Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Monday, September 17, 2007

Goals of the New Work Environment

McNurlin and Sprague cited four goals in the new work environment--(1)leverage globally, (2)organize for complexity, (3)work electronically, and (4)handle continuous and discontinuous change.

The first one deals with tapping the tacity knowledge of the workforce, nurturing the workforce with knowledge and prmoting a culture of sharing knowledge. Briefly I felt like the enterprise is wishing to go back to the university if that's the case..

Organize for complexity

The second one in my perception tells us that the enterprise move all the decisions to the consumers that made their work now a lot complex. It's like consumers now have so much freedom that the enterprise has to work well to satisfy the wants of the consumers. Do you think the consumer or the customer always know what is best for her?

Work electronically

Third, work electronically. The small workspace or spacious, private cubicle now becomes secondary concern to the internet bandwidth, the fast machine processor and the e-mail and web access restrictions/policies. The workforce nowadays cannot survive if electronically illiterate.

Continuous and Discontinuous Change

Managing change, whether for improvement or thru reengineering should be dealt objectively, and should be anticipated by the enterprise.

Welcome to 2nd term, MGMTTEC Students

Welcome to my blog!

This blog hopes to complement our course on Management of Technology.

Dates of the requirements will be adjusted according to this terms' schedule. Feel free to give also your comments on some of the related topics that will be posted from this month to Dec. Hope to hear from you.. :)

Please leave also the link to your group's wiki in this posting.

Guten Tag! :)

Monday, July 30, 2007

THE DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW PROJECT

The DMW project is a meaningful activity that entails a proof of management of technology. Everyday different forms, different kinds and different faces of documents are generated. Some are consciously organized, some are not. Examples of these documents are:
o A feature article contributed by a reader and is routed to and from the editorsA thesis abstract
o A birth or marriage certificateA criminal case filed against a person
o A cover page of magazine with various images and layouts
o A project evaluation form
The DMW Project as the culminating requirement in the Moftech course entails the following
1. Finding a small size office that manages documents manually or semi-electronically;
2. Identifying possible shift from manual to digital and/or electronic form of data/image capturing, organizing, storing and retrieving and inclusion of other possible management activities;
3. The document involved requires a routing process to several users;
4. The other management activities involved may be versioning of the document or involved a workflow process/changes or involved archiving;
5. The output requires a process flow analysis of the existing and the proposed, new document workflow using process flow diagrams (everyone is encouraged to use UML);
6. The output is also expected to exhibit proposed screen designs to further appreciate the workflow process;
7. The output should explain the method of file repository, how to capture the digital and printed form of the documents and the online method of storing/viewing of the document;
8. The study groups may refer to the following as web references:

Workflow reference

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=workflow&i=54851,00.asp

Document imaging

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=document+imaging&i=41646,00.asp

DMS demo

http://ccdemo.ademero.com/Search/Search.aspx

9. The study groups may confine their final project to the management of text documents. Management of image or audio documents will be optional.

10. The study groups are expected to present and discuss the merits of their design and the proposed workflow automation.

Monday, July 16, 2007

MOFTECH Reporting Schedule

MOFTECH Reporting Schedule as of July 16

1. Outsourcing Business/IS Functions –Jul 26
2. Managing Information Resources – Jul 17
3. Distributed Systems – Jul 19
4. Disaster Recovery in Distributed Systems – Jul 19
5. Managing Telecommunications – Jul 24
6. Systems for Supporting Knowledge Work – Jul 24
7. Knowledge Management – Jul 31
8. Intelligent Multimedia & Robotics – Jul 31
9. Network Service Level Agreement – Aug 2

Students are required to make a 15-20minutes presentation in video or Powerpoint reporting format. As junior students, please include relevant examples or case studies.