Documentation of Major Paper

August 20, 2009

We browsed through internet for STEEP and SWOT analysis examples. After an in-depth study about what and to come up with STEEP and SWOT. We immediately formulated questions for our adopted company.


August 17-19, 2009

We started making the possible contents of our ISNA. After making the draft of our table of contents, we decided the task among the members. The introduction was assigned to Edsa, background information about the company to Edsa and Emilio and the purpose, scope and objective of the study and the approaches to systems building was assigned to Karen.

Start Documentation

August 11, 2009

It was August 11, 2009, when we started our major paper through researched and study. We browsed the internet to formulate a concept about our major paper. We also did a researched for the STEEP and SWOT analysis to an idea how to start and make it.
As side from it, we researched some information about our adopted company, ANFLOCOR.

...weeww... i was run-out of words with this paper... weeww...

Gantt Chart

August 12, 2009

One of the days that made me feels better. When our gantt chart was approved and ready for posting…. Yes. After how many repeats and revision, we made it.


August 10, 2009

By this time, we consulted Sir Gamboa for our gantt chart. Unfortunately, we had some mistakes that we hadn’t noticed so we had to revise our gantt chart.

Second Interview

August 06,2009

This day is our schedule for our second interview. We arrived at the ANFLOCOR approximately 8:00 am. The interview started 8:15 am. We asked the IT-senior manager about their strategic transitions in there IS, how their organization does used Information System for competitive advantage and the factors to consider when planning a new system. We also asked him whether their system is in-source or out-source, what are the hardware and software used and how does they manage it e.g. maintenance and back-up. Also we asked him regarding the company’s approached to system building, the SWOT of the company, the problems and issues they had encountered and the flow of their major business and IS operations. However, he refused to give us the information about the flow of their major business and IS operation. Lastly, we had a picture taking with him and we ended our interview past 9:00 am.



-ANFLOCOR Lobby-

Asking for Second Interview

August 04, 2009

We had a discussion and review of the slides presentation of reports by this time. We gathered information to formulate questions for our incoming second interview with ANFLOCOR Company.


August 03, 2009

In this day, Karen Palero submitted a letter in the email for our second interview at ANFLOCOR. The next morning, August 04, 2009, Mr. Pimentel replied to schedule us on Friday, August 06.

First Interview in ANFLOCOR

July 27, 2009

On this day, we had our first ever interview in ANFLOCOR with Mr. Giovanni Pimentel, Senior Manager – IT and Management Services of ANFLOCOR Company. The scheduled time was 8am, and we were there just on time but only Edsa and Emilio was there to conduct the interview.
...
The interview was all about the basic information in management information system of the company. It goes smoothly yet a little nervous in our part, we felt intimidated and challenge as well. We asked questions such as the role MIS in their company, how it affect, in what way and some sort of things. We also threw the same questions we had during the class sharing like hacking, resistance, and etc. He shared to us the company background of the company, their services, what kind of company is ANFLOCOR, the history of there is, about their personnel and department, the sub-company it has and a lot more. General thoughts regarding their company was tackled and discussed.

During the interview we informed him regarding the ISNA or major paper we have, if it is okay to conduct a series of interview for the information we needed to complete the study. He told us that he is willing to be interviewed but he also informed us that e cannot give us the confidential information.


Before the interview ended, we also had a picture taking with Sir Pimentel and informed him that we will have another interview with him.

-with the Senior Manager-IT and Management Services-

...It was a good start for our major paper though...

July 23, 2009

One of the companies we had that accepted our request to conduct an interview,
was the ANFLOCOR.

...weewww...

By this day, we submitted a letter to the company, and they told us to call them on the following day.

...the next day...

After a follow-up call, we are scheduled to have an interview with the MIS department Senior Manager.

...i was smiling then...

July 15, 2009

Days before, we already manage to visit some of the companies we plan to include in our listing of companies to make sure that they have an information system and they will allow us to conduct an interview.

Thankfully,
some of the companies we visited had positive response. Through, internet we manage to acquired basic information about the companies we had and included them on our list of companies.

We even had a call center on our list, the Concentrix.
They allow interviews to be conducted but unfortunately, only to Karen which was part of the company as a call center agent. We tried to abide to their regulations but we found out that it won’t work with that kind of setting so we’ve decided to withdraw and look for another company.

Listing of Companies

July 6, 2009
...the first try...

On this day we first presented our list of companies to be adopted with our MIS- instructor. We presented different names of companies more than once to seek for approval. There were times that the company we listed was already taken with the other group, so we had to list other names of companies.

ANFLOCOR Company

Our adopted Company is a holding company...