Impact of IT on Individual,Society and Organization

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Explain the benefits and drawbacks of the use ofinformation technology in: organizations,

individuals, Society, the home, tele-working. Medical Environment

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Technology and information systems are essential tomaintaining, supporting, and enriching manyaspects of the lives of individuals, operations of

organizations, and functioning of societies. Technology has changed the face of working.

Technology reduced the burden of top management

of organizations. Technology is playing a main role in society.

Technology influenced individuals life.


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Now the question arises that is technology producingonly positive impacts?

Who will investigate the costs and risks of

technologies? Will society have any control over the decisions to

deploy technology?


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Information Technology is redefining the entire

concept of time, space, and distance.

Proliferation of high-speed datacommunication networks that span the globeenables companies to integrate geographicallydistant manufacturing and research facilities.

Examples-: International Financial Market,Offshore Outsourcing, online learning world

e-shopping,CBS (in banking sector) etc.


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Technologies are making it possible for manyprofessionals to telecommute, or work from outsidethe office.

According to some estimates, by the year 2010 morethan half of workers in the United States will spend 2

or more days a week working away from the office.

Approximately 4.5 million Americans telecommute a

majority of their total working days.


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Benefits-:

reducing rush-hour traffic,

Improving air quality,

Improving highway safety ,

Improving work efficiency

and even improving health care.

The largest amount of telecommuting occurs inDenver, Portland, and San Diego(In USA).


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IT-related jobs can now be effectively performedfrom home.

in 2001, doctors in New York performed the firstsuccessful cross-Atlantic telesurgery on a patient inStrasbourg France. The removal of the patientsgallbladder was conducted via a robotic arm thatwas remotely controlled by the surgeons.

Telecommuting (or telework ) played a significantrole in business continuity and continuity ofoperations planning.


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INFORMATION OVERLOAD-:

Information Technologys capability to introduceever-growing amounts of data and information into

our lives can exceed our capacity to keep up withthem, leading to information overload.

Business users are not suffering from the scarcity of

data; instead they are discovering that the process offinding the information they need in massivecollections of documents can be complicated, timeconsuming, and expensive.


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INFORMATION QUALITY-:

Information quality is a somewhat subjectivemeasure of the utility, objectivity, and integrity of

gathered information.

Quality issues affect both the simple collections offacts (data) and the more complex pieces of

processed data (information). Issues relating to information quality have become

sufficiently significant that they now occupy anotable place on the governments legislative agenda.


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Information technology greatly accelerates thisprocess and allows machines to perform a variety ofcomplex functions, which, in the past, could be

performed only by humans. Robotics offers a clear example of information

technology eliminating the need for human labor.

Other examples are-: Computerized transactionprocessing systems, automated teller machines,intelligent scheduling software, and voicerecognition systems.


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The use of robots in uncomfortable or dangerousenvironments is one of the primary ways ofimproving the quality of life with information

technology.

IMPACT ON LABOUR MARKET-:

Machines are beginning to challenge scientists,interpreters, computer programmers, lawyers,aircraft pilots, and other professionals in their jobs.


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On one hand, proliferation of InformationTechnology is good for individuals andorganizations, but on other hand, it has some

drawbacks also like information overload andinformation quality.

Machines are replacing workers and perform moreefficiently then human being. It effects both white

colors and blue colors in both positive and negativeways.

People are now taking interest in virtualcommunities like facebook, orkut, twitter etc. ratherthen joining any club or any other community

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