MIS: Company Visit 3

Before July has ended, we were given the green light to start working on our MIS_ISDP technical paper, but due to some irregularities (eg. making our accounting system, discovering MS SQL, and other stuff), we began to gather data for our paper just this August.

We visited our adopted company, DLPC, last August 30,2008. We tried to visit and schedule an interview in a much earlier date but due to the various functions Mr. Albutra was attending we were rescheduled to that date.

To finish our paper faster, we decided to divide the chapters amongst the three of us. Angel is incharge of the "Strategic role of Information Systems in DLPC", Karen (or Lady Vuh as I fondly call her) is responsible for the "DLPC's hardware, software and its applications" while I was handling "Company Background". And I think it was a wonderful idea because when we came to interview Mr. Albutra, each of us have developed questions that would answer and be useful for our individual chapters, making our work more efficient (am I bragging or what.!! jejeje).

Mr. Albutra was (as always) very entertaining and knowledge filled. There is no dead air when we interview him because he always make (corny but entertaining) jokes when he thinks we forget what we want to say or ask him. He answered most of the questions but didn't allow us to have the organizational chart of the DLPC. He says that the said file was highly confidential and the company is still a business that have its limitations especially when taking about the company legal and important documents and company structure.

The interview took place at the ISG Conference room from 10:30 am-11:45 am. Even though we still have a lot of unasked questions we decided to leave the discussion at that moment not only because we were all starving (including Mr.Albutra, it was almost lunch for heavens sake.!!), but also because Mr.Albutra surely has a lot of things to do even in a weekend and we still have other appointments to go to later that day, namely, we have an interview/company visit at our HRM adopted company, LYR Marketing and we also have to visit the ICT Conference in the Sangguniang Bayan. Busy, busy, busy.

Sadly, the things we discussed in this interview can't be written in this post because it contains important information about the company, that we, the proponents of the research promised not to divulge.