The Internet and your child

Through the evolution of the Internet mankind has tapped into a wealth of knowledge that would otherwise take centuries if not years to acquire reading books and awaiting for them to be published. The Internet is a fast and efficient way of getting real time facts to quench our need for accurate information. The method is quite simple, a computer, a high speed Internet connection and money to pay the monthly bills and you are on your way to embark on a journey that takes you around the world just sitting in your favorite chair. Type it and with a bit of patience you will find it.Through instant messaging and e-mails a gap has been bridged between families, companies seeking skilled workers and list goes on and on.

There are however other sides to the Internet that many at times turn a blind eye. While information opens our horizons to think and to reason at a more advanced level than our ancestors, such information if not censured can dreadfully carve certain behavioural patterns that leave an indelible mark in our lives. The busy rush hours and constant deadlines to meet, have caused parents to unintentionally forget their parental duties towards their children.The result is a generation that grows craving for attention, affection and at times finding it through the wrong outlets. Parents should therefore take the time out to censure the information that their children are being exposed to.

Windows Vista comes equipped with certain gadgets that help curtail the exposure to risky information and people that children may encounter and also limits the possibility of them downloading files to the computer that may contain viruses,Trojans etc. The gadgets allow you to control the sites the children visit, the time they spend on these sites, which video games they can play etc. To turn on Parental Controls using Windows Vista go to Start, then Control Panel then User Accounts and finally Set Up Parental Controls from there you establish the controls you wants to set for your child.

For traditional users of Windows XP this comes through the web service Windows Live Family Safety at www.fss.live.com and from there you follow the given instructions. The Internet should be seen as a cyber library but care at all times must be taken to control the information that we take in and give out from our favorite chair.

Creation of Knowledge in Organizations and Information Technology as a tool to achieve it

During the time the organizations have realized that the success of the companies no longer only rely on their skills in manufacturing, capital providers that give them cheap inputs, government relations, and the relationship they have with their clients, because although these factors have been and remain important, many companies that have not had to hand these resources have managed to be very successful because its success has resided in their abilities and their improvement in the field of Organizational Knowledge Creation.

Creating Organizational Knowledge is the ability of companies to generate new knowledge, bringing it to its employees and translated into actions that lead to new products, services or better production systems.

Therefore an organization with the ability to create, acquire and transfer knowledge, and modifying their behavior to reflect the new knowledge learned can be defined as an intelligent.

In this issue, there is a big difference in vision of the creation of knowledge between the eastern and western companies although the gap has narrowed over time. The Western view has focused much more on knowledge Explicit while the East has focused much more on knowledge Tacitus.

The explicit knowledge in a nutshell is what can be explained with words, numbers, scientific formulas, procedures, specifications and so on. So it is much easier to learn it or pass it on.

On the other hand is the tacit knowledge that comes from the intuitions, individual experience is the experience acquired over the years, an artisan or any employee to work a long time in the same trade, are the schedules and mental models, perceptions that each person has, since everyone has a perception of reality and the future. This makes it difficult to transmit knowledge and to translate into formal documents.

Despite these differences, something we agree is that Eastern and Western knowledge is power and that power production company is based on their intellectual skills and service, rather than its assets. “Also note that the value of products and services that depend mainly on how to develop the intangible elements that are based on knowledge and technological know-how, product design, how to introduce them to market, understanding the customer’s personal creativity and innovation. ”

From what we’ve seen, we believe that information systems do not mean a competitive advantage in businesses that do not use them and they know it can mean an advantage for those who give them the proper use, but For those who believe that there is information systems to be affordable for all cease to be a differentiator, and as a technology but because they are not, what can be achieved if exploited wisely and entering the cycle of knowledge.

Why should not expect that one buys a solution of information systems and magically we can extract knowledge from it, even if there are packages that they promise, this is not the case since each company is different, and use a standard product is only going to achieve that standardize my business rather than differentiate, because the packages that promise to do what they are packages that will give customers as knowledge are very standardized reports which are found only at the beginning of the cycle of knowledge creation, so what they should do it buys the company is designing and programming and answers that fit best their needs, although I have no doubt that many of the standard and will be useful, but it is in the analysts decide which it can extract Increased awareness and focus more on the business strategy of the organization in which they work.

Because if we remember that part of the perception of which we speak, those in charge of compiling the information should see what information is relevant and what not to the interests of the company, and that is the basis for the creation of knowledge, because if we take information irrelevant to the organization, we will be analyzed with a lot of information that is not going to be useful for making decisions that ultimately our goal is to create knowledge, an optimal decision-making.

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