Introduction to Information Technology

Introduction to
Information
Technology
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Abstract
Information technology is now using by each and every company around the world
because through it they able to gain numbers of advantages in effective manner. Tesco is
conducting its business at the retail industry which is fastest growing sector, they also adopt
information technology for conducting their business operations. While conducting operation IT
plays major role in respective company as it help in database management, maintaining
transparency and tracking and so on. But there are some ethical and social issues which are faced
by company while implementing IT at their workplace as well as there are several networking
technologies which they may adopt such as PAN, SAN, WLAN and so on. While this respective
company also need to conduct several analysis such as determining importance of internet and
intranet as well as they for implementing IT they adopt system development life cycle.
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Contents
Abstract.......................................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................4
LITERATURE REVIEW............................................................................................................................4
Role of IT in the success or failure of a business.....................................................................................4
Ethical and social issues that pertain to running businesses.....................................................................5
Identify and differentiate between different types of networking technologies.......................................6
Importance of Intranet and Internet in your business...............................................................................7
Different stage of system development life cycle....................................................................................9
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION.............................................................................................................10
Determine benefits and drawbacks for a company for investing on information technology.................10
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................11
REFRENCES............................................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Information technology is considered as usage of advance technology computer system
for doing storing, retrieving, manipulating data or information and transmitting information
according to the organization requirement. Using advance technology will also help in growing
business and conducting operations properly as well as effectively (Crews and Butterfield, 2020).
Organization selected for the report is TESCO which is operating in the retail industry at the
worldwide level. It is founded by Jack Cohen in year 1919 as well as its head office is located at
the England, United Kingdom. By using advance information technology respective company
able to conduct their business operations and functions in effective manner. The main aim of
developing this report is to understand effectiveness of IT at TESCO. Topics explained in report
are role of IT, impact of IT on successor or failure of business, ethical and social barriers faced
by business and different types of networking technology. Moreover it will also include
importance of intranet as well as internet; stages of system development life cycle as well as it
will also include benefits and drawbacks of investing in IT.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Role of IT in the success or failure of a business
Information technology is considered as methods or tools which are generally used by all
companies for conducting their business operations and functions in effective manner. For all
organization it is necessary to determine every aspects of information technology as that will
help in determining where it will leads to succession or failure of business. In respect of TESCO,
they are conducting their business at the retail industry and by adopting advance information
technology they able to boost their business at the potential marketplace (David, Judd and
Zambuto, 2020). There are several benefits of information technology which leads to the
succession of business, from which some main role of It is given which show it help in
succession of TESCO:-
 Help in customer database management – In order to conduct customer database
management information technology plays a major role in the retail industry as it help in
collecting as well as maintaining database of customer in proper secure manner. In
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