Case Study 2 for ISP

Blog critique for King Reymar C. Ramos

 . . . . . . King's blog for Information System Planning is just simple as what he is but gives impact to the viewers. Though the blog is just simple you can find it interesting especially the colors used in the blog, the template used is very pleasing to the eye of the readers. As i have noticed his blog is intended only for the ISP subject.

http://isplanning.blogspot.com/

King Reymar C. Ramos blog

The Queen Mary 2 and Partner

1. What conveniences does The Ship Partner information system provide to passengers of the Queen Mary 2? What entertainment services could be made available to passengers through this digital network?

The Ship Partner Information System of the Queen Mary 2 gives conveniences to the each of its passengers. With having the Ship Partner IS, the ship gives the passengers the service they will be stuck on to have. The IS is very accessible in every cabin in which they will feel comfortable to. It also provides a hassle free environment in which they can assure that their security is high and nothing to worry for.

There is lot of entertainment services that the SPIS offers to the passengers especially when we talked about accessing the internet. It is very easy to access the internet while you cruising. There are also entertainment areas in which they can do what ever the passenger wants to do.

2. How does The Ship Partner information system assist ship managers with their duties and responsibilities?

The system really helps the ship managers in maintaining the passive ambiance of the ship. The managers can easily make their reports on the activity of each passenger, aside from that easy tracking of passengers gives the managers convenient. They can perform fast and easy when it regards with their responsibilities.

3. How does The Ship Partner information system assist Cunard in competing in the travel industry? What other travel & leisure industries would benefit from a system like The Ship Partner?

The Ship Partner Information System of Queen Mary 2 makes the ship more competitive compared to others when we talk about in the field of travel industry. Ship partner Information System would be a great help not only in a cruise ship but also with the other industries like hotels, resorts, malls, airplanes and many more.

4. Why is it important for the Ship Partner to have a backup system? How would a system wide failure affect the functioning of the ship?

Back up is an essential part of a system. The files or the information in the system is very important when we are dealing a big industry like in travel with a very expensive and high class ship like Queen Mary 2. There will be very important information that cannot be irreplaceable so we really need to have a back up. If a system fails, it really affects the functioning of the ship’s operation.

Commencement Reflection

REFLECTION on STEVE JOBS COMMENCEMENT

Tests are part of human’s life. In life there are things that we sometimes asked ourselves why it is happening. All those things are just trials on how we handle it to become a better person someday. As a technopreneur these things or these trials can be our tool to become successful. Trials in life like as what Steve Jobs encounter is part of his life which makes him better as a person and as a technopreneur. In his commencement exercise I somehow knew him and understand him unlike with the person I hate in the movie “Pirates of The Silicon Valley”. I hate him because of his attitude and actions towards other people and that makes him fail in his career as the one who establish the Apple Company. But in reading his commencement, little by little I understand him. I was really touched by all his words. It is really true and must be our lessons. He is like an inspiration to us.

…. what does he means with the word dots? The dots represent his experiences in his life. We already encounter different situations in our life. It includes all the things that happen since we are born. We are doing decisions every time. In these decisions either the outcome will be good or bad we must to accept it. So as what Steve said that we cannot connect the dots by looking forward on the things that may happen, we can only connect them by looking backwards. We must not just leave our past behind. Though we have the saying which is “Past is past” but how can we face our future by not facing our past first? The past is not just the memories that must be easily forgotten, we must need to face it even it includes the feelings that may hurt us or makes us angry. Used it as tool in the future, not by tolerating it. As an example I was failed in my first programming subject in first year. Then If you failed in that subject you must to take it again and do all the things that makes you pass the said subject, used your knowledge in taking again the subject. It is necessary that we must learn and should.

… loving someone, the things, our actions is part of every humans life, it is a way which makes us happy. In doing things we must find what we really want. It is necessary that we do what we loved in order to be satisfied. Satisfaction can only attain by doing the things that you want, but first you must know what you want. Do that certain thing before it is too late.

… death is a situation that we people afraid of. I am really afraid to that because we do not know when it will come? No one can predict when would be the ending of our time. “Live your life as it is the last…” Steve said. We must do all the things that we wanted to do if we are given a chance to do it. If you have the time to do it now, do it, as long as you have the capability to do it. Grab every opportunity that may come to us before it is too late. Do it as you will regret it someday or somehow.

...my purpose in life

             My purpose in life is to live my life as what it is. It is the things that I wanted to do in my life. It is important that we should do what our heart wants and what we actually want to do in life. Do it because time will come you will regret all the things that you did not do. We should live our lives to the fullest. Then we should love all the things that we do.

             Aside from doing the things that you wanted my purpose also in this life is to love all the things around me, especially to the people who loves me. My family, relatives, my friends and special someones. Before it is too late, do it and show it.

personal traits test

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success." 
- Thomas J. Watson

            Did you ever fail? What did you do? Did you give up and stop what you’re doing after the said failure? Or you stand and search for something that makes that failure into success? We must not be afraid of failure; failure is part of human life. Failing does not mean that you are a loser. You must remember that if you fail it does not mean that you’re a failure. And failure does not mean that it is a disadvantage in your part. You must not think on its negative side but with the positive or advantage part of failing. From that failure you can gain lesson and use it as an experience. More mistakes more learning. Most people now who are gaining success or already success also experience failure in the past. They never give up. Think of a successful entrepreneur or a technopreneur. Do you think that they attain that success in their lives as what they are now? What they are now is what they are before. This is a big NO! of course they experience hardships before they gain that position or success now. Failing is part our life. We did not know all their experiences because we are not there, but mind it, there success is the product of their failure in the past. We cannot control all the things that might happen in time, whether it cab create a good outcome or not we must be ready for it. Maybe that someone is not successful now if he/ she did not experience failure. He/ she is not in his/ her position right now if he/ she doesn’t experience failure. Each one of us can make this failure into success, transform it, instead of blaming your self or other people use as a tool to make your failure as success. As a famous quote says, “Failure is a key to success”. You know sometimes it is good to failed because we can learn lesson from it, but remember that, use it as a tool for gaining experienced, not by repeating your mistakes all over again. All things have limitations and we must be aware of that.  Since it said that go ahead and make mistakes it does not mean that all the time you make mistake. All the time of your life you make mistake because it is said that you will be able to gain success if you fail and make it as many as you can. Really failure is a key to success. This is not an easy thing to do but if you do it the result is worth doing it. You need to learn the right way of planning your tasks and goals, how to focus on them, how to avoid interruptions in order for you to make that failure become success. Learn from it is the key word in all failures.

            What does success means? Or shall I we say how can we measure success? Does it mean that having much money is enough to be called a successful one? Then what would be the basis to be one of the successful technopreneurship in the world? True success can attain by doing the necessary action that would help you in acquiring your goal. Each one of us has goal that must be able to achieve in order for us to be satisfied. Every person works for something that will give him/ her happiness and satisfaction. Knowing what you want is not always easy, but setting a goal to get what you want can help. So example if your goal is to pass a certain subject, then you would simply study and comply with all the requirements of the subject. But as like what I have said knowing what you want is not as easy as you thought. It depends on your goal that you want to achieve. As a technopreneur our primary goal is to become a successful technopreneur. But this thing is not easy to achieve, we must go to different and difficult obstacles to achieve this kind of goal. Sometimes we cannot prevent giving up or having the point of giving up our dream. So if you don’t have this what we call determination in one’s self it is better for you to quit it before engaging too much time then at the end of the road you will stop it. It is necessary for us to be passionate on what we are doing. Becoming a successful technopreneur is like you are at the center of a war. It is very difficult, small actions and doing unnecessary actions will bring us to a situation that we don’t want to happen and the worst is it will bring us to death. Like in technopreneurship having wrong moves in a business will really bring a technopreneur down in his/ her carrier. So it is necessary that every action that must be taken will first have to get a long thinking before doing such actions. Example, as a college student it is very hard for us to take or do some actions that might cause us some regrets in time because of doing such actions rashly. Like in taking the course it is necessary that the one you take is the field which you’re interest is big. b‘Cause time will really come that you will not be satisfied with it. This is a waste of time. Time is gold. We must be careful in all our actions. THINK!!! THINK!!! THINK!!!

            We cannot prevent criticisms from other people, sometimes it comes from all sides, we heard from them that it is foolish to be a dreamer and that our ideas were impractical, stupid, naïve, or foolish that you are not capable of doing such thing, you are not going to be successful because it is you, you alone, you don’t have money and other resources then you will not succeed. Putting our dreams down is just a trial that we must go through. This things are common in doing all things even it is simple, we cannot avoid this things to happen because there are really people that do not believe in one’s capability. There role is to put you down and put your dreams down. But in spite of this, you can use these things to pursue your goals in life, show to them what you can actually do, and what you are going to do, proving to them that they are not right in judging you right away without knowing you first especially your capability of doing it.

            In our meeting in Technopreneurship last August 14, 2010 that was Saturday we took a personality traits test that was given by our instructor Mr. Gamboa in order for us to know our status in the said field. There are 32 given questions all this questions can only be answered by the letters a or b. In this question there is no wrong answer, it is based on what you are. In taking the said test you must not rely on others but only to your self, it is all about you, your trait in every situation of the problem. You don’t need to copy to your seatmate or with others because it is a personal test it must be you! The score depends on the skill trait of the person who is taking the said test.  If your score is from 0 -25 it means not entrepreneurial, 26-26 is neutral, 37-47 is somewhat entrepreneurial, and 48 above is very entrepreneurial. This personality traits test lets us know and identify if technopreneurial is in our side. In the Personality Traits Test my score is the range of 37-47 so I am somewhat entrepreneurial. The majority of the class got the same range somewhat entrepreneurial and only one in the class got the score of 48 above that means he is very entrepreneurial since the one who got the score is a boy and I think he came from the Day Class of Technopreneurship. This simply means that each one of us has the capability of being an entrepreneur or specifically technopreneur, this capability will enhance if we have the traits that must have to be a successful technopreneur. There are differences between individuals. Each of us has a trait that we are known for, that we are remarkable and someone knows us because of that trait. Personality trait test I used to examined what people are like especially regarding with its personality. It is also aims to develop an understanding of the nature of those differences. Personality as defined it the set of characteristics possessed by an individual. We have different characteristics and traits because each one of us is unique in many different ways and one of these is by the characteristics, each individual behaves according to some patterns in such situations.

            There is no formula to success but you can be successful in many different ways. And one of it is by acquiring the basic or the important traits to be successful, there is no such assurance in gaining success, it depends on the doer of the trait if he/ she does it well and have the will to do all the things that must be done even it is so hard, all this things is part of it. As I’ve said there are no fixed traits but these traits can be our guide and examined ourselves which we belong. This is called “The Big Five Personality Factors”. The first one is the Extraversion / Surgency which includes the characteristics that are Talkative, extroverted, aggressive, verbal, sociable, bold, assertive, social, unrestrained, and confident. It is usually known for being engaged in the external world which they are open and easily motivated by the outside world, usually they act first before they think and after it is the time to reflect on what they have done. The second one is the Agreeableness is characterized by sympathetic, kind, understanding, soft-hearted, helpful, amiable, coactive, trustful, and caring. They are known to have an optimistic view of human nature. They believe thought that all people are trustworthy, honest and so on which is what they want is just a peaceful environment and place. The third is Conscientiousness that systematic, efficient, responsible, precise, practical, and dependable. All things are planned because they aim to achieve. The fourth is the Emotional Stability relaxed, unexcitable, patient, undemanding, imperturbable, and optimistic. In other words they are just calm on the things that would happen. And the last one is really an important thing which is the intellect in which they are creative, intellectual, imaginative, artistic, complex, inventive, intelligent, and innovative. Intellect is one of man’s greatest powers. It cannot be stolen by anyone. It is the power of the mind by which one knows and perceives it. These five factors are just a guide for us to know whether which we belong. Are we part in the first? Second? Third? Fourth? Or at last one? The personality test shows us that if we want to be a technopreneur someday, these steps are just the beginning stage of knowing our selves, whether we are capable of handling this not so easy carrier. If you really want to pursue your goal you must first know your self and take the personality traits test which is one of the many ways to see whether you are fit in that kind of work. But to attain that you must do all the necessary actions in order for you to succeed. Aim high! Dream big! You need to have a clear vision on what you want for you to start doing what you want to do. Use your traits to follow your goals, we are created individually different so we must use our uniqueness to pursue all the things that can make us a better person.

            

..techno (1st)

1.What are the factors that contributed to the success and failures of Steve Job as a technopreneur?       

         Some people say you are either born to be successful or not. I say anyone could be a successful one. Hardworking, dedication, courage, self-confident, builds for the future, profit-oriented, persistent, response to feedback, demonstrate initiative, willing to listen, sets own standard, copes with uncertainty, committed, and the last one  builds on strategy.  Open the

                “Woz, what we’re doing right now, is like opening doors, everyday, If you open the wrong one, all sorts of bad things will come at you, you gotta careful which door you open.” Steve Jobs said to Wozniak. These statements are the words he says when Apple is earning popularity in the field of business.

                Steve Jobs grew up in Silicon Valley who was a fighter, a competitor who believed that he knew better than anyone else with what is absolutely right. During his high school days he was already fascinated with electronics with the help of his father who was some sort of his mentor in this thing. We cannot deny the fact that Steve is one of the famous and considered as successful entrepreneur. “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” is a movie which pictures about the making of the two huge companies in the field of Information Technology in this time. The movie focuses on the two persons which is Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. But it is more on Steve rather than Bill Gates. As I watch the movie, I noticed that there are many factors that make Steve successful and even failures. So first I will discuss the factors that make him a successful entrepreneur.

Steve Jobs….

                has passion and you must have a lot of passion for what you're doing because it is so hard. Then without passion, any rational person would really give up. If you don’t have fun doing it or love it the thing would happen is that you will give up, and this is what happens to most people usually. If you don’t have passion on what you’re doing the best way is to QUIT. So Steve Jobs is positively had passion on his work, he is unstoppable in all things that he do. He never gives up on what he had set his mind too no matter what will get on his way. It only implies that if you don’t love what you’re doing for sure you are going to fail.

                and Wozniak is determined in the way that even they are just nobodies they tried their best to gain what they need and achieve all their goals when they enter the business. Despite of not having the proper tools and lack of resources they still work on the first computer which brings them to fame especially with Steve. This simply means that whatever the things that will hinders you, if you have this which is what we call determination, for sure all those things will be fulfilled no matter how difficult it is to achieve. Responsible and had courage are also considered because being courageous in the things that you want to achieve is a way to help yourself to be a better a person then whatever will be the outcome of your actions you are responsible for it. “I must be an achiever” is goal that everyone must possess. And take all the responsibility then we should not forget, we need first to be responsible for ourselves before we can be responsible for others.

                is a self-evolved person. Then what is a self-evolved person by the way? These are persons who believe on their own capabilities, powers, and strengths. We can really say that he got this characteristic because as we notice on the film Steve does not care whether you agree on his belief  if you agree then its good, but if you don’t believe then I will not force you I will just convince you. If you’re not convinced then I don’t care. They usually do not seek for the approval of others as long as in my understanding it will help me then I will go for it. He loves challenges in a way that he can gain lesson or experience from it especially hen dealing failure like the LISA. Not to consider as a failure but compared to the other.

We cannot avoid some characteristics or traits that may hate by other people. We have our own bad doings or attitudes that sometimes we do not know or sometimes we are already aware but we still keep on doing those things .As they said “Nobody is perfect”.  So like with other people Steve Jobs have some unwanted attitudes that we notice in the film and this are…..

                being impolite is just an example of a factor which makes Steve fail in his career. Since we cannot deny the fact that Steve became a huge star by his hard work and dedication and as known to be the one of the founder of the Apple Inc. . He became rude almost to all of the employees in the company. The scene that will come up to me with his attitude is when someone is having an interview with the applicant which is I think the age is in the 30’s. He embarrassed the applicant by asking questions that are not meant to ask by him. Before that happens he was having an argument with a girl who’s telling him that he carries the baby of Steve. Maybe he is not yet ready to hold responsibilities so he refuses it and told the girl that he is not the father of the baby. After that incident he go immediately inside the company, he approaches the programmers of the company but not in the right way instead of asking them and listening to them he scolded them as they are little children being scolded by their father because he had a problem. He insulted the employees then after that it is the time when he takes over the interview and embarrassed the poor applicant.

                another thing is the way he dressed, in the above situation we saw from the movie that even he is in the highest position he looks like an ordinary man which is had a bad attitude towards its employees. Then he is also inconsiderate, which he doesn’t care with his employees as long as they are working.




2.  How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?

                It takes us many characteristics to become a technopreneur. But by way what is an entrepreneur? What is Technopreneurship? And the last thing is what entrepreneurship is? In this part we will talk about these things which are really a great help to understand thoroughly this things and terms.

                It is not new to us that we are now on this age where technology is widely used. Technology has affected our societies and surroundings in many different ways. What is the connection of this technology in this topic? Technology is one of the important things that we should know in order to understand the question but not just this question but the entire lesson and subject. First we must define what is Technopreneurship?

                Any definition of the term technopreneurship must start with the word entrepreneurship. Deals with “social”, or having a business. It is a cohesive process of planning, idea development, and creativity and risks taking to create what we call business, entrepreneurs are the person who is doing an entrepreneurship.  Base on my researches it is TECHNOLOGY + ENTREPRENEURSHIP = TECHNOPRENEURSHIP. This is the basic formula of technopreneurship which is the combination of technology and entrepreneurship, so having business with the use of technology. Technopreneurs are the persons who are involved in this kind of field. Then who are this what we call technopreneurs? Its us, Information Technology students. Though all people can be a technopreneur , we as an IT student is has the big advantage in our part to be a technopreneur. Technopreneurs teaches humans about needs that we as humans we didn’t knew we need it, Technopreneurship creates jobs.

                As an Information Technology student I am not closing my doors in taking the field of being a technopreneur. This is not an easy thing to do so you must have all the skills needed to become one of the successful entrepreneurs. Skills are not enough to be a successful one you must choose the correct path in making decisions. Before entering this field we must think it first if we can handle all the situations that would possibly happened during tits making. Understanding yourself is one of the important keys that have to be considered.

                In our time now no one can live without money. You cannot survive if you don’t have money to buy food and all our basic necessities. We have what we call the basic mind set that we must go to school to earn good grades so that after we graduate in college we can have a work which is a good work that can sustain us. This mindset is to go to school to graduate and after graduating is to find a good job and be an employee. It is really my mindset since I was a little kid, but when I heard my teacher talking about technopreneurship and he change the way I think by telling that there is a new one which is to go to school earn good grades and to be an employer which is to build your own business. Here you are the owner so you need employees to work with your business which is also a great help in solving the problems in our society which is being unemployed.

                As a technopreneur I should have clear goals in my business. So since I am still a student now, let us say in the future I will be a technopreneur. What would be the basis to become a technopreneur? As I have said we must have goals. But before that we must have an idea on what should be our business all about. What would fit in us? So if we have an idea we must put it in action. But if you really want to be a technopreneur you must be ready on the output of having this kind of career. What should we ready of? As I said It is not an easy work, you need to put your time into it especially when we are still in the first part or the we are beginning the said business. Time is the most important factor in the business, you must invest almost all of your time to make it successful. Perseverance and determination is a great characteristic that a technopreneur must possess, because if you don’t have this it is better that you quit the said business. If you invest your time and don’t have this we call determination and perseverance it is better for us to stop, its useless to continue because time will come you will get tired and stop what your doing. But we cannot blame someone that he/she will give up because it’s a difficult thing to do. This is why we must set a goal in every action that we make in order for us to have path in all actions. But deciding on what you want is not as easy as you thought. It is difficult. Being a technpreneur is not easy as we have in our minds now. From the movie of Steve we can saw there,  that in order for you to succeed do what you want, do right and your goals were come into truth. Aiming high in your dream is not bad.  It is a way where you think for the future as becoming a technopreneur you must have these characteristic in life because it can help you in pursuing the things you dream. Hardships, difficulties and obstacles in the way are some of the hindrances of becoming a technopreneur. So, if you want to become a technopreneur! OVERCOME it, and for sure you will find your way to success. But this is not only the case to become successful technopreneur. All the abilities, traits, characteristics that a successful technopreneurship should have must be put into actions, not only by words. I know that we learn a lot from the movie of “The Pirates of the Silicon Valley”. It is our step in becoming a technopreneur. Learn from it and use it as a tool to become a successful technopreneur.

3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not? 

                Steve Jobs is considered as a successful man in this technopreneurial business. I have discussed in the first question about characteristics of Steve which is his strength to be a successful one. Though he is successful we cannot deny that in some cases in his life he made some mistakes which bring him down. Though nobody is perfect, those actions of Steve can be avoided if he listens on his friend’s advices.  I will take the same path as what Steve does. He is a good example to be followed by his actions but I will take it as a big challenge by not making those mistakes again, I will use those failures of him to inspire all people including my self. As I said nobody is really perfect we committed mistakes but the most important is that you will learn from it. I really salute Steve Jobs by being a well- determined person. At first they were just nobodies with a creation which what they called computer. This we call nobodies are the same person who founded Apple Inc. which the very popular product of Apple computer and other gadgets. This is proving that if you are determined to do something you will get it. In real scenario we will also experience those things that happen to Steve and his friends. Unlike with them though they also encounter challenges and difficulties the people easily adopt the product they offered.

                “I want to be a technopreneur”, this is commonly a line for young people like us even me. Yes! Its great, then what is my idea? What’s yours? What should my business all about? I can say that these words are easy to say. We can heard it from any different person. Can you show it? Can you prove it? This is statement is really common to us, especially in our stage where we are new to this world, in the world of technopreneurship. Mostly half of what separates the successful technopreneurs from the non-successful ones is really the pure perseverance and determination. This thing is very hard. If you want it then you must put so much of your life into it. There are some rough moments that will happen that makes most people give up. Maybe I can be one of them but I will not blame them even myself, It’s really tough and it consumes your life. If one already had a family and it’s the early days of a company I cant imagine how one could do it, except for the fact that if the member is also into it. Understanding is the basic way to solve it because for sure you don’t have enough time to mingle with them, and even forgetting to eat. So you've got to have an idea or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that's half the battle right there. As I observed, maybe this is why or this is the reason if someone is young and engaged in this matter. Any career in life is not easy. You must to go through different trials for you to get the career you want. Even as now as an Information Technology student I my self have difficulties in pursuing my subject because it so hard. My mother keeps telling me since I was in 1^st year that I should stop pursuing my course because it is very hard. She told me that why I am suffering in this kind of field where my mind cannot take all the situations. First time of my life in first year that I got a failing grade in a major programming language, it is very difficult for me because it is my first time but this thing or failure is not a hindrance for me to not to continue with my course. Now I am a 3^rd year student still surviving even that im not a regular student. Life must go on. I am now in this part of my life, I am somehow far in my career as an It student, so we must continue and never give up on the things that we thought we cannot do. Fight for what you think what is right, it is the only thing that would make you a better person. Failure in life is part of human’s life. We cannot prevent failing to some of our actions. But this failure is tool for us to learn. So from the failure of Steve Jobs we can learn from it. It not necessary that you would take the same path as like as him then you will also be failed in the future, you will become success but there will be time that you will failed. We have the saying that says “Failure is a key to success”. How these come? In every action we take we cannot prevent failing like Steve. We determined already the causes of failures of Steve Jobs, we identify it and why did it happen to him even in the peak of his career where he got already what he needs. Then from that we must learn from the mistakes of Steve. Maybe we can say that it is the failure of Steve that will somehow help you to become a successful one. Of course we must learn from it. Use it as a tool for not doing the mistake again. From that failure you can gain lesson and use it as an experience or an advantage in your part. It is a way where you can find success in life. As a future technopreneur, we must learn from our mistakes. We cannot avoided this, but the thing that must be remembered in doing necessary actions is to think it first, learn from your experiences. Experiences makes us a fruitful person. Do what you want but consider all the outcomes that what maybe will happen. Improve your self not putting your self down. Learn from all experiences then, you will be successful!!!!

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