Capabilities and Limitations of ICT信息和通信技术的能力和局限性.ppt

FatMax 2007. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License FatMax 2007. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License Capabilities and Limitations of ICT Introduction/Objectives In this topic we look at three things: The capabilities of ICT for providing organisations with useful (and valuable) information. How the response speed of ICT systems facilitates the use of feedback The current limitations of ICT Core Uses of ICT There are six things ICT is good at or six core uses of ICT that make it valuable to organisations: Communications Fast response Combining data Searching and Sorting Vast storage Repetitive Calculations Core uses of ICT Repetitive Calculation Computers can carry out millions of repetitive calculations per second – something that would be very labour intensive and costly without computers. Banking Utility Billing (gas etc.) Research Payroll With a computer it doesn’t matter if it is ten calculations or ten million – it costs the same. Not strictly speaking true but you get my drift ;-) Vast Storage Capacity Computer systems store 100s billions of data items. With the large capacity of modern hard drives, vast amounts of data can be stored electronically. Banking records Customer databases Stock control Government databases Internet Computer databases allow us to retrieve related information quickly and accurately.  Banks Billing Systems Police databases Online Retailing Stock Control Are there any other examples you can think of? Searching and Sorting Combining Data Computer analysis of data can show up patterns and trends not previously seen or impossible to see without vast processing power Satellite Imaging Medical Research Scientific Research Police databases (e.g. HOLMES 2) Astronomical Research Market Research Computer Modelling Simulation Why is ICT so important in weather forecasting? Communications In recent years computers have revolut