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What could be your future role in handling ICT in your future career? What are the challenges?

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In order to differentiate Singapore as an ideal and attractive travel destination, more and more event firms have decided to seek transformation through the use of new technologies such as Web 2.0 and new media. This innovative service can help create new ways of doing business, as well as opening up more channels to offer new products and services to potential customers.

One way of doing so is by enabling the world of virtualization through panoramic view of event space. Such can be done with a unique panoramic software set that revolutionize virtual displays, giving customers the benefit of not being physically there. This increase the profile of the event firm in today's international business, with the ability to implement and deliver large-scale, sector-wide projects.

However, businesses never have a linear way of doing things. Globalization steers firms in the road of challenges and competiveness, with rival firms coming up with more advance methods. Therefore, it is important to stay current and in the field.

Regards, Lim Siew Ki Shermaine (307645)

This is the answer to the homework assignment given in class today. I am not 100% sure of the question as you edited in the class but I don't think the power point document saved? Anyhow, the answer to the question is the following;

I think my role in handling ICT management in my future career would be something innovative to do with 5 star hotels. First of all the ICT web development etc is a personal and favorite hobby that I like. I would like to be in the front office department, and collaborate with the IT department in implementing the latest technological gadgets that can impact on the guest satisfaction in my department. I would also personal give the green lights for many operations and projects that could positively impact on the guest's stay in my hotel. This is what I would like my future role in ICT in a hotel to be like.

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Mohamed Anis

Sir, here is my answer to the question on ICT. If I were an ICT manager in the future, I would take control of computer system in the company. It could be something about reservation system and computer programming and software. Being an ICT manager will be responsible also for security system in the company/ hotel. In the future, all these computer-based devices will be more sophisticated. I imagined that everything will be in touch screen and one-touch system. Thus, it will be easier for me to do things in one time. I believe that everything would be in computerized in order to provide better service (e.g: faster), be more environment friendly (e.g: paper less) and the last thing is to follow the globalization.

However, there must be some challenges for doing this profession. The first thing is that i have always to be kept informed by the latest trend of technology or even i have to make something more in advance before other people establish something new. So, I have always to come up with something new. The second problem would be a failure of the technology that somehow, it could happen anytime. For example, the reservation system goes down while the hotel in the rush hour. In this situation, I have to get a way how to fix the system back as soon as possible that the hotel operation will not be distracted too long. I have to know not only how to run the system but also have to get knowledge how to fix it. The other challenges would be training the staff to perform with the system. It will be tough to teach the staff as they are coming from different background of education. For people who are not getting used to work with technology, it will be hard for them to understand the operating system.

I think that is all my opinion on ICT. By the way, I have question about wikipedia. Is it reliable to use wikipedia for research or references? I heard that we can use it as sources for official research or something because we do not know people who change the material. It could be that the person know about the topic but he/ she is not the expert for that thing.

I hope i get a clear clarification about that issue.

Thank you for your attention

Regards,

Catherine W. Muljadi

this is my opinion about my role in handling ICT, i think that it would make my life easier with the help of ICT since it enable me to find more sources and helps in saving time and cost while contacting my clients. it will be a great system for recording all clients information and would certainly improve efficiency and productivity. i found from this website http://www.asiaictpm.com/default.htm about how this company Aisa ICT project Management helps large organization in improving their management system around Asia Pacific region. from this website, http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/ictmanagementbasics, i think that the first basic step in handling ICT, is to understand the management system of ICT. as from this website, it stated that ICT is too important to ignore since it acts as an important role in achieving organization aims and objectives. as for the challenges, as a part of this fast growing technology society, it is essential for us to be always keep up with the latest technology ,this is because we can benefit from this newly introduced technology.

thank you,Sir with regards, Michelle Lee Ching Ning

i am here to answer to the assignment on ICT Management

1. My role in handling ICT in the future career

In my opinion, people who attend to handle the ICT in their career will face fast changes of the news and systems and ICT nowadays are widely used in every industry.

In my future career, probably hotel sectors, i would like to catch the new business oppotunities on ahead of the competitors;reducing the time of communication so that

we can be more effective by using high techology product; Deduct the cost, to some extent, reduce the communication channels so that there will be less labour cost, the

last but not least, to be outstanding from the competitors by adopt the high technology.

2.My Challenge of handling ICT

I am regret to say that i am not a girl that very interested in the technology knowledge. therefore, i think the biggest challenge that i have currently is interest. language

is considered as another challenge since i am not a native English speaker. As i relised that ICT Management is currently widely used in many industries, i will try to overcome

the challenges in the future study.

That's all for my view on ICT Management

Best Regards, Xu Lin (Angela) 307649

Here is my work on future ICT in my career. I have to send it through here because i couldnt access to VLE. Sorry.

Regards, Dominic.

In the future, ICT play a vital role in the hospitality industry whereby hotel booking will be all done by using the internet and computerize. This is very effective for hotels because it helps to save man power in registration and cost. Apart from this will also help guest to self check in and check out through electronic devices. By doing so this will help minimize guest time in checking in and check out. Here is my answer to the assignment on ICT Management.

I think that I will possibly be an information provider as to the hotel guests and communication bridge as to internal colleagues to be working in a hotel in the near future.

In hotel industry, the employees are representing the organization's image and delivering the information and service to guests.

I am looking forward to develop my future career in hotel at front office manager position so that i must be able to carry out the accurate and updated information which guests needed.

On the other hand, within the internal working team, I also need to act as a communication bridge in the way to link the senior levels with junior levels.

The challenges i am currently and may be continually facing are actually the language problem as well as technical problem.

Working in an English speaking environment is challenging for a non-native English speaking person like me.

Additionally, I am not very good at information researching and technical skills which i am trying to improve on.

Sorry about the confusion that if i am not on the right track to answer such question since it is really new kind of study.

Please feel free to correct any mistakes i made.

Thank you for your enjoyable lecture.

Warm regards

Tina Liu Hui Ting

Here is my answer to the assignment on "Future Career in Handling ICT":

Being a person who is not very IT savy, I would need to put in more efforts in learning all the latest technology with regards to ICT to keep myself abreast of the latest trend/development. This will aide me greatly in my future career since the world is all using the latest technology for work and communication.

Regards, Juneil 307638

This email is to answer to the questioned posed in the slide.

My ideal future career would be in the hotel or events industry. Ideally, I would like to be working the PR line. I believe that ICT could be applied to making events more successful. The current industry is now working based on, what I believe, technology which can be and will be more advanced in the future. For example, while coordinating events, administrations can be in the future managed by more advance technology which will speed the processing and cut clean the overall workload.

Regards, Pamela Chua

Here is my thoughts of today's excercise.

As you mentioned in the class today, technology is growing faster and faster but people are yet not able to handle these technologies. That is why I will be using these tools in my future career to get benefit of connection over people that might broaden the oppotunities to become internatial workforce. The challenges will be really to understand the concept and increase the awaness of people in business to follow and even update these skills. ICT is not worth to have without people who are able to master it.

This is the link that i found interesting which is called disaster management for ICT in Japan. http://www.mtc.gob.pe/portal/apectel38/tele_disaster/08_tel38_spsg_tdm_010_%20Disaster%20Management%20for%20ICT%20in%20Japan_the%20day%20%5BCompatibility%20Mode%5D.pdf

As it is well known that Japan has earthquake and other natural disaster, they developed ICT for their security and warning system.

I hope I undestood what you tried to ask in your question. I have a little concern about this class that I might be not an expert in using all these technologies, I am not very confident in using terminologies as well as skills in technologies. However I think I can be very creative and be active in your class.

Best regards,

Reina 306758

Please find following the answer on your question ;-) :

I am still not exactly sure how my future career will look like, but most probably ICT will play a role in it as it is relevant in nearly every industry. ICT most probably will play a role in setting up meetings with colleagues or employees. Generally it will most probably make my working life easier in severall aspects. If I will continue working in the hospitality industry I might of course also use ICT in order to make guest stays more comforatble.

Challenges might be, that also in the future like nowadays heads of my company (If I am not my own head ;-) might block some modern innovations so new technologies can only be used in a restricted way...

Best regards,

Luca (306989)

This is my opinion regarding the future in handling ICT. In my future career, i think that I will be using ICT even when i am in managerial position, either in the marketing or HR. If I were to be in marketing department, there might be chances when I need to know the latest technology to present my concept and ideas well to my managers. As guests always look out for new products, it is necessary to be updated.

And on the other hand, when in a HR department, there are a lot of staff information which needs to be kept properly and also keeping them confidential. Computer system passwords are needed and words programs are necessary to keep information neatly.

regards Dawn

In the future, I would hope to create a event company which is famous by creating event by implementing ICT in each of the event. Imagine a wedding or a person's birthday party with a whole wall of changing picture and even a smart computer in leading guests to their table. If this would to compare with the current event setting, it is much more exciting and unique. However, this is not possible without a lot of fund used for the setting, even with the research of implementing it into a personal event. Currently in my home country-Malaysia, it is hard to find this kind of event even in a wedding or personal event which is held in a 4-star hotel. Therefore, I presume that this would create a trend in the future when everyone is well educated with the use of technologies. A most simplest and current example would be2008 Beijing Olympic, China had spent millions of dollars in it, but would it be possible to make a small event as grand as that? It depends on future hospitality industry to explore into it and without any doubt, it also partly depends on the world economic in the future.

Alex Goh.

Here is my answer to the future role in handling ICT in future career, current trends in home, and the challenges. In the modern world, ICT nowadays has grown so fast, especially for communication section. ICT nowadays has affected a lot of careers around the world, so we can say that ICT has become an essential part of humans' life. Since technologies are so advanced nowadays, in the future, I will expect myself to hold an easy job role in handling ICT. This is because everything will be much easier for human to access. The challenge in handling ICT is that we need to think of better technology in order to be in a higher stage of expertise in technology advancement.

With regards, Pirawan Thammakhan. 307687

Here is my answer to the assignment on my future role in handling ICT in future career, current trends in home and the challenges.

As we know, ICT playing an important role in this world. We need ICT to access in career. In the future, I would like to put the ICT in employee training program. That is important to let staff know the organization system. For example, how the system run and work within organization. That will easy for staff to handling problem in the future.

The Malaysian minister (Datuk Kusaini Hasbullah) trying to bring the ICT to school There are 8000 primary and 2000 secondary school are equipped computer facilities in Malaysia and only 2000 schools able to access internet. In facts, it is take some time for schools learning and teaching all those software. The another challenge is some of the school enabling change the teaching methodology and also the learning culture because they are lack of technologies or ICT knowledge and cannot pass the further information and knowledge to the students. Therefore, some of the rural or urban areas are suffering by inefficient electric supply. The limited sources cannot support their technologies.

Ang LiJoe 307701

please find below my answer of your question.

Information communication technology is a big issue, now and in the future. To hand information to other colleagues is essential in many businesses especially in the hospitality sector. At this moment not enough operations have a good working system. They are even not up to date and do not think out of the box. The future managers need to think about enterprise knowledge management, which can be permuted easily with the adequate technique. With that different tasks can be done much faster. But to do this the future manager should know the latest trends

Best wishes,

Theresa Naujoks

According to the question in this morning, I think that handle ICT in the future career that people may widely apply web 2.0 technology as a common way to keep in touch with the relationship between company and clients. For the current situation, people start or try to discover the usage of web 2.0 to extend their business, such as Facebook, Wikispaces, Skype, etc. Those existing sources are available to adapt for sharing their commercial information and showing the professional way to their guests or visitors. The challenge which is facing the rapid development on ICT, we need to eye on the new message of "IT" information day by day, and try to adapt the modern module network and performance on the business filed. I think that, in the future time, the business world will operate commercial center more active and virtual base on the ICT.

Best regards,

Student, Yolando. (307248)

What could be your future role in handling ICT in your future career? What are the challenges? First of all I would like to work in the hotel as the general manager. In the hotel itself, I would suggest to the hotel to provide full touch screen service in all the room in the hotel itself. It not only can reduce much more labor costs and but it also can provide better, faster and more efficient service to the hotel in order to maximize the level of satisfactions from them. If a guest would like to book for a venue in the hotel for a particular event, the guest can also preview the venue on the internet as provided by the hotel with the web2.0 provided, which have a virtual panoramic view of the event venue beforehand. As for the human resources department, the department can use ICT to manage the hotel staff of their daily schedule, and their keep an eye on their daily work and ensure that all the operation system in the hotel can be perform as smoothly as possible. As the general manager of the hotel I would also suggest to their upper level of management to have the professionals from outside the operation to educate and train all the staff of the importance of ICT in the business industry today, and also about the system used in the organization and the precaution procedures if the hotel system breaks down. By understanding how the operation goes on in the hotel, the staff can perform better and be more knowledgeable about their daily work by using ICT. ICT can also reduce very much of the employee workload which they might have more time to provide better and more personal service to the guest. Not only that it is not only environmental friendly, but it can also allow the hotel to be ahead of its competitors all the time. Although the idea is seems to be very attractive and useful to the hotel, but there will still be some challenges. The challenges would be the cost of the hotel need to bear on, and the acceptance of the idea for the change towards a more high technology and advance working environment, although many of the guest will be more than happy to hear of the system provided, but it might be some problem for the more senior staff to accept the changes at a short moment of time. Lastly as the general manager of the hotel, I would also need to consider the education background of my staff working under me. It is because not every employee in the hotel might have a very high level of education and therefore the level of acceptance and the way to educate them might be more difficult and time consuming. Best regards, Kar Hoong Lee.

In my future career, I will provide ideas for the business, e.g. hotel, to make it a more technology-base business. This will make the establishment approach towards advance technology. The ideas will generate from the article or news that I will read from time to time.

The challenges that I will face will be the approval from the business. This is because some people may not go well with the advance technology. Some people may think that is ridiculous and impossible to make it. Besides that, the cost problem may be one of my challenges as technology is too high or advance that it requires time and a lot of money. This will have a great impact on the business's financial. Lee Yu Chen 307667

As discussed during today's lesson, I have reflected on the topic about handling ICT in my future career and the possible challenges that I may face.

With working experience at the Concierge in The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore, I aim to become a manager in the Guest Relations Department in the future. The main role of the manager in the Guest Relations Department is to ensure smooth operations and handle contingencies related to guests in the hotel.

More importantly, the manager needs to have essential knowledge and skills to keep up with the ever-changing needs and demands of the guests. In this way, the hotel will be updated with current trends and predict possible patterns in the guests' behaviour and adapt accordingly. This is beneficial as it increases the hotel's competitiveness and in the long run, results in increased profits and repeated visits. A fine example of embracing ICT can be portrayed in the video that was shown in class," FUture hotel in Germany". This is important as it shows how a traditional hotel can be transformed into a modern hotel with the usage of technology.

However, there are challenges to use technology to implement radical approaches. The main concern will be the opposing views and opinions from others in the hotel. Top management may feel that the ideas are outrageous and costly to implement, hence, rejecting the suggestions. In addition, the perception of a five star hotel being serious and professional may result in little acceptance in the ideas for a change. Hence, I feel that the most important task to handle is to change the perception that people have about five star hotels and open their minds. These world renowned hotels should be professional, yet have creative concepts with the use of technology to cater to the guests' needs and demands. Only in this way, the hotel will be able to move away from the traditional hotel concept. Teo Shu Yi Clarice 30764

Here is my answer to the assignment on what could be your future role in handling ICT in your future career, what are the challenges?:-

As the world is improving with advance technologies in businesses and everyday lifestyle, we have to keep ourselves updated with the latest trends and technologies to compete and improve our abilities for our future career. What I would be looking at for my future role in ICT and career would be the frequent changes in the computer software and my skills in handling business conferences and presentation in the related field that might be working in which is events managements. As my goal is to own an events company holding children parties, I would foresee myself in using ICT to present my ideas and how I would organize the parties to my clients. I would use ICT to impress my clients with what technology can do to make the parties more interesting. For example, preparing computer games for children to play, and using computer as a learning process for younger children. On the other hand, I would use ICT to train and improve my employee's skills, knowledge and ability to enhance my company's profitability and efficiency. ICT can also be used as a communicate tool between organizations internally and externally.

The challenges that I will face would be the frequent changes on the latest changes on the games and software. I would also have to seek improvements in using the computers and gadgets related to the industry.

Lim Czetrine (307702)

ICT Management (what could be YOUR future role in handling ICT in your future career. What are the challenges?

My future role in handling ICT disseminate information to colleague thru wider range of electronic means, e.g. e-mail rather than fax, msn than e-mail, skype than msn.


 * Educator**: I can teach my colleagues who doesn’t know how to use the application.


 * Promoter**: I’ll promote the idea of using ICT to my company if they are not using it already, equipping them with the latest knowledge of IT from other region/company, the benefit of using ICT.


 * Enforcer**: I’ll enforce proper channel of communication and the appropriateness of using the application, e.g. msn chatting with friends instead of communicating with client, or facebook instead of doing work.


 * Challenges**

Resistance from the aging population, it is hard to get the senior staff to adapt to a new culture, especially the technological culture, it is something new for them and it has been a habit for them to use older version of means. They will want to use application they are familiar and comfortable with, so it is a challenge to educate.

When you introduce something that is technological new to a company, they might not accept your proposal due to financial burden. It means that they will have to buy new machines and software, which cost money. They will need staff to monitor the system, which means they need to look for extra manpower, which cost money as well.

When the employees are well equipped with the latest ICT software knowledge, they will explore the system and try to enjoy from there on. It is extremely hard to monitor their activities, the application that they have might be a tool to aid ICT, but it also poses a threat to the productivity of the company. They will MSN, FACEBOOK, SKYPE, etc… and it all affect the performance of the staff. Andrew Ng (307706)