Gain or Pain?

These days more and more companies are improving through the help of I.T. But does it all revolve around the development and increasing of their technological capability?

The fastest growth in the industry's business trend is Technology. Let me start by saying "The competitive advantage of technology really lies in how you and your organization decide to respond to technology and use it" this quote came from a case study entitled: Disruptive Technologies Disrupt Blockbuster Late Fees.

Nowadays Information technology helps business to gain and sustain such advantage against their competitors. It's the reality of booming companies in the world today, they use information to be capacitated by a foundation of their products and service, the more "hi tech" and the more information you get the more successful your company would be. "They transformed technology from a supporting tool into a strategic weapon" this is a proof coming from Thomas A. Davenport; Competing on Analytics.

True that technology is growing and growing faster but we have to remember that information and people are the most important resource in Management Information Systems. Now, I am moving to a more specific angle in Information Technology. From what I remembered from my Database for Management class, There is a Database Management System that is made through the computer system that enables the users to record, incorporate and update files automatically. The DBMS could be the structure on how the company wants to share information to their customers. It could also be the base for their clients to place their datas into the input screen (if there would be any) that is provided by the company to be able to serve them better. There are alot of DBMS available in the market today like Oracle, this is one of the main DBMS that is used by rather large companies.

Though many companies depend on enhancing their competitive advantage still they struggle with the limitations of using Information Systems. As Don Tapscott said in Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers; "And while they provided significant value, these systems were often constrained by inherent challenges, such as complexity and data limitations---problems which continue to the present day". So it continues, even if it has some disadvantage at some point still the power of the internet give people the hope to pursue the question of "what will happen next?".

But nonetheless it caters more advantage, for it is more and so developing and enhancing. There are such solutions like In-memory technologies that helps, for example the IT team of a certain company to help provide more services by not affecting their need to design, build and maintain intermediary data sets.

Popular companies involve Telecommuting, and outsourcing or what they usually call BPO's. This companies usually work with the help of Information Systems. They gather, manipulate, create, and even survey datas to be able to cater to each of their customers need. Many banking corporations seek the service of outsourcing companies to help them improve their customer service, hotlines, collection of payments/ fees, and even offering new products and services. The use of IT nourish the companies competitiveness among their rivals. We could say that there is a lot of "call centers", and all of them are quite effective because they are in demand. Another example would be online bookings. More and more travel agencies are trying to make their service as accesible as possible. So even if people are on the go, they just go through the internet or just have a phone call and you're ready to go. That easy.

Think about it. It may be a PAIN at the beginning and starting up of improvement using IT, because you may need to shell out and invest a lot of money to make your capacity as the best as possible (undergo trainings, maintenance, securiy, etc.) but their will always be a GAIN just wait and see how your business would flow and grow. Probably the best key, really, is be a Knowledge Worker. People are into the "easiest way around" mode, so more and more companies look into ways on how to reach this potential customers. I bet IT is the answer.

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Me, Myself and I :D

Well, overall i would like to let the whole madlang people to know that this is probably my third or fourth blog ever. I'm not really fond of it... but oh well..

I am Jamie Hao.
Born on the 2nd of February 1988.
I'm fond of sports though its not that obvious. I laugh a lot. Eat a lot. Eat more. I think a lot of things that I want to happen. Even if does not go as planned. I dream a lot, I have tons of ambitions and would do anything to reach those goals.


My family consists of my father, my mother and my sister. Both of my parents are dentist. My sister is 16 yrs. old and an incoming college student. My dad was a Past District Governor of Rotary International District 3820 (The whole of Southern tagalog). He is the present CEO- President of TRI-MED Healthcare Corporation, a company that he and his brothers founded in 1992. I was currently the warehouse head and now promoted to the sales division for the manager position. The company's main product line is hospital sterilization equipments and ethylene oxide gases. My father's name is Dr. Jimmy Hao, he is british chinese, was born in hongkong. My mother's name is Dr. Sylvia Sison Hao, she is a natural born filipino with a bit of spanish blood in their line. Sometimes I would like to research on our heritage because of that. I remember my grandmother's story back when she was young, she told me that her father whom happens to be my great grandfather was the attorney and bestfriend of Pres. Manuel L. Quezon, isn't that quite interesting? Pretty cool, that's what I would say. Now from my fathers side, my Yeye said (cantonese for grandpa) that he's grandfather was the last right hand general, Hao Poh Tsun (not the real spelling but this was how it was pronounced), under the rule of Chiang Kai Shek. He also said some stories about Hao MenLing, but I am not sure with the relation if he was the great great grandfather or something else.

Now, Let's go to my school life.

School is great for me. It's given me a good venue for new and great friends. In school I have developed my leadership skills and garnered an active lifestyle through extra curricular activities.

Before I studied in De La Salle Canlubang, I became an exchange student for the Rotary Exchange Program. I went to the states and studied there for one whole year. I was more active then, I was involve with several sports such as soccer, tennis, swimming (where I got my back injury), water polo and snow boarding, I was also part of the choir, the orchestra band, drama club, arts and crafts plus clay making. So there was a lot going on for me when I was there. I made most of my time being "participative" with something, I would not call it "busy" because I had all the time do anything and everything plus I loved it when I was trying something new.

Moving on, so much for that, Before I left for the states I studied in San Beda College Alabang, I was a student their since I was in gradeschool.

I never expected myself to go to a La Salle School for my "uncles" from my mother's side are all ateneans and so as my cousins. My mom also studied in an Ateneo sister school. But oh well, this was my destiny and I am proud of it. I'm pretty much involve with the activities of De La Salle. Not only in De La Salle Canlubang but to other La Salle Schools as well. I am actively part of the Lasallian Youth Commission National Executive Committee, where we try to tap into each and every student and faculty members of the Lasallian Community. LYC is not an organization, we are under the De La Salle Philippines bracket to mobilize the youth that interconnect among all the La Salle Schools in the Philippines.

I'm not really fond of writing about myself so I will not further go into details of what I did, done and doing.

For datamin class, I believe that there will be a lot of blogging and interactive networking. I hope to learn more with the "basics" of blogging on how to express myself well into writing.

So there. Hope to update this blog more often. =)