Technology

DRAMATIC TRANSFORMATION 

Compared to 10 years ago, when we look at all the computing technology available today the difference is staggering! The power of computing and the tech-nologies that have made it possible have dramatic-ally transformed our world and how we interrelate with others. 

People all over the globe now work and communi-cate in ways never before imagined. Technologies that make such things possible as e-mail, instant messaging, the Internet, and video conferencing have completely changed the way we humans com-municate over time and space. 

When communications and computer technologies are merged, the result is information technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and disseminate information that enable us to perform tasks for which the human brain is not well suited – handling large amounts of information, performing complex calculations, and controlling many simultaneous processes. 

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 

Governments, businesses, healthcare, educational and other organisations are certainly seeing the results of the computer age. Research provides empirical evidence of the role of computing technologies as an enabler of growth and increased efficiencies. As organisations evolve, superior IT infrastructure increases the productivity of other inputs controlling complexity-related costs incurred as it increases in size. 

Comprising the strategic core needed to effectively manage critical operations, computing technology’s advantage is that time-consuming work routines can increasingly be performed simply by means of using it. Use of valuable time can now instead be devoted to processing information, communicating, informing and acquiring knowledge. 

At close of 2008, the achievement of the first billion of personal computers in the world took 27 years. That the threshold to 2 billion will be overcome in another five years, says a lot about how pervasive and ubiquitous computing technologies will help us manage almost every important aspect of human endeavour and activity. 

HORIZONTAL COLLABORATION 

Tomorrow’s technologies will increasingly disaggregate production stages from geography, providing tools for collaboration and enabling even more instant communications around the globe. Even now, a glimmering of a triple convergence is taking shape – of new players, on a new playing field, developing new processes and habits for horizontal collaboration. No organisation can afford to ignore this reality.

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