Friday, January 23, 2009

Interview Session Answers

1. What is your name and your position on PERNEC?
My name is Noorzana Ghazali and i am holding the position as Operation & Technical Support Manager.

2. Can we know what the business background of PERNEC is?
(Given a photostated document explained about PERNEC business background)

3. Is there any additional business run by PERNEC?
Yes. For example, wifi, prepaid calling card.

4. How many workers are working here and how is their knowledge in computer?
About 1400workers. Most or 90% of them have knowlegde in computer. Most of them are technical people, done for exchange, payphones and all. They have basic in excel, powerpoint and such.

5. Does PERNEC apply Information Technology in the business?
Yes. IT is apply in intranet, email, internet, website and suchs. We also have e- comm like procurement system and Team synthesis as PM system.

6. How does IT help the business operation?
IT help us by do our purchasing and procurement using systems. We have accounting system for financial and project management system. IT also help us by monitoring the phone using a system.

7. Does PERNEC have budget for IT application?
Yes. On hardware, software, maintenance and all.

8. What are the business processes for customer if they want to make an order or business process?
Usually by direct negotiation, tender, networking connection.

9. How about business process for other organization/ suppliers to make an order or purchase?
(Given a photostated document explained about business process in PERNEC)

10. What are the marketing strategies used by PERNEC?
Usually by promoting the products through our website, booths at some functions or events like career fair. If there's a new product, we usually call the press to promote it.

11. Which company are the competitors and how does PERNEC compete with other organizational?
Basically our competitors are those with switch recruitment. Others like Alcatel, Ericsson, Time Reach and more.

12. In what area PERNEC want to enhance in future?
We would like to increase our revenue, create new product, reduce operation cost by control overtime, purchases and suchs.

13. What are the problems or obstacles that normally face by PERNEC?
Technology - the changes of technology. In future, everybody have cell phones and there are few messengers in internet where people can communicate with free charges. People won't use public phone anymore.

14. How does PERNEC overcome this problem?
By reducing the operation cost or by developing a vandalisme project as educate school student about vandalisme. Make the payphone attractive for people to use. And the maintanence.

15. How does PERNEC manage all those data and information?
We have one department that manage all the data and information here in PERNEC.

16. What databases are these organizational are using?
In IT view, we have sales database, financial database, and all. Software that we use are SQL, Linux and such.

17. Does PERNEC give importance to IT application or software?
Yes.

18. What is the software currently used?
Vista, Linux, SQL, Server- base, TRIM (ontext document)

Monday, January 19, 2009

today's update


For today discussion, we discussed about Pernec process mapping. We also done drawing the process mapping and ready to be presented to Puan Rina and classmates on our next class (Thursday)

ps : answers for interview session will be posted soon.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Project Progress

hie..

Last Friday we went to interview the person incharge in PERNEC.The interviewed session goes smoothly without any problem.We managed to get information for the projects. It is really a new experience for all of us to interview and learnt more about real organization's business process.

these are questions that we have asked during the interview session:


1. What are your name and your position in PERNEC?

2. Can we know what the business background of PERNEC is?

3. Is there any additional business run by PERNEC?

4. How many workers are working here and how is their knowledge in computer?

5. Does PERNEC apply Information Technology in the business?

6. How does IT help the business operation?

7. Does PERNEC have budget for IT application?

8. What are the business processes for customer if they want to make an order or business process?

9. How about the business process for other organization/suppliers to make an order or purchase?

10. What are the marketing strategies used by PERNEC?

11. Which company are the competitors and how does PERNEC compete with other organizational?

12. In what area PERNEC want to enhance in the future?

13. What are the problems or obstacles that normally faced by PERNEC?

14. How does PERNEC overcome this problem?

15. How does PERNEC manage all those data and information?

16. What database are these organizational are using?

17. Does PERNEC give importance to IT application or software?

18. What is the software currently used?

We will post the findings of the interview later..

Take care..xoxo

visit to company last Friday!

hello people...

last friday 9 JAN 09 we have visited n conducted our interview session that lasted after an hour from 10 am till 11.00 at Pernec PayPoint Head Quarters at Ulu Klang Industrial Area..


SHE WAS A GREAT HELPFULL LADY YA!

thats all for today more updates to come.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Monday, 5th January 2009

Hello..

Happy New year eVeryone..Now we are back to Uni after the holidays..

Today during the BPR class we have discussed among the group members on progress of our Project.Pn Rina had reviewed our group official letter and the possible questions to ask the person incharge in PERNEC.It is confirmed we are going to PERNEC maybe this week or next week for the interview session.We had brainstormed and managed to come up with possible questions to ask during the interview.We will post the draft of the question later.Hopefully the intervew session goes well.. =)

More updates and pictures are coming on the way..till now bye!