IBM, MAGSAYSAY AND SAP
Last November 14, 2014, a series of speakers from different companies came to DLSU to share their experiences in their workplace.
Since there were three seminars that took place that time, I think I had too much information stored in my brain for the day. From the first speakers, they discussed about the life in IBM, what they are and how they deal with problems. Quoting from them, "problems will be solved when people are willing to think". They encourage people to think of solutions instead of asking for somebody to solve the problem for them or basically running away from the problem. The answer is in our hands. Another inspiring message I got from one of the IBM speaker is to don't look at the role, instead look at the learnings. The role is basically a title. It's not necessary that we get the top position in our first try. What is important are the learnings we get in the long run for doing a certain job.
The second speaker from Magsaysay defined a lot of terms associated with technology management. The remarkable part of his talk was the ten guides to aligning to the business. He gave helpful tips like understanding the business, acknowledging the culture, knowing the current IT estate, discovering the value chains, interpreting the concept, determining the change agenda, charting the technology roadmap, planning the work program, populating the delivery framework, and achieving the business benefit.
As for the last speaker, she came from SAP and discussed what they do in the company, their mission and vision. With that, we were given information about their company and what their main objectives are like providing solutions, cloud, mobile and analytics.
The different seminars that we attended gave us more options to choose from for our future careers. I guess that the best way which would let us students have interest in their companies is by providing examples on what their employees do. This is to give as an overview of what we might be doing in our careers and what would we want to do. Learning is part of the journey. If we might not have a clue on what they do yet, we will learn it in the future. I am thankful these speakers gave their time to share their experiences and their company's mission and vision.
