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Saya kebetulan diminta ikut menjadi juri pada event Indonesia ICT Awards (INAICTA) 2008, khususnya untuk kategori Telkom Smart Campus (TESCA). Dari sekitar 80 universitas yang mengambil formulir pendaftaran untuk kategori TESCA, akhirnya juri memilih 15 universitas yang mendapatkan kesempatan mengikuti penjurian tahap akhir. Pada penjurian tahap akhir ini, juri berkunjung ke 15 universitas tersebut (site visit) […]

Menarik membaca buku terbitan Tempo berjudul Panduan Memilih Perguruan Tinggi 2008 [1], khususnya masalah jurusan dan universitas terbaik menurut pandangan masyarakat. Ceritanya Pusat Data dan Analisis Tempo (PDAT) membuat penelitian berbentuk survey yang mencoba melihat seberapa jauh branding sebuah universitas terbentuk di kepala masyarakat. Survey ini menjadi menarik karena hasilnya ditampilkan dalam bentuk grafik perangkingan […]

UU ITE datang membuat situs porno bergoyang dan sebagian bahkan menghilang? Banyak situs porno alias situs lendir ketakutan dengan denda 1 miliar rupiah karena melanggar pasal 27 ayat 1 tentang muatan yang melanggar kesusilaan. Padahal sebenarnya UU ITE (Undang-Undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik) tidak hanya membahas situs porno atau masalah asusila. Total ada 13 Bab dan 54 Pasal […]

Hak cipta bukanlah lawan dari open source. Open source bukanlah software tanpa lisensi. Lho kok bisa gitu? Ya, ini diskusi yang coba saya angkat di acara seminar bertema “Haki dan Bagaimana Islam Mensikapinya” yang diadakan oleh Studi Islam Teknik Computer (SITC), Jurusan Teknik Informatika, ITS Surabaya tanggal 22 Maret 2008 lalu. Saya membawakan materi bareng mas […]

Saya akhirnya memutuskan untuk membuka rahasia besar saya di posting ini. Ya, jujur saja, saya telah merasakan bagaimana hidup lebih dari 600 tahun. Saya bisa berpindah lokasi secara cepat layaknya jagoan pada film The Jumper, mengatur waktu dan posisi dimana saya harus berada pada suatu waktu. Saya ada di dekat pangeran diponegoro ketika sang pangeran tinggi […]

Dunia sepakbola Inggris dikejutkan oleh kekalahan Manchester United (MU) dari Portsmouth pada Piala FA pekan lalu. MU, klub terkaya di dunia yang dipenuhi pemain bintang dengan kemampuan tinggi harus takluk dengan tim yang beberapa tahun lalu langganan  bermain di Liga Championship alias liga di bawah Liga Premier. Kaget kita bertambah lagi, karena tiga hari setelah MU kalah, Chelsea lebih parah […]

Masih teringat di kepala bagaimana dulu jurusan pertanian gampang sekali mencari mahasiswa. Kemudian meningkatnya bisnis minyak yang berimplikasi ke kesejahteraan pegawai perusahaan minyak membawa motivasi anak muda ke jurusan perminyakan dan pertambangan. Tidak berakhir sampai disitu, trend beralih lagi ke teknik elektro dan teknik mesin. Perubahan trend berlanjut lagi karena sejak sekitar tahun 1995, terjadi […]

Mulai 15 Agustus 2007 lalu saya tidak bisa lagi melakukan koneksi Internet menggunakan nomor Fren (Mobile-8) saya, termasuk juga selalu gagal melakukan panggilan (calling). Pesan errornya adalah “… tidak bisa melakukan panggilan …”, seperti kalau kita terlambat membayar tagihan. Sebagai catatan, saya hanya menggunakan Fren untuk Internet dengan berlangganan paket Maxsurf 200. Sedangkan untuk pembayaran […]

Setelah Hiroshima dan Nagasaki luluh lantak terkena bom atom sekutu (Amerika), Jepang pelan tapi pasti berhasil bangkit. Mau tidak mau harus diakui saat ini Jepang bersama China dan Korea Selatan sudah menjelma menjadi macan Asia dalam bidang teknologi dan ekonomi. Alhamdulillah saya mendapat kesempatan 10 tahun tinggal di Jepang untuk menempuh studi saya. Dalam artikel sebelumnya saya […]

Community building (membangun komunitas) bukan hanya monopoli orang yang bergerak di darat, tetapi juga di dunia maya. Komunitas adalah kumpulan manusia atau kelompok yang berkumpul dan berdiskusi karena memiliki tujuan atau ketertarikan yang sama dalam suatu bidang tertentu. Berbeda dengan terminologi organisasi yang ketat (strict) khususnya berhubungan dengan adanya tujuan tertentu yg dikejar bersama, komunitas relatif lebih […]

Hermawan Kartajaya, guru marketing ngomongin tentang open source? Ya benar, itu terjadi di acara ulang tahun ke-2 majalah e-Indonesia yang diselenggarakan di Hotel Bina Karsa, Bidakara, Jakarta, 24 April 2007 kemarin. Saya kebetulan dapat undangan dari mas Suhono (Kepala Pusat Inkubator Bisnis ITB) dan mas Andi Zoeltoem (Pemred e-Indonesia) untuk ikutan di acara tersebut. Mas […]

In case you wonder, the last few days I’ve been busy doing projects on dotnetnuke. I did not really have much time to update this blog. So today everything has been sorted out, and I regain my breathing space to update this blog =).

(c)Stuart Foster

Okay, a few days back Mr. Ramon Padilla wrote an article at TechRepublic looking at the career progress in IT. He thinks that the current practice in the workplace will put you, either in the “I” category, or the “T” category. He defines the “I” category as an employee with understanding the needs and goals of the business side, whilst the “T” category as an employee with a good handle on the nitty-gritty of technology.

I have been working for my company since January 2005. My position, that time, was Business Development guy. In my view, I had to develop everything related to my company business. Evaluating current business achievement, giving advice to overcome red business performance or developing new “toys” to be implemented. I was excited to be sit on that chair.

But, wait a second … Actually, I have done nothing related to my job last year. What I did was preparing solution proposals to be sold. My main job was saved in a cupboard placing in my dirty full of spider net warehouse. My performance was only approaching two to five principles to be partnered with. I was not happy with that bad achievement but I could do nothing because company wanted me to do unwanted duties. It was not my mistake. But, I was so disappointed, very disappointed.

Starting February 2006, I was placed to monitor and control project delivery. Business Development would be mine, my boss told me when ordering me to new job. “OK, I will take that responsibility.” I answered. I moved to new room and conducted new role since that time on. I would not bothered with any sales or business development things.

It is approaching end of August now. Business is not going well. Sales performance is not good enough. If this situation continues, we will book no margin this running year. What will I save on my bank account? Only blank papers? Oh no! No, no, no …

I have to do something. I must play my old role even if my company will not pay me for it. I have spoken to my mate and said that we had to rethink our business. This kind of business is going to hell and frankly I won’t be in that bus, sit quietly and wait for a deadly crash.

My company revenue was 85% from government sector and only 15% from commercial sector. I have many times talked to my colleagues that depending on government sector with a business method I could not understand like what we have been in so far was not good to our health. I believed that our professionalism was represented in our commercial sector, not in government sector. Once we lost our government customers, we could only do nothing in commercial sector. So, I proposed to give more attention in developing commercial sector. Frankly speaking, I saw that government sector in Indonesia was going to grow up and arrive into what commercial sector has achieved. Advancing my company capability in servicing commercial sector will gain in business readiness when the time for clean government procurement process come in to reality. But, focusing our concentration to service the government sector will not give us more capabilities in penetrating commercial arket.

What a situation? My friend that took me in this company, that entering the playground with a huge amount of spirit to grow our commercial sector marketing, was turning in to government sector and enjoying to sell to them. Perhaps he faced a tall and thick wall to be broken and thought that the opportunity to develop commercial market was smaller that the government market. I think oppositely. Growing up commercial sector will drive us to better performance and the government sector will follow behind commercial sector.