The Impact of Digital Technology on Individuals and Organizations

This report delves into the multifaceted impact of digital technology on both individuals and organizations. It explores how digital tools and applications, including software and computerized devices, have reshaped daily life, education, and business operations. The report highlights the crucial role of digital technology in enhancing creativity, streamlining processes, and improving communication, as seen in the context of online learning, social media, and digital marketing. It examines how digital technology enables remote work, facilitates access to information, and supports strategic planning within organizations. The report also addresses the potential downsides of excessive technology use, such as its impact on physical health and the shift in employment dynamics. Furthermore, the report emphasizes the importance of digital technology for innovation, competitive advantage, and overall business success, particularly in the face of evolving technological landscapes. It concludes by summarizing the key benefits and implications of digital technology across various sectors and aspects of life.

Digital Technology

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Digital technology refers to the scientific knowledge and skills that deals with the
innovation and software use or computerized device (Digital technology, 2020). It includes all
type of electronic applications and tools that uses information in a form of different code. This
information given in binary code that is represent in 0 &1. Digital technology can be use in
various platforms such as individual, education and organisation. This device use in process and
digital information includes calculator, traffic light, auto mobiles, telephones and so on. It is a
combination of working processes, principles and standards applying in technology standards. It
helps everyone to enhance creativity level and innovation. This report is based on digital
technology. How it impact on individual and an organisation in creativity.
MAIN BODY
In today's era we can see that digital technology plays vital role in our daily lives. There
is a crucial need of digital technology in order to tackle individuals and organisations activities .
We live in a changing and technical world, where the digital technology affects our daily life
several parts. People uses digital technology in order to provide information and solve problems
and gathering information at working place. Now number of people uses this platform for keep in
touch with friends and family, checking bank balances, playing games, shopping and office
work. Now individuals can interact with each other anywhere no matter where others are, this is
possible with various apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. it helps individuals for
sharpen their skills and support in education (Cottrell and Morris, 2012). In COVID era students
take online classes of their colleges and schools and through online platform they can learn
various external things to enhance their knowledge.
Online communication supporting our friends and family relationships that connects self
esteem and social connectedness. Even through digital technology we can connected with those
people who are living at abroad. Through this students can teach things at home via such devices
that are computer and mobile phones (Briken and et. al, 2017). Everyone can search anything
what they want to know by internet system such as google. Technological change makes impact
on all organisations activities. There is a need of new styles, types of managerial and social skills
for new type of decision making that will not be recommanded by already exist organisations. It
helps organisations to gain competitive advantage, uncertainty will increase, requirement of
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diversification and quality improvement in organisational products or services. Technological
factors impacts the managerial functions because it will responsibility for firms outcomes that
leading by planning, decision-making and controlling. Technological change can directly affects
individual values by increasing consideration with heart and mind in order to take effective and
efficient decisions that can improve their lifestyle.
The main needs of digital technology in organisations to make strategic planning.
Through this we can cope up with changes, by evaluating where alternative which are available
for changes. Each changes will provoke organisations structure and its relationships with
employees and customers. These changes can affect individual values in positive manner. It is
very essential tool in today's era that help individuals and organisation to complete every needs.
It helps in studies and provides work from home to employees. For example, in the situation of
coronavirus where government announces lock down for every place, students are taking classes
via digital platform. digital technology becomes important for senior secondary classes as
science students going to lab for research and for commerce students it helps in data transactions
(Hatlevik, and Christophersen, 2013). firms provides work from home to its employees
everything go with digital flow. This helps everyone to cope with with their needs in that manner
they cannot face any problems. Even in government any various firms provides food at door step.
Morrisons runs a campaign feed to nation, it provides its goods or services at doorstep. There are
various online sites that provides products on doorstep such as Myntra, Swiggy, Zomato,
amazon, flip kart etc. Even organisations which have various branches they attain meeting
through online platform and sharing data via email or as a soft copy. It also helps in to save
paperwork and pollution and provides Ozone-friendly environment. But too much use of digital
technology can effects physical health of individuals. Digital platform helps firms to organise
things as innovative way so that they can gain customer base. Such as through this firms do
digital marketing of their brand via apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. digital
marketing helps firm to attract customers.
The digital technology a company engaged can make and break an organisation. For
companies to be successful in 2020 and further it, it is vital to adopt digital technology for
innovation that helps entrepreneurs to achieve their objectives and make competitive advantage
from competitors (Evens, Cunningham and Hoholm, 2019). Investing in it, sometimes appear
expensive but it can be highly cost effective. Digital technology help to streamline processes,
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increase productivity and save business money through help in to do work effectively and
efficiently. For achieving business goals efficiency and productivity plays vital role. Through this
firms can improve communication, collaboration, analysis of data, social networking and
customers experience. This can lead to increase in sales, specially when company use cost
effective strategy and online platforms. Digital should be heart of business for going forward.
The truth is that if company wants to being successful that it doesn't have choice rather than
using digital platform. Social media connects almost half of the worlds population.
A possible effect of technology that it makes increased loyalty to one's professions rather
than to one's organisation. Yes, technology makes important effects on business activities, non
matter what the size of organisations. Technology has tangible and intangible both benefits that
will help organisations in order to make money and produce the objectives of customers demand.
It also affects the efficiency and confidential information and give trade advantages to
businesses. Technology helps businesses to determined its cash flows and inventory technologies
let owners know best method to manage the storage costs with holded products (Sternard, 2020).
Businesses use this for accounting and storing its information for the year. It change relative
costs of capital and it is a factor of production, like capital and labour. In additional through
some people can do part time job after completing full time with freelance professionals.
Organisational development also leads to economic growth. For this government also provides
some software courses for better use of technology in that way so people can achieve their
objectives on time. It is ideal in form of create operational environment where human focuses on
ideas, creativity and innovation while everything is going as automated. In other words people
and machines can do work together. The firms goals drive the integration of artificial intelligence
and software at workplace.
Digital technology also provides TV shows at mobiles and computers shows such as
music, sports, entertainment etc. now almost things are done in digital manner. Even though it
also helps in bookings like movies tickets, trains, concerts, buses and flights etc. technology has
a inseparable element in modern world and it is quite typical to think business without it.
Managers and employees uses desktops at their workplace and smartphones to become updated
about external environment. It is truth that it makes work fast, encouraging innovation, achieves
coordination, uniformity and consistency, increase profits and boosts work efficiency. Using
technology is a substitute of human resource, it is fact that it can be a reason for unemployment
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because most of things are done by machines but it brings down the cost of the organisation. The
important effect of this, it increases company's profit margin as the less costs needed in
production. It makes broader impact on banking activities also, now through digital technology
people can do their transactions by home and can open account on phone they no need to go for
banks. Increase in productivity allow firms to gain more profitability with fewer workers and
reducing payroll costs that normally spent. It has advancement in communication that reduce
travel costs. By using digital technology companies can reduce its financial costs and setting up
for success. It allows employees to easily adapt to any technological changes within the
company. So, there are many positives and benefits that comes from using digital technology in
our daily life and for businesses.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that digital technology refers to a software
that generates activities by various devices that are computers, mobiles etc. It includes all type of
electronic applications and tools that uses information in a form of different code. Digital
technology can be use in various platforms such as individual, education and organisation. The
balance between digital technology and social interaction is the advantage as affordness and
minimising all the limitations. It helps in various field such as education, homes and
organisations. It helps people in order to enhance their knowledge and skills and helps
organisation to become more productive that can helps it to achieve target or objectives. It is
truth that it makes work fast, innovative, increases profits, uniformity and productivity.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals:
Cottrell, S. and Morris, N., 2012. Study skills connected. [Kortext custom pages. 1- 60]
Evens, N., Cunningham, J. and Hoholm, T., 2019. Technology entrepreneurship. [Kortext
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Hatlevik, O.E. and Christophersen, K.A., 2013. Digital competence at the beginning of upper
secondary school: Identifying factors explaining digital inclusion. Computers &
Education, 63, pages. 240-247. [Accessed through ARU Digital Library]
Briken, K., and et. al, 2017. The new digital workplace. [Kortext custom pages 1-17]
Sternard, D. 2020. Effective management. [Kortext custom pages 208-214]
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