Saturday, October 17, 2009

♥♥Company Barriers in their IS/IT Implementation♥♥

It seems that some business people always seem to be prosperous and successful and are able to easily attract clients and more revenue? While other business people seem to struggle constantly and despite their hard work and sincere efforts, they do not prosper and are not successful. Well, it really depends on there IS/IT implementation.
In different areas about businesses, especially in IS/IT implementations in a particular organization, there should be some barriers or risk that a company may encounter. Organizations are as alike and unique as human beings. Similarly, group processes can be as straightforward or as complex as the individuals who make up the organization. It is vital to successfully launching a new program that the leaders understand the strengths, weaknesses, and idiosyncrasies of the organization or in a particular company. Well in fact, we can have or find a company having a profitable and successful one when a certain company experiences some barriers in implanting there IS/IT. Barriers can be consider as an obstacle which prevents a given policy instrument being implemented.

In the company that we have visited which is the NCCC Mall.

PROFILE:
Their associates, customers, business partners and community. Since starting out as a textile store in 1952 they continue to grow, expanding to different retail businesses and locations to serve more people. They strive to offer Service from the Heart first of all to their associates. They also maintain solid relationships with their business partners to provide a wide assortment of basic and unique merchandise. They are proud of journey and we continue to pay tribute to o founders and history by living up to core values of humility, caring, hard work, excellence and fun. They live for their vision to be A Leader Who Cares. "
NCCC is one of the companies in regard of merchandising /retailing and having service to the Pilipino people .They showcase the need of the people ,they provides jobs and render service in the community.

NCCC starts only from one commercialize center that works manually for their documentation until they become a corporation that adopt the IT /IS change for the better management and improvement of their services and be a competitor.

To render more good services to every customer, NCCC created an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Department. This department divided into three groups.

Application Group
---In charge for Systems Development, Applications development & support, Lead programming and database administration
Hardware Network /Security Group
---In charge for the security, maintenance of their network as well as software.
Operation Group
---In charge price controlling (inventory and cost benefit and risk analyses).

One barrier which the NCCC mall encountered especially in there is/IT implementation is the “Competition in Business” as cited by Mr. Hervin Miclat, current supervisor of HNS (Hardware Networking Software) “There should be risk in every IS/IT change.” Since we all know that when we talked about business there should be a lot of challenges so that a particular company may have a fast and profitable means of industrializing. In fact, being competitive and profitable mainly the aim of every company all through out the world. For them to earn, they should have a clear and fast system compared to other certain company in the market.
In connection with this, it servers as a challenge to their company to implement and create systems like MMS (Merchandise Management System) which concentrates on vendor management , price management , promotion management , financial control and merchandise receiving, allocation and replenishment Inventory control and procurement.
One simple example mentioned by Sir Miclat is the releasing of receipt (the title of the property obtained in the exchange.) For an instance that there is a STORE A and STORE B.

STORE A
•Releases receipts to their respective customers manually. Done through hand-written or hand-completed receipts.
STORE B
•Releases receipts to their respective customers in a printed record. Done through output devices.


In this case if you are wise customer, you should have to buy your items to a company or business establishment which releases fast and clear receipts. As time changes we should have to adapt the flow of technology. Why should you choose STORE A when there is other company (referring to STORE B) which offers you a fast and hustle free.
Operating System it mainly refers to security and vulnerability issues. These are hone to hacker to use and then compromised the system. Management challenge to conduct a case study regarding to this issue to protect and secure the system against the hacker.

One best example of this is the Microsoft 2000 and Microsoft 2008. Obviously since 2008 is the latest so the company would prefer to used the Microsoft 2008 because it contains a lot of new features and well-organized. This would also make the company to be more competitive in the market.
Other cited example was a server. Pertaining to a certain situation, if a company planning to change a new server, first they should a key study prior to the changes. At that way they can compare which server is appropriate to be used.

Firewall.A firewall is a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications. It is a device or set of devices configured to permit, deny, encrypt, decrypt, or proxy all (in and out) computer traffic between different security domains based upon a set of rules and other criteria. It has a Unified Technology System (UTM).If the company decides to change a system, they should analyze the risk if they will change it or not then list the difference between the old and new system to know which is the appropriate.

Other Important Barriers:

COST
----in every changes in a particular company especially in updating new versions, it is very much important to consider certain amount to satisfy the company needs and to have a competitive business all through out the market.
This may include the following:
Installation- referring to the system development
Communication-referring to the cost that is being used in terms of sending and receiving such information

KNOWLEDGE
----All businesses have access to an extensive pool of knowledge - whether this is their understanding of customers' needs and the business environment or the skills and experience of staff.
The way a business gathers, shares and exploits this knowledge can be central to its ability to develop successfully. This doesn't just apply to huge multinational companies. Knowledge management can benefit everyone from a local newsagent to a manufacturing firm.

References:
http://www.nccc.com.ph/
http://en.wikipedia.org

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