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ICT refers to all the devices, networking components, applications, and systems that combined enables people and organizations to interact in digital form.
Fremont, CA: ICT plays a vital role in both the private and public sectors, but it is mainly applied when implemented in an office. ICT not only engulfs the internet-based sphere to which organizations, including office-based businesses, are accustomed but also takes in the mobile sphere running on wireless networks. Technologies such as landline telephone networks and radio and television broadcasting infrastructure also come under ICT. However, artificial intelligence and robotics are more cutting-edge elements of ICT, where impressive and groundbreaking evolutions and refinements are taking effect. More and more ICT components have been added to the list in time.
With massive amounts of data at a company’s disposal, ICT systems can enable the business to store, process, analyze, and share it. This can emerge to be beneficial to managers and employees who can promptly and accurately make decisions on the back of this data. For instance, the tasks with which the data can help them includes efficiently managing operations and acting instantly as new opportunities or threats emerge on the corporate horizon.
The employee and customers can exchange information in real-time over email and live chat. Additionally, these employees can increase the speed of their responses while still improving the quality of customer service. With such data at disposal, employees could resolve customer inquiries more quickly and efficiently as well as drive up customer satisfaction.
As organizations have acquired access to information communication technologies (ICT) in numerous forms, this has opened up exciting new possibilities for how they can effectively carry out their office work. It has, for instance, assisted in smoothing communications between managers and staffers. Traditionally, disrupted communication lines between these tiers of the company have often resulted in the breakdown of operations. However, ICT has healed such discrepancies by providing the employees with direct access to management right around the clock, enabling various issues to be addressed in real-time.
Showing massive potential in ICT areas such as 3D communications and remote printing, it will be fascinating to see what the future holds for ICT.