ICT's Project

Small business

Problem description

One of the biggest problems in marketing is in small business because they do not know how to make successful the company.

Create the business plan and its needs as the adequate staff, strategies, ideas, creativity and advices taking care to not fail.

The director needs to invert just the necessary resources for advertisement. Inspire people to be customers, consumers and keep them.

Distribute the necessary time with employees roles.

Contextualization:                                                         

Start using software is a great idea for leaving the use of spreadsheets or notebooks to keep track of the business finances. It is time to upgrade to the accounting practices. With today’s accounting programs, the company can track expenses, auto-import transactions from the bank account into specific categories, create detailed expense reports, manage payroll, calculate taxes, and much more.

Take advantage of apps simplifies business management which allows to keep track of billable time for specific contracts, immediately upload receipts and assign them to different expense accounts, track mileage, bill clients, and more. Anything that can help to manage the reporting and expense tracking will help to expedite the tax process.

Application description:

Purpose:

The purpose of this project is to administrate all employees and the resources of the company correctly avoiding losses, make the work easier to execute and to achieve the company be known by all the possible customers or consumers of it.

A very important purpose is to create the product or the services that will be offered to the audience.

To employ capacitated people for each area for avoiding mistakes and help in all the needs into of the company.

To plan how to speak to other companies that could contribute and make deals with the company to expand it as an aim.

The main purpose is to profit to the customers and the company equally avoiding complains solving problems as soon as they appear.

Objective:

To success in a small business using plans, administration and employee’s work in the simplest way with the lower possibility to fail, thanks to a program that simplifies all the steps to develop the business depending of its services as helping people or offering a product.

eMagister RRHH is a package of human resource management that emphasizes training and development plans of employees.

The assistant eMagister helps from the first moment to enter the information of the company, starting with the personal data of employees, their professional profile, CV, salary and associated costs.

eMagister organizes all reports in tabs. In addition to the list of employees, you can generate graphs remuneration, consult the chart or compare the profile of knowledge of a job with your employees to verify their suitability.

The very extensive database eMagister competencies including complete integration with eMagister page, perfect to find schools and courses related to the needs of the workforce.

Advantages:

Wide range of knowledge

Data export to Excel

Editor organizational charts

Summary reports and graphs

Disadvantages:

Long installation

Expensive premium version

An old version demo 

References:

 Joseph, C.  Advantages and disadvantages of a computerized accounting system for small businesses. Demand Media. Houston, Texas. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-computerized-accounting-system-small-businesses-27727.html

Junior, L. (July 29, 2009) Gestión de Recursos humanos. Aplicaciones para empresas.

http://empresayeconomia.republica.com/aplicaciones-para-empresas/gestion-de-recursos-humanos-emagister-rrhh.html

Mielach, D. (November 25, 2011) BusinessNewsDaily Staff Writer .http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/1715-ten-business-challenges.html

Rueger, J. (October 5, 2015) Running a Business. New York. http://fitsmallbusiness.com/small-business-problems/

Power Home Biz (February 27, 2012) Problemas comunes en pequeños negocios http://mundonegocios.net/5-problemas-comunes-de-pequenos-negocios/

The use of ICT on Languages 3

Processes, Performance Drivers and ICT Tools in Human Resources Management

In order to be able to act appropriately in this new role, HR managers are highly dependent on correctly setup processes (i.e. “sets of activities, transforming a set of inputs to a set of outputs (goods or services) in order to fulfill other peoples’ or processes’ needs, using specific actors and tools” (Řepa, 2007)). This rationale is based on the currently predominant process ap-proach to management, presented among others by Kaplan and Norton (1996). In accordance with the above listed definitions from Armstrong (2009) and additional hints from Marques (2010) and Brooks (2006), we consider HR managers to be accountable and/or responsible for the following business processes:

·         Oreparing and reviewing capacity planning, interviewing and recruiting, managing personnel evidence, instituting programs for retention and growth (job trainings, certifications),

·         Journal of Competitiveness | Issue 2/20110

·         Setting up motivation programs (including management of benefits), evaluating employee efficiency, establishing tools and guidance for management reviews, designing administrative and supportive processes, outplacement and discharge.

Firstly, a modern approach to HR management was characterized, and, on its basis, a set of business processes, commonly handled by today’s HR managers, was defined. Following the identification of main fields of HR management responsibilities, a concept of performance drivers was introduced as an instrument to indicate areas with performance improvement potential. 

CONCLUSION

This article presented authors’ contemporary insight to processes, performance drivers and ICT tools in human resources management.

A set of generic performance drivers, governed by HR managers, was identified later on, providing answer to the first research question: support of advanced strategic decision-making tools and simplification of administrative were indicated among the best candidates for HR-driven performance improvement in any and all organizations.

The results of con-ducted survey confirmed the latter performance driver, but also indicated that from practical perspective, HR activities related to internal communication are very important. The fact that support of strategic decision making tools was not so highly appraised is in our opinion caused by lower ambition level and prevailing down-to-earth approach to HR management in Czech companies.

TRANSLATION AND TECHNOLOGY: STUDY OF UK FREELANCE TRANSLATORS

Translator's workstation​ document production, managing terminology, storing and retrieving segments of previously translated text, and automated translation.​
Locke cities: Budgeting, pricing, and hardware and software acquisition.​
Austermühl's ‘process-orientated’ view of the translator's workstation.​ translation as a business’ as well as translation ‘as a linguistic and cultural process’.
Covering general-purpose software, translation-specific software, other specialised software (financial management packages), web-based language resources, online tolos and communications technologies.

CONCLUSION

The use of ICT by UK freelance translators is a timely and relevant subject of inquiry, given the high proportion of the translator community now working on a freelance basis.​

The results of a statistical analysis suggest that general-purpose software applications are widely used, but there is less evidence of translation-specific tools being adopted.

UNESCO ICT COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHERS

‘learning to live together’, ‘learning to do’, and ‘learning to be’​

The successful integration of ICT into the classroom will depend on the ability of teachers to structure the learning environment in new ways, to merge new technology with a new pedagogy, to develop socially active classrooms, encouraging co-operative interaction, collaborative learning and group work.

2.     How ICTs sopport? selecting and applying basic tools​:

3.     Given a specific learning activity, identify the required hardware and devices​
Use the internet and browsers to support learning activities

Using ICT to create and manage students’ collaborative, project-based learning.​
The teacher:

·         Selects or creates suitable software and resources​

·         Uses ICT to communicate and collaborate​

·         Uses ICT to manage and monitor student projects.

Technology and Jobs: Should Workers Worry?

Technology and Jobs: Should Workers Worry?

For centuries, people have worried that new technologies will destroy jobs without creating enough new ones, and every time the doomsayers have been proven wrong. But today, with disruptive advances occurring at dizzying speed, some worry that the time may finally have come when more jobs are destroyed by technology than are created. One 2013 report by Oxford University researchers concluded that 47 percent of U.S. jobs are threatened by automation. Should workers be worried, or is the fear overblown? Is technology - from robots to intelligent digital agents - our friend or a threat? If the latter, what do we need to do to ensure employment by the middle class and others? How can we reorganize our business and economic system to avert more economic turmoil?

This video comments how computers have become in many fields more efficient than humans. thanks to the development of technology, that in twenty years most of the work could be replaced by robots. I think that's wrong, because what actually seeks to do with technology is to create more effective ways of working and with less human labor required not creating in someway somebody to do the work that a human can do. Even though those processes are not created or configured yet. Nowadays, no robot can develop own capacity and reason to unforeseen situations .For example, customer services by phone or internet, we can now perform these tasks without a person and by ourselves thanks to computers. On the issue of marketing something similar happens. You don´t need someone to do the job for you, thanks to the internet and social networks is something that actually we can do.
If we have someone who know how to think by him/herself and have reasons capacity why creating somthing that is not possible to work and it could costs a lot of money? It's just absurd.

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The Role of the Information and Communications Technology Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity

 A number of factor distinguish the ICT sector in its potential to expand economic opportunity. First, its products and services enable individuals, firms, governments, and other players to expand their economic opportunities as well as create them for others.

ICT companies know well this dynamic isn’t automatic, but rather depend on a wide range of other factors and players. This interdependence has led them to take network or ecosystem strategies which often create large numbers of business opportunities for others, underlying these ecosystem strategies are a fundamental collaborative capability and culture.

 

The role of ICT Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity

The Information and Communication Technology sector has been a pioneer and a powerful catalyst in addressing the needs and interests of low-income communities in developing countries.In the 1980s, “universal access” was a goal, but not the reality of the legacy PTTs (post, telephone and telegraph services). Today, the sector includes hardware, software, the Internet, telephony and content, application and support service, provided by entities ranging from corporate giants to garage entrepreneurs.ICT:* Reduce transaction costs and thereby improve productivity* Offer immediate connectivity- voice, data, visual- improving efficiency, transparency and accuracy* Substitute for other, more expensive means of communicating and transacting, such as physical travel.* Increase choice in the market place and provide access to otherwise unavailable goods and services.* Widen the geographic scope of potential markets, and channel knowledge and information of all kinds. 
ICTs require clean and consistent power, a robust, accessible and affordable connectivity network, technical literacy, skilled users and support systems, functional markets, and supportive regulatory and policy frameworks.
ICTs among low-income consumers and households will continue to grow:1. Technological capacity and capabilities continue to expand, and costs continue to fall.2. ICTs become cheaper and more powerful
3. Economic opportunity expands.

 

An Effective use of ICT for Education and Learning by Drawing on Worldwide Knowledge, Research, and Experience: ICT as a Change Agent for Education

ICTs have become within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society.

Computers and their application play a significant role in modern information management, other technologies and/or systems also comprise of the phenomenon that is commonly regarded as ICTs.The field of education has been affected by ICTs, which have undoubtedly affected teaching, learning, and research.Initially computers were used to teach computer programming but the development of the microprocessor in the early 1970s saw the introduction of affordable microcomputers into schools at a rapid rate. 

ICT enhancing teaching and learning process 

According to Zhao and Cziko (2001) three conditions are necessary for teachers to introduce ICT into their classrooms:

teachers should believe in the effectiveness of technology, 

teachers should believe that the use of technology will not cause any disturbances. 

teachers should believe that they have control over technology.

ICT enhancing the quality and accessibility of education

One of the most vital contributions of ICT in the field of education is- Easy Access to Learning. With the help of ICT, students can now browse through e-books, sample examination papers, previous year papers etc. and can also have an easy access to resource persons, mentors, experts, researchers, professionals, and peers-all over the world.

The Role of the Information and Communicatios Technology and translation competende

It is something that distinguishes a bilingual person from a professional translator. The competence needed to translate has also evolved due to different factors, mainly technological factors. In order to be a competent translator it is necessary to be computer literate and to keep one’s information technologies skills updated. Competence is the combination of skills, attitudes and behavior  that leads to an individual being able to perform a certain task to a given level. TRANSLATION COMPETENCE MODELThe bilingual sub-competence consists of the underlying systems of knowledge and skills that are needed for linguistic communication to take place in two languages. The extra-linguistic sub-competence is made up of encyclopedic, thematic and bicultural knowledge. The translation knowledge sub-competence is knowledge of the principlesguiding translation, such as processes, methods, procedures, and so forth. GENERAL ICTS FOR TRANSLATORS. The Internet. One of the most important tools offered by the Internet arethe search and location information engines. They allow to access in a few seconds to an enormous quantity of interrelated information. Further, the usefulness of these tools in our work as medical translator will be explained. The use of corpus linguistics. It is classified in two types:  1. The monolingual corpora (for example Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual) of the Royal   Spanish Academy.  2. Bilingual corpora, it is divided in parallel corpus and comparable corpus. Concordance generator programs. They can find all the times that a certain term appears in a text or in several texts written in electronic format. 

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She helps to creative rebels grow their businesses by being themselves.

She does it with the help of Authentic Marketing.

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They are not an agency.

They help you get better at social media and content marketing through audits, creation of strategic plans, workshops and coaching, setting up and configuring metrics and tracking, and ongoing advice and counsel.

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ICT for sustaintable developmennt.

Global development has been unequal, even though the trends in human development are generally positive.
ICTs already empower billions of individuals around the world, and will be of critical importance as the global community meets to charter a new path for sustainable development in the 21st century.

ICT has an increasing role to play. This because during 1995 to 2002 the US had an impressive overall growth…one third of this growth was attributable to ICT.An estimated onethird of the world has never made a phone call and only one tenht have used the internet.Challenges:

Access is a several bottleneck for increased ICT use. But we all know that telecommunication cost are the largest component.Robustness:Telecommunications equipment is designed to have “five 9s” of realiability, 99.999% uptime, or just 5 minutes of downtime per year.Control of internet is everything.Internet Governance is closed linked to what we want the Internet to do.​Some changes may be required to make it more inclusive, reliable, and responsive to users needs. We often use internet just as an working saver and not as a tool.

Economic models, markets and role of ICT 
Market-driven models alone will not push ICT into developing regions.​ Leapfrogging into advanced technologies offers strong potential for cost-effective deployment.​ Developing regions area large but untapped market but, their needs are not neccesarily the same as in developed regions.

ICT provides businesses with avenues that allow them to remain competitive in local and global economies. Typically the ICT components have included email, phones, mobile devices, fax machines, and video communication, yet the list keeps growing with the advancement of technology and the increased availability of disruptive technology in the vast international market.

Factor affecting teachers' use of ITC 

Information and communication technologies can change, simulate, gather, transmit. ​

-Teacher: Should become effective agent to be able to make use of technology in the classroom. ​-Training program: Technology should be used as a tool to support the educational objectives.

Learning environments.

-Teaching as a objetc of study

-And as aspect of a discipline

to:support, subject of study and create new curriculum

Available Support & Computer Attributes

• Teachers did not want to use computers because they were not sure where to turn for help when something went wrong while using computers. Some of this teacher didn't have an computer education.
• Computer acces has often been one of the most important obstacles to technology adoption and integration worldwide.​
• Teachers who had computers were more likely to use them in instruction than teachers who did not; more than 50% of teachers who had computers used them for research and activities related to lesson preparation.
• The lack of funds to obtain the necessary hardware and software is one of te reasons teachers do not use technology in their clases.

Guskey: Summative evaluation: is conducted after the activity. Allows participants to judge the overall merit or worth of the activity and givrs decision makers the information they need to plan for the future.The formative evaluationis conducted during the professional development activity. Provides feedback and changes that can be made to make it more valuable to participating educators.​

Freire: Schools are enslaving schools in search of freedom.
Vigotsky: learn a language through social context.

Bourdieu: school system in people is a process of indoctrination which is the basis of cultural and social reproduction, in this sense, those who do not acquire this training are "excluded" or "discriminated against" because the system imposed a dominant culture, which involves giving up their own culture, in other words undergo a set of rules, values ​​and beliefs that are often aren't similar with their lifestyle .

ICT for Translation and Interpreting: the relevance of new technologies for the training of expert linguists.
The demand for well prepared linguists is increasing in this globalized world.
Production and accessibility
Many of the researchers and teachers exploring the model of situated learning have accepted that the computer can provide an alternative to real-life setting, and that such technology can be used without sacrificing the authentic context which is a critical element of the model.
 Professional skills
wiki-uses: Wikis facilitate targeted coaching and scaffolding. The exercises described are completed by feedback provided by the lecturer (using a different colour for annotations). Specific grammar or language issue can be corrected in detail.
Being a good translator requires a lot of skills and practices but technology is a very useful tool in translation.
Learning experience
The reflexive and critical dimension, which will foster flexibility and an awareness of professional skills in expert linguists, can be further enhanced by ICT, in particular for interpreting. Access to professional booths is limited during the training and after, but graduates need to keep those skills up.
The variety of pedagogical tools provided by these new technologies (ITC) facilitate the production of authentic materials, enabling a valuable situated learning approach.