1. Why might a worker resist the implementation of a new technology? Give some examples to support the idea.
The worker resist the implementation of new technology may because of that they don’t want to change, or poor adaption in using new technology, or they are just more likely to using traditional way of doing work.
Such as the accounting employee of a big organization, he may scare of change when the organization changing most of the equipment of the accounting department, he may scare of don’t know anything of new kind of worker, or may he is too old fashion that can’t accept new thing or poor skills in new technology equipment, in these situation, he will resist to using these new technology to do the work.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, printer, they will do job quickly and accurately, so they will more likely to do the job, such situation 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?
How can IT alter an individual’s work? IS worker should design a humanism system which can find any function in the place they think the function will be, develop some cute function to reduce the stress of using new system, more communication with the employees and identify the idea of new system. Besides that, a full edition of system using handbook should be provided, this will provide the particular and basically solution of solve problems, this action will decrease the resist of the worker in using new system.
Training is the must provided way to make the manager insure the worker work in the positive, and a good research is very necessary before changing, search about the proper technology they will use, the employees’ suggest, the cost of using new technology and the benefit that new technology can take to the company.
2009年3月26日星期四
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?
Business strategy is a well-articulated vision of where the business seeks to go and how it expects to get there. It is form by which a business communicates its goals.
Successful firms that business strategy drives both their organization and IS strategy, they must , therefore, seek to balance business, organizational, and IS strategy.
Business strategy is consider as making goals, objective, strategies, tactics; organizational strategy is consider as deciding organization structure, hiring new employee, operations, and processes; IS strategy is consider as hardware, software, application, database, procedure, and network.
Business strategy drive organizational strategy and IS strategy can consider as making company plan, making the goal and objective of the organization and making tactics for company development. Building Organizational and IS strategy need depends on these business strategy, these activities make the predict more correctly, decrease the invest on uncorrected equipment, making the company select the low price material supplier, decrease the waste of money in improper delivery, select manufacture place in low labor cost, and convenient way of delivery to the market, decide product strategy.
Uniqueness perceived by customer2. 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 organisational and IS strategy need to change?
Business strategy is a well-articulated vision of where the business seeks to go and how it expects to get there. It is form by which a business communicates its goals.
Successful firms that business strategy drives both their organization and IS strategy, they must , therefore, seek to balance business, organizational, and IS strategy.
Business strategy is consider as making goals, objective, strategies, tactics; organizational strategy is consider as deciding organization structure, hiring new employee, operations, and processes; IS strategy is consider as hardware, software, application, database, procedure, and network.
Business strategy drive organizational strategy and IS strategy can consider as making company plan, making the goal and objective of the organization and making tactics for company development. Building Organizational and IS strategy need depends on these business strategy, these activities make the predict more correctly, decrease the invest on uncorrected equipment, making the company select the low price material supplier, decrease the waste of money in improper delivery, select manufacture place in low labor cost, and convenient way of delivery to the market, decide product strategy.
Uniqueness perceived by customer2. 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 organisational and IS strategy need to change?
If a traditional manufacturing company that wanted to take advantage of the Internet and the Web, the strategy that the company should to consider is Cost leadership. Differentiation and Focus.
The cost leadership is to consider cost which should to be the cheapest in payout, Internet can take the lots of information about low price material, proper retailer, where have low labor cost, and low transportation fees.
Differentiation is to consider which making the product stand out for non-cost reason. Internet can help the company search information about the new skills, new material, new technology, and collect data of customer wants, and what characteristic the other competitors’ product have.
The focus is consider as occupy narrow market niche where the product or service can stand out by virtue of their cost leadership or differentiation. Internet can help the company search about which market are less competitors and which area that the competitor are difficulty in copy of the products.
3. What does this tip from Fast Company mean: “The job of the CIO is to provide organisational and strategic flexibility”?
CIO is the leader of organization IS worker, which control, maintain and process data in the first time, With the quickly and accurate of collect data, the company can cut unnecessary cost, making proper organization structure, making right business strategy, IS strategy, and organization strategy. For the external environment, quickly and accurate of collect data making the company select the low price material supplier, decrease the waste of money in improper delivery, select manufacture place in low labor cost, and convenient way of delivery to the market, decide product strategy. And make the company make the predict more correctly, decrease the invest on uncorrected equipment, IS equipment, telecommunication fees etc.
The cost leadership is to consider cost which should to be the cheapest in payout, Internet can take the lots of information about low price material, proper retailer, where have low labor cost, and low transportation fees.
Differentiation is to consider which making the product stand out for non-cost reason. Internet can help the company search information about the new skills, new material, new technology, and collect data of customer wants, and what characteristic the other competitors’ product have.
The focus is consider as occupy narrow market niche where the product or service can stand out by virtue of their cost leadership or differentiation. Internet can help the company search about which market are less competitors and which area that the competitor are difficulty in copy of the products.
3. What does this tip from Fast Company mean: “The job of the CIO is to provide organisational and strategic flexibility”?
CIO is the leader of organization IS worker, which control, maintain and process data in the first time, With the quickly and accurate of collect data, the company can cut unnecessary cost, making proper organization structure, making right business strategy, IS strategy, and organization strategy. For the external environment, quickly and accurate of collect data making the company select the low price material supplier, decrease the waste of money in improper delivery, select manufacture place in low labor cost, and convenient way of delivery to the market, decide product strategy. And make the company make the predict more correctly, decrease the invest on uncorrected equipment, IS equipment, telecommunication fees etc.
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 technology is developing fast and fast, the hardware, software and data trends has many huge change such as the computerize, network linking internal and external, supplier and retailer, data mining using in collect data of sales, manufacture, transportation and customer information.
In my opinion, data trends is the most impact on the way work is done in the future, these because of that, computerize is already working very well in the previous time, people get high speed of process data, collect information, send and receive information through Internet. But the world environment is changing very quickly, the people’s life style also changing, besides that, economic force, demographic force, and technology force is changing fast, for making decision quickly and accurate , it’s should be collect data quickly and accurate.
With the quickly and accurate of collect data, the company can cut unnecessary cost, making proper organization structure, making right business strategy, IS strategy, and organization strategy. For the external environment, quickly and accurate of collect data making the company select the low price material supplier, decrease the waste of money in improper delivery, select manufacture place in low labor cost, and convenient way of delivery to the market, decide product strategy.
For the new work, data trend can make the company make the predict more correctly, decrease the invest on uncorrected equipment, IS equipment, telecommunication fees etc.
In my opinion, data trends is the most impact on the way work is done in the future, these because of that, computerize is already working very well in the previous time, people get high speed of process data, collect information, send and receive information through Internet. But the world environment is changing very quickly, the people’s life style also changing, besides that, economic force, demographic force, and technology force is changing fast, for making decision quickly and accurate , it’s should be collect data quickly and accurate.
With the quickly and accurate of collect data, the company can cut unnecessary cost, making proper organization structure, making right business strategy, IS strategy, and organization strategy. For the external environment, quickly and accurate of collect data making the company select the low price material supplier, decrease the waste of money in improper delivery, select manufacture place in low labor cost, and convenient way of delivery to the market, decide product strategy.
For the new work, data trend can make the company make the predict more correctly, decrease the invest on uncorrected equipment, IS equipment, telecommunication fees etc.
First blog question
1. Define the meaning of the terms data, information and knowledge according to Thomas Davenport's Information Hierarchy (1997).
Data are conceived of as "sensory stimuli, which we perceive through our senses", or "signal readings", including "sensor and/or sensory readings of light, sound, smell, taste, and touch". Others have argued that what Zins calls subjective data actually count as a "signal" tier
Information meets the definition for knowledge by description ("information is contained in descriptions ), and is differentiated from data in that it is "useful". "Information is inferred from data", in the process of answering interrogative questions (e.g., "who", "what", "where", "how many", "when"), thereby making the data useful for "decisions and/or action". "Classically," states a recent text, "information is defined as data that are endowed with meaning and purpose."
Knowledge is a fluid mix of framed experience, values, contextual information, expert insight and grounded intuition that provides an environment and framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information. It originates and is applied in the minds of knower. In organizations it often becomes embedded not only in documents and repositories but also in organizational routines, processes, practices and norms.
2. What are the characteristics of the above terms?
data "are characterized as phenomena in the universal domain". "Apparently," and "it is more useful to relate to the data, information, and knowledge as sets of signs rather than as meaning and its building blocks".
Information is characterized as representing "a state of awareness (consciousness) and the physical manifestations they form", such that "information, as a phenomena, represents both a process and a product; a cognitive/affective state, and the physical counterpart (product of) the cognitive/affective state."
Knowledge is characterized by the individual’s justifiable belief that it is true, while “knowing” is a state of mind which is characterized by the three conditions: (1) the individual believes that it is true, (2) S/he can justify it, and (3) It is true, or it appears to be true.3. Give and example for each term mentioned above.
Data is like the words.
Information is like the words connect in a sequence, and have meaning in communication.
Knowledge is like the information during communication is meaningful, it can be using in making decision and giving suggest.
4. Is there any possibility of a fourth level of Information Hierarchy? Elaborate.
wisdom as "know-why", but later refined his definitions, so as to differentiate "why do" (wisdom) from "why is" (information), and expanding his definition to include a form of know-what ("what to do, act or carry out").
Ackoff refers to understanding as an "appreciation of 'why'", and wisdom as "evaluated understanding", where understanding is posited as a discrete layer between knowledge and wisdom. Adler had previously also included an understanding tier, while other authors have depicted understanding as a dimension in relation to which DIKW is plotted. Rowley attributes the following definition of wisdom to Ackoff:
Wisdom is the ability to increase effectiveness. Wisdom adds value, which requires the mental function that we call judgment. The ethical and aesthetic values that this implies are inherent to the actor and are unique and personal.
Data are conceived of as "sensory stimuli, which we perceive through our senses", or "signal readings", including "sensor and/or sensory readings of light, sound, smell, taste, and touch". Others have argued that what Zins calls subjective data actually count as a "signal" tier
Information meets the definition for knowledge by description ("information is contained in descriptions ), and is differentiated from data in that it is "useful". "Information is inferred from data", in the process of answering interrogative questions (e.g., "who", "what", "where", "how many", "when"), thereby making the data useful for "decisions and/or action". "Classically," states a recent text, "information is defined as data that are endowed with meaning and purpose."
Knowledge is a fluid mix of framed experience, values, contextual information, expert insight and grounded intuition that provides an environment and framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information. It originates and is applied in the minds of knower. In organizations it often becomes embedded not only in documents and repositories but also in organizational routines, processes, practices and norms.
2. What are the characteristics of the above terms?
data "are characterized as phenomena in the universal domain". "Apparently," and "it is more useful to relate to the data, information, and knowledge as sets of signs rather than as meaning and its building blocks".
Information is characterized as representing "a state of awareness (consciousness) and the physical manifestations they form", such that "information, as a phenomena, represents both a process and a product; a cognitive/affective state, and the physical counterpart (product of) the cognitive/affective state."
Knowledge is characterized by the individual’s justifiable belief that it is true, while “knowing” is a state of mind which is characterized by the three conditions: (1) the individual believes that it is true, (2) S/he can justify it, and (3) It is true, or it appears to be true.3. Give and example for each term mentioned above.
Data is like the words.
Information is like the words connect in a sequence, and have meaning in communication.
Knowledge is like the information during communication is meaningful, it can be using in making decision and giving suggest.
4. Is there any possibility of a fourth level of Information Hierarchy? Elaborate.
wisdom as "know-why", but later refined his definitions, so as to differentiate "why do" (wisdom) from "why is" (information), and expanding his definition to include a form of know-what ("what to do, act or carry out").
Ackoff refers to understanding as an "appreciation of 'why'", and wisdom as "evaluated understanding", where understanding is posited as a discrete layer between knowledge and wisdom. Adler had previously also included an understanding tier, while other authors have depicted understanding as a dimension in relation to which DIKW is plotted. Rowley attributes the following definition of wisdom to Ackoff:
Wisdom is the ability to increase effectiveness. Wisdom adds value, which requires the mental function that we call judgment. The ethical and aesthetic values that this implies are inherent to the actor and are unique and personal.
2009年3月19日星期四
Malaysia Technology Expo 2009
Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2009 is concern about the best of local and international invention and innovation in products and services, and back bigger and better with more interesting & exciting concepts in recognizing excellence in Science & Technology invention and innovation which located at Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC).
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. Besides that the expo has the most interesting area for me, which is UVA, which is the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, but its pity that the expo just show a video and not have a real show.
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. Besides that the expo has the most interesting area for me, which is UVA, which is the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, but its pity that the expo just show a video and not have a real show.
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