Successfully Managing your Techno Life
             Changing Role of Communication Technology in the Workplace
             Jagdish Sheth identified four dinstinct forces that are contributing to the changing role of information tec hnology in organizations
             2. Globalization of business operations
             1st Force. This drivies companies to use state of the art computer and automated technology to stay ahead of their competitors and reduce operation costs. (ex) AT&T, compterized billing, account management, and operated services)
             2nd. Comminication technlology is required to help companies bridge the barriers of distance and time. Companies are going global. One form of global communication, World Wide Web to buy and sell goods, products, and services
             3rd. Companies are constantly reorganizing. Mergers, downsizing, consolidation, and crisis management. Integratating info between companies, and mergers, markting and computer systems have been merges or consolidated.
             4th. Tech. Has become distributed over time with respect to processing, memory and intelligence. Mult. Users of communication tech. Are now processing, storing, and switching info from one user to another. No longer in one centralized location. (ex) voice, data, video, and text, through integrated technology.
             U.S Dept of Labor identified several major competencis that you need in order to succeed in the wokplace.
             1. Identify, assimilate, and integrate information
             2. Select, use, and trouble shoot appropriate technology ("students need skills to access information, and also be able to process it.)
             *Technology is the key to organizations and individuals who wish to achieve success in the workplace.
             *Growth in the info industry is outpacing our a
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