Role of Information Technology in Business: A Case Study of Tesco

Individual Report

Abstract
Information technology is a technology that is mainly used for generating, storing,
retrieving and sharing information and data in digital and electronic format. This has become of
significant use for different types of businesses including retail businesses because of their
contribution in facilitating functioning and operations of the business. This report has discussed
about information technology, its different aspects and along with this networking and internet
have also been discussed in the report. In the review of literature lifecycle of software
development also have been discussed.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Literature Review............................................................................................................................4
Role of IT in Business.................................................................................................................4
Ethics and Social Issues of IT......................................................................................................5
Network and their types...............................................................................................................6
Intranet and Internet.....................................................................................................................6
Software Development Lifecycle................................................................................................7
Analysis and Discussion..................................................................................................................8
Role in Information Technology in Tesco...................................................................................8
Ethics and Social Issues of Information Technology in Tesco....................................................9
Networks and their type in Tesco................................................................................................9
Intranet and Internet in Tesco....................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Information technology can be defined as technology being used for storing, retrieving,
sharing and modifying data and information in electronic format. In terms of its uses in business
it is also known as application of technology to solve business problems on a broad scale.
Information technology is being used in every function of the organisation regardless of the
nature of the work. This is because information technology enables organisation to complete
their function accurately and fast. This report will discuss about information technology in
business, this includes role of information technology in business. Ethics and social issues of
information technology will also be discussed in the report. Ethics and social issues refers to
right and wrong conduct which is made by people pertaining to information technology and its
use (Bessen, 2017). Later networking technology will be discussed because for using information
technology and functioning it, it is important as this enables organisation to function information
technology. Later internet and intranet will be discussed, internet has become very important and
has added value in information technology uses. Software development lifecycle will also be
discussed, this a lifecycle of development which includes developing software and starts from
determining objectives of the software development or identifying issues and problems which
require software development. Software is a program which is designed to operate computers
and execute particular task for which software has been designed. Software also used to refer to
applications, programs that run on a device and is considered as variable part of the computer.
Later analysis and discussion will be carried out in context of Tesco, multinational retail
organisation based in UK.
Literature Review
Role of IT in Business
As stated by Guan and Zhou, 2017Information technology is playing important role in
every business this is because function executed with help of information technology in
completed in speed and along with that they are also comparatively more accurate. This enables
to process large data in simple manner. Information technology can help business in becoming
more productive and increase performance, save money and improve experience of customers.