Adaptablity and interpersonal skills

If we see today that more people lose their jobs because they can't progress with others, i.e. have poor interpersonal skills, than those who are fired because they lack technical savoir-fair. In fact, companies are now selecting new hires based on how they present themselves in writing, conduct themselves face-to-face, handle questions and indistinctness, analyze work styles, describe how they'd deal with selected scenarios, past and future, connect with the interviewer, and in general, how well they communicate. Employers have found that you can train sharp people and teach them new skills they will need for the job. But, it is much more difficult (and in some cases impossible) to infuse individuals with a caring attitude, empathy, and all the other skills that make one a great conversationalist.  

Similarly in real profession, organization and its worker will have to adapt to company culture. People with adaptability are both flexible and versatility. Talking about IT profession, adaptability in the workplace helps the individual to work with diverse situation.

The I.T professional of today, therefore, requires a much wider assortment of skills as well as the ability to cope with the particular demands of the profession. Although the actual requirements for success in the profession vary according to the particular slot occupied by the professional, the majority of I.T professionals will require technical knowledge, business and communication skills, and personality and attitudinal attributes that facilitate the prospective to cope with change and ambiguity. For many, just surviving will be highly stressful.

http://corporatetrainingmaterials.com/interpersonal_skills/index.asp?gclid=COnj4tn2jbYCFY966wodu2kAZw

IT in education.

IT in education.

Some of the IT facilities in educations.

E-Learning as a term is perhaps not future proof and the best way to describe it, in view of technological advancements and forms of learning that are taking place in formal educational systems and adult learning, is “learning on the go” The term means learning any time anywhere via computer, internet or mobile. This term is encompassing the flexibility of the learning and it is not bias to one technology or the other.

E-Learning or “learning on the go” cannot and must replace the instructor lead learning or other forms of human capital interventions. It should be used as one of the interventions used by the employing organization to develop and educate its people.

While e-learning or “learning on the go” offers great benefits in flexibility and time and cost savings it comes with its challenges of lack of interest and motivations from learners. Thus the best way to understand its use it to use it for some educational and developmental needs when is appropriate. This way we will allow a healthy intervention mix for educational institutions and company to develop and train their people.

Future trend of IT.

Reference :

http://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDYQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fitari.in%2Fcategories%2Ffuturetrendsineducation%2FFutureofEdu-Tech.pdf&ei=PTpHUZGQM-yKmQW65YGoAg&usg=AFQjCNFwIZQMnzp7jRamKFxzsAXAFLQamw&bvm=bv.43828540,d.dGY

http://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEMQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.kqed.org%2Fmindshift%2F2011%2F02%2Fthree-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning%2F&ei=PTpHUZGQM-yKmQW65YGoAg&usg=AFQjCNHJi5N7-3bMxyB_-UrEfVqbjOQF6A&bvm=bv.43828540,d.dGY

Normal business to Digital firm.

Globalization is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. Today as we see the old traditions are advanced and developed in order to create a new business in and around a globe. A best example could be eBay.

eBay was started in California, now it has became a worldwide business. eBay has built an online person-to-person trading community on the Internet, using the World Wide Web. Buyers and sellers are brought together in a manner where sellers are permitted to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest and all eBay users to browse through listed items in a fully automated way. The items are arranged by topics, where each type of auction has its own category.


                           

eBay has both streamlined and globalized traditional person-to-person trading, which has traditionally been conducted through such forms as garage sales, collectibles shows, flea markets and more, with their web interface. This facilitates easy exploration for buyers and enables the sellers to immediately list an item for sale within minutes of registering.

eBay notifies the buyer and seller via e-mail at the end of the auction if a bid exceeds the seller's minimum price, and the seller and buyer finish the transaction independently of eBay. The binding contract of the auction is between the winning bidder and the seller only.

We can well imagine a business was started from a scratch; now it became a global business. Even a person sitting other part of globe can order whatever they want and need. It’s all just because of modern and equipped technologies which helped the business to blossom. Hence it’s true that taking the organization or company on modern values and ways we can achieve better results in terms of advertisement, productions ,profit so on.

Core business processes are accomplished through digital networks spanning the entire organization or linking multiple organizations. E-business: use of digital technology and the Internet to execute the major business processes in the enterprise. E-commerce: part of e-business that deals with the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet. According to the eMarketer (2010) “Online consumer sales grew to an estimated $225billion in 2010, 12% increase over 2009. Approximately 80Million households have broadband access to the Internet, around 63M use social network, 43M do online banking, and 38M watch an online video”. Each year millions of people are accessing e-commerce business. Hence it true that globalization has totally changed the normal business  to digital firm.

reference:

https://www.google.com.my/search?q=history+of+ebay&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=cpVFUa2TD8b-rAeWo4DIAw&biw=1360&bih=574&sei=dZVFUYHjAZGHrAeH-YH4DQ#imgrc=smrOUQ6HANdzaM%3A%3BIKZ-SE31CLwapM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Frealdealdirect.net%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F09%252FFeatured-Image_ebay_history.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Frealdealdirect.net%252F%3B611%3B300

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~magnus/ief248a/eBay/history.html

Emerging technologies

Nanotechnology.
A basic definition: Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. This covers both current work and concepts that are more advanced. In more easier sense, 'nanotechnology' refers to the projected ability to construct items from the bottom up, using techniques and tools being developed today to make complete, high performance products.                 
                 

                                             

                             

Generations of nanotechnology
Mihail (Mike) Roco of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative has described four generations of nanotechnology development (see chart below). The current era, as Roco depicts it, is that of passive nanostructures, materials designed to perform one task. The second phase, which we are just entering, introduces active nanostructures for multitasking; for example, actuators, drug delivery devices, and sensors. The third generation is expected to begin emerging around 2010 and will feature nanosystems with thousands of interacting components. A few years after that, the first integrated nanosystems, functioning (according to Roco) much like a mammalian cell with hierarchical systems within systems, are expected to be developed.

General-Purpose.
Nanotechnology is sometimes referred to as a general purpose technology. That's because in its advanced form it will have significant impact on almost all industries and all areas of society. It will offer better built, longer lasting, cleaner, safer, and smarter products for the home, for communications, for medicine, for transportation, for agriculture, and for industry in general.
“ Imagine a medical device that travels through the human body to seek out and destroy small clusters of cancerous cells before they can spread. Or a box no larger than a sugar cube that contains the entire contents of the Library of Congress. Or materials much lighter than steel that possess ten times as much strength.” — U.S. National Science Foundation. In future it will be possible to use some nanotech organisms to remove destructive cells from inside of our body.  

Semantic web:
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the international standards body, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The standard promotes common data formats on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web dominated by unstructured and semi-structured documents into a "web of data". The Semantic Web stack builds on the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF).

                                 

                                                                                                                                                      

                         

                              

Aims
The main purpose of the Semantic Web is driving the evolution of the current Web by enabling users to find, share, and combine information more easily. Humans are capable of using the Web to carry out tasks such as finding the Estonian translation for "twelve months", reserving a library book, and searching for the lowest price for a DVD. However, machines cannot accomplish all of these tasks without human direction, because web pages are designed to be read by people, not machines. The semantic web is a vision of information that can be readily interpreted by machines, so machines can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, combining, and acting upon information on the web.

                               

Grid computing
Grid computing is the federation of computer resources from multiple locations to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files. What distinguishes grid computing from conventional high performance computing systems such as cluster computing is that grids tend to be more loosely coupled, heterogeneous, and geographically dispersed. Although a single grid can be dedicated to a particular application, commonly a grid is used for a variety of purposes. Grids are often constructed with general-purpose grid middle-ware software libraries.

  

                                     

Quantum Computing:
A quantum computer is a computation device that makes direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. Quantum computers are different from digital computers based on transistors. Whereas digital computers require data to be encoded into binary digits (bits), quantum computation uses quantum properties to represent data and perform operations on these data. I could not understand more than this basic idea of quantum computing so this is it.

                                                   

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_technologies
http://forumblog.org/2013/02/top-10-emerging-technologies-for-2013/
https://www.google.com.my/search?q=aim+semantic+web&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a