Organizational Analysis of the Productivity Impacts of Information Technology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783656601340)

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: B, University of South Australia, language: English, abstract: Productivity is very important to any financial system due to its importance when it comes to assessing economic growth and it is recognized as the basis for economic success, an important prerequisite for the development of Nations and also as a crucial pointer of economic competitiveness in all organizations. It must be noted from the outset that this study will use that united states as an example and everything will be analysed in terms of the US Information Technology(IT) is one of the resources in an organization which helps in boosting financial growth. IT assists organizations to make good use of their input resources. Organizations that invest in IT need to know how their investments are going to pay off, considering that in the modern world, investment in IT is increasingly representing a major part of the capital investment in many organizations. Apart from this, discussions on whether IT does improve on the productivity and effectiveness of an organization has increasingly become a major part of the research arena. It is the view point of this research that IT is incapable of making any major differences in an organization unless it is used in conjunction with other corresponding investments in an organization such as human investment, and organizational reorganization. IT plays the role of a facilitator when it comes to the restructuring process of an organization which is also known as the Business Process Reengineering. BPR is also an important aspect of improving the effects of IT in the general performance of an organization. Besides, IT and BPR are capable of improving the productivity of an organization tremendously when combined.

Author: Angela Amor
ISBN-10: 3656601348
ISBN-13: 9783656601340
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2014
Pages: 76
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.18d