Systems – An Introduction
If you want to run an organisation efficiently you will need to systematize its major functions. This is true no matter what it does or how large or small it is. You’ll need – a system. But what is a system in the first place?
The word ‘system’ encompasses many things. On the grander scale of things it includes – the solar system, our ocean systems, or an ecological system. When it pertains to human activities its realm extend to cultural and faith-based belief systems; political, economic, social defense systems; and other activities such as education, healthcare, agriculture, trade and exchange, computerized systems and so on. Some are static; some are dynamic, while others are quiet complex.
But no matter what system is involved, they normally are observed to have some common characteristics:
- Systems have structure in that they are defined by their parts and their composition. Sometimes, it also refers to intangible notions involving recognition, observation, nature, and stability of patterns and relationships of entities;
- Systems have behaviour driven by inputs, processing and outputs of material, energy or information usually in relation to its environment whether internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary;
- Systems have interconnectivity in that various parts of it have functional as well as structural relationships involving each other and that some parts of it interact with and rely on one or many others simply by the fact that they occupy the same ecology. In that sense, a system may be also difficult or sometimes impossible to analyze only through its individual parts considered alone; and,
- Systems have, by themselves, functions or groups of functions.
You can think of it this way. Systems exist to make our lives more livable, ordered, familiar and understandable. It makes everyday work easier for us to perform. It brings the realms of chaos into order.
Digital Summit Ltd. helps clients make sound IT investment decisions by creating the required organisational infrastructure and implementing innovative solutions that enable them to function optimally for today and the future. It does this principally by developing and building ICT-based systems involving particular types of work incorporating techno-logies that detain, store, retrieve, manipulate, display or broadcast information.
A few of these systems would include:
Client Management Systems
Communications Management Systems
Computerized Accounting Systems
Diagnostic System Tools for Family Assessment
Digital Document Management Systems
Stakeholders Management Systems