New technologies. Business Impact
Technological development, Internet, mobile communications, broadband, satellite, microwave, etc .- is producing significant changes in the economic and social structure, and in all social relations. Information has become the centerpiece sponsor of social, economic and cultural. The telecom boom has been a transformation of information technologies and communication, whose impact has affected all sectors of the economy and society.
The expansion of computer networks has made possible the globalization of trade and relations, to communicate to large groups of citizens living in areas widely separated geographically. National spaces have been overtaken by the information technologies that have no borders: political news, military, economic, especially financial, social, business, etc. are exchanged and transmitted each day worldwide, so that our life is conditioned at all times about what is happening thousands of miles away. Any political or economic event occurred in one country can have a significant impact on economic activity in other nations. Rising interest rates in the United States, for example, affects the cost of borrowing in Europe and consequently to the money supply of the citizens, and therefore, their degree of consumption and welfare.
The information has contributed to the events that occur worldwide, continental or national level are most close to us, and that the idea of “global village” McLuhan go becoming a reality. Our vision of the world is taking on a new above countries, communities and localities, as happens to the companies. This is a new social model, the “global society”, which borders disappear in favor of exchanges of ideas, messages, products, services, people …
Technological developments in recent decades:
The historical evolution of the Information Technology and Communications ICT), in his short career of less than 40 years, lives a parallel path to organizational trends that have been implemented in companies. The coincidence of this fact is due to a condition of reciprocity between organizational and technological changes that allow them. In this historical evolution, we can identify four stages that summarize the change in relation to the application of information technology.
The importance and influence of technology in a company are directly linked to the characteristics of the image, both will be different whether it be for a SME or a Large Company. Often in business there is no real debate as to whether it is good to have a large size, but intends to grow whenever possible. Size usually associated benefits, but this is not entirely true, since it is not always beneficial for companies to grow, because they could lose control and that always has a negative impact.
