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'SS' FAMILY...???
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it is because my family name begin with 'S'....NICE RIGHT... :)

 

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SALEHODDIN AND SABARIAH

 MY LOVELY SIBLINGS

SITI SOLEHA,SHARIFUDDIN,SAIFUL RIZAL,SYAFIQ, SALWA NAJJAH,SALMI HAYATI, SALMA DIYANAH, SHAHMINA KAMILAH

 HAPPY TOGETHER

We are a big family....

We are belong together....

We are so lucky...

To have each other...

You could never be replaced...

By another...

When we come together....

We’re more than just friends....

We are family... :)

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ARTICLE IT NEWS

'USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY'

INFORMATION and technology are life-changing

I would like to thank The Star and its talented, creative and insightful columnists for highlighting, enlightening and showcasing very intriguing, touching and relevant articles of happenings in society.

I remember reading about technology and the 555 small notebook some time ago.

It was written in an easy, simple and very understandable manner.

Information and technology are great, powerful and life-changing only if you know how to utilise it wisely.

Look around you. Some are so hooked up with their gadgets and updating themselves with the latest information.

The information may be necessary, it may be good. But too much of something is not good.

One may end up suffering from Information Overload Syndrome. It’s a form of craving. We get bogged down by a kind of bumper-to-bumper crawl to our senses.

Information and technology are supposed to simplify our lives. What if simplicity becomes simplexity ? It’s simpleness becoming complex.

We can get confused with too much information particularly those that are not relevant. Let’s look from context of a simple decision making. Too much information may not lead to better decision making. It only reinforces our judgment.

We only need to ‘thin-slice’ of information for simple decision making.

Information addiction affects us physically and also mentally.

Choose only beneficial, empowering and the be-inspired information. One may consider applying 80/20 Pareto information management principle. Schedule our priorities, not prioritise our schedule. Apply flexibility. Don’t get carried away.

Learn to manage information efficiently and effectively. If not, it can affect us in many ways.

Let me cite an example here. What if you receive fiery, rude and disparaging information in the form of destructive criticism ? Pause. Take a few deep breaths. Think zen-ly, ‘Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form’.

EDWARD WONG,Ipoh

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PAINLESS TECHNOLOGY

An innovative young man and his friends have created a device that tests blood without the use of needles.


THE things that Myshkin Ingawale has worked on are as diverse as night and day. He was on the MIT team that worked to build the Copenhagen Wheel, a device that transforms ordinary bicycles into hybrid e-bikes. At the same time, he was also trying to finish his PhD, researching how people interact, and how articles are formed, on Wikipedia.

It was also at this time in 2009 that he took a break and returned home to Mumbai, India, for a vacation. He decided to take a road trip to Parol, which is about 60km from Mumbai. A friend of his, Dr Abishek Sen, was interning there, and was delivering a baby when Myshkin arrived.

Later, Dr Abishek emerged looking pale. When asked why, the doctor told his friend that the baby and its mother had both died due to post-partum haemorrhage. The severe bleeding was caused by undiagnosed anaemia. Even though there are cheap and affordable cures for anaemia, and the Indian government even subsidises iron tablets, cases like this still happen because anaemia is not diagnosed at point-of-care.

Myshkin, who has a penchant for fixing things, thought that it was time someone invented a device that was portable and easy to use, for carrying out blood tests at point-of-care in villages and such.

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Globalisation and the Australian ICT industry

BY : Merri Mack

Will globalisation erode Australia's information and communication technology (ICT) capability?

The operative word here is 'will'. Yes, Australia is holding its own now according to one of the debaters from Gartner's round table on globalisation but will it continue to do so? The pros and cons of the issue were argued in a debate held at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Sydney this week.

With the end of the federal election campaign in sight, and ICT issues such as Australia's broadband infrastructure, industry development and the skills shortage on the political agenda, the impact of globalisation on Australia's ICT capability is increasingly under scrutiny, according to Gartner.

In election campaign style, an electronic 'worm' tracked the views of the audience during the debate and an interactive polling system polled the audience before and after the debate.

Gartner's definition of globalisation is: Unhindered trade in goods and services among countries. And its definition of ICT is: all information and communication technology products and services that enable customers to access and use ICT.

Arguing the affirmative position that globalisation is eroding Australia's ICT capability, Gartner research vice president and distinguished analyst Partha Iyengar highlighted Australia's struggle to compete with its neighbours. With fewer science and technology graduates emerging from universities, Australia risks becoming

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Fujitsu's ICT Helps to Solve Environmental Issues in Thailand

Fujitsu Ltd., an information and communications technology giant, announced on February 7, 2012, that it will use Information-Communication Technology (ICT) to find solutions to environmental issues in the Map Ta Phut industrial zone in the eastern part of Thailand.

In the project, Fujitsu will construct an environmental monitoring system that will gather, monitor, and analyze data on environmental pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), noxious odors and ozone gases, in the industrial zone, which has a petrochemical, steel and refinery complex. By using various measurement data collected by the system, Fujitsu will support Chulalongkorn University to advance research on its VOC diffusion prediction model.

Making use of its experience in Japan with environmental solutions, Fujitsu will also support the transfer of environmental technology to Thailand and to help raise the skill level of Thailand's environmental engineers through operational training programs and by formulating standardized procedures for the measurement work.

Adopted in December 2011 as a government-subsidized collaborative research effort in environmental technologies of NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), the project will be conducted with the support of NEDO based on a request from the government of Thailand.

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JAPAN REVISES GREEN PURCHASING POLICIES FOR ICT

By Johanna Morden

Japan’s Ministry of the Environment has announced that it is collecting proposals for designated procurement items falling under the law on Promoting Green Purchasing

This initiative follows a move by the Ministry to partly revise this fiscal year its procurement items and evaluation criteria, defined in “the Basic Policy on Promoting Green Purchasing” based on “the law concerning the promotion of Procurement of Eco-friendly Goods and Services by the State and Other entities” (the law on Promoting Green Purchasing).

For reference to the revision, proposals regarding the procurement items regarding public works projects are to be accepted at the MOE.

“Current concerns for global warming and waste management, among other environmental issues, are rooted in the system of production and consumption, which has promoted mass production, mass consumption, and mass waste,” said the Ministry in a report.

“We must immediately reduce the environmental impact of the goods and services that support our lifestyles and economic activities, and promote a shift in demand toward eco-friendly goods,” it added.

The Ministry hopes that boosting the government’s green procurement initiatives will have a priming effect, extending the commitment to local governments and the private sector in fostering the shift in demand towards eco-friendly products in Japan as a whole.

These are the Ministry’s current Evaluation Criteria for procurement of electronic goods:

They (1) shall meet the following standards: a. For server-type computers, energy consumption efficiency does not exceed the number for standard energy consumption efficiency listed. b. For client-type computers, energy consumption efficiency does not exceed the number for standard energy consumption efficiency listed.

(2) Specified chemical substances (lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium (VI) compound,PBB, PBDE) do not exceed the content standard. Content information of relevant chemicals must be easily available on its website, etc.

(3) Equipment and function are simplified for notebook computers used for ordinary administrative tasks.

The following factors are also to be considered:

(1) Design consideration takes into account product life, efficient use of material, reuse of parts, or recycling of raw material, in compliance with evaluation criteria for Standards for the Promotion of Efficient Use of Material.

(2) The operation time of secondary power (battery) is not longer than necessary for notebook computers used for ordinary administrative tasks.

(3) The product makes the maximum use of recycled material taken from a previously used product.

(4) If plastic components are used for either the body or the parts, the item uses as large amount of recycled plastic as possible, or uses vegetable based plastics whose reductive effect of environmental load has been confirmed.

(5) If magnesium alloy is used for either the body or the parts, the item uses as large amount of recycled magnesium alloy as possible.

(6) Packaging is to be as simple as possible and take into account ease of recycling and reduced environmental impact upon disposal. A system for collection and reuse/recycling of packaging is considered.

(7) Accessories including manuals, recovery CD’s etc. is eliminated as much as possible

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ICT Within Business

Written by Keith Sherringham

 From market cannibalisation of old media by new media through to the deployment of Radio Frequency Identification (RFI) tagging in aircraft maintenance, businesses know that Information Communication Technology (ICT) can transform operations or make them obsolete. 

The challenge of adapting ICT include sustaining current operations, overcoming incumbency, market dynamics, risk management and funding transition. This article looks at some business trends as a result of changes in ICT.  In a future edition we will look at how business realises the opportunities that ICT brings.

From the implementation of mainframes and desktops, through to cloud computing and smart phones, business has adapted to changes in Information Communication Technology (ICT).  Whilst what a business needs to do change slowly (the need to be customer centric and make a profit), how a business operates (the use of ICT to better service customers) has brought significant rapid change to a business.  It is the change in how a business operates, including ICT that, allows a business to remain competitive.

Although ICT has significantly impacted businesses to lower costs, improve service, and standardise processes and operations, the adoption of ICT and resulting business changes has not always been smooth.  Some businesses have failed to make changes, others have missed opportunities, and others are reluctant to change due to risk and/or the need to overcome incumbency.  The business change around the adoption of ICT starts with an appreciation of the business impacts of changes in ICT.

ICT is business

Irrespective of an individual technology or changes in a technology, common requirements for ICT within the business environment include:

• ICT is not an adjunct to business: ICT is business;
• ICT present at the business table;
• ICT managed and operated as a utility infrastructure to service needs;
• ICT being the assembly line for knowledge workers;
• ICT showing the business the opportunities, markets and transformation that ICT brings;
• ICT providing the knowledge utility for real time decision making to support business.

Command & Control

Changes in ICT, the availability of information and the speed with which decisions need to be made is changing the command and control structure within businesses.  Even if the decision makers had all of the information needed at the right time to make a decision, decision makers struggle to find the time to make all of the decisions.  The emerging trend is to use ICT to allow for decentralised decision making within frameworks for delivery.  The changes in ICT are driving empowerment and problem solving at source.  Such changes place a premium on strategy and planning, with a culture of empowerment to manage outcomes and behaviours.  Underpinning such a structure are distributed operations with the ability to adapt to changes, to self-heal and create an emergent behaviour.  Changes include:

• People – Leaders with visions and strategy and the ability to implement and manage such environments.  The assurance to support empowered operations is required, together with decision making at source.  The required strategies, communication and skilling of staff to work within such structures are necessary.
• Process – Adoption of distributed operation business models and the use of frameworks and tools such as enterprise risk management to ensure delivery.
• Information – Access to information is key to success, with knowledge being a utility that underpins business.
• Transaction Processing

As more transactions are processed by ICT without intervention, the skill set required is changing.  Proactive problem solvers are required when things go wrong and to manage exceptions, and to engage with customers to manage expectations.  With routine transactions processed by ICT, more skilled resources with excellent communication skills and increasing specialisation are required to address complicated and high worth transactions.  A veneer of generalists to work across the resulting silos is also required.  Changes include:

• People – More skilled resources with critical thinking and proactive problem solving are required.  A premium is placed on the professional or soft skills.
• Process – Successful processes are engineered from the custom view to deliver outcomes and work across the silos of a business.
• Information – Access to information in context integrated with work-flow is required.

Collaboration

Meeting customer needs and delivery of outcomes increasingly requires collaboration across interacting dependencies.  Permanent staff, casuals, contractors, out-sourcers, and off-shore resources are increasingly coming together to work across the globe in collaborative teams to address issues as they arrive.  The freeing up of staff from routine transaction processing further reinforces the project nature of roles.  Changes include:

• People – Such environments place a premium on effective communication, coordination and organisational skills and the ability to operate to strategy.
• Process – Such environments require management that allow for agility and adaption and the use of process to deliver outcome without process been an end itself.
• Information – Integrated communication and knowledge sharing is required in such environments.

Changing Markets

The increasing use of ICT means that products come to market faster, with a decreasing time in the market with offerings being more easily copied and innovated.  Changes to the business model like the use of the “value of free” or the use of “how to” are being accommodated.  Revision of the sales process to include webinars and podcasts, the need for sticky messages, and the role of the sales to be the trusted adviser in an ocean of choice (solution selling) are all impacting businesses.  Changes include:

• People – Ability to respond to change and challenges is required, together with the ability to listen and problem solve.  The empowerment of an educated and skilled workforce that is trusted to deliver in such an environment is required.
• Process – Within dynamic markets, processes need to respond and accommodate change whilst assuring delivery.
• Information – The cross-silo management of knowledge is required.

Creativeness, Conversations & Confidence

Changes in ICT create a business environment about global reach with local service.  Access to information across devices and channels is required and customer service is about having conversations with customers to solve problems.  The fostering and nurturing of analytical thinking and creativity and innovation is required, with a willingness to respond quickly to mistakes and failures.  Changes include:

• People – Ability to work across channels where and when the opportunity presents is required.  Flexibility and professionalism of skilled resources allowing for critical thinking and innovation ensures delivery.
• Process – The ability to deliver across channels and devices is necessary, with a tight integration of information to process.
• Information – Access to information to facilitate conversation and interaction is required.

Conclusion

This article has looked at some key trends within business as a result of the adoption of ICT.  What a business does changes slowly, but the adoption of ICT by business changes rapidly how a business operates.  Common impacts from changes in ICT include:

• A change from centralised decision making and command and control to decentralised operations forming a customer centric emergent behaviour;
• The need for skilled workforce that is empowered to problem solve at source;
• Access to the knowledge utility to ensure real time decision making across platforms and channels;
• A premium on the professional skills;
• The necessary strategy and management frameworks for decentralised decision making and problem resolution at source.

The response of business to these trends is the focus for a follow-up article to be published on the Alinement Network in the near future.

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