MIS2 (assignment2)

What should be the nature of the relationship between the business plan and the IS plan?

For the passed time of our discussion we have discussed about plan , a strategic plans for our self for the future , we had learned also about why we should do these, how we could imply these plans.

Planning is important not only for us in our self but also for the company , businesses , firms etc for the future achievements of the organizations. They have business plans and some of these businesses has a Information system plan(IS plan) for the better service of the company .For us to know more about the nature of the these two (Business plan and IS plan ) lets discuss their destinction.

Business Plan

A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals.

The business goals may be defined for for-profit or for non-profit organizations. For-profit business plans typically focus on financial goals, such as profit or creation of wealth. Non-profit and government agency business plans tend to focus on organizational mission which is the basis for their governmental status or their non-profit, tax-exempt status, respectively—although non-profits may also focus on optimizing revenue. In non-profit organizations, creative tensions may develop in the effort to balance mission with "margin" (or revenue). Business plans may also target changes in perception and branding by the customer, client, tax-payer, or larger community. A business plan having changes in perception and branding as its primary goals is called a marketing plan

Business planning is a management-directed process of identifying long-term goals for a business or business segment, and formulating realistic strategies for reaching those goals. Through planning, management decides what objectives to pursue during a future period, and what actions to undertake to achieve those objectives. Plans may be broad and encompass the entire enterprise, like a plan to double corporate profits, or they may concentrate on certain functional domains, such as information technology planning. Business planning may also entail developing contingency plans of what to do if some goals prove unattainable along the way or of how the business would survive a crisis, e.g., data center failure, natural disaster, and so forth.

Successful business planning requires concentrated time and effort in a systematic approach to answer three basic questions:

1. Where is the business enterprise today?
2. Where does management want to be in the future?
3. How can the business accomplish this?

In answering the first question management assesses the present situation and its implications for future developments. Through planning, management concerns itself with the future implications of current decisions it is about to make, and considers how these decisions limit the scope of future actions. The second question anticipates future profitability and market conditions, and leads management to determine pragmatic objectives and goals. Finally, management outlines a course of action and analyzes the financial implications of those actions. Often management will specify measurable outcomes along the way that will demonstrate whether the business is progressing toward the goals as planned. From an array of alternatives, management distills a broad set of interrelated choices to form its long-term strategy. It is in the annual budgeting process that management develops detailed, short-term plans that guide the day-to-day activities meant to attain the objectives and goals.

PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF PLANNING

Effective planning enables management to craft its own future, at least to some degree, rather than merely reacting to external events without a coherent motivating force for corporate actions. Management sets objectives and charts a course of action so as to be proactive rather than reactive to the dynamics of the business environment. The assumption, of course, is that through its continuous guidance management can enhance the future state of the business.

PLANNING CONCEPTS

Business planning is a systematic and formalized approach to accomplishing the planning, coordinating, and control responsibilities of management. It involves the development and application of: long-range objectives for the enterprise; specific goals to be attained; long-range profits plans stated in broad terms; adequate directions for formulating annual, detailed budgets, defining responsibility centers, and establishing control mechanisms; and evaluative methods and procedures for making changes when necessary.

Implicit in the process are the following concepts:

• The process must be realistic, flexible, and continuous.
• Management plays a critical role in the long-term success of a business.
• Management must have vision and good business judgment in order to plan for, manipulate, and control, in large measure, the relevant variables that affect business performance.
• The process must follow the basic scientific principles of investigation, analysis, and systematic decision making.
• Profit-planning and control principles and procedures are applied to all phases of the operations of the business.
• Planning is a total systems approach, integrating all the functional and operational aspects of the business.
• Wide participation of all levels of management is fundamental to effective planning.
• Planning has a unique relationship to accounting which collects, books, analyzes, and distributes data necessary for the process.
• Planning is a broad concept that includes the integration of numerous managerial approaches and techniques such as sales fore-casting, capital budgeting, cash flow analysis, inventory control, and time and motion studies.

A business plan, then, incorporates management objectives, effective communications, participative management, dynamic control, continuous feedback, responsibility account .

Information System plan

A information System plan is a a process for developing a strategy and plans for aligning information systems with the business strategies of an organization.

The systems planning function of the life cycle seeks to identify and prioritize those technologies and applications that will return the most value to the business. Synonyms include strategic systems planning and Information resource management.

Study the Business Mission with Information System

Although many businesses haven't formally documented their mission, they all have one. If information systems are to truly return value to the business, they need to directly address that mission. Thus, the first phase of systems planning is to study the business mission.
Ideally, the scope of the phase should be the entire business. For some companies, that is much too large. consequently, the scope might be reduced to a more manageable level-a division, a plant, or some other significant operating unit. For other companies, the scope of the phase is limited by the level of top management support received. Top executives of the organization must be willing to participate in the development of any strategic plan.

Planning analysts are specially trained information systems planning professionals. Their job is similar to that of systems analysts; however, they must be even more business-oriented that? the average systems analyst. Planning analysts must be familiar with the planning methodology to be used and the deliverables to be produced. They require a unique blend of skills and experiences, including business management, systems analysis and design, data management, and networking.
Many IS shops have difficulty finding the correct mix of these skills. Particularly, IS professionals tend to be either too applications-oriented, too database-oriented, or too network-oriented. In this case, the business usually hires management consultants to serve as the planning analysts. These consultants are widely available through IS consulting firms (e.g., Ernst & Young, James Martin & Associates, or IBM)
The input to this phase is the business mission, as "discovered" through interviews and group sessions with system owners. The business mission Is usually defined in terms of customers, products and services, material resources, human resources, geographic operating locations, management structures and philosophy, corporate goals and objectives, unavoidable business constraints, critical business success factors, and other management-oriented criteria.
The key deliverable is business plans. Hopefully, those plans already exist; this phase merely translates them into terms or formats that are useful to the system owners and planning analysts in subsequent planning phases. (All too often, that plan does not exist!)
Based on the findings of this phase, the planning effort could be canceled due to a lack of management commitment or funding. It Is more likely, however, that the project will continue to the next phase-possibly with a reduced business scope.

My analysis about the question “What should be the nature of the relationship between the business plan and the IS?” is that IS plan is an important thing in business planning now a days .And this starts with the evolvement of the businesses .For now many organizations prefer to have a Information system and in that this component would help them to make an business plan of their company.

IS exist to support the needs of the business area . Without this connection, information technology can be a solution in search of a problem and business goals may not take into account new IS capabilities. As planning processes mature over time, business planning and IS planning should align to meet the same goals. Any endeavor that seeks to improve the organization must take into account all the tools available and deliver an integrated solution. Even today, it is rare to find a business initiative that doesn’t contain an IS component that must be coordinated with organizational, human resource, and procedural components.
IT planning occurs in a framework of other types of planning . IS Strategic planning, IRM planning, business planning and tactical planning are all closely related. In addition to plans, there are enterprise and IS Architectures design documents used to optimize information systems and IS investments. They create a model to ensure the choice of technologies has the greatest long-term value and benefit to the organization. The following chart shows how each of these elements relates to the state organization hierarchy, business and IS domains, and to each other.

Real estate organizations are globally undergoing dramatic changes and shifts in their underlying operating models — a direct result of extensive M&A activity, expansion of product offerings, geographic expansion and an increasingly transparent and global economy. The trend of outsourcing key business processes to emerging service providers adds additional complexity, resulting in increasingly sophisticated IT demand

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_plan

http://newton.uor.edu/Courses/SysAnaDes/planning.html

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Bre-Cap/Business-Planning.htmll

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MIS2(assugnment 1)

Think about yourself worthy to be called as IT professional, how do you see yourself 10 years from now, what are your strategies to get there?


Being an IT professional is seems so easy but then if we analyze a worthy IT professional is really a hard task to do to be in line with them . If we think of it the responsibility ,the knowledge ,the commitment should be equip to us to be one of those IT professional. The experience on the field is one of the necessary thing to develop our skills and imply knowledge but these thing are useless if we don’t have plan t be build up for the future responsibilities.

If we think , we can’t deny that many of us when we graduate , we end working on the company not related to our course or even related but then it is not cool work that is attainable with our degree .And these is all because we fail to plan or we call it plan to fail .In other we just go with the flow .It is hard to accept but it is true ,I even can’t deny that .

Lovely that this assignment is made, a good way for us to think, analyze our damn selves for planning for the future. I’m thankful these kind of assignment is brought to our class for me to understand why I am here and analyze what should be my purpose and who should be me tomorrow , my plans for how to get my goal in life.

For me to be worthy professional I should have my strategic plans as w e have learned in our class discussion. Before I reveal my strategic plans we should learn much about strategic plan. What ?For what? How? Why? is a strategic planning

In doing strategic plans most companies hope to be successful and survive need to develop there long-term strategic plan with specific goals and objectives that relate to the customers' needs and the company's competitors. In today's difficult economic climate, organizations do not have the resources to function aimlessly without direction. And these is hard most of them plan for short term since nowadays climate change is fast changing.



Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. Various business analysis techniques can be used in strategic planning, including SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats ), PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological), STEER analysis (Socio-cultural, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Regulatory factors), and EPISTEL (Environment, Political, Informatic, Social, Technological, Economic and Legal).
Strategic planning is the formal consideration of an organization's future course. All strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions:
1. "What do we do?"
2. "For whom do we do it?"
3. "How do we excel?"
In business strategic planning, the third question is better phrased "How can we beat or avoid competition?".
In many organizations, this is viewed as a process for determining where an organization is going over the next year or more -typically 3 to 5 years, although some extend their vision to 20 years.
In order to determine where it is going, the organization needs to know exactly where it stands, then determine where it wants to go and how it will get there. The resulting document is called the "strategic plan."
It is also true that strategic planning may be a tool for effectively plotting the direction of a company; however, strategic planning itself cannot foretell exactly how the market will evolve and what issues will surface in the coming days in order to plan your organizational strategy. Therefore, strategic innovation and tinkering with the 'strategic plan' have to be a cornerstone strategy for an organization to survive the turbulent business climate.

These are some of my guide in planning my future

Effective Life Plan

• Step 1
What is important to you? Is it a job, is it a family, is it education, status? Write down what is important to you for you to be happy in life.
• Step 2
Who is important to you? Write down a list of people who are important to you. Your spouse, your parents, your friends, etc.
• Step 3
How do you want the important people to in your life to remember you when you are not around? Next to each person, write down what you want them to remember about you when you are not around.
• Step 4
What do you want to have accomplished in one year, five years, ten years or even twenty years? Setting goals ensures that there is a set of milestones. It’s up to you to create the path to get there.
• Step 5
Break your goals into smaller steps to celebrate small victories along the way. I like to write down my goals and then create a little “how to” plan to get there. For example, I would like to get a degree. To get there, I plan to attend two courses a semester until I achieve my goal. This means, I will achieve my goal in XX years or by XX date.
• Step 6
Continue to evaluate your plan. No plans are set in stone. If your goals in life change, make your plan flexible to change with it. After all, it’s your life.

Effective Plan to be employed

The application
Try not to fill out the application at the workplace take it home or if you cannot fill it out away from the job site.
Make sure that the application does not have errors or omissions. List your most important traits that are relevant to the job you are attempting to gain. Do not use your any device such as your BlackBerry or IPods; focus all your energies in this job application.
Remember people are watching you

The interview
Beforehand, practice your interview with a close friend, it sounds stupid but acting or “perception” is as significant as reality.
Former president, Ronald Reagan was a professional and wonderful actor. His acting skills actually changed the world! Recall- “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Dude, make sure you don’t use the word DUDE. Or any word that makes you looks “unprofessional” such as LIKE (out of context), YOU KNOW and especially the word BRO! No terms of endearment – sweetheart, baby, honey, ECT…
Always look and act professional……
Things You'll Need:
• Suit/tie
• "Thank you attitude"
• Dress Business or do not go
• Be positive
• Attention to detail

Plan to be a worth employee

1. Step 1
NEVER SAY "IT'S NOT MY JOB." Every job that you have the knowledge (or potential knowledge) to do can be your job. No boss wants to hear negativity from their employees - those are usually the first ones to go in a layoff. If you don't know how to do something, either figure it out if you can or ask someone who does. Go above the call of duty and extend yourself. Your employer will see you as far more than a team player.

2. Step 2
PUT YOUR HOURS IN. No employer likes paying someone for hours they haven't worked. If you are 15 minutes late every day, that works out to be over 50 hours every year they are paying you to not be there. Now add it all up if you take extended breaks, lunches, play games on the computer, and check out early. Work they hours that they pay you to work.

3. Step 3
DRESS FOR SUCCESS. You should dress at the top of the category for your job title. In other words, if your employer says "dress casual" is the attire for the office, you should dress the best you are able to on your budget. You can think of it as dressing for the job you WANT, not just the job you HAVE.

4. Step 4
SEEK ADDITIONAL TRAINING. A valued employee is one that is always looking for ways to improve himself and his workplace. Ask your boss for classes that would be appropriate for you to further your career. Discuss your goals with her, and make plans for your future with that organization. This will show your employer that you want to grow with the company and that you're there for the long term.

How to have own Business

• Step1
First, brainstorm ideas about what you want to do. Think of things that interest you and your hobbies. Whether it is a thrift store, selling crafts, a video rental store or selling cars there is always a need for everything. Pick out something that you have a lot of knowledge with.

• Step 2
Research to see if you would make profit in that line of business. Some businesses are unsuccessful because there is not a high demand of the items owners are trying to sell in that area. Read books and search the internet to find out if there is a high demand in the business that you want to open.

• Step 3
Start small. Starting your business in your house may be your best option because you aren’t paying any renting fees. Your business may expand and you then can think about finding a building for your business. It doesn’t make sense to pay rent on a building which only holds a few items.

• Step 4
Advertise locally. You have the opportunity to advertise in newspapers, on bulletin boards, handing out flyers and on craigslist. The more people that know about your business the more business you will get and more sales you will make.

High Demand Careers

The Facts
1. When a career is in high demand, the employers will offer a higher pay and sometimes even a bonus for people who join the field. There are many websites available online which offer information on which careers are in high demand, which ones will be in high demand and also which careers will have little or no openings. These statistics will remain the same for a long period of time. Sometimes a career won't be in demand because there are already so many people working in that field. A person will go to school to practice in that field, but finding work will be hard, if not impossible.

Time Frame
2. A High demand career will stay open for a number of years. However, these high demand careers are subject to change at least every 10 years. The reason these job openings change is because a lot of people will educate themselves in the field because they know it is in high demand and will then seek out employment. Eventually the jobs that were once widely available will become hard to land. Other jobs will then be in high demand and seeking future employees. The government keeps up with these statistics so one can find out what will be available long before the time has come.

Benefits
3. There are benefits of choosing a job that is high in demand. Certain employers will hire a person who isn't fully educated in the field because they are very desperate for employees. The employers will then allow their employees to train on the job. Some employers will even pay for the person to further educate them self in the field, while working for their company. If the employer offers to pay for education, they will have you sign a contract stating that you will stay with the employer for a certain number of years.
As stated earlier, when a career is high in demand the pay will rise a great deal. The reason companies raise the pay for high demand careers, is to attract people to that field. They will offer better health insurance plans as well.

Risk Factors
4. There are not too many risk factors involved when you are choosing a career that is high in demand. The one risk factor that does tend to happen at times is a change in pay. When a job is in demand and offering high pay, it will attract a lot of people to the field. Eventually there will be so many people interested in the field that the career is no longer high in demand. They aren't looking hard for employees. Finding people to work for their company will become very easy, so they will then drop the pay of their current employees.
Companies will drop the pay for people who aren't high up on the scale, because they can be easily replaced. However, if you have been with the company a long time, your pay will remain the same or may possibly increase.

Features
5. A high demand career is a smart choice for someone who is looking to make good money and find employment easily. If a person sees that a career will be in high demand within the next couple of years, it is a good idea to get educated in that field. When you have a good background in the field and it is in high demand, you can guarantee that you will be making a very good salary.
If a person is one of the first people to get into a career that is in high demand, by the time the jobs have filled up, they will be in great standing with their company and won't have to worry about pay drop or loss of employment.
Choosing a career that is in high demand is a great idea for anyone. If someone has decided to take a job that is high in demand, they will want to keep up with the statistics of that field and always educated themselves further to ensure a happy, wealthy future.
MY PLANS

As I have research about these assignment I have learned guidance in my goal and I have establish my plans 10 years from now…
1st – I should graduate my IT course by next year .In that I should study hard and give more time for my studies for me to start my new life after school.
2nd – If I graduate I will find job that is related to IT that could enhance my skills on my course .We all now that IT people are in demand so there’s many applicants in a company .I’ll work hard to be employed .In that I could enhance my capabilities and learned much about my field. Because I know that not only in school we get knowledge but also in the fields we are into .I should work only 1 year only .
3rd- In that If could be qualified to work as a manager that handles people in the big IT company ,Ill grab it .In that time I’ll be more productive to be promote and earn much money .Ill equip myself in e businesses as my part time job.
4th- If I have earned much money ,I will build a small business .An internet café that is owned by my parents to help my family and to make them more productive .
5th –I’ll go to school again to have my masteral to learn more for me to build IT business in the Philippines.
6th-I could finally have time for my happiness in this life and buy things not only me but my family..Ihope I could follow these plans ..So help me God


References:
http://www.ehow.com/about_4567515_high-demand-careers.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_5582232_successfully-start-own-business.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_5593773_land-job-over-other-applicants.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_5599838_create-effective-life-plan.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_planning

"Another semester is another chapter of hard and wonderful experience of being a student"

Again ,I'm Gleizelle Jen Dieparine a proud 3rd year student."Gleiz" is the usual name my friends call me. I can describe myself as a calm and benign gal.

Taking up this subject Management Information Systems2,I probably find that this is another semester of hardship to pass and also to learn. I really expect more about this subject since I encountered MIS1 I probably could apply learning about that subject that could help me in passing these subject .
So help us God.