ISNA Submitted

What a relief! We have submitted our ISNA yesterday. Sir RSG gave our ISNA a grade of 1.75. We are so happy that at last..after those sleepless nights... we have finally finished and submitted our ISNA.

Thank you groupmates namely, Edsa Fe Esio and Emilio Jopia Jr. for the cooperation and understanding. Thanks to our family and friends who financially and emotionally supported us. Thank you Sir RSG for appreciating our effort. Lastly, I thank HIM, for everything. :)

ISNA First Consultation

We had our first ever consultation on our Information Systems Needs Assessment.

My feeling was so unexplainable... I haven't eaten my breakfast.. I was confused on what I felt..

Was I nervous because of the consultation? or I was just trembling because I skip my breakfast?

Anyway, I had surpassed the feeling.. *sigh of relief*

Our ISNA's temporary grade is 2.5, but it will increase if we will do the revision that our professor suggested. We immediately revised it because that was just a minor revision, just for spacing, justifying and omitting a paragraph..And yeah, a comma for the denomination.

We ringbound the ISNA and we are ready to pass it, after we finish our assignments. :)

SWOT and STEEP Documentation

Our group agreed to meet today (oh well, yesterday) for us to continue our documentation for our major paper. Supposedly, we had to meet 2:00 pm at McDonalds Bajada but due to some circumstances we had started our documentation 6:30 pm. We divided the task, the SWOT analysis was assigned to Edsa and Emilio, and the STEEP analysis was assigned to Karen. The first 3 hours of our documentation was going well but the next hours were strenuous.

It was already 12:00 am when we left at McDonald.

Final Interview on ANFLOCOR

On this day, we had our interview at ANFLOCOR. We arrived there at 12:30 pm and we had to wait 30 minutes because office time is 1:00 pm.

We had so many questions that we asked from Mr. Giovanni Pimentel, the IT-Senior Manager of ANFLOCOR. The questions were more about on STEEP and SWOT analysis. We asked him about the Sociological, Technological, Economical, Environmental, and Political factors that are external to the organization. Then, we asked him about the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of their organization. We also asked him about the structure of their company and a brief history of there IS.

We ended our interview at 2:30 pm.

Follow-up interview approved,

During the last few days we have been checking our email account but there is still no reply from Sir Giovanni. So we decided to call them. Fortunately, we were able to talked to Sir Giovanni. We first asked for an apology (thank God! He understands.). Finally, we will have our interview this Friday, September 25, 2009 at 1:00 pm.

We sent an email to Sir Giovanni, saying sorry and we also asked for a reschedule of our interview… if we can still. *hopefully*

We checked our email and read Sir Giovanni’s reply which was sent on September 10, 2009. Sir Giovanni said that he will be vacant on September 11, 2009 at 1pm. Since, September 11 had already passed and we weren’t able to be there, we felt sorry for ourselves and we were so downhearted and afraid that Sir Giovanni might not allow us to conduct an interview with him anymore. :(

We went at ANFLOCOR before 8:00 in the morning. Sir Giovanni has not yet arrived and the girl on the reception said that Sir Giovanni will be having an important meeting on that morning, so we might not be entertained. Sir Giovanni’s secretary said that we really cant be entertained so she gave their contact number for us to call and confirm our next interview.

Later that day, we checked our email and figured out that Sir Giovanni had actually sent us a message telling that we can interview him 1pm that day.

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

Start Documentation

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.

Again, we consulted Sir Gamboa for our gantt chart. At long last! He approved it and it's ok for posting. :)

We started to researched and study for our major paper. We browsed the internet looking for articles that are related to our study. We did a research about the STEEP and SWOT analysis and examples of it. We also did research about the background information of ANFLOCOR and what is a holding company. Moreover, we researched about the agile method and waterfall method and we also looked for examples of Information System Needs Assessments. After we have gathered such information we discussed and studied it.

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

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 ended our interview past 9:00 am.

Our group decided to discuss or review the slides presentation of the reports so that we can formulate guide questions for our interview. So we met up at the boarding house of one of our group mate after our classes. But before that we did a research on the library and internet for other references.

Asking for a follow-up Interview

In this day, I 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.

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.

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

After a few days, July 23, we visited our prospect companies and presented a letter asking for interview and ANFLOCOR was one of it. Fortunately, the said company accepted the request and told us to follow-up the request letter on the following day. After a day, we made a call to the company and luckily the senior manager of MIS department gave us a schedule date for interview.

We managed to gathered/researched basic information of our prospect company to be adopted from the visitation we had. Through the use of internet we acquired information such as company’s background and company’s profile that is needed for the approval of company adaptation.

Listing of Companies

In our group we started our major paper on July 6, 2009 by searching of what company to be adopted. List of companies were presented to seek for approval from our MIS-instructor. During these days, presenting of different companies were made tow or more times, prior to this, we also started to visit some of the company to ask for permission to conduct a study. Throughout of the visited, some of the companies declined from our request namely: Concentrix and some of the companies which don’t have a MIS.