This week we focus on the movement of traditional IT staff. To facilitate cultural assimilation, IT and non-IT must become more integrated. What are some strategies to implement to

Introduction

Technology as a variable and responsive organizational dynamism

Focuses on defining the components of technology and how they affect corporate organizations.

Answers the questions: how should organizations adjust to its short and long term impacts.

Technological Dynamism

Technology should be regarded as a variable, independent of others, that contributes to the life of a business operation.

Technology can produce a distinctive effect on an organization.

Dynamism is defined as a process or mechanism responsible for the development of motion of a system.

Technological dynamism is the unpredictable and accelerated way in which technology can change strategic planning and organizational behavior.

Responsive Organizational Dynamism

The technological dynamism has the power to disrupt any antecedent sense of comfortable equilibrium of stasis.

Strategic integration

Cultural assimilation

Learning Objectives

define the term software;

identify and describe the two primary categories of software;

describe the role ERP software plays in an organization;

describe cloud computing and its advantages and disadvantages for use in an organization; and

define the term open-source and identify its primary characteristics.

Software

Two key categories

Operating (manage the hardware) and Application Software (perform specific tasks like word processing, accounting, etc..).

Operating Systems

boot programs

Manages PC resources