The Importance of Information Systems
Since many of you may have had limited exposure to the way large organisations work, the following facts may be of interest:
• Globally, deal in information technology (computers, telecommunications) currently exceeds the deal in all other productive capital assets (buildings, equipment, machinery, tractors etc.) combined.
• In the developed countries, more than half of the labor force can be classified as knowledge workers i.e. it spends most of its time processing information.
• The amount of new knowledge is said to double every five years i.e. in the next five years we will create as much new knowledge as was created in mankind’s entire previous history. (The quality of this new knowledge is of course an entirely different issue!)
• Each month the equivalent processing power of one of the early personal computers (half a million microchip transistors) is being produced for each human on the entire planet.
• The information systems of many large organizations would be able to store and process the curriculum vitae of every single human being that lives and ever lived on the Earth, assuming that this information was available in electronic format.
المادة المعروضة اعلاه هي مدخل الى المحاضرة المرفوعة بواسطة استاذ(ة) المادة . وقد تبدو لك غير متكاملة . حيث يضع استاذ المادة في بعض الاحيان فقط الجزء الاول من المحاضرة من اجل الاطلاع على ما ستقوم بتحميله لاحقا . في نظام التعليم الالكتروني نوفر هذه الخدمة لكي نبقيك على اطلاع حول محتوى الملف الذي ستقوم بتحميله .
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