2009年3月26日星期四
Malaysia Technology Expo 2009
Malaysia Technology Expo 2009 or can be known as MTE 2009 was held in PWTC, Kuala Lumpur on the 19th till 21st February 2009. Under the invention and innovation categories there were numbers of classed started from Class A till Class W. Each classes represented different kinds of industry such as telecommunication, agriculture, architecture and so on. This MTE is focus on agriculture, biotechnology, consumer technology, industrial technology, information communication technology, research centres & institutions.Also this MTE attracted many university to show their study result, such as Universiti Malaysia PAHANG showed out the chemical engineering. This expo also showed out some IT business process automation such as emerging solution sdn. bhd. Showed the integrated systems for the security service.
forth blog question
1. Why might a worker resist the implementation of a new technology? Give some examples to support the idea.
Workers resist the implementation of new technology because they are fear of loss of status, money, control or something else that they value such as losing a workplace with which they are comfortable. Change in the technology has a significant impact on the individual worker. Managers are especially interested in how change affects a worker s morale and performance. Some people react to change by seeing it as an opportunity for improved conditions, while others fear losing a workplace with which they are comfortable. To alleviate fear of change, managers must acknowledge that the fear is real and then address each person's specific concerns. For example, construction workers in US resist the implementation of new technology which requires computer knowledge. According to the president of Chicago-based landscape contracting firm, many of company’s younger workers are technically savvy because they growing up using computer while the implementation of IT can cause a lot of distress for some older workers who do not use computer.
2. What are some of the possible consequences of asking a worker to use a computer or similar device in his or her job? Critically discuss this.
If the worker are good in using the new technology like computer, priter, they will do job quickly and accurately, so they will more likely to do the job, such stiuation like Motivation.
If the worker are poor in adapt to using new technology, they will have difficulty in doing the job, make more energy on study and practice such technology, they will lose their motivation and complain, which make the other people lose motivation, the result is that delay in finish the job and low organization culture.
3. How can IT alter an individual’s work? How can a manager insure that the impact is positive rather than negative?
The manager should insure that the implementation of new technology can be positive rather than negative by taking initiative. Involvement of system users in the implementation of the system not only produces better results but also helps overcome resistance to the changes in how work gets done. The system users will support the implementation if they involve in the designing the changes in the organization. Change can creates conflict within an organization between those who support the change and those who do not. Workers do not change unless they see a good reason for they to so. So the important first step to implement a new technology is to make a persuasive case for change by mount a political campaign and present an agenda.
Workers resist the implementation of new technology because they are fear of loss of status, money, control or something else that they value such as losing a workplace with which they are comfortable. Change in the technology has a significant impact on the individual worker. Managers are especially interested in how change affects a worker s morale and performance. Some people react to change by seeing it as an opportunity for improved conditions, while others fear losing a workplace with which they are comfortable. To alleviate fear of change, managers must acknowledge that the fear is real and then address each person's specific concerns. For example, construction workers in US resist the implementation of new technology which requires computer knowledge. According to the president of Chicago-based landscape contracting firm, many of company’s younger workers are technically savvy because they growing up using computer while the implementation of IT can cause a lot of distress for some older workers who do not use computer.
2. What are some of the possible consequences of asking a worker to use a computer or similar device in his or her job? Critically discuss this.
If the worker are good in using the new technology like computer, priter, they will do job quickly and accurately, so they will more likely to do the job, such stiuation like Motivation.
If the worker are poor in adapt to using new technology, they will have difficulty in doing the job, make more energy on study and practice such technology, they will lose their motivation and complain, which make the other people lose motivation, the result is that delay in finish the job and low organization culture.
3. How can IT alter an individual’s work? How can a manager insure that the impact is positive rather than negative?
The manager should insure that the implementation of new technology can be positive rather than negative by taking initiative. Involvement of system users in the implementation of the system not only produces better results but also helps overcome resistance to the changes in how work gets done. The system users will support the implementation if they involve in the designing the changes in the organization. Change can creates conflict within an organization between those who support the change and those who do not. Workers do not change unless they see a good reason for they to so. So the important first step to implement a new technology is to make a persuasive case for change by mount a political campaign and present an agenda.
third blog question
1. Why is it important for business strategy to drive organisational strategy and IS strategy? What might happen if business strategy was not the driver?
The Information Systems Strategy Triangle is a simple framework for understanding the impact of IS on organizations. From the Information System Strategy Triangle, we can see that the IS strategy triangle consists of Business Strategy, Organizational Strategy and Information Strategy. A Business Strategy is a well-articulated vision of where the business seeks to go and how it expects to get there. It is the form by which a business communicates its goals. Organizational strategy is concerned with envisioning a future for your family business, creating value in the eyes of your customers, and building and sustaining a strong position in the marketplace. Information Strategy means the hardware, software, application, database, procedure, people, and network.Organizational strategy is a clear definition of how the organization needs to change – over time - in order to be able to deliver the strategy of the enterprise and an actionable plan of how to make the transformation. This requires both the thinking and analysis to compare current state to desired state and define the gap, and the execution capabilities to make the requisite changes happen. Developed and implemented effectively organizational strategy enables companies to convert strategic intent into sustainable and high performance results.
2. Consider a traditional manufacturing company that wanted to take advantage of the Internet and the Web. What might be a reasonable business strategy and how would organizational and IS strategy need to change?When a traditional manufacturing company wants to take advantage of the Internet and the Web, its business model changed from traditional business to e-commerce business. in order to make the business successfully-commerce provides many new ways for businesses and consumers to communicate and conduct business. The information strategy also would have a big change. Online implementation needs the hardware to support and proper software to make the online process work. It also needs a wide network so others can view the information at this organization. The database would be some different than before, because it is through internet, the record was automatically done by the proper procedure.
3. What does this tip from Fast Company mean: “The job of the CIO is to provide organizational and strategic flexibility”?
The Chief Information Officer (CIO), whose position is providing strategic direction, planning, oversight, delivery and accountability for information technology (IT) activities. This position requires an individual to roll up their sleeves and contribute while leading the IT function within the organizationThe Chief Information Officer will serve as the primary point of contact, Kiewit's technology head, and report to the Senior Vice President of Operations and Administration. The incumbent will work with technology to provide a strategy for driving the company's Business Plan and effectively communicate the strategy throughout the organization.
References:
http://fhict.fontys.nl/es/MScModules/Isom/Shared%20Documents/Sheets/Chapter+1_Info+Stg+Triangle%5B1%5D.ppt (Access on March 26, 2009)
http://www.constructionexecutive.com/constructionjobs/2037/Chief-Information-Officer-(CIO).html (Access on March 26, 2009).
The Information Systems Strategy Triangle is a simple framework for understanding the impact of IS on organizations. From the Information System Strategy Triangle, we can see that the IS strategy triangle consists of Business Strategy, Organizational Strategy and Information Strategy. A Business Strategy is a well-articulated vision of where the business seeks to go and how it expects to get there. It is the form by which a business communicates its goals. Organizational strategy is concerned with envisioning a future for your family business, creating value in the eyes of your customers, and building and sustaining a strong position in the marketplace. Information Strategy means the hardware, software, application, database, procedure, people, and network.Organizational strategy is a clear definition of how the organization needs to change – over time - in order to be able to deliver the strategy of the enterprise and an actionable plan of how to make the transformation. This requires both the thinking and analysis to compare current state to desired state and define the gap, and the execution capabilities to make the requisite changes happen. Developed and implemented effectively organizational strategy enables companies to convert strategic intent into sustainable and high performance results.
2. Consider a traditional manufacturing company that wanted to take advantage of the Internet and the Web. What might be a reasonable business strategy and how would organizational and IS strategy need to change?When a traditional manufacturing company wants to take advantage of the Internet and the Web, its business model changed from traditional business to e-commerce business. in order to make the business successfully-commerce provides many new ways for businesses and consumers to communicate and conduct business. The information strategy also would have a big change. Online implementation needs the hardware to support and proper software to make the online process work. It also needs a wide network so others can view the information at this organization. The database would be some different than before, because it is through internet, the record was automatically done by the proper procedure.
3. What does this tip from Fast Company mean: “The job of the CIO is to provide organizational and strategic flexibility”?
The Chief Information Officer (CIO), whose position is providing strategic direction, planning, oversight, delivery and accountability for information technology (IT) activities. This position requires an individual to roll up their sleeves and contribute while leading the IT function within the organizationThe Chief Information Officer will serve as the primary point of contact, Kiewit's technology head, and report to the Senior Vice President of Operations and Administration. The incumbent will work with technology to provide a strategy for driving the company's Business Plan and effectively communicate the strategy throughout the organization.
References:
http://fhict.fontys.nl/es/MScModules/Isom/Shared%20Documents/Sheets/Chapter+1_Info+Stg+Triangle%5B1%5D.ppt (Access on March 26, 2009)
http://www.constructionexecutive.com/constructionjobs/2037/Chief-Information-Officer-(CIO).html (Access on March 26, 2009).
Second Blog Question
Considering the organisational environments (internal, external and new work) and the technology environments (hardware, software and data trends), what current technologies do you predict will have the most impact on the way work is done? Why?
Nowadays, the work is quite differing from old days, it becomes something new. The work is more complexity and need highly interconnections, and becoming electronically such as workflow system and GDSS, and the manage of the organization is change. As these developments of the work, people should more sensitive with the new work environment, they should improve themselves to adapt to the new environment. Particular department will request Senior Network Administrator to implement new technology when they need it, Network Administrator will analyze and forward a report to the Administrative Officer on New Technology implementation. Chief Executive Officer, Business Manager, Marketing Team, and others involved in bringing in business will identify business in future for new technology implementation and request Project manager to take care of implementing new technology.
All these environment elements would impact on the MIS, and some may emerge the improvements on the organization's MIS. When the external environment changes, some of the parts in the MIS may out-of-date and can not adapt to the new elements. And the manager in the organization must come out the new ideas that can well corporate with the new developed outside environment.
Highly developed computer science makes the organization's technology environment quite different. From the first computer till now, the hardware has experienced a great evolution.
Reference:
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/CliffsReviewTopic/The-Internal-Environment.topicArticleId-8944,articleId-8860.html
Nowadays, the work is quite differing from old days, it becomes something new. The work is more complexity and need highly interconnections, and becoming electronically such as workflow system and GDSS, and the manage of the organization is change. As these developments of the work, people should more sensitive with the new work environment, they should improve themselves to adapt to the new environment. Particular department will request Senior Network Administrator to implement new technology when they need it, Network Administrator will analyze and forward a report to the Administrative Officer on New Technology implementation. Chief Executive Officer, Business Manager, Marketing Team, and others involved in bringing in business will identify business in future for new technology implementation and request Project manager to take care of implementing new technology.
All these environment elements would impact on the MIS, and some may emerge the improvements on the organization's MIS. When the external environment changes, some of the parts in the MIS may out-of-date and can not adapt to the new elements. And the manager in the organization must come out the new ideas that can well corporate with the new developed outside environment.
Highly developed computer science makes the organization's technology environment quite different. From the first computer till now, the hardware has experienced a great evolution.
Reference:
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/CliffsReviewTopic/The-Internal-Environment.topicArticleId-8944,articleId-8860.html
First Blog Question
1. Define the meaning of the terms data, information and knowledge according to Thomas Davenport's Information Hierarchy (1997).
Data: Data is represented as an item or event out of context with no relation to other things.
Information: A message, usually in the form of a document or an audible or visible communication, meant to change the way a receiver perceives something and to influence judgment or behavior; data that makes a difference.
Knowledge: A fluid mix of framed experience, values, contextual information, and expert insight that provides a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information It originates and is applied in the minds of knowers. In organizations, it often becomes embedded not only in documents or repositories but also in organizational routines, processes, practices, and norms.
2. What are the characteristics of the above terms?
Data: unprocessed, unorganized and discrete.
Information: Timeliness, Sufficiency, level of detail or aggregation, redundancy, understandability
Knowledge: Knowing is a human process, not a machine process, it is the result of cognition, it is experiential, it belongs to communities.
3. Give and example for each term mentioned above.
Data can be detailed or sampled. Detailed data would facts about every occurrence of something (e.g. the weight of every packet of Twisties leaving the factory). Sampled data would use typical measurements to represent the whole (e.g. weighing every 100th packet of Twisties)
Data can come in various forms: textual (e.g. names, addresses), numeric (e.g. heights, ages), graphical (e.g. pictures of faces), aural (e.g. Morse Code dots and dashes), visual (e.g. the individual frames of a movie are data that are processed by the brain into moving picture information when the frames are shown at 24 frames per second; fingerprints
Information: A school database holding information on teachers, subjects, classrooms and students .The Roads and Traffic authority holding information on automobiles and holders of driver’s licensees. Video stores holding information on borrowers and videos.
4. Is there any possibility of a fourth level of Information Hierarchy? Elaborate.
Yes. There is a possibility of a fourth level of Information Hierarchy which is Wisdom. Wisdom is an extrapolative and non-deterministic, non-probabilistic process. Wisdom is the ability and the process by which we also discern, or judge, between right and wrong. Wisdom can only process by human.Reference:
http://www.cognitivedesignsolutions.com/KM/Understanding.htm(Access on March 25, 2009)
http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/vceit/infodata/data-characteristics.htm(Access on March 25, 2009)
Data: Data is represented as an item or event out of context with no relation to other things.
Information: A message, usually in the form of a document or an audible or visible communication, meant to change the way a receiver perceives something and to influence judgment or behavior; data that makes a difference.
Knowledge: A fluid mix of framed experience, values, contextual information, and expert insight that provides a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information It originates and is applied in the minds of knowers. In organizations, it often becomes embedded not only in documents or repositories but also in organizational routines, processes, practices, and norms.
2. What are the characteristics of the above terms?
Data: unprocessed, unorganized and discrete.
Information: Timeliness, Sufficiency, level of detail or aggregation, redundancy, understandability
Knowledge: Knowing is a human process, not a machine process, it is the result of cognition, it is experiential, it belongs to communities.
3. Give and example for each term mentioned above.
Data can be detailed or sampled. Detailed data would facts about every occurrence of something (e.g. the weight of every packet of Twisties leaving the factory). Sampled data would use typical measurements to represent the whole (e.g. weighing every 100th packet of Twisties)
Data can come in various forms: textual (e.g. names, addresses), numeric (e.g. heights, ages), graphical (e.g. pictures of faces), aural (e.g. Morse Code dots and dashes), visual (e.g. the individual frames of a movie are data that are processed by the brain into moving picture information when the frames are shown at 24 frames per second; fingerprints
Information: A school database holding information on teachers, subjects, classrooms and students .The Roads and Traffic authority holding information on automobiles and holders of driver’s licensees. Video stores holding information on borrowers and videos.
4. Is there any possibility of a fourth level of Information Hierarchy? Elaborate.
Yes. There is a possibility of a fourth level of Information Hierarchy which is Wisdom. Wisdom is an extrapolative and non-deterministic, non-probabilistic process. Wisdom is the ability and the process by which we also discern, or judge, between right and wrong. Wisdom can only process by human.Reference:
http://www.cognitivedesignsolutions.com/KM/Understanding.htm(Access on March 25, 2009)
http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/vceit/infodata/data-characteristics.htm(Access on March 25, 2009)
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