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How can we best understand why the application of information and communication technology in organizations succeeds or fails? Calling on technical, organizational, social, psychological and economic perspectives, this book provides a fresh and comprehensive framework for answering this question.
Technology
Technology
Information and communication technology plays an important role when people try to overcome the limitations of time and distance to communicate, exchange information or work together. There are various technologies that play a role in that process, technologies that are used to establish communication over a distance (telecommunication) and technologies that are used to store, process and provide data (information technology). The convergence of telecommunication and computer technology has resulted in what is called information and communication technology (ICT). Information and communication technology is a general term used to describe a large number of different technologies and applications. In this chapter we will discuss the most important technological trends, look back at how companies have adopted information and communication technologies and how they have ...
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