TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS

The Effects Technology Has In Business Today



Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION3

TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT4

CONCLUSION12

REFERENCES13

The Effects Technology Has In Business Today

Introduction

We need technology, and yet every new technology places new demands upon us and creates new forms of stress. We can't live with it, but we can't live without it. There is no turning back to some pre-technological Eden. Aristotle rightly described man as an animal that lives by technology. The human race lives by art and reasoning (techne kai logismois). Other animals come as complete packages. Their sense powers and instinctive programming are infallible within the limits of their particular ecological niche. Their organs (their hardware) and their instincts (software) are tailored to specific activities. As Aristotle said, they sleep with their shoes on. The other animals have each only way method of defence and cannot exchange it for another. Whereas the human is physically weaker (Trott, Hoecht, 2004), by the use of his hands he can create any tool that any other animal has. Our weakness is our strength, as the lack of any specialized defensive organs makes us free to be versatile. Likewise, we are poorly equipped with instincts.

When we are born, we are able to breathe and swim by virtue of an interior program, call it an instinct. At a certain point the breathing instinct starts to fade and the newborn child must make a conscious effort to breathe. If he fails to make the transition, so it is thought, the result is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Our entire behavioural repetoire is made up of what Aristotle would call "art" or "techne". Interestingly enough, the child learns with greater ease how to breathe if he sleeps in proximity to his parents, as has been surmised by the low incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome among cultures where that is the norm. Thus, even breathing is a piece of know-how passed on culturally.

The expanding international interdependencies and the accelerating stride of change demand more flexible and adaptive associations. Organizational flexibility is featured in periods of "vulnerability" and "adaptability." Effective implementation of IT would decline vulnerability by decreasing the cost of anticipated flops and enhance adaptability by decreasing the cost of adjustment. The ever increasing need for organising interdependence to comparable stresses that encompassed globalization, time-based affray, expanded market risk, and a larger focus on clientele service and cost reduction. The organization's answer to the natural environment will extend to be the vital determinant for its effectiveness." Given that postindustrial associations will be faced with expanding ecological complexity and turbulence, organizations' desires to method data and make conclusions will be considerably expanded. The capabilities and flexibilities of computer-communication schemes make them progressively applicable to associations by being adept to reply to any exact data or connection requirement.

Technology and Environment

In a broad sense, then, technology forms our environment. This environment remains unperceived unless we are separated from it, as a fish does not know what water is until it is beached. The particular technological environment wherein we are nurtured is ...