global IT management

Global IT Management

There is a saying that communication separates human from animals . But this is not solely about communication but about being able to communicate ideas , make plans and turn them into reality . In the contemporary world communication of ideas goes on through the world in terms of minutes because of the use of computers and modern technology By only clicking at a button we can establish a connection with a person at a distance of thousands of miles or with somebody , who is living next door . But having this convenient

and easy ways of communicating ideas through the globe we come up to a problem of how to cope with this tremendous amount of information that is being communicated between the parties , how to arrange and regulate it . All this is done by the techniques of contemporary global Information Technology Management This paper will look into those questions and what actually makes up this new virtual world that we are creating for ourselves called cyberspace

In the 1950 's and 60 's the fear of nuclear attack was constantly on the minds of the American people and the government . The government therefore developed a corporation called RAND that they put in charge of making a network that could be protected from nuclear attack and could guarantee that we could still fire our own nuclear missiles in our defense . Soon major schools and corporations threw their hats into the race for a network in which information could be sent electronically Throughout the seventies a couple of schools developed their own network in which they could communicate with each other and devices were designed to make networks within offices possible using a technology called Ethernet

Throughout the eighties the newly designed internet was mainly used by science foundations , colleges , and the government as they worked together with growing computer and telephone companies to help advance the technology . It wasn 't until the early nineties when the Internet started to look the way it does now , with the first Internet society and the founding of the World Wide Web in 1991 . Since then the Internet has been growing , getting faster , and finding its way into more and more peoples lives every day . Over 2 .7 trillion e-mail messages alone were sent in 1997 (Nickels , McHugh 508 . Keeping that in mind it is easy to see why we need managers in order to keep this information from cluttering up systems and getting lost in the hectic world today Therefore there is a new breed of manager , an information systems manager , one that can keep the flow of information in and out of a corporation flowing with a minimal breakdown , information that corporations rely on at a day to day basis

There are basically three types of networks in use today : Internet Intranet and the extranet . Most people are aware of and use the first I will talk about , the Internet . The internet is a series of computers and computer networks that are...