Information Technology And Its Importance

The recent trend in the global business has been largely driven by the mechanism of the internet and more broadly the cyberspace. This has created a more elaborate platform for all business activities to be coordinated through an information system protocols. The information system is the management of the information data base of an organization or an institution. Information is assumed to be a significant asset, organisations strive to gather, retain and protect their valuable intellectual property to place them in a prominent business platform over their competitors.

Information systems (IS), technically are a set of interrelated components that collect and retrieve information, process and store it and support the organization in decision making. Information Technology (IT) is a shared technology and provides the platform for specific information. It consists of hardware and software for a business to achieve their objectives. Included is the computer systems, the computer, any hand-held devices, software the company needs to operate and storage. (20)

1. What is information technology and why is it important? Suggest three fictitious headlines that might be added to Figure 1-1.

Information technology is advancing at a phenomenal rate each day and this has resulted in the growing availability of information to enterprises, employees and their customers. Enterprises employ IT rules in order to regulate this flow of information and these can sometimes negatively affect employee productivity as well as customer retention. A good CIO needs to set productive rules that promote strategically aligned, individual employee decision-making and creativity through a process of natural selection (Stenzel, 2011, Chapter 1) and boost customer retention. The CIO needs to balance playful innovation (Stenzel, 2011, Chapter 1) and creativity with rules, systems and processes and formal discipline (Stenzel, 2011, Chapter 1).This is what Stephens means by “Freedom with Fences” (Stenzel, 2011, Chapter 1).As Roger Martin says, reality is a construct of inferences and interpretations that we misinterpret as reality (Martin, 2009) and “reality” is the enemy of innovation. Creativity and innovation also play an important part in defining the future.

The technological advancements witnessed in the current generation has benefited individuals by making the world a global village by easing access to information. Specifically, the introduction of the internet enables people to access many different platforms where they can express themselves and search information about their interests. Notably, educators, scholars, and students have benefited from various academic websites that provide information on a range of subjects. While evolutions in internet and technology are applauded for providing convenient means of accessing information, scholars have expressed concerns regarding its influences on human intelligence as far as memory is concerned. According to the adversaries, internet and technology are making individuals stupid because they depend on its mind to remember many things such as phone numbers and important dates in their lives. Additionally, the protagonists believe that internet and technology affect individual’s commitment to conduct efficient research work since people can get the information they want from Google easily. Despite the controversies, internet and technology are changing people’s minds for the better because it presents more direct ways of accessing information and archiving experiences for future reference. Compared with my In-Class-essay, I changed my perspective.

Information technology has shaped the world faster and more shockingly than ever before. It’s so much a part of society in the country I live in that if it disappeared tomorrow there would be chaos. It’s touched everything from financial markets to government accountability. If I would to create a list it would be several pages long. Technology has allowed companies to be more efficient, provide near instant and very complicated transitions both domestically and internationally, find employees, promote products, create and sell tangible products for reuse, reduce waste, and even their workers have become more productive. Individual consumers can now have access to a wealth of information, find jobs, or connect with family and friends around the world through social media instantaneously shop and find others with common interest while sitting in their own home.

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Many organizations as a result of its day to day activities generate large amount of data. This data is just mere facts and has no order by itself. This is where information systems come in. An information system could be defined as a computer system “that helps organize and analyze data. So, the purpose of an information system is to turn raw data into useful information that can be used for decision making in an organization” (Jacobson). A typical information

Physiological monitoring system is a vital part of telemedicine and free soft ware in the current world machines like one above makes the monitoring of the patient easy to an extent that every potential danger is clearly understood before it causes any problem to the patient.

It covers any products that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit and receive information electronically in a digital form. Information and Communication Technology comprehends technologies that can process different kinds of information i.e. voice, video, text, data and facilitates different forms of communications among humans and among information systems. The telecommunication infrastructure plays an important role to boost the development of a country in this information society. The advent of ICT brings all the citizen of this planet close together and has a quicker access to all the information and benefits that the world may have. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) encompasses the broad fields of information and communications by means of computer and telecommunication tools are being increasingly used for organizational/personal information processing in all sectors of economy and the society as a whole.

A commonly experienced phenomenon by most people is stress, which Taylor (2014) defines as a harmful emotional experience which goes together with changes – in biochemistry, physiology, cognition and behavior – by a person to adjust to a stressful event (i.e. a stressor), or its effects. Work stress (i.e. occupational stress) is a new phenomenon – or possibly a re-purposing of an old concept – that has arisen due to the extreme, and ongoing, changes to the nature of work over the last century (Bickford, 2005). This phenomenon can be defined as the negative physical and emotional reactions that transpire when job requirements do not match the worker’s capabilities, resources, and needs (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1999). In the field of work stress one focus of the research is on investigating the effects of the prevalent, and global, use of information and communication technologies in the work environment (i.e. technostress). Information and communication technology meaning any electronic device, or technology, with the ability to gather, store, or send information (Steinmueller, 2000).

According to Syed (2009) Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) permeates through every business set-up. He further states that ICTs are influencing production, work and business methods and trade and consumption patterns in and between enterprises and consumers. Denni (1996) cited by Syed(2009) stress that every business must bring ICT into their business operation and take advantage of the benefits they offer. The emergence of and advances in information communications technology offers opportunities for businesses to operate in the global market. (Mutula and Brakel, 2006) cited by Syed( 2009). The usage of ICT tolls by businesses enables them to target large markets across the world, with improved efficiency, and closer customer and supplier relationships (Chong et al., 2001).

There is a remarkable growth in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Developing Countries (DCs). Telecommunication is one of the areas where ICT is recording an ongoing rapid change. Mobile phones are becoming pervasive in daily scenario; and among the beneficiaries of this are farmers. Farmers are using mobile phones in executing their farming business and daily life. At the same time, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are also showing a result in developed part of our world. WSNs potential in sensing various environmental condition, their affordability and applicability motivated conducting of this master thesis. Therefore, the objective of conducting this master thesis is to investigate

1. How can information technology support a company’s business processes and decision-making, and give it a competitive advantage?

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is becoming remarkably prevalent in all spheres of people’s life such as social and work lives and even in our leisure activities (Thomas and Stratton, 2006). Interestingly, ICT is also penetrating in the field of education around the globe. Currently, social media has been widely debated in journal articles and conferences. The subjects, which are tackled, are mostly around raising awareness of the importance of technological tools as new platforms for promoting learners ‘independent learning, how they are embraced in pedagogy, and whether they can be utilized as new instructional tools outside the classroom. Simultaneously, the fact that social media is ubiquitous, it has attracted the attention of many researchers to examine either positive or aspects of using such tools in different settings (Paliktzoglou and Suhonen, 2014). Thus, the Algerian context is not an exception, indeed, the Algerian government has established numerous initiatives to encourage the use of ICT in every field (Boukhatem, 2015). In the following section, in fact, we will shed light on how technology is embraced within Algerian education system, followed by its strengths and weaknesses in teaching and learning languages.