My Local Org.!

Subject: Assignment 1 (Due: June 25, 2009, before 01:00pm)

♥SMART Communications♥





Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) is the Philippines' leading wireless services provider with 36.9 million subscribers on its GSM network as of end-March 2009.

I had chosen the SMART Communication for they provide an interesting IT servicing for their comsumers..
One of its best feature was their use of wide range services in businesses.

The SMART Business Solutions!
This features a SMART way to help businesses...
♥ MOBILE OFFICE SOLUTIONS

1. Voice Solutions

Every Business Deserves GOLD!

Now it’s easier for your business to go GOLD. With Smart Gold Lite, your employees get a real Smart postpaid plan for just PhP 300 a month*. With just PhP 2 per/minute Smart-to-Smart and Smart-to-Talk 'N Text call rates, it’s the lightest and lowest ever!

NO NEED TO RELOAD

However big or small your business is, you want the lightest call rates and communications costs, but you also want uninterrupted connections. Smart Gold Lite allows staff to call freely on a credit limit that is unrestricted by the plan amount.

*FULL INTER-NETWORK CAPABILITY

You and your staff can still call and text to other networks just as easily and without needing to reload.

*THE LIGHTEST AND LOWEST CALL RATE

Just P2/min Smart-to-Smart and Smart-to-Talk 'N Text.

*NATIONWIDEST COVERAGE

Smart still is the widest and clearest network anywhere in the Philippines at any time.

*SMART GOLD LITE IS FOR EVERYONE

As a SIM-only offer, approval is quicker and easier than ever.

2. Wireless Office Solutions

Netcast is a web-based SMS solution that aims to cater to your organization’s additional communication channel needs through regular and scheduled bulk messaging broadcast, information exchange, feedback and content management.

Bulk Messaging

Allows businesses to broadcast time-sensitive SMS notifications to its targeted, large number of recipients. Module enables companies to automatically and simultaneously deliver information to preferred groups.

- Similar experience as sending a message through cellphone
- Manage your messages via folders
- Ability to schedule message broadcasts

*Text Circles

Sending a message to a select group has never been easier.

This module enables key personnel or group member/s to send a message to the entire group securely via mobile phone. They will receive the message sent by other members as well as reply and send a copy to the rest of the group

- Maximum of 10 members per company
- Alternative means of communication to a select group of users
- All messages are charged to the Netcast account

*Text Helpdesk

Be connected to your clients via SMS. Receive relevant information from external sources and immediately respond. This also enables keyword based response system that releases information to your customers, suppliers, service providers, etc.

- Automated information release
- Maintain healthy exchange ideas
- Integrate with existing database

Benefits

• Alternative to printed materials
• Targeted recipients
• Emergency Broadcast/Announcement Facility
• Personalized Company Name Masking
• Mobility and Convenience
• Best for time-critical messages
• Can easily be integrated with existing system and/or database
• Two level security with dynamic PIN

SMART Bizload is an easily accessible user-friendly web-based prepaid loading portal service that allows you to efficiently load and manage budgeted airtime benefits to your employees' prepaid accounts. With this service, you can easily distribute prepaid load in just a few steps.

This allows you to credit prepaid load in real time to eliminate the need to purchase top-up cards per piece or in bulk which saves time and resource. With the employment of first class log-in system, access to your account is dynamic and secure.

Smart Bizload offers you Batch Loading according to your needs. Crediting of load value can be automated by simply uploading a file and setting the frequency. You can now focus on other equally important tasks and let Smart Bizload take care of your load.

Smart Bizload boasts of other very attractive features that gives you the Smart advantage:

• Access anywhere from a PC with internet connection
• Safe and Secure log-in system for authorized personnel
• Real-time balance inquiry
• Standard reports available for easy monitoring of transactions

Fixed Cellular Service (FCS) is SMART’s corporate offer that provides voice, fax, and data connectivity via GSM and GPRS network for areas without fixed (landline) facilities. The device can also be connected to a PABX to route calls from local phones to mobile numbers and/or serve as back-up connection in case of landline service downtime

Provides telephone, data (internet) and fax services where there are no landline facilities.

• Serves as back-up to existing landline facilities.
• Can be installed almost anywhere with GSM coverage and be easily transferred to another location.

♥ Business Solution Customer support

At SMART, our Business Solutions team is ready to attend to your needs. We provide customer support through the following channels:

1. Relationship Manager

A dedicated Relationship Manager (RM) will be assigned to handle all sales and after-sales concerns. These include inquiries regarding the line subscription, defects and repairs, or any changes related to the corporate subscription.

2. The Corporate Business Group Communal Email

An email address with dedicated CBG personnel, ready and willing to answer any query regarding your SMART Gold Corporate subscriptions. There will be a ready notification of receipt of your query 15 minutes from sending your message. Email us here.

3. Business Hotline

A corporate hotline number 848-8889 or press #888 from your Smart cellphone (toll-free) is available for all corporate subscribers.

4 . Bill Delivery

To ensure on-time receipt of your bills, personal delivery will be arranged to facilitate ease in distribution and settlement of your bills.

for more information, the official website of SMART is open to serve you...

http://smart.com.ph/

◘_◘IS/IT Leadership roles◘_◘

IS/IT LEADERSHIP ROLES:

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 91,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.3 billion for the 12 months ended Oct. 3, 2008.

☺☺For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.

Information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) leadership roles have undergone fundamental changes over the past decade. And according to what I have researched, on 1996 Computer Science Corporation (CSC) has suggested six new IS leadership roles which are required to execute IS’s future agenda: chief architect, change leader, product developer, technology provocateur, coach and chief operating strategist. Below are the descriptions of the Six IS Leadership roles.

1. Chief architect. The chief architect designs future possibilities for the business. The primary work of the chief architect is to design and evolve the IT infrastructure so that it will expand the range of future possibilities for the business, not define specific business
outcomes.

2. Change leader. The essential role of the change leader is to orchestrate all those resources that will be needed to execute the change program.

3. Product developer. The product developer helps define the company’s place in the emerging digital economy.

4. Technology provocateur. The technology provocateur embeds IT into the business strategy. The technology provocateur works with senior business executives to bring IT and realities of the IT marketplace to bear on the formation of strategy for the business.

5. Coach. The coach teaches people to acquire the skill sets they will need for the future. Coaches have to basic responsibilities: teaching people how to learn, so that they can become self-sufficient, and providing team leaders with staff able to do the IT-related work of the business.

6. Chief operating strategist. The chief operating strategist invents the future with senior management. The chief operating strategist is the top IS executive who is focused on the future agenda of the IS organization. The most important, and least understood, parts of the role have to do with the interpretation of new technologies and the IT marketplace, and the bringing of this understanding into the development of the digital business strategy for the organization.

Although these roles produced by the CSC without any scientific approach, many people noticed that they seem very well tailored for scientific investigation into IS leadership roles. People who fill these roles do not necessarily head up new departments or processes, but they exert influence and provide leadership across the organizational structure.

On the methods used to accomplish these functions, for example, Mint berg’s role typology, have been proposed. According to Mint berg (1990), the manager's job can be

Described in terms of various roles:

1. Informational Roles. By virtue of interpersonal contacts, both with subordinates and

With a network of contacts, the manager emerges as the nerve center of the organizational unit. The manager may not know everything but typically knows more than subordinates do. Processing information is a key part of the manager's job. As monitor, the manager is perpetually scanning the environment for information, interrogating liaison contacts and subordinates, and receiving unsolicited information, much of it as a result of the network of personal contacts. As a disseminator, the manager passes some privileged information directly to subordinates, who would otherwise have no access to it. As spokes person, the manager sends some information to people outside the unit.

2. Decisional Roles. Information is not an end in itself; it is the basic input to decision making. The manager plays the major role in a unit's decision-making system. As its formal authority, only the manager can commit the unit to important new courses of action; and as its nerve center, only the manager has full and current information to make the set of decisions that determines the unit's strategy. As entrepreneur, the manager seeks to improve the unit, to adapt it to changing conditions in the environment. As disturbance handler, the manager responds to pressures from situations. As resource al locater, the manager is responsible for deciding who will get what. As negotiator, the manager commits organizational resources in real time.

3. Interpersonal Roles. As figurehead, every manager must perform some ceremonial duties. As leader, managers are responsible for the work of the people of their unit. As liaison, the manager makes contacts outside the vertical chain of command.

☺☺As an aspirant BSIT student through my initiative, I learn to appreciate more about computers and its component that meets specified power-efficiency in people management application as well as power-efficient computing products and adopting policies and practices that increases power efficiency throughout their organizations by scanning and reading those stated leadership roles in IS/IT.☺☺

hOt abOuT my fiRsT dAy???

My first day class……….

What a wonderful day it is! My mind shouted.

Well, it is my new and first day of class in my new world of college life. Yes, new, not to mention my third year in college but it’s my new campus and my new place to reside for again about one school year.

I am an alien in USeP Obrero Campus on that day of June 15, of current year. An immigrant coming from Tagum-Mabini Campus. I am a stranger to any other older students, and a new face to professors.

I felt nervous and thrilled. I don’t know what to expect and how to act normally in a total strange place. I am thankful to have my classmates with me. We are 20 transferees and I am expecting to grow in my new institution.

When m day end up, I sighed, this is where my future begins……….my real life battle.

♥University of Southeastern Philippines.♥

MIS as subject description in BSIT...

A new environment, new campus, new professors and new subjects. A whole brand new atmosphere. I am a transferee, formerly a student of USeP Tagum-mabini Campus but now currently an officially enrolled in USeP Obrero campus taking up Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

Our course was offered at Tagum campus only for just two years that’s why we are urged to move here in Obrero for it is what is planned before hand. And now were in major adjustment period.

In connection with my enrolled course-BSIT, I have my subject IT313 with description Management Information System (MIS) under the advisory of Dr. Randy Gamboa whom a totally stranger to me.

As blank as an white empty sheet of paper, I have no idea about the nature o my new subjects as well as with my professors. Until such time, Dr Gamboa approached the class. I was actually out of the scene because I weren’t there when he went to the prescribed room for the time was supposedly 10:00-11:30 in the morning but he arrived around 10:30.

Well anyway, I am fortunate enough to be informed by my classmates although were not yet acquainted. Funny but luckily I have this blessed courage to ask them about the left assignments. Then I was lately informed. At least!

Dr. Gamboa ask the class about the subject description which is Management Information System. Folks, if my notion would be asked, it is the term used or given to the matter which focuses with the integration of computer systems and human management with general goal of organization.

Let us try to separate the Management Information from its original clause for the mean time. It had discussed that ther are four related activities for management namely: planning, directional, organizing and controlling. We can have a text clues why we can say management is when someone needs to be manage; meaning you cannot work independently. Thimgs can be managed are processes, procedures and systems.

Consequently, Information system is another aspect. We have Information Technology which is composed of hardware and software which is extended into people ware in the end we can have an equated equation that goes: I.S. (Information System) = hardware + software + people ware.

Therefore, Management Information System or simply MIS can be considered as subset of the overall internal and external controls of a computerized system covering an application of people and technology.

Looking back with the equation of an information technology, it deals with software, hardware and people ware; the first two mentioned can be manage but not the people.

In connection, Management Information System really a prescribed and appropriate subject description for BSIT students in order for them to learn a so-called people management application.

The development and management of information technology tools assists future IT analysts and other related professionals in performing any tasks related to the processing of information.

In general, as an BSIT aspirant student, one must be willing to take all related leanings and beneficial things for Management Information System which is essential to know and study. Go beyond delving deeper.