Why Blogging for ICT Projects Advising and Consultation

Everyday, discussions and exchanges about doing projects in ICT are happening in the University. Many have the same concerns, of course some have specific concerns since everyone applies ICT to different domains and organizations.

I’ve always wanted to create a repository of knowledge created during these discussions and exchanges and offer access to this repository to other students and future students doing projects in ICT.

Hope that this blog is the start of it.

To those who will be posting inquiries, questions, comments, please observe the following so that we can maintain this repository organized.

1. Do not forget to tag your post. Tagging allows the knowledge created in this blog organized and can provide easy access to content when the repository becomes big.
2. Posts are for a single discourse or topic. Do not overload a post. Should there be parts of the post that needs to refer to a previously posted post, please do not forget to link them together
3. When posting, use a third person tone. We don’t want to convert this blog into a repository of chat messages right?

Let’s enjoy sharing what we think and what our questions are to everyone.

Doing a capstone project in HRIS

It is my opinion that there have been so many projects developed about HRIS. Students who plans to propose to develop HRIS should look at current innovations in the conduct and processes concerning human resources. In one of the discussions I had with Mr. Allan Chu together with other faculty members, I learned that there have been some changes in how benefits are managed in some companies. This may be a very interesting innovation to look at and implement technological solutions to manage it.

In the same manner, including some innovations like self-service concepts in HRIS (deregulation of some processes to the employees themselves) may be also something to look into and implement in the project

(Responses to this post have been lifted from the original blog in Wordpress)

Jeffrey Lopez replied: ( February 1, 2008 at 8:46 am)
Hi, first of all, the initial data that we have collected is it is a call center of about 150 regular employees(call center agents), also the company is in the plans of expanding their business, thus it will increase the number of employees needed. Based on these initial data, is our company feasible enough?

Can you also give us some criteria on what are the things that a company might need to have in order for them to need a HRIS? tnx

btw, we have a wiki site: http://methodshris.wikispaces.com

Oliver Malabanan replied: (February 2, 2008 at 5:40 am)
When proposing for an information system in general, it is important of course to look at the volume of data needed to be processed in order to give users the information they needed. In this light, we have to look at the volume of sources of data.

In the case of HRIS, we are definitely looking at the number of employees, since it is one of the factors contributing to the need for an automated processing.

There may be other factors that you need to consider, one of them is having to look at the required service the HR is expected to have but unfortunately with the volume of data they process and tasks they perform, this could not be achieved.

Jeffrey Lopez replied: (February 6, 2008 at 12:12 pm)
Based on the comments given by doc lloyd and even my own analysis of the company’s situation, it seems like that a HRIS is not the solution to the company’s problems.

I am thinking of an Online Recruitment Management System, since call center agents usually stay at the company for only 6 months with a turnover rate of 20-25% monthly, and based on the interviews, on a average, the company’s daily recruitment is 3 persons per day. Meaning, there are a lot of job applicants that the company manage everyday.

My question is, is an Online Recruitment Management System enough to be proposed for METHODS or it is too small and is only a module for a HRIS?

Oliver Malabanan replied: (February 7, 2008 at 5:16 am)
If ever this will be a FULL IMPLEMENTATION, my opinion is that it can be an ICTPROJ project. Should you intend to only make it a prototype, this may not pass as project.

You may want to get a second opinion from Dr. Jose Lloyd Espiritu so we can finally decide on a proposal by next week.