MGT220
MGT220. Information Technology
Introduction
The purpose of this essay is to determine the role of information technology in management via the business world. With the ever growing online arena, and globalized firms, the role of information technology management has become a larger demand, with several diversified tasks and goals. This is due to expansion, insourcing, outsourcing, diversified teams, marketing, advertisement software development, hardware, ethics, laws and many other important factors that include the skills and talents of IT managers worldwide.
Information Technology Management
With information technology management, a manager must have the skills to accomplish results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures. A manager maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities. With this, he or she maintains organization 's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies. The IT manager directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects, and with this completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center. He or she verifies the application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented. With this, he or she preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures. The manager recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements. They then maintain
Introduction
The purpose of this essay is to determine the role of information technology in management via the business world. With the ever growing online arena, and globalized firms, the role of information technology management has become a larger demand, with several diversified tasks and goals. This is due to expansion, insourcing, outsourcing, diversified teams, marketing, advertisement software development, hardware, ethics, laws and many other important factors that include the skills and talents of IT managers worldwide.
Information Technology Management
With information technology management, a manager must have the skills to accomplish results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures. A manager maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities. With this, he or she maintains organization 's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies. The IT manager directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects, and with this completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center. He or she verifies the application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented. With this, he or she preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures. The manager recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements. They then maintain
References: O 'Brien, J. (2003). Introduction to Information Systems. McGraw-Hill. http://www.fao.org/docrep/W3241E/w3241e0a.htm (Agriculture and Consumer Protection, no date available).