During this time of economic crises, one can place the blame on various individuals, groups and institutions. Most of conservatives put the blame to the government while the leftist blame the capitalist system. Without having enough time to reflect and validate during failures, almost everyone put the blame to one another.
One of the effects during economic crisis is the high cost of capital that may also affect the daily lives of the people as prices of prime and other commodities soar high. So, if one is to engage into a noble undertaking, what’s in mind is how much can be saved or gained from his investments.
Accordingly, all economic systems, regardless of ideology need capital and sees to it that the said investment grew. Recent studies show that human capital has a lot of contributions in order for the economy to grow. It is on this aspect that the university is tapping the human capital in its endeavor to achieve unison of new system. Eventually act as a model from among state universities in the country particularly in the field of utilizing in-house resources.
The university tapped in-house resources because of various reasons. One that is highly considered is the financial aspect. It is a fact that finding for the operations and maintenance of the university is relied through the general appropriations coming from the central government. Because of such limited resources and budget constraints it is but proper for the university to tap in-house resources may come from within the ranks of the competent instructors and students alike in the university.
According to Paul Hawken in his book “The Next Economy”, “to make a company more intelligent, to bring a workforce together, to create and design products, to eliminate waste, and to constantly receive innovative techniques and ideas from employees”. Employees of a company need to work hand in hand in order to have a healthy working relationship with each other. Having this kind of relationship among colleague’s means that they could analyze and design better systems, not only the employees could have the benefit but also the company that they are serving. Also with a good working relationship from among employees will result to new collaboration efforts that lead to new and better innovations. Though some arguments may rise up which is not impossible in discussions this would just mean that the employees are working and creating new ideas. So the main question is why did the University tapped in-house resources? Is it because of financial aspect? Are they not satisfied with the old system that they were using for perhaps several years? Or is it because they want to utilize the skills and potentials of their in-house programmers? In my opinion, the University tapped in-house resources could be because of various reasons. One of which could be the cost, another is effectiveness of the new system. Also the much easier in monitoring and immediate response for any trouble that maybe encountered during the implementation. And the last could be that they want to make use of the skills of their instructors.So it is proper for the university to tap in-house resources for creation of a new system.
In our previous subject, we have also been asked for some kind of the same question, which is better hiring an in-house programmer or buying or renting certain software. Of course in every decision that we would make their, would be some trade-offs has to be considered. First, having an in-house programmer would mean that you would have to pay his monthly wage though he is not doing his major job while if you would just buy or rent you don’t have to pay monthly wages for your programmer. Next, if you would buy or rent you would only have a small number of privileges that you could do to the program, while if you would make your own, you have all the privileges that you could have most especially updating the program without paying a large amount for the updates and without any legal responsibility. So during this time of crisis, cost of any undertaking should be highly considered. The cost of tapping in-house programmers is much lower compared to renting software. Although in-house programmers are to be paid starting on the inception of the system it would mean that immediate take-off of the project begins. Also if you owned the product you could install it as to how many computers you have to install it, though in renting or buying the software you could also do that but now with higher rate.
The next reason could be because of effectiveness. The old system has been made quite a long time ago so as we would expect lots of maintenance and upgrades has to be done to reach of what the University needs. So instead of upgrading and maintaining the University perhaps decided to tap the in-house programmers. Also having let them do the task means a lot of time in enhancing and improving the new system since they were always present to monitor during the implementation. Any questions and problems could easily be answered.
The big question that lies ahead is how each and everyone respond to economic restructuring. Will everybody still points each fingers to one another because of failures that they are experiencing?
Maybe as of the moment, no exact answer could be arrived at. However, if everyone will help one another and to accept failures and appreciate success of any endeavor, then we can say this is a happy place to live.
In closing, Paul Hawken says “for an informative economy to succeed, we must inform each other about what we do and how we work”. He added, “There may be complex interrelationship between individuals as entities in an economy, but there is no real dependence because economic growth provides an abundance of new wealth”.
Now, was it a good decision that the university had tapped in-house resources? The answer is yes. It was a good decision, not only the government or university had benefited for that decision but also the one who analyzed and designed the enrollment system.
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