Monday, August 26, 2013

3rd Assignment

Question 1:



EXPLANATION

IMPACT
1.        BUYERS
The power of buyers describes the effect that your customers have on the profitability of your business.

The transaction between the seller and the buyer creates value for both parties

In this situation, buyers are refer to parents, they have power to decide whether they want to send their kids to our kindergarten center, or they will go to other kindergartens.

If parents have more economic power, our ability to capture a high proportion of value created will increase. So with that, we can gain higher profit.

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2.        COMPETITORS
The competitors will give pressure to our business especially other kindergartens, they will promote or give a best service compared to other kindergartens.

Besides, they will also give a best price for parents so with that, parents will go and sent their kids to other kindergartens.

high
3.        NEW ENTRANTS
The new company or new firm especially will give us pressure that they will do more promotion with the lowest price and good quality of service, and do more advertisement in all mass media

The new entrants also will give a special price and service to make parents interest to send their kids to a new kindergartens.

In addition, some parents might be want new environment and new building, with this new entrants company, it will affect our business too and parents will not choose our kindergartens to send their kids

high
4.        SUPPLIERS
Suppliers are refers to company that will serve a raw materials for the building for example, fan, chairs, tables. The supplier will increase the raw materials because of the global economic situation in the country.

The supplier also increase the cost and gives a poor service if our company choose a lowest raw materials.
This will affect our quality for our kindergartens

low
5.        SUBTITUTES
In this new era if globalization, other kindergartens will serve their workers to take care our kids in our house

This new transformation decision that the other kindergartens make will affect our reputation and it might affect our profit will decrease in future.

low

Question 2:

STRATEGY
EXPLANATION

1.        COST LEADERSHIP
Cost of leadership is providing products or services at the lowest cost in the industry.

In this situation, the kindergarten management need to take a step forward by using IT to substantially reduce the cost of business process

For example :
company
Strategic use of IT
Business Benefit
kindergarten
Online registration
The owner of the kindergarten don’t have to spend more money to higher their workers, it is easy, save, and faster.

Market leadership
kindergarten
Online payment
Easy for the management level of this kindergarten company to manage their account

Market leadership
kindergarten
e-mail
The management don’t have to send a letter to give an order to their employee, it is easier, faster.

Market leadership


2.         INNOVATION
Innovation are refer in developing new products & services, and also find new ways of doing business

In this situation, the kindergarten’s owner needs to make some change to make this kindergarten stand strong by create new services that include IT components

For example :
company
Strategic use of IT
Business Benefit
kindergarten
Online package registration
Easy for the kindergarten to make the registration for new students

Market leadership
kindergarten
Online report card
Easy for the management to communicate with parents and sent the latest performance of their son in the class.

Market leadership
kindergarten
Online full service parents system
Kindergarten will accept new message from parents in  real time about their kids

Market leadership
3.        DIFFERENTATION
The product or services must be unique and outstanding to sustain customer preference and loyalty

In this situation, in order to make the kindergarten in better place and popular, the kindergarten needs to offer their service and quality that would require the satisfaction of the user especially parents.

For example:
company
Strategic use of IT
Business Benefit
kindergarten
Online parents feedback
The kindergarten will get the feedback, what they need in order to improve the quality of education in the kindergarten
kindergarten
Online home exercise
The kindergarten can help  by giving exercise for those student who miss the class that day
kindergarten
Live cam class
Easy for the kindergarten to make sure all the children will get what the kindergarten has planned
4.        DEVELOP ALLIANCE
Working with business partners to create synergy & provide opportunities for growth.

In this situation, the kindergarten management needs to use IT to manage and identify join ventures opportunities

For example:
company
Strategic use of IT
Business Benefit
kindergarten
Online insurance
The kindergarten company will save more time to manage insurance. And the feedback will get faster.
kindergarten
Online banking system
Easy for kindergarten management to settle all payment either with supplier or other company
kindergarten
Online transportation service
Increasing in market share
5.        PROMOTE GROWTH
Increase market share, acquiring more customers or selling more products.

Expand company’s capacity to produce, expand into global markets, diversity into new products or services.

Use IT to manage regional and global business expansion

For example:
company
Strategic use of IT
Business Benefit
kindergarten
Internet advertising
gain more customers

Increase market share
kindergarten
Open new branch
Increase profit


Question 3:

Geetha Raj:
For Example:


When Miss Geetha Raj enter the website and lo-gin her account, she will know the whole detail about the child who entered to her casual care center .She will also know the updates about the fees collection of the month and this can make Miss Geetha easily to identify which ever child haven't pay the fees with a click on the hyperlink at the bottom right and it will send her to the specific places.

Mrs Doubtfire:
For Example:

When Mrs Doubtfire entered the portal by her account it will send her to the specific link which is her own site. It will list out the medicine or precautions that must be given to the specific children according to their age as shown as above so that Ms Doubtfire can giving out the right medicine on time to the right children.

Mr & Mrs Smith:
For Example:



When Mr & Mrs Smith lo-gin it will send them to their respective site which they register upon registration. This is to ensure that Mr & Mrs Smith will know every detail about the information in this portal. Mr & Mrs Smith will be prompt to click the hyperlink so that they will further understand about the details. This is to ensure that Mr & Mrs Smith will understand more about their child kindergarten education and facilities.


Maggie Tan:
For Example:



When Maggie Tan lo-gin to the portal, it will automatically send her to her page. From there, she will know which children is under her care, parent’s info and their background. She can clicked the link bottom right to go Activities and Interaction page. She will know the special needs of the children and also can enhancing relationship with the activities. 


Question 4:

Top 5 potential issues:


1. The selection problem. Say a company has decided for many reasons to launch a managerial information system implementation project. The very first question that managers will face is what type, size, and scope of the future system they actually require and how to choose the most suitable solution among the hundreds offered on the market. There is no single answer on how to find what you need. Eventually, this selection problem will arises for all businesses without exception

2. Technical issues. How to successfully select a software package is important but not the last problem that will appear on the thorny path toward getting all of the system of software and hardware working together and bringing any value back to the company. Another set of implementation issues is related to the technical part of the project, and covers the servers and workstations to be revised and probably the new and modern ones to be ordered, purchased, and replaced. The internal network also has to be analyzed and modernized if required. If these questions are underestimated, they can dramatically impact the overall result of the project.

3. Data quality issues. This issue is particularly symptomatic of companies that are implementing IS for the first time and transferring their legacy data into the new system from Excel spreadsheets, manual records, or old disparate applications. Basically, the question is that old data that have been used and stored for years can for many reasons appear approximate or even incorrect in the new system.

4. Business philosophy changes. IS implementation brings significant changes into a company’s conventional business model and the day-to day practices it has been using for years or even decades. With the new system, information that a user enters in one screen becomes immediately available to another user; an employee’s level of responsibility is dramatically increased as it is more difficult (sometimes impossible) to fix erroneous data or typing errors; new approaches to data reporting and mining and, thus, new managerial principles and practices have to be established; and finally, real business models and business processes might require massive changes because of new real-time opportunities and data availability.

5. Psychological issues. It is really difficult to describe or classify the possible troubles in this topic, actually, any question can appear. The potential negative impact of users’ possible contrast-collaboration activities.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Report on the E-Health Symposium

The College of Information Technology UNITEN is proudly present you with e-Health symposium. Scheduled on 26th June 2013, this symposium targets to bring together the varied community of researches on e-Health to show case their works, expertise and ideas.




This one day event was held at College of IT included keynote sessions by four distinguish keynote speakers from international and national healthcare organizations. The symposium feature a comprehensive tracks to e-Health topics that was interesting, with track sessions to help created a customized agenda based on your role, experience level and key focus.

E-Health is the transfer of health resources and health care by electronic means. It encompasses three main areas:
  • Delivery of health information, health professionals and health consumers through the internet and telecommunications.
  • Using the power of IT and e-commerce to improve public health services. Such as, through education and training of health workers.
  • Usage of e-commerce and e-business practices in health systems management .
E-Health gave a lot of benefits to health related matter. But, Global Health faces 4 current challenges which is achieving universal coverage, sustainable health financing, efficiency in use of resources and effective mix of chronic diseases. The resolutions by the 58th World health Assembly is:
  • Establishment of prepayment scheme.
  • Risk sharing among population,
  • Avoidance of Catastrophic Health Expenditure
  • Adequate and equitable distribution of health resources 
  • Plan for Universal Coverage
By means of Universal Coverage is securing access by all citizens to appropriate pro-motive, preventative, curative, and rehabilitation services at an affordable cost. There also got obstacle in Universal Coverage that is raised in health cost, emerging and re-emerging new diseases, increasing prevalence  of chronic diseases, lack of sustainable health financing system and inadequate information for decision making. But, the realities is that e-Health projects are costly. Many projects failed to be up scaled.

So, what is Free Open-Source Software? It stands for FOSS. As the name suggest, users have the rights to change and improve its design through the source code. It is fairly attractive because of it's low cost, flexible, vendor neutral and public domain.

Conclusion is that FOSS offer a potential solution to enhance ICT use in healthcare system. That was the official opening by Professor Dr. Syed Aljunid. 


End of Introduction
Moving on to the main point, which is a topic about MyHDW.

MyHDW which means is Malaysia Health Data Warehouse. It is a trusted source of comprehensive healthcare data structure for query and analysis.

Data Warehouse vs. Data centre

  • Data centre is a facility house computer system and associated components.
  • Data warehouse is repository of an organisations electronically stored data or to facilitate reporting and analysis
  • Data marts is a subset of an organisational data store or can defined as an oriented to a specific purpose to support business needs.
Health Information Data Warehouse: ISO definition:

  • Grouping of data accessible by a single data management system.
  • Possibly of diverse sources, pertaining to a health system or subsystem.
  • Enabling secondary data analysis for questions relevant to understand the functioning of that health system.
  • Supporting proper maintenance and improvement of that health system.
Standard Information for health
Malaysia Health Data Warehouse(MyHDW) goal is dissemination of truthful health information and evidence based decision making. Interoperability which means the ability of two or more system or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged. And it host computer for:
  • EHRS
  • Easy development and deployment of interfaces.
  • Reduction of costs 
Appreciation 
In conclusion, ICT is a significant component to the health system. 

1st Group Discussion Answers

 Travel Agency = Green Airlines

1. Relation to our Green Airlines :
  • Buyers(bargaining power) - they have the power to follow our price or go to other agency that give a better price than our own.
  • Suppliers(bargaining power) - the supplier will increase the price for the raw materials based on the economic situation in the country. So with that, our agency have to follow their price for better quality and services. 
  • Competitors(Rivalry) - They will give a pressure or challenges to our agency by their offered service, quality, and price.
  • Substitutes - Our planning management and working plan structure will be copied by other agency in order to get more profit and volume of the customers.
  • New Entrance - The new born agency will affect our company's profit by making more promotions, and the customer curiosity in order to get a better place and ranking.
2. Competitive advantage by developing alliances :
  • Alliances with Hotel, Transportation and Banking services.
  • 3 in 1 package: Hotel(free breakfast and packaging services), free transportation for senior citizens to any places until reach 10 km then it will charge with low rates.
  • Purchasing with CIMB credit card will give the customers a RM 10 rebate.
3. Element of uniqueness :
  • 100th customer will get two free tickets for a trip to New Zealand.
  • Separate section for senior citizens in the airplane with more warming services and better hospitality. 
 

1st Group Discussion Questions

You are the owner of a Travel Agency.
  1. Discuss Porter’s 5 Forces in relation to your business.
  2. Discuss how do you plan to develop alliances in order to achieve competitive advantage.
  3. Discuss how do you plan to add the element of uniqueness in order to achieve competitive advantage.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Introduction Of This Group Awesome Members

This is me when i'm age 18.. ^^

Sup guys, nice to meet you. I'm gonna keep this short. The name given Jaya Sena A/L Gauthama Dass. ID number is IS091932. I'm from Kedah Darul Aman. You guys can call me Jaya or Sena, either ways is fine. So, have fun. ^(o.o)^


I'm so cool..

Hi, my name is Muhammad Muhaimin B. M. Salih. Student ID  is IS091947. You guys can call me Amin. I'm a very simple person. I'm also a mommy's boy. LoL. I don't care what u guys think about me. From Klang, Selangor. Remember, just be positive and success is not a destination but it is a journey.

Green Avenger


Hello everyone, the name given is AHMAD ZAFIERY B. JAMAL. Student ID is IS092038. From Taiping, Perak. A nice person and have a great personality. Can call me Zaff, and nice to meet you all.