Understanding IT allows you to benefit more from IT applications, provide valuable input and help select IT applications, be aware of new technologies, understand how IT improves performance, and is beneficial for entrepreneurs. IT is vital to modern business and offers many lucrative career opportunities, which will remain strong in the future.
Programmers, Business analysts, Systems analysts, Designers, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Computer systems analyst, Software developer, Web developer, IT manager, Information security analyst, Software engineer, IT Analyst.
IT impacts entire industries, reduces the number of middle managers, changes a manager's job, and impacts employees at work.
IT affects our quality of life and impacts healthcare.
Information systems (IS) have enormous strategic value to organizations, are expensive to acquire, operate, and maintain, and there is an evolving MIS function within organizations.
Performing high-speed, high-volume numerical computations, providing fast and accurate communication and collaboration within and among organizations, storing huge amounts of information in an easy-to-access, yet small space, allowing quick and inexpensive access to vast amounts of information worldwide, interpreting vast amounts of data quickly and efficiently, and automating both semiautomatic business processes and manual tasks.
Functional Area Information Systems (FAIS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, Transaction Processing Systems (TPS), Interorganizational Information Systems (IOS).
Managing systems development and systems project management, managing computer operations, staffing, training, and developing IS skills, providing technical services, and infrastructure planning, development, and control.
Hardware, Software, Database, Network, Procedures, People.
IT impacts employees' health and safety and provides opportunities for people with disabilities.
Initiating and designing specific strategic IS, incorporating the internet and e-commerce into the business, managing system integration including the Internet, Intranets, and Extranets, educating non-MIS staff about IT, educating the MIS staff about the business, partnering with business-unit executives, managing outsourcing, proactively using business and technical knowledge to seed innovative IT ideas, and creating business alliances with business partners.
