Cautioning Against Technological Pitfalls – Part Eight
Cautioning Against Not Reviewing Business Plans and Products
Among the greatest things that distinguish our esteemed leaders is the dynamism of decisions and changing business plans in a way that suits the permanence of development, and this is what we must learn from them, indeed apply in everything, for gentleness was not in anything except that it adorned it. The historic event in which Apple announced its change of the processors of Mac devices and set a timeline for that indicates flexibility in sensitive change and a review of a practice that had continued for more than 10 years, and the adoption of something better for all parties, for Mac devices are among the most important devices for them, and Apple did not take this step except by considering it an alternative plan to Intel processors and after reviewing its products and the observations of users. What the manager decides is not suitable for every time and place; rather, the leader is the one who reviews his decisions and adopts what is more beneficial for his institution, and who is characterized by flexibility and the pursuit of development and the continuous improvement of the environment and services.
Cautioning Against Not Developing Employees' Skills and Neglecting the Work Environment!
The institution is its employees, so among the most important foundations of developing institutions and their services is focusing on its employees and developing them, and enhancing technology and adopting it in all practices is a matter that has the highest yield and return, and harnessing all efforts in providing a comfortable, suitable work environment that enables employees to acquire skills, development, and creative thinking to abbreviate services and work, and not stagnating in routine, and adopting smart systems in all repetitive routine matters, and adopting remote work systems primarily due to their greater effectiveness, and complete reliance on productivity and the completion of the tasks entrusted to the employees and departments. We have in Dubai Police a good example, for they have police stations without police! The officers and personnel are in the control center, and the smart screen connects those seeking service from any point to the smart police stations. We can apply these steps with all institutions by activating remote work and adopting shared smart systems for customer service for a larger number of institutions, operating around the clock.
Encouraging the Launch of a Service Line by Another Work Team
Some institutions have an obsession with providing the best services to customers and consider it the core of their work, but because the services are provided by a single work team, you find them in a single pattern that may lack development, and at times lacks important developments because their business plan has a different orientation. Let us simplify the matter further: the Samsung Galaxy S phone production line and the Galaxy Note production line, these lines are essentially different teams working to present the best of what they have, and they certainly take ideas from one another. It may be that providing a team that develops parallel services with newer or re-studied capabilities, whether in services already offered or even within the backup service-launch line, the reason behind this being the launch of massive, modern, and fast updates without needing to wait long.
Cautioning Against the Intrusive Pack of Thieves on Social Media
The methods of thieves and criminals develop amid the development of technology, so in every direction you find them present in shapes and masks without limit. Some of them approach you with accounts in which you find no flaw on the surface and sound, recent posts, then suddenly you find that the begging has begun in private messages, and others send invoices and numbers and tell stories, and all of that to prey upon those with tender hearts. Each of us must always pay attention to such people and report their accounts immediately and commit donations to the official accredited bodies and institutions in the country, for they have systems and rules they follow.
Encouraging the Use of Infographics Reinforced with Numbers and Data
Among the most beautiful modern works of art are infographic designs, especially those reinforced with numbers and data in a beautiful and organized way. Some excel at creating works of art of high benefit and great use for those who read them, and so it is considered among the most demanded arts on all sites, applications, and publications, indeed the infographic is not limited to static images only but even to short videos, and it is called a videograph.
Encouraging the Use of "Progressive Web App" Technology for Websites
Websites have now entered a new stage, becoming much more than just a website, as international websites one after another have come to adopt PWA (Progressive Web App) technology in websites, which works on simple mechanisms that are added to the site, so it works on smartphones as if it were a dedicated app from the app store, in terms of design and features, and even saving the logo and launch image and storing the data in the phone and continuous updating through the web without needing to publish it in the app stores. This beneficial process saves a great deal of effort and money and speeds up updates and the fixing of errors and works efficiently on Android and iPhone phones as well, and recently the "Hesabati platform" adopted it as an alternative to the dedicated app in the app store, and it met with everyone's acceptance and made it easy to add more services in the innovative Emirati platform.
Eng. Ahmed Al Zarouni – Al Roeya Newspaper
