| EDITORIAL
A Tight Race Against a Rapid Pace
The year 1998 will
perhaps be remembered as the most difficult for the sector of education
-- particularly small colleges and universities. Aside from the fact that
this is the first year of tertiary-level education re-engineering, this
period is marked by a driving cost that will be spent for application systems
development, hardware and software acquisition and employee training. Also,
this year is characterized by a series of structural,technological,
and environmental changes.
The years ahead
will be a head-on collosion between colleges and universities ready to
show off their best points in an organized performance measurement structure
that the Cpmmission on Higher Education (CHED) will use as a yardstick
in the year 2001. The institutional Management Information System
(MIS) will serve as the sword and the armor to which educational institutions
can be assured of a competitive asvantage in the tight race of accreditation
and school recognition.
How it started
The Philippine
National Higher Education management Information System (HEMIS ) was officially
started in January, 1997. CHED made an announcement of its five-year development
and investment program for computers and related software. Its main objective
was to establish a communication superhighway through networking/internet
linkage from higher Education Regional Office(HERO) to Higher Education
Institution(HEI).
Under this very
promising circumtance, the HEI'sare expected to maintain their own MIS
to deal with day-to-day operational requirements. HEI's are also expected
to preserve the integrity of its new data warehouse for its own use. Theseand
other methods of handling data are foundin a Data Element Manual issued
by CHED.
What HEI's Like SPCBA Can Do
Re-engineering
is an organizational transformation anchored by a thorough study of business
processes, its redesign and the application of technology for its improvement.
It is independent of organizational units/departments because what is important
is the process and the varios changes it will go through in the organzation.
Since re-engineering will touch the height and breadth or our organization,
it is important that we look at the matter top-down. Let me identify some
important points that we can do:
1. Define a new MISSION and VISION for the college;
2. Prepare a strategic plan and improve the management structure that
will be tasked to implement it;
3. Organize an institutional MIS that will serve as the tool group to
support the institutional objectives;
4. Define a new organizational culture to prepare the members of the
organization for total assimilation; and,
5. Maintain a steady information drive to engage more people and gain
acceptability of the new paradigm.
Needless to say
that every moment, the institution is under the scrutiny and surveillance
of every customer who has logged in the Internet. These people are shopping
for a genuine place to nurture their potentials and harness their skills
in preparation for a global vision and competitiveness.
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