How Information Technology Evolved Into a Competitive Weapon
1Summary
Computers today do more, cost less, and take up a fraction of the physical space they used to—and that trend alone has reshaped how companies compete. Firms that treat IT purely as an expense line miss the bigger picture: the technology has become a strategic weapon capable of delivering real advantage over competitors.
This course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy, built on up-to-date technology and information-techniques curricula, traces that evolution in practical terms. Information Technology, broadly defined, covers the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of information, applying computing and communication technology to how data moves from its point of generation to the moment someone actually uses it. Because it depends on microelectronics-based combinations of computers and telecommunications, IT puts information within reach at a scale earlier generations never had.
As the information revolution has continued, software has kept pace: today's applications can run almost any process in any field, and modern media, particularly satellite-based digital systems, has made transmitting information far easier. Companies have felt this shift directly, and it's a large part of why an entire "information economy" has emerged around it.
2Objectives and target group
What Participants Will Be Able to Recognize:
- The stages of technological development, particularly over the last decade.
- How to prepare an environment for work inside a comprehensive information system, and activate IT to serve it.
- Where investment in IT equipment and software is heading, and how information systems keep developing inside institutions.
Who Should Attend:
- Employees of Information Systems Management (ISM) and administrators in technology companies.
- Graduates of telecommunications, computer science and administration institutes and faculties.
- Managers of companies that rely on Information Technology.
3Course Content
Module 1: The Building Blocks of IT
- Core IT concepts and tools.
- How IT and Information Systems (IS) relate to each other.
- Computer systems as the physical foundation.
Module 2: Systems That Run on IT
- Intervening systems within IT infrastructure.
- Management Information Systems (MIS) for organisational decision-making.
- Transaction Processing Systems (TPS) for day-to-day operations.
Module 3: Where IT Is Taking Business
- Electronic exchange and e-commerce as the practical outcome of IT development.