impact of IT in businesses today?
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It in business's, hmmmm, let me think, YEAH! The deciding factor in how well and organised your business is gonna be?
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Besides having a ton load of people pissed off?\n\nMany businesses have internal networks so they wont be as affected as one might think.\nBanks would merely have their online capabilites disabled which would force lots of companies to resort to manual paper reciepts for transactions.\n\nAll online businesses would be out of luck.\n\nBut the next day or two would show the increase in business so it would stabalize itself.\nMore than a nuisance if anything.
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right NOW my job is quite secure... but it's impossible to predict the impact the economy might have on it down the road.\n\nthe effect snowballs as people have less disposable income, and they spend less on non-essential items (such as eating out: i work in a restaurant.)  fewer customers lead to fewer employees needed, so the ones that remain are forced to work harder to cover the slack.  and as the cost of the raw materials (in this case food) increases due in part to higher transportation costs, the profit margin shrinks to a barely manageable level.  \n\nit is a scary time for small business owners and employees alike.  a one-word description for the way i feel about the whole economy is "cautious"... we are in uncharted waters.
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More details please. Who's in it? Is it recent?
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It mainly affected the area of emplyees and candidates' database filing, the sreening and short listing methods and most importantly the job training and contineous eduacation techniques.\n\nGrop intervies has become possible now through metaframe and video conference technologies
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In England, the school subject IT (Information Technology) was renamed ICT (Information and Communication Technology) by the government some years ago.  The "C" was to reflect the increasing importance of the Internet and other forms of communication technologies in the world of computers.\n\nThis move was unpopular with some because "IT" is a common term throughout the world in industry.\n\nThe definition of "Information Technology" (as accepted by the AQA exam board) is that "technology" means the application of science to everday tasks.  Information Technology means the application of science to inputting, storing and processing data and outputting information.  Communication Technology is the application of science to developing new forms of communication.
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how about the evolution of small business due to the internet
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Blessing.  Certainly there are problems to solve, but those problems will be solved by further technology, not by banning what we already have.  \n\nIt would be possible to provide a long list of the benefits of technology in the modern world, but I will cite a single example:  modern communication technology allows me, a complete stranger, to answer your question.  We never had anything in the past like the information tool we have now in the internet.  No matter how good a library one had available, it would still take a lot of time and know-how to research every question.  Now, it's all here at your fingertips.\n\nAsk any modern physician how many of his patients would have been worse off ten years ago, let alone fifty.  Ask any research scientist what has happened in his field as a result of modern technology.  The world does not stand still, and we cannot make it do so.\n\nRemember, nothing is an unmixed blessing.  Certainly the internet brings its own problems, but so did the technology of the crossbow!
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why productivity is not directly correlated with IT investment
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I'm not really sure what your question is. We use computers in our business for everything from processing information about our customers to tracking sales to communicating with customers and internally. Computers fully drive our business.
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That's a good question.  I am an applied information technology student and have friends who are studying Management information systems.  I think that Information systems refers to the solutions already put in place to make work easier and improve efficiency.  For instance an MIS major isn't expected to re-invent the wheel when they join an IT department.  On the other hand information technology teaches you about computing from a practical and vantage point of view.  You see the problems and suggest solutions.  Solutions that you will implement and someone with a background in information systems will take over and work on daily.  For instance, a bus company like greyhound writes tickets by hand.  the information technology guy says no we should use a database, he designs and implements it and then an information system worker comes in to maintain and do the daily activities the database needs to function.\n\nI hope this answers your question.
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If you are speaking of an established business process, it will make things a lot easier to have one when implementing new tech. If you have processes that are constantly changing, your needs will change a lot, and this will call for changes in technology. You can sometimes get technology to work for more than one purpose, but it will not be nearly as efficient if the process changes frequently.
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Good Luck!  I work for a major telecom and our folks who define IT standards are almost anti-opensource.  I get the impression that the decision makers are under the impression that if it doesn't anything, it can't be a decent product.
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It's huge.  It has changed the way the world does business.  It has absolutely changed the world.  It is the information highway.  It is a world of info at your finger-tips.  People talking to people all over the world.  \n\nAnd with this outstanding unbelieveable technology, I see morons and the things they choose to communicate and the time they waste in chat rooms etc.  And I think, "wow, such a huge tool and so much you can do with it...and this is all your small minds can think of to use it for?"\n\nWOW, ignorance gone to seed.
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Right now, it is all about information security.  Many companies which do not see themselves as being vulnerable are getting a wake-up call.  Data breaches are happening all of the time, and no one is exempt from it happening to them.
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Pretty crappy. After the Enron and Worldcom scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley act has made things a heck of a lot more difficult. There is so much paperwork its not funny. You've also got people looking at large companies for being monopolies (Microsoft a few years back) and for unethical business practices including cheap foreign labor. All in all, not so great.\n\nEDIT\nAs for how it affects me today...\nI think that the move in business has been even more towards customer centric marketing as well as owner centric ideals: give the customer what they desire while at the same time upholding whatever values your brand stands for and keep ethical practices. I think that anti-trust stuff is a joke personally but thats just me.
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Yes.  There still is a lot of demand for IT people, so you can get a work visa if you have IT experience.