BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGES OF IT/IS

HOW IT/IS BENEFITS EDUCATION:
1.CONNECTIVITY: it is beneficial as teachers and students are able to stay connected in and out of the classroom.
2.DISTANCE LEARNING: learning from home is made easy as IT has improved the quality of online courses and web-based training and communication technology has advanced.
3.ACCESS TO EXTERNAL RESOURCES: students, teachers now have easy access to general resources such as e-libraries, online dictionaries and research books because of information technology.
4. IT has also removed the barrier of distance, time and costs.

DISADVANTAGES OF IT/IS TO EDUCATION SECTOR:
1.The rapid way in which technology changes and evolves has lead to many infrastructures to become obsolete and the need to invest in newer technologies arises rather frequently.

BENEFITS OF IT/IS TO THE GROWTH OF AN ORGANIZATION
1. IT has become the driving force in today’s global economy as it has evolved from word processing, to networking, to the internet , to e-commerce.
2. Using IT to automate business processes and to improve information gathering, access, and quality has transform's the entire businesses and has made it easy for businesses to be carried out accordingly in an easier manner.
3. It capabilities have enabled the survival of organizations as it provides access to external knowledge through widespread information dissemination and generation of network ties.
4. Globalization has not only brought the world closer it has also made organization economy to become a single interdependent system.

DISADVANTAGES OF IT/IS TO GROWTH OF ORGANIZATION:
1. JOB ELIMINATION: as technology improves, tasks that were done by human beings are now carried out by computer systems. For example. Automated telephone answering systems have replaced live receptionists in any organizations.
2. IMPLEMENTATION EXPENSES: start up costs when implementing any type of information technology system are very expensive, as an organization is faced with buying hardware and software to be used by its employees.
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BENEFITS OF IT/IS TO INTERPERSONAL SKILLS OF A PERSON/INDIVIDUAL
1. Quality of life is improved because of the use of information technology systems.
2. Improvements in health care.

DISADVANTAGES OF IT TO INTERPERSONAL SKILLS/INDIVIDUAL:
1. Technology has resulted in human beings losing that ability to personally interact with other employees in the organization as they now use emails which shorten conversations and perhaps sound curt and rude if written hastily.
2. IT offers the ability to multi-task which does not nurture interpersonal skills which may result in employees doing double duty and not being fully focused on each task and become distracted .This may lead to poor communication which would give a wrong impression about an organization.