Introduction to Information Technology

Introduction to
Information technology

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This following report is all about the information technology and its application within
the business as it is more important to get gain more success and to get survive in the market for
the longer period of time. Information technology will reduces the time limit by saving the cost,
effort, money and bring more efficient outcomes by which the productivity will get increased.
This report includes the role of IT, ethical and social issues, types of networking technologies,
importance of intranet and internet and different stage of system development life cycle.

Table of Contents
Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................1
Discuss the role of IT in the success or failure of a business.................................................1
Find ethical and social issues that pertain to running businesses...........................................3
Identify and differentiate between different types of networking technologies.....................4
Discuss the importance of Intranet and Internet in your business..........................................6
List and explain the different stage of system development life cycle...................................7
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION...................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The information technology is the study of the system that is more basic includes the
telecommunication and the computers to get store, retrieve or sending the relative information
from one person to other. It is basically the usage of the computers, networks, storage,
infrastructure, and the rest physical devices as well to get process, create, store, secure and also
get exchanged from the different form of electronic data. It has been used as the commercial
purpose too and encompasses the computer technology and telephony as well (Aasheim, 2019).
It is more typically used as the within the business operation so as to opposed the personal
technologies and a subset of the information and communication technology. This report is based
on the Tesco that is the British retail company of groceries and merchandiser and gets
established in the year 1919 by Jack Cohen and having the headquartered in Welwyn Garden
City, Hertfordshire UK. This report includes the role of IT in the failure and the success of the
business and the ethical as well as social issues that pertain to run the company. In addition to
this report includes different types of the networking technologies and the importance of the
internet and intranet with the different stages of the system development life cycle.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Discuss the role of IT in the success or failure of a business
According to the viewpoint of Abid Afzal. B, 2020, an information technology is more
important for the business and has played vital role as well provides a lot of opportunity to get
analyse the relevant data and information and then business must get plan the different strategy
accordingly. It provides a lot of tools and techniques to the company by which the complex
situation gets solved and the scalability of the business will get developed that imparts more
growth and development in future. The IT will bring more success within the business as it
induces more innovation and creativeness that improvised the working nature and behaviour of
the business (Insana, 2019). As per the recent trend or advancement of IT as like online
shopping, cloud computing, digital communication, social networking, online shopping and
many others as well. Tesco get maintain long term durability with the support of IT with the
business by which the target get achieved within the certain period of time. IT will bring the
optimised outcomes as like systematic management, real time monitoring, business planning,
consumer support, efficacious marketing, global sales etc. IT usage will bring more accurate
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