Activity#2

1.  Discuss the information Systems Development Plan- Purpose, Scope and Objective.

             Give your own opinion and reflections.

Information systems are implemented within an organization for the purpose of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of that organization. A series of methodologies and processes can be used in order to develop and use an information system. The use of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which is a systematic procedure of developing an information system through stages Planning, Analysis and Design that occur in sequence will be a big help to the developers in developing the organizations operation. This can be accomplished by outsourcing certain components or the entire system. Capabilities of the information system and characteristics of the organization, its work systems, its people, and its development and implementation methodologies together determine the extent to which that purpose is achieved. It is a big help for an organization in using ISDS because it defines the deliverables that the project is expected to deliver. In short, it will be a guide or outlined plan for the developers in achieving their organizational plans. Things will be done successfully if you already plan first what will you wanted to be done to your projects. The operations will not ruin in the end if you had your plans. ISDS is a key factor in developing and implementing projects operations.

The Purpose, Scope and Objectives of the System
The Purpose of the System: Company Y has always had a “progressive” view on the use of 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.


The 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 for the readily access of the Informations. The company also have their concern on “How it should and can operate”. Those are the following first, the Master production schedule (MPS), then the Item master data (technical data), Bill of materials (BOM) (technical data), Production resources data (manufacturing technical data), Inventories and orders (inventory control), Purchasing management, Material requirements planning (MRP), Shop floor control (SFC), Capacity planning or capacity requirements planning (CRP), Standard costing (cost control), Cost reporting / management (cost control).

Objectives: Plan the system thoroughly enabling it:

•        To have accurate inventory records

•         To have a better control of inventories, thus reducing the working capital for inventory

•        To have an improved scheduling, being able to plan manufacturing activities

•        To plan the resources more effectively

•          To gain productive relationships with suppliers and clients

•         To have an improved design control

•        To have better quality and quantity control, ensuring materials are available for production and that the company would only manufacture those which are needed.

•        To have improved cash flow through quicker deliveries

2.  Comment on the Relationship of IS and the organization.     

The relationship of Information System and the organization is just like the IS became the organizer of the organization’s files and everything they were doing and the organization is the commander of the system.

-The Information Systems (IS) affect the organization as a whole. It gives them an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study. An information systems discipline therefore is supported by the theoretical foundations of information and computations such that learned scholars have unique opportunities to explore the academics of various business models as well as related algorithmic processes within a computer science discipline. Typically, information systems or the more common legacy information systems include people, procedures, data, software, and hardware (by degree) that are used to gather and analyze digital information.

 Specifically this computer-based information systems are complementary networks of hardware/software that the  people in an organizations use to collect, filter, process, create, & distribute data (computing). Information System(s) in computer is often a track within the computer science field studying computers and algorithmic processes, including their principles, their software & hardware designs, their applications, and their impact on society. Overall, an IS discipline emphasizes functionality over design.

IS is a great help to the organization since it is a combination of information technology and people's activities using that technology to support operations and management. IS provides the organization a better way to access large amounts and different kinds of informations.

Information system in the broadest sense is also the interaction between people, algorithmic processes, data and technology. In this sense, the term is used to refer not only to the information and communication technology (ICT) an organization uses, but also to the way in which people interact with this technology in support of business processes.

When it comes to work, the information system really contributed a lot to the company by having one common database—that when you store data on it and wanted to retrieve it soon, all people in the organization can have the same information in any particular aspect they want to have. Because of the system, the company was able to save lots of data to the database without having so much time and effort. Even if they had lots of products to enter into the database, they were to manage them accurately because of the system. The people had benefited for they were only sending commands to the system and it was for the system to do the assigned tasks. Despite of the company’s large area of work and fast production of their products, the system was still able to lessen their jobs and it was for the organization to take good care of it.

3.  Describe the impact of the IS and give your own reflections.               

The Information System helped the company to become more efficient and it also helped the people in the company in planning their resources more effectively. The result of using their resources in a more effective and more efficient way was that would bring their unit cost down and make them more competitive. The IS ensured that they only manufactured which they needed, reduced their inventory and got the potential for planning their materials right the way through the whole of the manufacturing process. It also enabled them to plan the utilization for their people much better. They were also being able to bring in more business without having to go to the corporation and ask for more capital.

Though IS helped a lot to the organization, it did not mean to change the way people made the organization operate, it was about how people handle the Information System and the way people made decisions when they had got the better information that was going to be available from the system.  Even if the people of the company found it hard to deal with the IS at first and were considered as forced to use the system,  still they were able to deal with it through teachings of proper usage of the system and the right dealing of it. There should be a good relationship between the system and the users to work effectively and accurately and also to avoid the unnecessary errors that may occur. The IS was really a great help to the organization for it was able to solve problems that they had been encountering since before the time the IS  came out—like reducing the workload of their people and providing one common database to have the same data. So obviously, the impact of IS was good and beneficial to the organization because it made them more productive and effective.

4. The Negative impact of Information System:

Businesses or any certain organization need information that's timely, useful, cost-effective, accessible, organized and accurate. Therefore, information systems must be constantly maintained and upgraded to meet the company's expectations and customers' needs. To do this, managers must not be only be aware of the advantages but with its disadvantages of the system as well.

•        When the company don’t have the iliterate person who can handle the Information Sytem. And in this manner this might cause losing data and information. Certain company must trained their employees about the proper use of their IS, employee must be also knowledgable in operating the system in order them to render proper services to the costumers, In operating IS not only literate in computer can do handle the work. It can also be used by others by just training them or orienting them all about IS and ilustrating the prosseses involved in it. for all data must be entered accurately into the computer.

•        Like what I have said Information must not be looked upon its pros but also with its cons. Information systems may not always function properly. This happens for a number of reasons. Systems break down, interrupting smooth operations and causing customer dissatisfaction. One example of this is, customers may be charged for the wrong services or for merchandise that they did not order. Also, defective information systems can deliver the wrong information to other systems, which could create further problems for the company and its customers. The operator of the system must keep on checking the IS, maintenance in the system is very necessary to avoid problems mentioned above. The company also must double check the services a costumers asked for..

•        Systems are vulnerable to hackers and fraud. The company should put security on the system. If the system manipulated by a hacker and change all the data in it, it might be the  cause of a big lost to the company.

•        As the company grows, the information system usually grows with it. And sometimes causes the information systems break down. In this case customers should be notified immediately, informed of the problem and the time it will take to fix it. Immediately informing customers of what's going on goes a long way in proving the company's reliability.

5. Give your reflection on the ethical issues relating to the given IS planning and implementation.

                Information helped certain company provide services to their costumers. Information arose because of one goal that is to implement the company wide. It causes great impact to the company as well as It has going to have an effect on the employee within the company and it is going to have any opportunity to do a lot of work. IS believed that they can supply the needs of the company, and think to swallow the number of problems that the company was screaming with. By providing common database they can able to pull information out of the computer a lot easier then get hold of the information at a moment.

                The information systems plan runs fluently, it is where the BPCS was chosen by the Y company as a software for SAPI system but for some other reason, the mother company refused to go with the Y company. They reprimand that the MAPICS II should be use, because in business transaction it is more accurate in the parent company. Argumentations, complains and issues followed the proposal/suggestion and as a solution the company conducted a survey and interview.

                I liked their way of getting and hearing the diffrent opinion from the members for they did it fairly. By doing it so, causes an easy way in finding solutions to a problem. Every time there’s an argument we really not need to leave it unsettle but rather try to think of a better solution and that would lead you in goodness. Discussing problem with the gpoup will lead to clarity rather than by just thinkin' it all alone. Just like in IS they we’re able to produce a good application for they never leave their arguments hanging.

Dr. BRIAN CHURCH

Dr  Church was one of the  people who were behind the original decision to move toward an SAPI system and is one of the few directors who makes extensive use of IT.

I’m responsible among other things for inventory levels in the company , setting inventory budget,for achievement inventory budget, for monitoring all aspects of inventory. So the main things I use it for  are foe inventory management-to  understand what inventory we have , where we have it. I tend not to use the system itself directly. Most of the reports have too much information. There are one or two that I use. They’re never in the formati want so what  I usaually do is to run in a query. Which I write my self,extracts the information  I want. The msjority of those reports don’t print they write to other files  which I tend to download to my PC. I have a macro set up there in spreadsheet so that each month  I could run macro files and print it whenever I want,  in the format ,order I want. It takes 3 ½  hours to produce the report instead it takes me 40 minutes. The main area where I’m benifitting is that I can get the information  I want. Previously  there wasn’t one  set of numbers. If you wanted to know what I tem there was in stock you could go into the old database, its probably only about 70% accurate. So  there’s one set of numbers, I can go into it, I can extract whatever data I want. Yes , I think the key is that the company is now running on one set of numbers. Previously the accounts people had their set of numbers which they regarded as right but anybody else were wrong.

I’ m beginning  to think that a part of our implementation was probably done incorrectly. What we did  was we took the way  we used to plan manully and computerized it.  My feeling is that, at the grass root level, not at the senior level  that production peolple are not signed on to what we were doing. Because of that it isn’t working on that area, and that’s causing problems at the interface with other departments.

The main problem I think is at the supervisor and manager level. Everybody told us that whatever  training  you do you won’t  do enough. 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 later.

I only took MIS over this year so I can’t say what happened before. Most of the MIS people we have are programmers, if you like it’s like comparing a process engineer with the maintenance engineer, they like building things they don’t like painting them after they’re built.

Their attitudes is we can write something that’s give you extractly what you want across the board. It migth take them 5-10 years – 8 people  can’t write a system like that with any sensible time. I’ve had several discussion with them.  What don’t see is that  the guy now has the ability to look into the warehouse and write off stock in the warehouse as well. Maybe I wasn’t in close enough or maybe I didn’t apply enough control to stop  a bit of a Frankenstein being born. We need to get  MIS under control . that’s another problem I have.

" My masterpiece"

programming is not so easy for me but im trying to be a good  programmer someday

i need more practice to develope my masterpiece hehehe!!

i have here a sample code its a simple program using C programming

#include <stdio.h>                                                

#include <conio.h>                                                

Int main()                                                              

{                                                                      

 int total_sales,goods_cost,expense,Profit;

    Clrscr();                                                  

Printf("Input total sales");

Scanf("%d",total_sales);

  Printf("Input goods cost");

  Scanf("%d",&goods_cost);

                          Profit=total_sales-(goods_cost+expenses);

               If(profit>0)printf("You are earning");

            If(profit<0)printf("You are losing");

                                                        If(profit==0)printf("You are not earning and you are not losing");

Getch();                            

Return 0;                         

}                                                    

Example:.                                                                       

 you input your total sales = 3000               

you input your goods cost=1000              

you input your expense=500                    

OUTPUT:                                          

"you are earning"

it just a simple program for a biggener like me hope u like it ^^

  

                                              

"where you belong?-----Read me and you'll find it" ^_^ its quite interesting

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."
In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to
sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to
their songs, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.

"It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart."

Have you ever sat in a class where you thought to yourself how much more you would get out of it if the teacher would incorporate something visual along with his/her lecture? Is the instructor aware that you may learn more effectively by looking at visuals rather than simply listening to him/her lecture for an hour? Or maybe it would help if you could physically create something in order to understand the subject that was being discussed? What is your primary intelligence? Let's find out

 How can the knowledge of your personal learning style help you to become more knowledgeable? Can you utilize this knowledge both in and out of the classroom? Whatever your personal learning style is, chances are that it is part of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory

Linguistic intelligence - refers to an individual's capacity to use language effectively as a means of expression and communication through the written or spoken word (Examples: poets, writers, orators, and comedians. Some famous examples include: Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman).
 
Logical-Mathematical intelligence - refers to an individual's ability to recognize relationships and patterns between concepts and things, to think logically, to calculate numbers, and to solve problems scientifically and systematically. (Examples: mathematicians, economists, lawyers and scientists. Some famous examples include: Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrodinger, and John Dewey).
 
Visual -Spatial intelligence - refers to the capability to think in images and orient oneself spatially. In addition, spatially intelligent people are able to graphically represent their visual and spatial ideas (Examples: artists, decorators, architects, pilots, sailors, surveyors, inventors, and guides. Some famous examples include: Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Leonardo DaVinci).
 
Musical intelligence - refers to the capacity to appreciate a variety of musical forms as well as being able to use music as a vehicle of expression. Musically intelligent people are perceptive to elements of rhythm, melody, and pitch (Examples: singers, musicians, and composers. Some famous examples include: Mozart, Julie Andrews, Andrea Boccelli and Leonard Bernstein).
 
Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence - refers to the capacity of using one's own body skillfully as a means of expression or to work with one's body to create or manipulate objects (Examples: dancers, actors, athletes, sculptors, surgeons, mechanics, and craftspeople. Some famous examples include: Michael Jordan, Julia Roberts, and Mikhail Baryshnikov).
 
Interpersonal (Social) intelligence - refers to the capacity to appropriately and effectively communicate with and respond to other people. The ability to work cooperatively with others and understand their feelings (Examples: sales people, politicians, religious leaders, talk show hosts, etc. Some famous examples include: Bill Clinton, Ghandi, Oprah Winfrey).
 
Intrapersonal intelligence - refers to the capacity to accurately know one's self, including knowledge of one's own strengths, motivations, goals, and feelings. To be capable of self-reflection and to be introverted and contemplative are also traits held by persons with Intrapersonal intelligence. (Examples: entrepreneurs, therapists, philosophers, etc. Some famous examples include: Freud, Bill Gates, and Plato).
 
Naturalistic intelligence - refers to the ability to identify and classify the components that make up our environment. This intelligence would have been especially apt during the evolution of the human race in individuals who served as hunters, gatherers, and farmers. (Examples: botanists, farmers, etc. Some famous examples include: Charles Darwin, E.O. Wilson).

How is intelligence defined? According to Howard Gardner, intelligence "refers to the human ability to solve problems or to make something that is valued in one or more cultures. As long as we can find a culture that values an ability to solve a problem or create a product in a particular way, then I would strongly consider whether that ability should be considered an intelligence"

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The term "nanotechnology" has evolved over the years via terminology drift to mean "anything smaller than microtechnology," such as nano powders, and other things that are nanoscale in size, but not referring tomechanisms that have been purposefully built from nanoscale components. See our "Current Uses" page for examples. This evolved version of the term is more properly labeled "nanoscale bulk technology," while the original meaning is now more properly labeled "molecular nanotechnology" (MNT), or "nanoscale engineering," or "molecular mechanics," or "molecular machine systems," or "molecular manufacturing." Recently, the Foresight Institute has suggested an alternate term to represent the original meaning of nanotechnology: zettatechnology. 

At the most basic technical level, MNT is building, with intent and design, and molecule by molecule, these two things: 1) incredibly advanced and extremely capable nano-scale and micro-scale machines and computers, and 2) ordinary size objects, using other incredibly small machines called assemblers or fabricators (found inside nanofactories). In a nutshell, by taking advantage of quantum-level properties, MNT allows for unprecedented control of the material world, at the nanoscale, providing the means by which systems and materials can be built with exacting specifications and characteristics. Or, as Dr. K. Eric Drexler puts it "large-scale mechanosynthesis based on positional control of chemically reactive molecules."

Nanotechnology may become the most influential force in the world since the emergence of the World Wide Web. It may end world hunger, increase the speed of memory chips, modify the human body or become a devastating weapon. This guide explores what nanotechnology is, how researchers are hoping to use it and what the critics are saying about the consequences of using this potentially world-changing technology.

^_^ Me myself and I ^_^

I am a simple creation of GOD came down from heaven to share my life to those people who knows me hahaaa!! some times im serious  but mostly "KALOG".. my real name is MICHELLE TANDOGAN but my classmates since first year they call me "JANDI" .. at first i dont like the way they call me but time goes by i love this name because it seems like im the real jandi on the korean movie "BFF". most of classmates dont know my real name because they are used to call me JANDI ... there are times that if somebody looking for me and they used my real name they say whose MICHELLE?.. hahaha so sad for how many semesters weve stay togther with my classmates they dont even know my real name but anyway its ok...as long as they stay with me forever i love them much.. thanks God for the friends i have...^_^

^_^Me in an IT way^_^

There are lots of ways we can share our information in a personal way, electronic way and many more by the way as to introduce my self to you i am MICHELLE TANDOGAN aka "JANDI" born on dec 22,1993 i came from Gitagum,Misamis,Oriental i came here in bukidnon to enlarge my information about technology.
I am one of the students of CMU (Central Mindanao University) taking up BS-Information technology i am 3rd year student belongs to the college of Engineering.

                                                                                              

if you are new on that social networking sites like Facebook first thing you do is to make your account in order t
you to access on that particular site. it will ask about the information of your self. like in the the computer it needs your log in account in order you to access your computer and it can help you protect your own privacy. But its optional whether you protect your privacy or not it depends on your how to handle your information. for me all the decision  we made is our "CHOOSE" like choosing our course but for me i love to learn more about my field were i belong now.