Humana Jud

1. What 3 major learnings/lesson you have learned from this course?

• Time Management--I've learn how to manage time especially when I was once scolded by our professor for not submitting the documents on time. I cannot blame my instructor on it. It was really my fault. When the last deliverable was given (group deliverable-- SSM Advising Center), we haven't have any overnights etc because we learn to manage time. We have scheduled the project ahead of time so that we could make it through the finals..........
  
• Pre-Assessment/Blogs/Pivot Table for DSS,Scenario Manager/IT Outsourcing -- I've learn a lot on this topic
  
• SDLC --I'ts a good exercise (SSM case) because we've learned a lot on how to make a DFD, ERD although it's not really perfect but we still learn a lot from it.

2. What should our Instructor should continue to do for this course(IT PRo)?

I guess everything that he have taught to us will be continued so that the next batches will also learn a lot from him especially on time management.

3. What area should we improve on?

I guess there is nothing should be improved on. I really learned a lot.

IT Outsourcing

To Outsource or Not to Outsource

Information Technology (IT) plays a very vital tool in the strategic advantage of one's industry. The question on to outsource or not is not an easy decision for every industry.

The proliferation of the Internet and entreprise-wide activities presents numerous opportunities to use IT for strategic advantage and greatly demands higher technical skills(Sole,et.al, 2006)

With the company i've worked with, they outsource customized program suited to our institution. But the cost incurred for outsourcing is too much. If the institution have long-term plan, they should also think that it should be better to update the knowledge of the Instructors and at the same time do the IT work. With this, as Instructor, we are going to have an update knowledge and at the same time have enough knowledge to share with our students.

That's why, for me, i don't like the idea of outsourcing. As institution, as possible, they should always think of enriching their staff. I was reminded of the story about the programmers who make the online reservation for the airlines. They have good minds to think of it that it would be a good market in the near future. They've got millions out of it. See, they don't really need to outsource people if they are prepared.

For rapid organizational change because of companies who wanted to be on top in terms of technologies, outsourcing would be their best solution. State for instance, the General Motors, which is the largest outsourcing deal in the history, began it's first phase of a $15 billion deal to create a single global IT organization for the company (Hoover, 2006). They admitted that for the last year, they lost $8.6 billion and admit that the technology was its secondary problem. But we cannot still guarantee that they have the best solution to the problem because it we still do not see the actual output of the said plans.

With this, I am asking for your comments about IT outsourcing.

References:

Hoover, J. Nicholas "GM's Massive Outsourcing Deal Up And Running", http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192701131&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All, Sep 11, 2006 08:00 PM

Sole, Deborah L; McFarlan, Warren; Nolan, Richard "A knowledge-based model of IT outsourcing for the network era", http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs//9697/ 97-076a.html, January 6, 2006

Module 2
Computer and File Management
Pre Assessment-- 80%
Score--69 of 86
Date Taken: 7/24/06
Time Taken: 11:35 a.m.

Post Assessment-- 94%
Score: 81 of 86
Date Taken: 8/03/06
Time Taken: 11:45 a.m.

Module 3
Microsoft Word
Pre Assessment
Percentage--81%
Score--132 of 184
Date Taken:7/25/06
Time Taken: 11:30 a.m.

Post Assessment
Percentage--88%
Score--162 of 184
Date Taken:7/25/06
Time Taken:7:32 p.m.


Module 4
Microsoft Excel
1-- Excel 2000 Basics
Pre Assessment-- 73%
Score--65 of 89
Date Taken: 8/03/06
Time Taken: 4:50 p.m.

2-Excel 2000 Advanced Features
Pre Assessment-- 67%
Score--57 of 87
Date Taken: 8/03/06
Time Taken: 6:12 p.m.

1-- Excel 2000 Basics
Post Assessment-- 88%
Score: 79 of 89
Date Taken: 8/03/06
Time Taken: 7:31 p.m.

2-Excel 2000 Advanced Features
Post Assessment-- 85%
Score--74 of 87
Date Taken: 8/03/06
Time Taken: 8:15 p.m.

Module 5
Microsoft Access
1-- Access 2000 Basics
Pre Assessment-- 84%
Score--45 of 53
Date Taken: 8/04/06
Time Taken: 11:34 a.m.

2-Access 2000 Advanced Features
Pre Assessment-- 63%
Score--47 of 74
Date Taken: 8/04/06
Time Taken: 12:45 noon

Post Assessment
Percentage--88%
Score--113 of 127
Date Taken: 8/04/06
Time Taken: 1:37 p.m.

Module 6
Microsoft Powerpoint
Pre Assessment--76%
Score--177 of 230
Date Taken: 8/04/06
Time Taken: 1:37 p.m.

Post Assessment--85%
Score--196 of 230
Date Taken:8/04/06
Time Taken: 5:31 p.m.

Module 7
Part 1-Web Browsing Fundamentals
Percentage--87%
Score--34
Date Taken: 8/05/06
Time Taken:12:15 noon

Part 2--Messaging Fundamentals
Percentage--65%
Score--69 of 106
Date Taken:8/05/06
Time Taken:1:45 p.m.

Post Assessment --Messaging Fundamentals
Percentage--86%
Score--91 of 106
Date Taken:8/05/06
Time Taken:1:45 p.m.

My assessment

actually, i'm still taking the pre assessment for Module 1. hope i'll pass during the pre assessment...

my score during the module 1 is 74 of 84 or (88%).