Posts Tagged ‘ thoughts ’

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24
Aug

What pictures can tell you

My dad doesn’t like being pictured, be it with digital cameras, paintings or any type of recording device which involves him being pictured and made immortal in papers, canvas or a video, he just doesn’t enjoy it. His argument was that, pictures will only bring sadness. Sadness to those who lives after him when he died. He said it to my mom on our way to my graduation and we were arguing on which photography service that we’re going to use.

I never thought it that way but I guess my father, who has live years before me, has different view and wisdom. Then I started to browse my photo collection on my laptop.

This is a picture of me on my trip to Melbourne and Sydney. I looked so happy, didn’t I? This is the live I never had. Sure I can make it into a sad memory, but I choose not to. I choose to store it on my “Happy” category on my brain and let it stays there forever.

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Melbourne Trip - Happiness 2009

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5
Aug

IT: Support or Strategic Role?

IT has been the main player in our daily life. If we look further into a company’s organization and locate the role of IT division in an organization, most of us will find IT lies as a supporting role for a business. Unless we’re looking at a technology company such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, etc; there’s a little chance in finding IT as a strategic role in a company. An IT guy/division probably consists of those people you dislike because (in user point of view), they have failed to make a reliable application as you keep on encountering system crash while trying to access the application. Well, listen to this: We have tried our best.

IT as a supporting role is the main case in Indonesia. At least in my narrow point of view :P hehehe IT support in an oil company, in banking, in department store, in a restaurant chain, in a hospital, etc. But I would like to highlight one company that seems to have think ahead of other company and implement IT as one of the company’s strategy. This company is BCA. I remember I once wrote about BCA ons my strategic management class. I highlighted on how the management decides to make the bank as a transactional banking and make IT as their strategic role. Their decision was made on 1994 and look where they are now. When other Banks haven’t thought about ATM, they rolled out ATM machine to several spots. When other Banks didn’t think of having an Internet Banking, they deploy the system and educate the market. And now, when others are busy making mobile banking, BCA introduce the mobile version of its Internet Banking. They’re making technology as a state of the art. It’s elegant, really.

It has been my longtime dilemma on whether to stay in IT as my core or jump in to the strategic part of the company. Unless I worked for a company like Google, I doubt that my loyalty to IT will lead to some place strategic. Oh what am I mumbling here?