I can understand the written code for the program. I believe that some things are learnable, it just takes time, passion and effort--- these things, I admit that I have missed; it’s a no good for me. But, life must goes on as they say. To bring to mind the past events just like the time pressure and discouragements given by our instructors; add to them up the poor facilities and lack of computers to accommodate the students, would somehow diminish the students’ interest in pursuing their studies. This is the sad part of taking the opportunity studying in state universities. Nevertheless, this would in some way be a challenge for the student’s part to exert and invest more effort in tracking the trails of education. It’s a mind perspective also. It’s how you see and weigh things and deal with them. Going back to the SAD I, it’s an advantage that we are grouped. This calls for teamwork. This means that the triumph of one is the triumph of all, and the fall of one is the fall of all. United we stand, divided we fall. We help hand in hand to survive the endeavors in our studies. We’ll make use of what knowledge or learning we have achieved. We’ll support one another and back up each member. Collaboration is very important knowing that not all of us are good in computing procedures. Whatever is the lack of one, we will patch it up. It’s either we go up or sink together.
With regards to our proposal, we find a long time looking for organizations that are open and willing to extend their time and cooperate with us. Until such time our professor introduced to us some existing Information Systems in the university that needs to be further studied so as to be developed and enhanced for the benefit of the majority. And our group was assigned to study the SRMIS or the Students Registration Management Information System. It undeniably gave doubt for the group if we will pursue the said system. It is unquestionably a huge system knowing that it involves many organizations or department in the school such as the OSS or the Office of School Services, the different colleges and the School Registrar. We do have reservations in each of us. But then we have accorded to pursue it and gave it a try. We prepared letters and asked approval for the departments. As soon as we have a discussion with the head of School Registrar in the university, she denied us to study the existing SRMIS. Her main reason is that the data are very confidential and we as students are not allowed to perform any study or manipulations of the system. If we are very eager and aggressive to do so, we have to ask permission from the university president first then to another official—it would take us time. Candidly, we were quite disheartened of what we have heard. As the conversation went on, she has suggested an idea that would help us somehow. The proposal goes like this: Based on each group member’s observation and experiences during the 1st step of the enrollment (in which, the students have to be evaluated by their respective year level advisers), the advisers have to go through a lot of evaluation forms to find the name of the student and after that evaluating the student or sometimes, the advisers would ask the student to locate his form. Some advisers made a simple solution; it is by using Microsoft Excel. But it would still be tiresome to go through a lot of files just to find the name of the student. In addition, one of the main concerns of Ms. Soller, the reason why she suggested this system is for them to lessen their burden in evaluating the graduating students, she said, they have to locate the student records, one by one, they have to evaluate the students manually.
Being a student in the tertiary level doesn’t mean that all you have to do is just sit prettily and listen to the professor or the instructor talking and making lectures. It is far different from our kindergarten, elementary and high school years where we could observe that learning is given by means of spoon feeding. As we emerge in taking education, the responsibility as a learner also steps up higher.
The moment I decided to enroll in this university, I never had the idea of what will be the life I will be heading. What is in my mind is that I will just be a student who would go to school daily, go through the rooms—interact, participate and socialize with my colleagues. And what’s certain is that I have just premeditated that after four years, I will be graduating soon, and that is this year 2009. But unfortunately, the four years will be extended due to some unexpected issues. Presently, I am on my fourth year in USeP but most of my subjects are for the third year level. It’s quite funny to think; still this is the bitter reality—and it’s no way out other than facing it. My four-year stay in the university is full of adventure. Be it the positive side or the other.
As an Information Technology student, it is a necessity for us that we are equipped with the better- quality of facilities and the education itself for us to be geared up in the succeeding years. We are accustomed to some sorts of developing simple to complex programs, systems and other computing technicalities that which is essential in our field. In relation to our subject in Systems Analysis and Design I, in which I am currently enrolled, all of the stuffs I have been through are substantial in the said course. For this semester, we are tasked to find any organization and study their system if there exists and if not, we are to come up with a proposal that would answer the need. This seems to be a challenge for us. If I will be asked about the sense of worth and the knowledge I gained within three or more years from the university and correlate it with our proposal, I would say that it is just in the average rate.
For the past three years, during the lecture times, the discussion is easy to comprehend. But then, when the application point comes, I start scratching my nose. Honestly, when it comes to developing programs, I find it hard to do so. However, I can understand the written code for the program. I believe that some things are learnable, it just takes time, passion and effort--- these things, I admit that I have missed; it’s a no good for me. But, life must goes on as they say. To bring to mind the past events just like the time pressure and discouragements given by our instructors; add to them up the poor facilities and lack of computers to accommodate the students, would somehow diminish the students’ interest in pursuing their studies. This is the sad part of taking the opportunity studying in state universities. Nevertheless, this would in some way be a challenge for the student’s part to exert and invest more effort in tracking the trails of education. It’s a mind perspective also. It’s how you see and weigh things and deal with them. Going back to the SAD I, it’s an advantage that we are grouped. This calls for teamwork. This means that the triumph of one is the triumph of all, and the fall of one is the fall of all. United we stand, divided we fall. We help hand in hand to survive the endeavors in our studies. We’ll make use of what knowledge or learning we have achieved. We’ll support one another and back up each member. Collaboration is very important knowing that not all of us are good in computing procedures. Whatever is the lack of one, we will patch it up. It’s either we go up or sink together.
With regards to our proposal, we find a long time looking for organizations that are open and willing to extend their time and cooperate with us. Until such time our professor introduced to us some existing Information Systems in the university that needs to be further studied so as to be developed and enhanced for the benefit of the majority. And our group was assigned to study the SRMIS or the Students Registration Management Information System. It undeniably gave doubt for the group if we will pursue the said system. It is unquestionably a huge system knowing that it involves many organizations or department in the school such as the OSS or the Office of School Services, the different colleges and the School Registrar. We do have reservations in each of us. But then we have accorded to pursue it and gave it a try. We prepared letters and asked approval for the departments. As soon as we have a discussion with the head of School Registrar in the university, she denied us to study the existing SRMIS. Her main reason is that the data are very confidential and we as students are not allowed to perform any study or manipulations of the system. If we are very eager and aggressive to do so, we have to ask permission from the university president first then to another official—it would take us time. Candidly, we were quite disheartened of what we have heard. As the conversation went on, she has suggested an idea that would help us somehow. The proposal goes like this: Based on each group member’s observation and experiences during the 1st step of the enrollment (in which, the students have to be evaluated by their respective year level advisers), the advisers have to go through a lot of evaluation forms to find the name of the student and after that evaluating the student or sometimes, the advisers would ask the student to locate his form. Some advisers made a simple solution; it is by using Microsoft Excel. But it would still be tiresome to go through a lot of files just to find the name of the student. In addition, one of the main concerns of Ms. Soller, the reason why she suggested this system is for them to lessen their burden in evaluating the graduating students, she said, they have to locate the student records, one by one, they have to evaluate the students manually.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The world belongs for those who know how to dream...
Thinking about the future is common to everyone. In fact, it’s not a rare thing to do. As they say, “To dream is free… sky is the limit…”
In a youth conference, a speaker once said, “The world belongs for those who dream…” This statement has made me realize that dreaming in a deeper sense is definitely essential if an individual wants to survive in this world. It triggers the ability of a person to pursue whatever he has dreamed of. But nevertheless, sometimes dreaming makes one being hindered to achieve their goals in life. Dreams will stay dreams if there is no action being put to it. Dreams connote of the desirable future we want to attain. It’s a vision dwelling in us…
I may say that one cannot focus if there is no vision. Without vision, one can get caught with life’s complexity; being distracted with the negative issues in the environment and as well as the issues of the person itself. As being quoted by Dave Branon, he said that, “Life will never look fair. But when we trust God, we always know that He is faithful.” This quote reminded me of a Scripture that assures that God has a plan in my life. It is in Jeremiah 29:11, which says that, “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Looking ten years ahead, what will I be? Can I be successful as God has assured?
There are factors that should be considered in order to achieve the SUCCESS in life. Primarily, a person should know how to motivate himself. As the captains of our own lives, we have the responsibility to have our own forecasting for the years to come. Setting goals, planning ahead, formulating strategies--- these all play a big role for a triumphant future. They are the major ingredients so that one will be flying high with colors.
Any activity requires planning in order to achieve a desired goal. It would be crucial for any endeavor in life without any established plan. These plans could either make or break an individual. That is why plans should be thoroughly analyzed. This thorough analysis will lead to strategies that will eventually play a big role for the success of any person.
This strategic plan will enable any individual to succeed and survive, depending on the plan that has been made. As said earlier, plans could either make or break them.
I, an Information Technology student as of now will be soon entering the real business world and be called as an IT professional. But the big question is how will I get there? What are my strategies so that I could land successfully to the field that I have chosen?
Success needs determination; determination to follow the dreams and vision inhabiting in the mind and heart, determination to pursue whatever goal that has been set. Determination also speaks of discipline. We need to discipline our thought, life, emotion, and event the way we think. Disciplining our thought means that we need to see things as complimenting with one another; that even things never turned out as we expect them to be, we will put in mind that everything happens for a special purpose, and we need to see things in a very nice view --- in a positive outlook. Disciplining our life means we need to take control of our time. Valuing our time is one way of exercising professionalism. Time discipline is important especially for worthwhile things. To cite, rather than going to malls and spending time on shopping, its more preferable to lay our time in reading knowledgeable books, journals, magazines, surfing the World Wide Web --- all sorts of exploring and unraveling the vastness of Information Technology knowing that it does advance as day passes by. We spend our time according to our maximum priority. And that priority is our future--- our Success. When we deal with our emotions, discipline can be applied in a way that we have to manage the stresses that we get around us; from the people we meet daily, family issues, national or local concerns and everything that affects our emotions. It should be that we know how to handle our stresses and the situations that we encounter. It is inevitable to face such things but when we know how to balance our emotions, it will not be difficult for us to deal with them. And lastly, the way of how we discipline our thinking --- this entails focus to our vision. We should focus on the positive side of life; we should pursue optimistic thinking. We should focus on the dreams we have envisioned. Success needs people who know how to dream. It needs people who are being unchained with their paralyzed minds. Paralyzed with the current status they have, the failures they have gone, the discouragements they have been through and they get from the people and surroundings and from what they perceive --- all the contaminants that is being trashed in their minds. It weakens their hope, lessens their confidence to follow their dreams and hinders them to achieve what they desire in their lives. They are being immobilized with all these negativities.
Success requires Change. Change of mindset. I may say that, “If I change, everything changes!” There is no wonder that I will be victorious in the end. Mindset matters in all aspects of life. It’s the mindset that neutralizes the disparity one possesses. It is mind over matter, if you don’t mind, it won’t matter. So it is necessary that we weigh and evaluate things first before we let them matter o us. If we allow them to hurt or affect us in a not-so-good way, it’s our fault then, we allowed them so. If we stay where were at, we won’t change. If a person wants to pursue their plans in life, it’s a must that he or she undergoes change --- change for the better. He or she should bring and let him or herself enter a new level in life. Change is a requirement for Success. If one desires to become prosperous, a shifting of mindset is needed. Mindset really counts.
Douglas Thornton said, “I find that the constant inspiration gained by looking at the goal is the chief thing that helps me to persevere.” Honestly, I was deeply moved with his statement. Planning ahead and setting goals, the vision and dreams, helps motivate to proceed and run after the reward that lies ahead. Focusing on the goal produces perseverance. Despite of the undertakings and peculiarity of the events around, the goal pushes us to go through. If on chooses to stay focused, he or she would not allow anything, be it the events, people, or the emotions, to get him be distracted. He would formulate strategies instead to overrun them. A person who wants to become successful in the end would live a STRATEGIC lifestyle --- a balanced life. A Strategic lifestyle would mean:
1. BELIEVING THAT YOU ARE A PERSON OF WORTH. Believing equates trusting --- trusting in our own abilities to become triumphant in the future, and confidence to attain whatever goal that has been already set. This would imply of NO “SELF-DEGRADATION” rule in spite of the weaknesses and flaws one have.
2. STARTING THE DAY WITH A POSITIVE ATTITUDE. Being optimistic helps an individual to stay right on the track. A positive attitude each day drives all worries away! The attitude maintains the focus and also, the focus upholds the attitude.
3. DEFINING OUR DREAMS. Like any other projects that we have or had taken, we need to know them for us to accomplish them excellently. We need to define our dreams to have a concrete plan on how to achieve them in the most efficient way. If we fail to define them, then it’s our loss.
4. NOT DWELLING IN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. Most of the people get trapped particularly when it does let them be in the state of anxiousness. These would refer to the problems, challenges, and obstacles they have never anticipated to come their way. These are all spices of life and all spices make life more tasteful. Even though when there is fear blocking along the way, let us keep on advancing! There is no such thing as hopeless. Nothing is hopeless until you give up hope. When we focus on the goal, we will see hope unless we choose to stay, be overwhelmed and consumed with life’s intricacy.
5. START THINKING RIGHT. It’s how we perceive and receive things. It would be much easier to get into our goal if we practice thinking appropriately. Thinking too much of the garbages or the pointless thoughts in our mind would weigh us down. Thinking right demands the right perspectives in life. It speaks of our mindset, again. The way we think determines who we are and what we will become. The way we think influences how we act to make things happen. As a Proverb says, “As a man thinks, so he is.” But we should not also forget that it is the plan of Him that will prevail. No matter how much effort, how much we struggle and how big our plan are, His’ will reign.
6. KEEP YOUR EYES ON YOUR DREAM. We should not let our eyes get blurred or else there would be a division in our focus. We have many priorities in life but it should also be that “First things first.”
Life is unpredictable. It is full of surprises. You don’t know what it may bring. But as the captains of our own boat, we are liable on how are we going to make things run in a smooth flow. We are the forecasters of our own future. We make things happen in our lives. What we believe is what we become; and what we believe for should be accompanied with our actions in order for them to be fulfilled.
As of now, I am still a student who is continually learning the fundamentals of the Information and Communications Technology industry; exploring its vastness and hoping too that I will be entering, engaging, and working with the real ICT world. As a student as of now, I allow myself to discover more of the field that I have chosen. To experience challenges in my student years is essential for the development of my knowledge and skills that soon will be vital in my future career.
But as what I have mentioned earlier, “What we believe is what we become”… What I believe then, I will become. This suggests that we should possess the proper mindset for us to arrive at our individual goals--- that we should believe in our own abilities and potentials and really allow ourselves to be exposed with the unending learning around us; to never stop learning. With this motivation, I could envision myself as a professional IT person in a well-known company acquiring the competitive skills and adequate knowledge about my profession. I could visualize that I am working in a software development team. I could also envision myself as occupying a top rank and being well-compensated by the company. Ten years from now, I could see myself as a successful IT professional mentoring other people; helping them to carry out their objectives.
With all of these futuristic ideas and plans I have, it will just be fulfilled if it is the perfect will of Him. As what the Scripture says: “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is His’ that will prevail”… Nevertheless, He has also promised that He has the perfect plans in our lives; not to harm but to prosper us. This means there is hope for everything. As long as we do our part, believe in ourselves, and most importantly, trusting Him in all our ways, we will succeed.
In a youth conference, a speaker once said, “The world belongs for those who dream…” This statement has made me realize that dreaming in a deeper sense is definitely essential if an individual wants to survive in this world. It triggers the ability of a person to pursue whatever he has dreamed of. But nevertheless, sometimes dreaming makes one being hindered to achieve their goals in life. Dreams will stay dreams if there is no action being put to it. Dreams connote of the desirable future we want to attain. It’s a vision dwelling in us…
I may say that one cannot focus if there is no vision. Without vision, one can get caught with life’s complexity; being distracted with the negative issues in the environment and as well as the issues of the person itself. As being quoted by Dave Branon, he said that, “Life will never look fair. But when we trust God, we always know that He is faithful.” This quote reminded me of a Scripture that assures that God has a plan in my life. It is in Jeremiah 29:11, which says that, “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Looking ten years ahead, what will I be? Can I be successful as God has assured?
There are factors that should be considered in order to achieve the SUCCESS in life. Primarily, a person should know how to motivate himself. As the captains of our own lives, we have the responsibility to have our own forecasting for the years to come. Setting goals, planning ahead, formulating strategies--- these all play a big role for a triumphant future. They are the major ingredients so that one will be flying high with colors.
Any activity requires planning in order to achieve a desired goal. It would be crucial for any endeavor in life without any established plan. These plans could either make or break an individual. That is why plans should be thoroughly analyzed. This thorough analysis will lead to strategies that will eventually play a big role for the success of any person.
This strategic plan will enable any individual to succeed and survive, depending on the plan that has been made. As said earlier, plans could either make or break them.
I, an Information Technology student as of now will be soon entering the real business world and be called as an IT professional. But the big question is how will I get there? What are my strategies so that I could land successfully to the field that I have chosen?
Success needs determination; determination to follow the dreams and vision inhabiting in the mind and heart, determination to pursue whatever goal that has been set. Determination also speaks of discipline. We need to discipline our thought, life, emotion, and event the way we think. Disciplining our thought means that we need to see things as complimenting with one another; that even things never turned out as we expect them to be, we will put in mind that everything happens for a special purpose, and we need to see things in a very nice view --- in a positive outlook. Disciplining our life means we need to take control of our time. Valuing our time is one way of exercising professionalism. Time discipline is important especially for worthwhile things. To cite, rather than going to malls and spending time on shopping, its more preferable to lay our time in reading knowledgeable books, journals, magazines, surfing the World Wide Web --- all sorts of exploring and unraveling the vastness of Information Technology knowing that it does advance as day passes by. We spend our time according to our maximum priority. And that priority is our future--- our Success. When we deal with our emotions, discipline can be applied in a way that we have to manage the stresses that we get around us; from the people we meet daily, family issues, national or local concerns and everything that affects our emotions. It should be that we know how to handle our stresses and the situations that we encounter. It is inevitable to face such things but when we know how to balance our emotions, it will not be difficult for us to deal with them. And lastly, the way of how we discipline our thinking --- this entails focus to our vision. We should focus on the positive side of life; we should pursue optimistic thinking. We should focus on the dreams we have envisioned. Success needs people who know how to dream. It needs people who are being unchained with their paralyzed minds. Paralyzed with the current status they have, the failures they have gone, the discouragements they have been through and they get from the people and surroundings and from what they perceive --- all the contaminants that is being trashed in their minds. It weakens their hope, lessens their confidence to follow their dreams and hinders them to achieve what they desire in their lives. They are being immobilized with all these negativities.
Success requires Change. Change of mindset. I may say that, “If I change, everything changes!” There is no wonder that I will be victorious in the end. Mindset matters in all aspects of life. It’s the mindset that neutralizes the disparity one possesses. It is mind over matter, if you don’t mind, it won’t matter. So it is necessary that we weigh and evaluate things first before we let them matter o us. If we allow them to hurt or affect us in a not-so-good way, it’s our fault then, we allowed them so. If we stay where were at, we won’t change. If a person wants to pursue their plans in life, it’s a must that he or she undergoes change --- change for the better. He or she should bring and let him or herself enter a new level in life. Change is a requirement for Success. If one desires to become prosperous, a shifting of mindset is needed. Mindset really counts.
Douglas Thornton said, “I find that the constant inspiration gained by looking at the goal is the chief thing that helps me to persevere.” Honestly, I was deeply moved with his statement. Planning ahead and setting goals, the vision and dreams, helps motivate to proceed and run after the reward that lies ahead. Focusing on the goal produces perseverance. Despite of the undertakings and peculiarity of the events around, the goal pushes us to go through. If on chooses to stay focused, he or she would not allow anything, be it the events, people, or the emotions, to get him be distracted. He would formulate strategies instead to overrun them. A person who wants to become successful in the end would live a STRATEGIC lifestyle --- a balanced life. A Strategic lifestyle would mean:
1. BELIEVING THAT YOU ARE A PERSON OF WORTH. Believing equates trusting --- trusting in our own abilities to become triumphant in the future, and confidence to attain whatever goal that has been already set. This would imply of NO “SELF-DEGRADATION” rule in spite of the weaknesses and flaws one have.
2. STARTING THE DAY WITH A POSITIVE ATTITUDE. Being optimistic helps an individual to stay right on the track. A positive attitude each day drives all worries away! The attitude maintains the focus and also, the focus upholds the attitude.
3. DEFINING OUR DREAMS. Like any other projects that we have or had taken, we need to know them for us to accomplish them excellently. We need to define our dreams to have a concrete plan on how to achieve them in the most efficient way. If we fail to define them, then it’s our loss.
4. NOT DWELLING IN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. Most of the people get trapped particularly when it does let them be in the state of anxiousness. These would refer to the problems, challenges, and obstacles they have never anticipated to come their way. These are all spices of life and all spices make life more tasteful. Even though when there is fear blocking along the way, let us keep on advancing! There is no such thing as hopeless. Nothing is hopeless until you give up hope. When we focus on the goal, we will see hope unless we choose to stay, be overwhelmed and consumed with life’s intricacy.
5. START THINKING RIGHT. It’s how we perceive and receive things. It would be much easier to get into our goal if we practice thinking appropriately. Thinking too much of the garbages or the pointless thoughts in our mind would weigh us down. Thinking right demands the right perspectives in life. It speaks of our mindset, again. The way we think determines who we are and what we will become. The way we think influences how we act to make things happen. As a Proverb says, “As a man thinks, so he is.” But we should not also forget that it is the plan of Him that will prevail. No matter how much effort, how much we struggle and how big our plan are, His’ will reign.
6. KEEP YOUR EYES ON YOUR DREAM. We should not let our eyes get blurred or else there would be a division in our focus. We have many priorities in life but it should also be that “First things first.”
Life is unpredictable. It is full of surprises. You don’t know what it may bring. But as the captains of our own boat, we are liable on how are we going to make things run in a smooth flow. We are the forecasters of our own future. We make things happen in our lives. What we believe is what we become; and what we believe for should be accompanied with our actions in order for them to be fulfilled.
As of now, I am still a student who is continually learning the fundamentals of the Information and Communications Technology industry; exploring its vastness and hoping too that I will be entering, engaging, and working with the real ICT world. As a student as of now, I allow myself to discover more of the field that I have chosen. To experience challenges in my student years is essential for the development of my knowledge and skills that soon will be vital in my future career.
But as what I have mentioned earlier, “What we believe is what we become”… What I believe then, I will become. This suggests that we should possess the proper mindset for us to arrive at our individual goals--- that we should believe in our own abilities and potentials and really allow ourselves to be exposed with the unending learning around us; to never stop learning. With this motivation, I could envision myself as a professional IT person in a well-known company acquiring the competitive skills and adequate knowledge about my profession. I could visualize that I am working in a software development team. I could also envision myself as occupying a top rank and being well-compensated by the company. Ten years from now, I could see myself as a successful IT professional mentoring other people; helping them to carry out their objectives.
With all of these futuristic ideas and plans I have, it will just be fulfilled if it is the perfect will of Him. As what the Scripture says: “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is His’ that will prevail”… Nevertheless, He has also promised that He has the perfect plans in our lives; not to harm but to prosper us. This means there is hope for everything. As long as we do our part, believe in ourselves, and most importantly, trusting Him in all our ways, we will succeed.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Strategic Information System Planning.Ü
Our class in Management Information System II have discussed and shared about the Evolution of Information System Planning and the Problems of Information System Plan last Monday. It was a good sharing and we learned from the practical examples given by the sharers.
Any activity requires planning in order to achieve a desired goal. It would be crucial for any endeavor in life without any established plan. These plans could either make or break an individual or any organization. That is why plans should be thoroughly analyzed. This thorough analysis will lead to strategies that will eventually play a big role for the success of a company or any person.
To review, Information System involves Hardware, Software, and People ware. These three are interrelated in a way that one could not work properly if one component is malfunctioning; the entire Information System is affected. That is why a strategic plan for it should be made. This strategic plan will enable an organization or any business individual to succeed and survive, depending on the plan that has been made. As said earlier, plans could either make or break them.
As years go by, Information Systems Planning also has developed. The realization that there is a constant change in the environment brought an impact to the many organizations for them to improve business performance and maximize their returns on IT investment. Basically, planning for Information System begins with the identification of needs. A problem will be given a solution when the problem itself is first identified. In the sharing, it was said that the plan should be specific and flexible. Specific enough to enable understanding of each application and to know where it stands in the order of development and flexible so as to adjust the priorities in the planning, if necessary.
Nevertheless, problems can never be eluded. That is why it should be that the SISP should anticipate for the things to happen—it really requires deep understanding of the specific needs inside an organization. Also, organizational plans and IS plans should go together so that it would advance and bring improvement to the organization, hence, gives way to its survival in the industry. Moreover, the application of Information Technology to a firm’s strategic activities is one of the effective factors to enhance business operations. Through planning strategically, an organization can participate in the competition in the business enterprise
Any activity requires planning in order to achieve a desired goal. It would be crucial for any endeavor in life without any established plan. These plans could either make or break an individual or any organization. That is why plans should be thoroughly analyzed. This thorough analysis will lead to strategies that will eventually play a big role for the success of a company or any person.
To review, Information System involves Hardware, Software, and People ware. These three are interrelated in a way that one could not work properly if one component is malfunctioning; the entire Information System is affected. That is why a strategic plan for it should be made. This strategic plan will enable an organization or any business individual to succeed and survive, depending on the plan that has been made. As said earlier, plans could either make or break them.
As years go by, Information Systems Planning also has developed. The realization that there is a constant change in the environment brought an impact to the many organizations for them to improve business performance and maximize their returns on IT investment. Basically, planning for Information System begins with the identification of needs. A problem will be given a solution when the problem itself is first identified. In the sharing, it was said that the plan should be specific and flexible. Specific enough to enable understanding of each application and to know where it stands in the order of development and flexible so as to adjust the priorities in the planning, if necessary.
Nevertheless, problems can never be eluded. That is why it should be that the SISP should anticipate for the things to happen—it really requires deep understanding of the specific needs inside an organization. Also, organizational plans and IS plans should go together so that it would advance and bring improvement to the organization, hence, gives way to its survival in the industry. Moreover, the application of Information Technology to a firm’s strategic activities is one of the effective factors to enhance business operations. Through planning strategically, an organization can participate in the competition in the business enterprise
Monday, November 17, 2008
five years from now?
Life is unpredictable. It is full of surprises. You don’t know what it may bring. But as the captains of our own boat, we are liable on how are we going to make things run in a smooth flow. We are the forecasters of our own future. We make things happen in our lives. What we believe is what we become; and what we believe for should be accompanied with our actions in order for them to be fulfilled.
As of now, I am still a student who is continually learning the fundamentals of the Information and Communications Technology industry; exploring its vastness and hoping too that I will be entering, engaging, and working with the real ICT world. As a student as of now, I allow myself to discover more of the field that I have chosen. To experience challenges in my student years is essential for the development of my knowledge and skills that soon will be vital in my future career.
To foresee myself five years from now is not that fixed. What I mean is that I am not sure yet if I will become what I am planning to be. But as what I have mentioned earlier, “What we believe is what we become”… What I believe then, I will become. This suggests that we should possess the proper mindset for us to arrive at our individual goals--- that we should believe in our own abilities and potentials and really allow ourselves to be exposed with the unending learning around us; to never stop learning. With this motivation, I could envision myself as a professional IT person in a well-known company acquiring the competitive skills and adequate knowledge about my profession. I could visualize that I am working in a software development team. I could also envision myself as occupying a top rank and being well-compensated by the company. Five years from now, I could see myself as a successful IT professional mentoring other people; helping them to carry out their objectives.
With all of these futuristic ideas and plans I have, it will just be fulfilled if it is the perfect will of Him. As what the Scripture says: “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is His’ that will prevail”…Nevertheless, He has also promised that He has the perfect plans in our lives; not to harm but to prosper us. This means there is hope for everything. As long as we do our part, believe in ourselves, and most importantly, trusting Him in all our ways, we will succeed.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
My own FOSS perspective
I did appreciate of how FOSS or Free and Open Source Software have
given me the idea of expressing a sense of "liberty" in the virtual realms. With FOSS, people can
benefit from first, its Open Standards, which means it is publicly available and has no limits in terms with its
rights; it is not that strict and can be easily accessed by anyone because of its availability. Next is that
because FOSS is Open Source which means that it has a complete free source reference implementation
available. With Open Standards, people can have a lot of benefits. Organizations could gain advantages
and will be ensured that its technological and Information Technology procurements and implementations
follow it. Another is that there is a less chance of being locked in a specific vendor. It creates a major benefit
that would result to the interoperability of different technologies and for the different systems to communicate
with one another. One question is that what are Standards and why use them? According to my readings,
Standards means an established or accepted level of achievement. In my own perspective, these are
essential to attain a particular goal. In general, they are important because it simplifies our living. Another
thing that adds spice to FOSS is that it is Open for Innovation, open for everyone, not even one exempted.
Moreover, there are standard-setting process, the de jure, de facto and industry which plays an essential
role for a standard to be set and implemented. FOSS creates a new atmosphere in the IT industry.
As the name itself implies, Free and Open Source Software, is free and open for everyone. These refers
to the softwares that are highly needed in the Information and Communications Technology industry.
These softwares may be a certain system that helps a company or establishment do its job in its
simplest and most convenient matter. But the issue in here is that these softwares are classified into two,
which are the proprietary and non-proprietary. By nature, proprietary ones ar much expensive rather than the
non-proprietary. In my own understanding about what FOSS is, it has a lot of advantages than the proprietary
products. To cite, primarily it is free or if not, cheaper compared to proprietary softwares. And another is that
it is expansible, which means it can be modified and further developed which is really helpful for a software
to be enhanced. With FOSS, the participation of people specially in the Information Technology field such as
the programmers and web developers is increased. For me, FOSS is a big help even to the unemployed
potential programmers and the like. They can even get a living out of it without any application from any
company. All they have to do is to enhance a software and market it in in the virtual world. Another thing
that interests me about FOSS is that it caters vast opportunities for the people who have a desire in pursuing
their career without looking or belittling their educational background as long as the "developer" contributes
worthy software for the majority.
In most cases, specially in the Philippines; people, company and other establishments are being
locked-in with the proprietary softwares. I may say that they embrace it till now for the basic reason that it was
first introduced rather than the FOSS. On the other hand, if FOSS was also first introduced, no wonder FOSS
is widely accepted and used in our country. Who came first really matters. Another is that the business world
runs with the use of proprietary softwares. It can be that they are just going with the flow. I myself admit that
am more familiar with the proprietary products and its applications specially the office applications, and much
more comfortable with using it. But now that I know what the power of FOSS brings for the majority, I am now
beginning to open myself towards it. FOSS might be odd and eccentric at first for others but it just takes time
to appreciate its essence and beauty. It entails open-mindedness for it to be fully understood.
It's good to know and hear that there is a Republic Act implemented in the Philippines regarding FOSS.
Meaning, FOSS is slowly digging it up, it is slowly exposed to the many. While others are not yet familiar with it,
I believe there will come a time that they will just be caught with the "FOSS fever". I am so amazed with how other people like the developers and consumers fully embraced, patronized, understood and studied FOSS. They pour out their dedication into it and really stood up with their feet and of course with the partnership of FOSS itself.
I believe that if FOSS will be thoroughly and fully be exposed to Filipinos, we would be saving a large
percentage for our annual budget alloted for the Information and Communications Technology field. It requires
collaboration from the entire participants of the country--from the government down to the individuals. Also, FOSS is a breakthrough when it comes to producing more softwares, more jobs, more opportunities.
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