Tuesday, May 31, 2011

What do you want in future?

I completed my bachelor’s degree in BIT and then continue my study and completed my master's degree in MBA. joined ABC in the Audit & Business Advisory Department. I believed that a career with an accounting firm would serve me in two ways: first, by enhancing my knowledge of accounting -the language of business- and second, by providing me with an excellent introduction to the business world. My decision seemed to be a sound one; in my first two years at ABC, I worked on a wide variety of assignments that not only strengthened my analytical and problem-solving skills, but also taught me how large businesses managed their sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution functions. After enjoying this productive and educational experience for two years, I decided I wanted greater opportunities than what the audit department could offer.

Thus, when the Management Assurance Services (MAS) practice was established in Iran, the challenge of working in a new service line and the opportunity to help improve the risk management mechanisms of businesses influenced me to join it. In the last three years, I have improved risk management capabilities of clients by addressing strategic, enterprise and operational risk issues. I have also assisted the MAS practice in tailoring our international portfolio of services to the Iranian marketplace by conducting risk management surveys, interacting with professionals in other developing economies, and conducting interviews with senior client management. Besides becoming skilled at process risk consulting, I have also significantly improved my project management and ‘new service’ development abilities in the last three years.

Monday, May 9, 2011

A Rural tale

- Lack of User Involvement: 
One of the main reasons IT projects fail is that users do not participate in the system development process to the extent that they should. One reason, although by no means the only one, is the lack of participation in the project by those who will use the system when it is finished.
- Unrealistic Expectations:

- Technology Illiteracy: 
 
- Communication:

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After identifying the problem faced by the villagers, the foreign aid workers should do some survey or questionnaire on what they wanted for improvement and is the pipe the best suited solution for them and will they accept it for it will not disrupt their daily routines. 

Due to the insufficient knowledge in rural villagers, videos or some simple details and explanation  on the advantage of this system may bring should be demonstrated to the villagers so that they can learn to adapt and accept taps, because it can help to improve their live.

Communication is another problem as based on this story, there is nobody from the home country to help the foreign aid workers to communicate with them. With language and style as a barrier, they might face difficulties to deliver the good message to them.

In this story, the problem faced by the foreign aid workers is that they are facing villagers from a developing country which means the people is not educated well enough to understand what good technology will bring to them. Changes made by the foreign aid workers might not bring out good response but them but instead a negative response due to their conservative mind that do not accept changes in their lifestyle.

After the implementation of the system, there is nobody to educate them how to operate the pipes. Due to their lack of knowledge and exposure in technology, it will hinder them from utilizing it to its full potential.