During
these past few terms of my stay with the college, more and more I find myself
being involved and wanting to be involved with frantically defining the degree
program’s direction brought by external factors such as CHED mandated
compliance with the K-12 system, OBE, and other competing universities that
offers the same degree program. Given
that the thrust of the college now is to for the students have real-life
projects, I took it upon myself provide the students systems development
projects that addresses problems and concerns of the different offices and
departments. These systems will be using
the current IT infrastructure of the college, and hence we will have to
coordinate with the IT Department.
Given
the analysis tools that we have discussed, I am inclined to think that the
information systems strategy employed by the IT Department somehow prioritizes
improvements in the enrollment process of the college, and having all other
application development activities on hold.
Sad to say that given all of the models and frameworks used to analyze
an information systems strategy, the IT strategy seems to only be supporting a
limited aspect of the college. The IT
department has several projects already in their pipeline, that the information
systems needs of other offices are no longer tackled. I would now like to think, that this is where
I come in.
I
understand that in the grand scheme of things, student enrollment could be one of
the college’s main value chain process.
However, I do believe that this does not, in any way, diminish the value
of other processes within the different offices and departments of the college. With this, I have been approaching the other
offices and soliciting from them current concerns they may have with their
processes and I in return propose IT solutions that may have the potential of
improving their situations. Trying to
discuss ways on how having an information systems in place can enable them to
perform their functions better.
These
attempts may not necessarily address directly the IT department strategy on
improving the enrollment system of the college.
Though I strongly believe that, these small operational level solutions
do provide a supportive role to the overall business strategy.
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