ict assignment no.4

Different Entrepreneurial Characteristics under PECs:
1.Vigilance for oppurtunities

Ex:
 Cheri observed that some of the High school students in New San Jose needs to go to the plaza just to make their projects,reports and some assignments that needs to be typewritten on computer shops.Because she had a capital and already ready for business,she made her own computer shop to help the high school students in their
assignments,reports and projects.
2.Commitment to work contract.

Ex:

Paolo sometimes finds it hard to finish typing job because he also has his own papers to work on.But paolo does his best finish the tasks that his classmates entrusts him.

3.Persistence

Ex:

  Because paolo is swamped with typing jobs,paolo sometimes mixes up his classmates papers and type the wrong items.Instead of losing his patience and quitting,he revises his work until  he gets things right.

4.Willingness to Take Risks.

Ex:
  Soon, paolo has saved enough money to buy a second computer.It was a lot of money for a first year student like him,but he knew that he would gain more profit from it by renting it out.

5.Demand for efficiency and quality.

Ex:Paolo practices accurate typing and improves his speed.He does this to make sure he is able to come up with the best results at the fastest time possible.

6.Goal setting.

Ex:
   Soon,many of paolo`s classmates frequent his house to take turns renting his computers. He then resolved to use all his profits to buy two or more secondhand computers in the next two months.

7. Information seeking.

   His classmates started asking him to apply for an internet connection so they wont have to rent outside to do their research.He made inquiries about the best internet service provider in his area and the most ideal package for his purposes.

8.Systematic Planning and Monitoring

Ex:
   Having acquired two more computers,he carefully planned on additional software to install in the units so that the system will not slow down.

9.Persuasion and Networking

 Ex:After installing the necessary  applications, he convinced his classmates that they will have access to all the software they will need to do their assignments.He was also able to convince them to pass the news around about his superior services.

10.Self Confidence

  Ex::
  Although there are bigger computer shops around,Paolo`s classmates still prefer to use his computers.This is because he shows total belief in the advantages of his services ocer the more expensive and impersonal shops.

PECs(Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies)

                         Economies grow because there are entrepreneurs who make new products and improve existing ones.They prosper with free enterprise,the freedom to engage in business without control by the government,which gives aspiring businessman a chance to compete.

                         Every time a new entrepreneur enters a field,new challenges come up for businesses to improve their products,thus benefiting the consumer.

                       The success of a businessperson greatly depends on a certain set of characteristics called Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies or PECs.These are the characteristics that you encountered in the previous activity.


                        In business, it is not enough to have fondness and skills for a trade.These traits must also work with other qualities to make an enterprise work.PECs represent this set of entrepreneurial characteristics ,which play a major role in the success of the entrepreneur.

Different PECs:
1.Vigilance for Opportunities.
2.Commitment to work contract.
3.Persistence.
4.Willingness to take Risks.
5.Demand for efficiency and quality.
6.Goal Setting.
7.Information Seeking.

Inventor of the Modern Computer

                                                       Konrard Zuse Z1 Circa 1939

                                                                         Konrard Zuse


                           

Konrad Zuse (1910-1995) was a construction engineer for the Henschel Aircraft Company in Berlin, Germany at the beginning of WWII. Konrad Zuse earned the semiofficial title of "inventor of the modern computer" for his series of automatic calculators, which he invented to help him with his lengthy engineering calculations. Zuse has modestly dismissed the title while praising many of the inventions of his contemporaries and successors as being equally if not more important than his own. One of the most difficult aspects of doing a large calculation with either a slide rule or a mechanical adding machine is keeping track of all intermediate results and using them, in their proper place, in later steps of the calculation. Konrad Zuse wanted to overcome that difficulty. He realized that an automatic-calculator device would require three basic elements: a control, a memory, and a calculator for the arithmetic.

                             

In 1936, Zuse made a mechanical calculator called the Z1, the first binary computer. Zuse used it to explore several groundbreaking technologies in calculator development: floating-point arithmetic, high-capacity memory and modules or relays operating on the yes/no principle. Zuse's ideas, not fully implemented in the Z1, succeeded more with each Z prototype. In 1939, Zuse completed the Z2, the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer. Konrad Zuse completed the Z3 in 1941, with recycled materials donated by fellow university staff and students. This was the world's first electronic, fully programmable digital computer based on a binary floating-point number and switching system. Zuse used old movie film to store his programs and data for the Z3, instead of using paper tape or punched cards. Paper was in short supply in Germany during the war. According to "The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse" (by Horst Zuse) In 1941, the Z3 contained almost all of the features of a modern computer as defined by John von Neumann and his colleagues in 1946. The only exception was the ability to store the program in the memory together with the data. Konrad Zuse did not implement this feature in the Z3, because his 64-word memory was too small to support this mode of operation. Due to the fact that he wanted to calculate thousands of instructions in a meaningful order, he only used the memory to store values or numbers. The block structure of the Z3 is very similar to a modern computer. The Z3 consisted of separate units, such as a punch tape reader, control unit, floating-point arithmetic unit, and input/output devices.

ict assignment

James:
1.Hardworking
2.Thrifty
3.Creative
4.Persistent
5.Talented
a. He acquired his trait of being hardworking in his high school days,when he was selling newspapers and cigarettes to help paying for his schooling.
b.He discovered that he is good in Woodworking.
c.He would not be successful in the company that he would work on and he knows that it is also hard to find a company to work on.

Marie

1.Hardworking
2.Determined
3.Courteous
4.Obedient

a.They are both Hardworking.
b.James wasn`t able to goto college but Marie was able to.
c.When she was assigned to be a freelance interior plants consultant.She was very happy about discovering it.

1. All of the following are entrepreneurs because they all both see an opportunity to provide products or services in order to provide what their customer needs.Although some of them does not take the risk of putting up capital,some of them takes the risk like a Fisherman,Pastry Shop Owner,Computer Shop Owner and Farmer.

                 If I were a entrepreneur.i would be in the Computer Shop Owner because I do not only help
students in their assignments,reports,project but I can also enhance them how to use a computer that can help them on their subject on ICT.