...The Evolution of Information Technology and its Impact Felles Grant Grantham University October 29, 2013 The Evolution of Information Technology and its Impact Businesses have been searching forever for newer technology and ways to speed up production to draw in more business. With the introduction of the first personal computer in 1981 the promise of a new age of information technology was just beginning. Before businesses could capitalize on these benefits some rearranging had to take place. Automated tellers came to be and Microsoft releases the windows operating system in 1985, then in the 90's electronic commerce gabbed hold to technology. Now look at us mostly all business is conducted over a personal computer or some type of device. Computers offer businesses many options to organize data, personal information and other essential information. Information technology though it may seem new it's not, it has been around for a while now. It has been around so long that information technology can be broken down into 4 main ages. There is the premechanical age, the mechanical age, the electromechanical age, and the electronic age. The premechanical age is around the time of 3000 B.C and 1450 A.D. Yes we're talking caveman. Some of man's first communications were performed by drawings and carvings on rocks. This technology was called petroglyths. The along came the alphabet and we as people began writing...
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...E-Business Evolution BIS375 November 2, 2015 E-Business Evolution The evolution of e-business started in the large spread of personal computers in the 1980’s and the commercial internet brought about in the 1990’s. The e-business spectrum refers to the implementation electronic technology in all business functions. E-business is inclusive of computers and internet for both internal and external operations as well communication and e-commerce across an organization. The e-business evolution has allowed businesses to go from storing physical paper in large filing containers to storing that data and much more in digital format on servers. The ability of organizations to electronically store and process data lets them improve both speed of information storage and processing. E-business has allowed organizations to go from manually forecasting business transactions to doing it with spreadsheets and dedicated software increasing information flow and speed to users and making the organization more efficient. The Internet has emerged as a significant aspect of today’s e-business evolution. In today’s marketplace larger companies have Internet accessibility to their goods as well services on their individual websites. The Internet will continues to change and improve, at some point even small businesses will need to acquire or develop their individual websites to be competitive in their own marketplace. The next e-business technology will be to have or acquire a mobile friendly...
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...Week 1: Information Systems in the Digital Firm - Lecture Print This Page Information Systems in the Digital Firm Evolution | Current State | Trends | Tutorial The Evolution, Current State, and Trends of Information Systems In addition to the material currently described, an introduction to cloud computing and user involvement in IT projects also will be included in this lecture. This is required as foundational knowledge for the chapters to come. We will explore it at a business level and a minimal technical level. Evolution The business landscape has changed over the past seventy years in every significant way. Without information systems, these changes would not have occurred. To gain a perspective on the evolution of information systems, we can review the significant computer inventions from the first computer through to cloud computing. As computer technology progressed, new skills had to be learned, and new methods of management evolved to replace old hierarchical styles with new team based methods. Increased productivity resulting in new information technology caused the downsizing of employees that began in the late 1980s and has continued. Information systems consultants identified productivity gains, so large that they cut the numbers in half and still weren't believed. Many of the products and services we use every day had not been invented just five or ten years ago. The ability to communicate electronically with anyone anywhere in the...
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...ENTE 2534 ASSIGNMENT 1 Criteria ‘The evolution of selling: a study of historic and contemporary sales methods and attitudes’ Name: Arun Sehgal Student Number: P11271202 Tutor Marking: Edwina Goodwin CRITERIA | COMMENTS | MARK | Introduction/Conclusion..5% | | | Depth and Range of academic research, and evidence of understanding 25% | | | Quality of examples both historic and contemporary25% | | | Quality of individual analytical discussion- convincing? 25% | | | Correct format as outlined in module guide; adequate & correct referencing, free from errors…………………….10% | | | Reflection… …10% | | | LESS 5% IF NO CRITERIA SHEET TOTAL MARKS | | Assignment 1 Title: ‘The Evolution of selling: a study of historic and contemporary sales methods and attitudes’ Tutorial Day: Wednesday – 12 to 1 Full Name: Arun Kumar Sehgal Student ID: P11271202 Module Name: The Creative art of selling and negotiation – ENTE 2534 In the last two century professional selling has evolved dramatically through various methodologies, practices and models that have been created in order to show the old and new ways of adaptive selling. Selling models have been made in order to show the complexity of selling techniques determining the outcome of a salespersons approach to a client, making sure that previous mistakes are not repeated. Key impacts and changes happened throughout the industrial revolution and 19th century. Customer...
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...Nirmala - Impact of Technology in Education/Computer Generations Question 1. a. The Computer has swiftly become the "must have" of the 21st Century as it has enthralled the minds of everyone who is evolving with time. With the evolution of the Computer and it's Technology, there has been a great expansion in the availability of Computer Technologies with the high possibility of improvement at all levels of education. In my school days having a computer together with internet connection at your disposal was a luxury that few could afford. Some of us had the use of Encyclopedia's at home and then there is your Local or National Library and school text books which not everyone in Trinidad and the Caribbean could not afford to access . With the availability of the Computer and it's technology in the 21st Century, it has become much easier for students to access information with just the use of search engines on the internet as opposed to thirty years ago when the internet was just born and could have only been accessed the US Government and certain Universities. Now by just typing in the first word of what you need to research you get a definition within seconds. This has impacted the lives of many in a positive way, where students can now have information by just using the Computer and it's Technology with the tips of their fingers. This type of technology is not only available as at personal computer but students can access computer technology via cell phones and...
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...Organizations have always looked to their IT departments for the expertise and creativity to develop new products and services. However, the productivity of IT teams varies widely, in part because of the vastly differing access to tools and technologies that organizations provide to these workers to support the way in which they work. This fact has serious implications when we consider three major changes now taking place in the as relates to social computing since these changes are increasingly having an impact to the ways people interact with each other. Therefore, the concept of social computing is of particular interest to this author because “a large number of new applications and services that facilitate collective action and social interaction online with rich exchange of multimedia information and evolution of aggregate knowledge have come to dominate the Web” (Schneider, 2006, p. 15). A key feature of the new social computing trends is the use of easy-to-use, lightweight, mostly open-source computing tools. Examples include blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, peer-to-peer networks, open source communities, photo and video sharing communities, and online business networks. Many of the popular online networks have been growing dramatically; with the most spectacular examples being Facebook and YouTube, “each of which have attracted significantly high investments from leading players in the industry; both the growth and the high profile investments resemble events...
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...company. You can use the same topic as you choose for the library class, UCSP 611. Research Question: What impact does mobile technology have on the productivity of employees? Executive Summary Introduction The evolution of consumer mobile technology has changed the way individuals communicate and interact in the professional work environment and has revolutionized the amount and speed at which business is conducted. The days of the traditional nine to five are a thing of the past thanks to tablet computers, smart phones, iPads and e-readers. Now today’s business professionals are accessible 24x7x365 via email, instant messaging, text messages or video chats. From the airport to the home, to thirty thousand feet above the earth, consumer technology has increased the volume of communication in every day workers and has a direct impact on employee productivity. This research paper discusses three areas in which consumer mobile technology has had a positive impact on productivity; by reshaping communication and marketing, eliminating geographical limitations, and improved organization responsiveness. Communication & Marketing Mobile technology has introduced a new form of communication and marketing to the business world, one in which businesses can communicate directly to its customers and target market. Mobile technology has given businesses the ability to communicate and advertise to customers utilizing location-based services which are now being offered...
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...THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION. 1.1 Introduction It has become increasingly necessary for all businesses to incorporate Information Technology (IT) solutions to operate successfully and be able to maintain a competitive edge within the market they operate. As a result, many corporations have adopted Information Technology on a large scale by investing in Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) to accomplish their business transactions and data processing needs. Through the use of technology, various organisations have ventured into more efficient ways of conducting their business operations. Focus has since shifted to adopting the latest technology in order to beat competition. In light of the accounting division, this has meant adopting different forms of ERPs, some of which have led to huge failures even in reputable organisations. In some organizations, decisions with regards to adopting newer technology are made independent of the accounting function. This implies taking on such projects without prior consultation of personnel in the accounting division. As a result, some of the failures in those projects have adversely affected the accounting function of many organizations. In this study of the Impact of Information Technology on the accounting function I intend to establish a conclusion as to whether the impact being made by Information Technology on the accounting profession is positive or negative with particular attention...
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...The Challenges of E-Commerce MKT552 The Challenges of E-Commerce Today’s business managers face many challenges when migrating a traditional ‘brick and mortar’ company to that which is now known as the evolutionary ‘click and mortar’ business model – that is, a business that operates in the Internet market space. To stand boldly in the face of challenges presented by the networked economy, firms must develop competencies that enable not only high performance market interactivity and adaptive, intuitive customer engagement platforms, but also contribute to the development of sound business strategies that ensure a firm’s competitiveness in the vast web-based business environment. Considering this, important factors such as copyright infringement, regulatory compliance, and policy and procedure guidelines must be considered in order to ensure safe business practices while endorsing and protecting a company’s brand, reputation, and intellectual property. This paper serves to identify the primary challenges posed by e-commerce landscapes, while profiling the characteristics of the four infrastructures most commonly found in web-based business models. Furthermore, this paper also discusses the ways that managers can optimize their business strategies to gain competitive advantage by employing the opportunities provided by the Internet market space. Overview of e-Commerce Business Models Today’s networked economy presents a variety of business challenges that are unique...
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...The Evolution and Development of E-Commerce Market and E-Cash Azamat Nogoev1 Faculty of Business Management and Globalization LimkokwingUniversity of Creative Technology, Cyberjaya, Malaysia Azamat_nogoev@yahoo.co.uk Rashad Yazdanifard2 Faculty of Management,Multimedia University Cyberjaya, Malaysia rashadyazdanifard@yahoo.com Shahriar Mohseni3 Faculty of Management,Multimedia University Cyberjaya, Malaysia shahriar_mohseni@yahoo.com Behrang Samadi4 Faculty of Management,Multimedia University Cyberjaya, Malaysia behrang_samadi@yahoo.com Meera Menon5 Faculty of Design Inovation, LimkokwingUniversity of Creative Technology, Cyberjaya, Malaysia meera@limkokwing.edu.my ABSTRACT Given the impact of the Internet on all aspects of economic life, it can be regarded as a source of emergence of new electronic economy with an extremely rapid growth, creating new opportunities for Industrial and business activity, increase employment opportunities.Robust economic activity on the Internet or by using its capabilities led to the emergence of a new concept- electronic commerce. KEY WORDS Internet, electronic commerce, electronic payment systems. 1. INTRODUCTION Advances in communication technologies within the last decade of the twentieth century paved the way for innovations, promoting rapid globalization. The convergence of telecommunications and computer technology has given birth to a new business organizational system called the internet, presenting a revelation...
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...patch" of plastic twice the size of the state of Texas moving in the North Pacific Ocean. Humans, ecosystems, and wildlife are seriously challenged by debris from plastic. Disposable plastic water bottles for bottled water are made out of oil which is a finite natural resource known as Polyethylene terephthalate (PET). PET bottles require energy to manufacture and transport. The amount of oil used to produce water bottles each year which equates to 17 million barrels of oil is the same amount of oil that would fuel over 1,000,000 cars for a year (Palliser, 2010). * Strategies for promoting positive environmental behavior * The use simple strategies of reducing, reusing and recycling can play a major impact on the reduction of plastic bottles and their impact upon the environment. There are more than 50 billion bottles of water purchased globally. It is estimated that 80% of these bottles end up in landfill. It requires 17 million barrels of oil to produce bottled water containers. In the United States 1500 plastic bottles are...
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...entrepreneurial world. This paper discusses ERP in details and extensively. The paper introduces ERP by giving background information, discusses the evolution of ERP systems, analyses the advantages and limitations of ERP systems, and concludes by giving a summary of the important aspects of ERP discussed. Enterprise resource planning in the global marketplace, advantages and limitations Introduction The entrepreneurial scene and global market have become more vibrant in the recent years, and for this reason, there have been debates and concerns on how enterprises and companies should enhance their competitiveness and agility. The greatest concern in the business world is profitability, and in accomplishing this, enterprises have put in place strategies and measures that gradually help make strides towards the desired direction. Another primary focus of enterprises is to see an improvement of their business agility and to accomplish this, enhancements have been made including efficiency of production, product and service quality, as well as response time to consumers. A fundamental aspect of the accomplishment of the mentioned enhancements and objectives is information technology. As much as its installation and implementation in enterprises is costly, the myriads of benefits that accompany it cannot be overlooked. Attention should be shifted from integrating information technology solely to into the automation of enterprises' business process to integrating the same into other developmental...
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...Management Information Systems, 13E Laudon & Laudon Lecture Files by Barbara J. Ellestad Chapter 5 IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies As information becomes a valuable resource of a digital firm, the infrastructure used to care for it takes on added importance. We’ll examine all of the components that comprise today’s and tomorrow’s IT infrastructure and how best to manage it. 5.1 IT Infrastructure When you mention the phrase “information technology infrastructure,” most people immediately think of just hardware and software. However, there is more to it than just those two. In fact, the most important and often most-ignored component is that of services. Integrating all three components forces a business to think in terms of the value of the whole and not just the parts. Including all three components in any discussion of IT infrastructure truly fits the cliché that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Defining IT Infrastructure If you define a firm’s IT infrastructure in terms of technology you limit the discussion to the hardware and software components. By broadening the definition to that of service-based, you are then bringing into the discussion the services generated by the first two components. Also, you are including the persware element that we discussed in Chapter 1. As technology advances the types of hardware and software available, it becomes more critical for the firm to focus on the services that a firm can provide to its customers...
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...linked cities and states together, and driven them apart. The narrative angles nearly every corner of the globe, while the purpose of Wilds book “International Business the Challenges of Globalization” is to provide the reader with insightful information on the history of international trade, business, geopolitics, and its impact the world. The purpose of this to narrative is to demonstrate the evolution and interconnectedness of global economics through the means of trade, business, and geopolitics while leaving its impression on the development of a globalized society we know of today. I have chosen to write about chapter one “Globalization” because of its impact on businesses worldwide. Through the process of globalization we are able to enjoy products made in distant lands, specialize in various aspects of production, servises and overall benefit from an interconnected global economy. Technology is one of the key drivers of a globalized world, prior to the technological revolution long distance communication used to take days, even months depending on the distance it had to travel. In present times with many advancements in technology, information can be accessed instantaneously allowing for parties to share, and exchange information in real time. The recent technological boom has allowed for near instantaneous communication paving the way for wireless transactions, allowing money to cross borders electronically and business to operate overseas in a very efficient manner....
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...The purpose of our research is to understand how economics works with cloud computing. Is economics the way to go with cloud computing? What is the general understanding of economics when it comes to cloud computing? How will businesses benefit from cloud computing? Will cloud computing work within a budget of an organization? Businesses will economically grow and benefit with cloud computing. Cloud computing has significant implications for the way companies, businesses, and governments access and use information technology. It enables users to remotely access scalable, high-powered computing services via broadband networks from a range of devices, all on-demand. Cloud computing has the potential to provide users with increased computing capability, greater efficiency, and lower energy and infrastructure costs. According to Kevin Jackson of Forbes.com he describes cloud computing as a metrics. According to Kevin Jackson the four sets of cloud computing economics are the number of unique customer sets, customer set duty cycles, relative duty cycle displacement and customer set load. These metrics reduce resources and creates more resource demand. According to Mr. Jackson of Forbes.com this “properly balancing these factors across a well characterized user group can lead to approximately 30-percent savings in IT resources, and enables the near real-time modification of the underlying physical infrastructure required for the delivery of the desired “illusion of infinite...
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