How does Information Technology experience help managers?

Answer 1

Computers are essential today. We check our email with it, find answers to questions, watch media, bank and more using computers. There for we need systems that can organize, and serve information when people around the world request it. Servers do the task. Each website has a server. A computer that host the website. When you type Google.com the server who host that website receives data from your computer and sends data back. Letting you access the servers data. Thus you see Google's homepage. Without servers there would be no websites.

Information Systems

Information is the lifeblood of any organization. Damaged or lost data can cause disruptions in normal business activities leading to financial losses, law suits, etc. Information systems, which comprise hardware, software, data, applications, communication and people, help an organization to better manage and secure its critical corporate, customer and employee data. Information systems also improve integration and work processes...the benefits go on and on.

Answer

An information system is also a system but differs from other kinds of systems because its objective is to monitor and document the operations of other systems, which we can call target systems. An information system owes its existence to the target system. For example, production activities would be the target system for a production scheduling information system, human resources would be the target system of a human resource information system, and so on. We could say that every reactive system may have a subsystem that can be considered as an information system whose objective is to monitor and control such a system. The main functions of an information system may be input, processing, output, storage and control at work place

Answer 2

There are several reasons why managers need IT support. We live in a technology driven world. Managers are expected to know their business and make decisions frequently and timely. IT helps us access the necessary information to make those decisions. It is also much more realistic to expect managers to be able to make quick, yet accurate, decisions with the use of IT. In addition most managers roles and decision making duties can get rather complex. The use of IT helps simplify those challenges as well.

Answer 3

The domain of Information Technology is not all about processing & storing information. The use of IT also extends in making Information available at a central place in reliable & quick manner.

This availability can foster Decision making at Managerial levels.

Answer 4

It helps managers because with technology and IT evolution, experience is truly a very important tool for knowledge. Since technology evolves so quickly, managers with IT experience can be invaluable in problem solving and estimating IT projects.

Answer 5

The IT department arranges for shared drives, email accounts of employees, and sets the permissions of use of drives, folders, and other network resources. All as per management's specifications for each employee. Basically management needs IT in order to let those who need access to certain resorces have access and restrict access for those who don't need those resources.

Answer 6

Because it gives top management the needed reports, i.e. complete, reliable, accurate and timely, which are crucial for any decision making.