In what ways will computer technology impact the practice of operations management

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Computer Technology Impact the Practice of Operations Management

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Operations management is all about transforming raw inputs in the form of labor , material , and capital into useful goods and services . Though in most industries , the old approach to strategy no longer holds . The world in which economies and organizations operate has changed dramatically due to information technology . Therefore operations manager process has also transformed drastically since the advent of computer and information technologies

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undertaken extreme restructuring by modifying their means of communication and synchronization of work activities . Computer and information technologies have made it promise for companies to work on a real-time basis , whereby products and services are conveyed to the right place at the right time . Since then , a computer and information technology has propagated and has undergone significant improvements . A business not supported by a network of computer systems (primary information technology ) is more or less destined to fail , since it will be incapable to compete efficiently in today 's complex and dynamic environment

Video , satellite , and computer technologies have become so essential to contemporary communications that the modern society can no longer be sacked as a passing fad . For better or worse , we live and will persist to live in a society where information exchange has become torrential The usual obstacles to communications of volume , distance , and time have been purged for all practical purposes . Ours is now a world accustomed to global telephone and television service via satellite , adapted to the computer 's capability to process data instantaneously , accustomed to the storage of 100 ,000 pages of print on a single five-inch disk . Entire sectors of the economy are by now so reliant on communications volume and speed that there is no spiraling back

This is not to say that every new medium will get a niche in the marketplace . Currently there is such a propagation of new video services - from well-known technologies such as cable and video recording to fledgling satellite delivery services such as direct broadcast satellite that it is dubious all will prove economically viable

In combination with computers , modems , and telephones , the television becomes a monitor competent of receiving and electronically publishing not only pictures but text and graphs from the most remote data banks This convergence of video , computer , and telecommunications technologies into integrated communications networks is not perilously tied to the survival of any one new medium . It is solidly embedded in our economic and social ways of life

The age of information , otherwise known as the postindustrial age , is displacing the smokestack era in the United States and in numerous other industrialized nations . History suggests that the technological transitions concerned as far-reaching as the advent of human speech , the printing press , the telephone , and the telegraph . The computer rapidly is approaching occurrence in domestic society . The integrated grid already is in place and requires but a few information bridges to make it a...