We are The digital Nomads.

In introduction to the course, It first explained how much now a days the society is attached to the technology and using it in their daily life activity , weather it was a smartphone for communication purposes or it was a network within an organization to connect 7 floors building to a single hub.
 In regards to organizations since the course is given to commerce students , throughout this blog the focus will be on businesses and how do they use this technology advancement in their operations.

 Information system "IS" a very common phrase we hear much , but what do it means actually.
Its a system that collects,processes,stores,analyzes and disseminates Information which then is used by an organization employees to perform their tasks within and outside the workplace.

Many people fall in a mistake of mixing between terms like Data Information Knowledge. Data are items of various numbers,letter,symbols that are unmeaningful usually stored from various business transactions and activities. Where Information is defines and organizes the data items to a meaningful manner such as addresses,ages,names or other classifications.

Finally knowledge is organized & processed information to convey understanding, experience, accumulated learning and expertise as they apply to a current problem or activity.

Types of IS:

The triangle here shows the various types of information system within an organization Starting from the top of the triangle , the first two systems are used by the top management in a company , "MIS" is the center which manages the other systems of the organization such as "Interorganizational information systems , Expert systems , Dashboards and many other. As we go to the wide part of the triangle we come across "Office support system" these are systems the are found in each department of a company such as Accounting system and so on. It also includes a "Enterprise resource planning system" which acts as a network between various systems. Lastly the "Transactional information system" this specific system is employee friendly it likes a forum of entry and recording of various business activities Eg's Barcode Scanners and so on.

IT impact on the business:

• IT reduces the number of middle managers.
•  IT changes the manager’s job i.e less paper work , no need to physically move towards employees , they use online means to obtain knowledge)
•  IT impacts employees at work , as it made many of their communications and tasks easier.
•  IT and IS has made our life's so much easier than it was before.

The following link is documentary the show how much robots have been penetrating our life.