Assignment #2

According to the one we have interviewed at the Jollibee Food Corps., he said that the risks that the organization will face during business and IT/IS changes are the time to acquaint the employees/users with the new business or IT/IS, time to make/develop/implement the new IS/IT, costs that the new IT/IS would bring, time for planning for the new business, costs if the company needs new employees for the change, the risks in failing because of the change and also lay-offing employees for they are not needed anymore. Certain changes really need time before it is embraced by the employees.

First that he mentioned of the risks to face during IT/IS change is the time to acquaint the users for it is new to them and they need enough time to be familiar with it. Patience is also needed during this time for maybe every other hour the ITs or technicians are to be called for help in using the said system. Also, if the company changes its business specially when they have shifted to a totally different business is the time to teach, seminar, and train the employees about it for them to be effective in the said new business.

Secondly, the change could take up time in making, developing, implementing, and altering the new IT/IS. For me, as an IT student, our instructor have told us that it is not easy to make a system not to mention the time in developing and altering it and also in implementing it. In making a system, you have to collect necessary data first them making an algorithm, design, and code. For these alone, it would take up so much time. Not days or weeks, but could be couple of months and evens years! Second, you have to develop it well and alter it to fully respond to what the company needs. Again, it would time as well. Implementing it also costs a lot of time. For these, it would be a great risk not only the time it would consume but also the energy and effort that it would consume.

Third, that the company should consider is the cost that it would bring along. For changing the IT/IS, we could say that it would really cost a big sum of money for its programmers not to mention advisers and etc. If there is really a need to have change, you must been preparing the expenses it would cost, and that you have enough resources to support the change. Cost not only for the programmers during IT/IS change but also cost for added employees during business change for every business there are people who specializes in those. You need these people to really have the success you’re aiming for. The people who will guide you along the way and help you ascend your business. They could be really costly too. During business change, it is necessary to change IT/IS for the old IT/IS would not respond fully or anymore to your new business (paradigm shift) but not in an IT/IS change you need also to change business. For IT/IS change I believe happens for the system to fully respond to what the company needs.

Time for planning the new business is also the risk you need to put in mind. Before venturing into a new business, you need to know the means and ways of it. You need to think of it and plan for it for you will eventually fail if you don’t. Planning needs a lot of time, you need not to rush things if you really want to be successful. You have to know what are the things that are related to the business for they would be useful in nurturing it. Planning is one of the best weapons you could use to assure success. Planning could also be your shield in times of troubles for you will know what to do because you know what would come because you thought it over and you planned for it.

Another risk you need to face in times of change IT/IS or business is the failing of/on it. It is not always that you could assure success. The risks you need to face during failure are the energy, effort and money that you have put into waste. Failure on these could bring you in bankruptcy. This is the scariest risk of them all. That is why you need to carefully plan things to avoid this one. If you really don’t have to change, or even venture into something, you don’t have to for you will just be bringing yourself a headache. LOL. Change must be properly thought of for it could bring many implications.

Retrenchment of labor is also a risk for you will be sending employees into an unemployed state. The risk of protest or even picketing outside your building during streamlining must be on mind. These employees’ skills are not qualified anymore in the new business. This could tarnish your reputation that also could lead into series of fights and legal demands that also make your company bankrupt for some people don’t patronize companies with tarnished names.

All of the risks that I have explained have a lot in common. You can trim it down into two little words: TIME and COSTS. These little words really play a vital role in making and breaking your business. They come hand in hand. Time costs money. For every time you are consuming, you are spending money on it. Maybe in your employees, the system itself and other matters. Money costs time. Money cost time for you need time to get money, to get it from resources for you can’t just do magic to have money. You can’t have it in a jiffy. As what I could say regarding this topic, one must think things over to secure success. You need not to rush things for I believe that rushed success could never be that long. Patience is would always be a virtue they say. *.*