The Impact Of Ict On Innovation And Change

Change is not something to be taken lightly. "This issue of change is one of the greatest challenges in the workplace today" (Fralix, P., 1998). One of the pitfalls of change within an organization is employees' fear of what change will bring. Will implementing new technologies destroy my job? Will I be able to keep up with the changes in my organization? These are some of the questions that bring about employee apprehension to changes in business. This very apprehension can determine the success or the failure of change within that system. Yet change is inevitable. Much like the Darwinian theory of survival, the company that can adapt with changes in emerging technologies will survive in today's society. So how

A wise man once said, “The only permanent thing in the world is change,” an adage that rings especially true for organizations in this fast-changing era of technology and communication. Daft very deftly puts the inescapable need for change in three simple words, “Innovate or Perish” in his book “Understanding the Theory & Design of Organizations” [2].

Innovation brings changes, and for bringing desirable and appropriate changes, a clear understanding of innovation is vital. A plethora of discourses indicates what innovation is, but it remains fuzzy because of contextual biases and disparity (Crossan, M. M., and Apaydin, M., 2010). The literature of innovation, on the other hand, refers to innovation as a category covering a wide spectrum of issues that include a source of change (cause), a changing process, and a changed state (effect), which appears ambiguous because the cause, effect and the process in-between cannot be the same.

The Information Revolution is said to be a massive change in the way organizations conduct business. In this day and age when time and

There is considerable organizational resistance to new information systems because they change many important organizational dimensions, such as culture, structure, politics, and work. Leavitt puts forth a model that says that changes in technology are absorbed, deflected, and defeated by organizational task arrangements, structures, and people. In this model the only way to bring about change is to change the technology, tasks, structure, and people simultaneously. In a second model, the authors speak of the need to unfreeze organizations before introducing an innovation, quickly implementing the new system, and then refreezing or institutionalizing the change.

Even though speech recognition is not good for all physicians it is for some. This technology would make it much easier for the doctors, nurse and all of the staff. Benefits are significant because

Information technology has advanced in multiple ways in society, where organizations has implement the structure into their work environment. Industries have outsource their manufacturing to other places in the world and rely on telecommunication to keep the marketing. The geographic distribution has changed significantly by reducing the distance it takes to complete an operation, due to information technology. These are just a couple of examples of how this advanced technology has reshape our society and continuing.

In today’s society companies are finding that it is more demanding that they make changes in certain departments or in the entire company. May managers are faced with the question, “How do I make successful changes?” Another issue company’s face is the resistance to changes by employees. How can a company reduce the resistance from employees? What role do human

Most factors affect ones not only the businesses but our society as well, the way it can be affected is on high-speed Internet, computers, cell phones, and video games. Most of our society is used to these technologies in which I believe that the more technology advances the more our society wants to learn about it and want to be involved with it. However, the technology has advanced in every aspect and will continue to advance in which it has been a great help in every way to the government, economy, legal, social, and our society. Some of these factors can contribute to success more than others on how an organization manages the size, complexity, structure, multiple providers, and about measuring the outcomes of identifying the ongoing improvements to the technology and understanding technology is the key to success.

As the above paragraph mentioned how clients search about businesses and how can they reach them by using internet. The internet is very useful for companies and helps to them to communicate with their clients, this is achieved by sending emails to advertise about the new products so the customer will find that the company is interested on him/her and updated about their latest products. This will strengthen the communication between them, from there companies will be able to build good relationships with clients. Internet did not only help communication within local companies but also with big international companies by using virtual communications. Virtual communication can be very helpful for example when holding a virtual meeting between companies in various countries when the only problem to be solved is the time difference. Companies found that it very helpful as it saves their money. And as virtual communication also saves time when companies are trying to discuss business deals, all have to do arrange a certain time and the can use applications like skype.

Frequently, organizational leaders introduce technology as a method to improve overall performance (Kapoor & Lee, 2013; Yukl, 2013). Technological changes are often seen in areas such as information systems, inventory and order processing, sales, and workstations. Although technology may be necessary for an organization to remain competitive, without modifications to the roles, attitudes, and values held by members of the organization the introduction of technology can be challenging and offer limited success (Kapoor & Lee, 2013; Yukl, 2013).

Technological evolution brings about evolving changes in organizational development. In order for leaders of organizations to adapt to these changes, and innovations, they need to sharpen their communication skills, increase their knowledge and embrace a new mindset of thought

Change has become necessary for every organisation there is. World is moving rapidly towards better technologies, efficient systems, new techniques, compact profits, different friendlier environments and organisations are always in the race to reach new heights by thriving effectively in this competitive environment (Kotter, 1996).

CHANGE is the only constant in the relationship between information systems and organizations. As technology evolves and changes, its introduction into organizations requires changes in the firm 's infrastructure and the services it can provide to its employees, customers, and suppliers.

Resistance to change is one of the biggest barriers that organizations face in their efforts to implement organizational change. This greatly hampers the uptake of new technologies, new ways of doing work and even progress of organizations. Reviewing on this, the British Journal of