The Application Of Computers And Telecommunications

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

INTRODUCTION

IT IS A KEY OF BUSINESS SUCCESSFUL.

Information technology (IT) is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data, often in the context of a business or other enterprise. The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies such as television and telephones. Several industries are associated with information technology, such as computer hardware, software, electronics, semiconductors, internet, telecom equipment, e-commerce and computer services. Study design, development, application, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems. The business value of information technology is to automate business processes, provide information for decision making, connect business with their customers, and provides productivity tools to increase efficiency.

OBJECTIVE

IT IS A KEY OF BUSINESS SUCCESSFUL.

Information systems have largely met the initial objective of automating manual activities. The success in doing so led managers to ask what else computer systems could do to improve record keeping and decision making. Not surprisingly, newer objectives have emerged and now dominate system design. Those objectives result from the relationship between user needs and technological progress. Users identify new needs, and system designers meet those needs. New technology appears, and user find ways to capitalize on it.

BODY OF THE ARTICLE

Information technology (IT) can help business grow rapidly, effectively, efficiently in future towards 9 elements important in firm or company applied information technology make business more successful in long term period. Example is

Finance

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"You've got to understand they key financial ratios within [your business] and what your ratios mean within your business. You have to understand the components that go into your income statement, your balance sheet, your cash flow systems," he says. "You can make a major difference in your business very quickly just by applying a couple of strategies."

Distribution systems

"You have to have a plan for getting your product to your customer with the least amount of effort for them and the quickest amount of time," he says. "You've got to constantly understand, what are [the] better ways that you can get to your customer."

Marketing

Gone are the days when basic marketing strategies were all small business owners needed.

"You've got to be able to know the exact customer that you have," he says. "A lot of successful businesses will take advantage of a niche or very targeted marketing-that way, you can compete with the bigger companies because you're focusing your dollars on a very targeted customer that brings in the biggest return."

Products and services

"Unless you're able to analyze the products and services well-[that is,] you have a system for doing it-you may not quite realize that the actual products and services, what types you can make that can [have an] impact on your sales," he says.

Pricing strategies

Know your products and understand their worth to consumers. That means objectively evaluation their quality so you can come up with the best price and selling strategy.

"A lot of business owners don't take pricing strategies into consideration as well as they can," he says. "Just a simple change in your pricing can make a major impact on your sales and your revenue."

People

Human resources are among your most valuable. Know your people, and make sure your staffers resonate with your organization's values, and vice versa.

"It's very important that you have your people that are on the same page, that they understand what they're doing impacts the overall mission of your business," he says. "As a business owner, you [must] understand the drivers of good and poor performance, because if you identify employee performance problems early so that you can correct them, it doesn't affect your business as much."

Performance

"[Business owners need] to be able to measure their people, they've got to be able to measure their processes and they've got to be able to measure their system performance," he says.

That means having consistent metrics across all divisions of your company.

Sales

"You've got to make sure that your sales people are equipped with the right tools to be the best sales people they can be," he says. "You've got to develop a solid system for getting appointments, you've got to teach your sales staff how to overcome resistance, that means you've got to really understand what are all the possible [forms of] resistance you'll probably get with each of your products."

Technology

Among the most important aspects are cloud technology, a solid email program and security protection for your IT content.

"These are all things that the savvy business owner is looking for," he says. "They're look at tools that can help automate; they're looking for tools that can help speed up and simply processes. They're looking for tools that can drive their business success, so that's important."

DISCUSSION

Discussion between teacher and student about information technology agreed that information technology can help business successful from understanding how information technology is the use of computers and software to manage information. Example is some companies, this is referred to as Management Information Services (or MIS) or simply as Information Services (or IS). The information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the information, transmitting the information as necessary, and later retrieving information as necessary.

However, IT specialists assume responsibility for selecting hardware and software products appropriate for an organization, integrating those products with organizational needs and infrastructure, and installing, customizing, and maintaining those applications for the organization's computer users. Examples of these responsibilities include the installation of networks; network administration and security; the design of web pages; the development of multimedia resources; the installation of communication components; the oversight of email systems; and the planning and management of the technology lifecycle by which an organization's technology is maintained, upgraded, and replaced.

CONCLUSION

Information technology is significant to firm right now because information technology can manage right and latest information that help business successful from how their using and understanding information technology. Example a firm using information technology to know customer need and want at market like medium social, twitter to help customer know what firm offer product or service using twitter is very easy to catch up also feedback customer. if they have problem with product or service, example maxis network, problem network or service using by customer, they can complain directly or send message to maxis twitter and maxis staff will fix as soon as possible they problem. A firm should explore and expert on information technology because nowadays technology is vital to firm and everything need information technology to catch up their customer, can make research and development (R&D) and can compete with other competitor and advance using information technology in future can become successful firm.