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Why organization need Information Technology and what is Information Technology ?
Could someone tell me this is detail paragraph i'm doing a research on it ,Thanks.
by yihyangh
by oldefar
All strategy can be summarized as having specific goals and a plan to achieve those goals.
In the hierarchy of companies, the business strategy is the key. Successful companies have long term objectives and a plan on how to achieve them. The various departments within the company need their specific plans that allow them to support the business objectives of the company. IT is no exception.
Without a strategic plan, life is a series of reactions rather than actions. Things happen to the company rather than the company making things happen. Success is rare, and by accident. Like flotsam on the ocean, those without a strategic plan just drift about until washed up as trash on the beach.
by pksign
Gone are the days when we use to follow strategy of a successful company.
Today things are different and sure success policy of yesteryear may not succeed at all.
There could not be any laid down rules for success But timing of a decision and a right decision is important.
On what basis we take the decisions? The basis could be status of the project, facts & figures, detailed analysis and matrix of particular case or combination of all these factors and much more. How and where from we can get all these? This is where IT comes in picture. IT cannot be merely strategy. It is refined mixture of long earned living human Intelligence Ocean concentrated and stored at dead objective part of this universe. IT now can no more be limited to Information system or communication system. It is like flowing blood of body, which feeds, constitutes, maintains and grows to all other part of body, which makes society and ultimately this world. Now, following to one is ought to fail and does not leave a relevant reason to exist. If company wants to exist it needs IT exactly like your body if living, needs blood to flow through
by hal 9000
IT is a necessary business stragity to make a sucessful business, long gone are the days where you just go out and buy a computer and hope for the best.
IT is uterlising the resources of people who know what they are doing so that the company gets what it needs when it needs it rather than just hoping for the best.
I recently {actually I'm still there} attended a business that had no IT policy they are a small but growing business and they have just outgrown their previous premisis where they only needed 1 computer. Well they whent out and bought what they thought they needed organised a person to come in an pull some cable and then thought that everything would be fine. Well it wasn't as they bought on price alone and didn't consultwho they bought from as to what they needed exactly they ended up buying a lot of unnecessary and expensive hardware that they can't use.
Then with the computers that they did buy they had only OS with NO programs and they wondered why they couldnot fuction. I was originally called in to fit a CD Rom to a new computer that didn't come with one as they needed it and when I got there they asked me to fit the second monitor {a 19" TFT] that they had bought so that the buyer oon the other side of the desk could see what was on the computer screen easly. Well unfortantly as it was a properity unit that had no room for expansion the only option was to buy a dual head vedio card from this maker which was about 4 times the price of better units that could be bought eleswhere. As it is a half height card you are somewhat limited in what you can get.
by hal 9000
Then on their main computer which they had just bought it was only loaded wit XP Home edition and then had FAT32's as well but this was on a machine that contained all their finicial records and could not be tied down as the OS simply wasn't up to the task {but again it was cheep}.
These are just some of the reasons that IT is necessary in any business as it gives the business what it requires when it is required without any mucking around and waste of money.
I hope that this goes some way to answering your question.
Put very simply a proper IT section saves the company money by only getting what is required when it is required and then getting everything that is required and then getting things up and running as fast as possible when things do go wrong.
IT is nothing more than a managment stragety to save the company unnecessary expence and the unnecessary waste of time and money by setting up what is actually required and not what some people think is required. All to often these acquisations are brought about by accountants that have no idea of how thing actually work but go on price alone and then complain when things don't work or worse still cost a small fortune to make secure. In the example I've given above they have a broadband internet connection where the modem plugs into a hub and then feeds all four coumuters so you have to instigate full security on all computers rather than just on the gateway unit and this setup also slows down the broadband connection as it is being split into a 4 way pipeline rather than feeding it through a single computer that can then manage what each computer actually needs.
by hal 9000
But here's a perfect example of just why a company needs an IT section as no one person no matter what their experience or qualifactions actually knows everything about computer networks and all the bits that you can buy for them.
I work in one of the more specalised niches and I've never run across these video splitters, maybe if I had a bit more contact with my staff one of them would have thought of this option but at the moment I'm at a business fixing up a disater that was brought about by a so called professional who sold the hardware with no thought of how it was going to be used or for that matter even attempted to find out how to configer these computers that they sold. They also arranged for their tech to come out and set up this network which meant laying cable and then attempting to setup the network. All 4 computers are involved here. It should be a simple job but I've been there for 3 weeks now fixing up the mess that was created particuarly after the person who was responsible for laying the cable out cut through the phone lines and took the business out of communication for 3 days. Then shorted out the telephone system that took anothe rwek to fix up but the main problem is he firstly came in layed all the cable and left the wall plugs hanging out of the walls and wasn't seen for another 4 weeks when he then came back and started to finish of installing the cable.
by hal 9000
by hal 9000
Now after spending so much time I began to get a case of major brain fade and just began to rely on what the supplier and the maker recomended {I know better but I was trying to get the job done as quickly as possible}. I've ended up reloading all the computers with the right OS and all the required software but the idea of a video splitter never came into my mind as I've never actually seen one let alone actually used one I've always relied on dual head video cards or 2 video cards configered for this purpose. There have been ocassions where I've had to run 6 video projectors for an image in a 3 X 2 grid for a very large display where each projector only displayed part of the screen image. But something as simple as a screen clone threw me particuarly after all the suppliers and makers never offered this option and insisted on selling some very specalised and expensive parts {well I guess that they have to make money}.
Any company not only needs an IT person but and IT departmentas this type of thing often happens and your co-workers almost always know something that you don't so by bouncing ideas off each other a sensible and cheep result can almost always be achieved. If this job had of been left to the people who sold and installed the network in such a haphazard way this company would have long since failed. They where in business for 2 months at the new premisis before I was called in and they where no closer to achieving a desirable result than when they started.The only way to send a file to another workstation was to e-mail it out through the hub & modem and then back to the desired computer {not a very safe or deserible solution}.
Then there was Max's suggestion I searched the internet for a few hoursand found pleanty of sites of the makers of these things but no resellers.
by hal 9000
So obviously they don't exist as they arn't advertised. As it turned out after several phone calls I located a supplier who's web site I visited the previous night but they don't advertise these units on their site nor do they appear on their price list as they are considered as less used parts so they arn't listed. But here is a simple solution to what could have been an expensive problem.
So put very simply an IT department can do for $100.00 what any fool can do for $1,000.00. I think that is the best explination that I can give but maybe someone else can do better.
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