anchorage, and storage.**Stem Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofstems:**Stem Anatomy**: Epidermis, cortex, vascular bundles (xylem and phloem), and pith.**Functions**:
Support, transportofwater and nutrients, and storage.**Leaf Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofleaves:**Leaf Anatomy**: Epidermis, mesophyll (palisade and spongy layers),
stomata, and vascular bundles.**Functions**: Photosynthesis, gas exchange (transpiration and respiration), and storage.**Plant Growth and Development**:Processesofplant growth:**Meristems**:
Apical, lateral (vascular and cork cambium), and intercalary meristems.**Primary Growth**: Lengtheningofroots and shoots.**Secondary Growth**: Thickeningofstems and roots due tovascular and
cork cambium activity.**Plant Hormones**:Roleofplant hormonesingrowth and development:**Auxins**: Roleinapical dominance, phototropism, and root growth.**Gibberellins**: Stem elongation
and seed germination.**Cytokinins**: Cell division and lateral bud growth.**Ethylene**: Fruit ripening and senescence.**Abscisic Acid**: Dormancy and stress responses.**Plant Responses
toEnvironmental Stimuli**:Plant adaptations and responses toenvironmental factors:**Photoperiodism**: Flowering responses today length.**Tropisms**: Growth responses tolight (phototropism),
gravity (gravitropism), and touch (thigmotropism).**Plant Movements**: Nastic movements and responses toenvironmental cues.**Plant Adaptations toEnvironmental Stress**:Adaptationsofplants
toextreme environmental conditions:**Water Conservation**: Adaptationsindesert plants (e.g., succulence, CAM photosynthesis).**Cold and Heat Tolerance**: Adaptationsinpolar and desert
plants.**Salt Tolerance**: Adaptationsinhalophytes.**Summary and Key Concepts**:The chapter concludes withasummaryofkey concepts related toplant anatomy and growth, reinforcing
understandingofplant structures, functions, growth processes, and adaptations.Chapter 20 providesacomprehensive explorationofplant anatomy and growth, highlighting thestructural diversity,
physiological adaptations, and growth mechanisms that enable plants tothriveindiverse environments. It prepares students forfurther exploration into plant physiology, ecology, and agriculture
coveredinsubsequent chaptersofthetextbook.If you have specific questions about anyofthese topics or would like more detailed informationona particular aspectofChapter 20, feel free toask!Chapter
21Chapter 21of"EssentialsofBiology" by Sylvia Mader and Michael Windelspecht, titled "Plant Responses and Reproduction," typically covers how plants respond toenvironmental stimuli and
thevarious mechanismsofplant reproduction. Here’s an overviewofwhat you might findinthis chapter:**Plant Responses toEnvironmental
Solution Manual For
Navigating Digital Transformation in Management 1st Edition By Richard
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Chapter 2:
Getting out of the digital terminology
zoo
IT, ICT, and Information Systems
1. What is the difference between IT and ICT?
The term ICT (information communications technology) is sometimes used
interchangeably with IT. It refers to the convergence or integration of IT with audio-
visual technologies and telephone networks (e.g., media broadcasting technologies,
audio and video transmission, and telephony). Thus, the term ICT can be thought of
as an extended synonym for the term IT.
2. What is the difference between IT and Information Systems?
Although people use the terms IT and IS interchangeably, information technology is
actually a subset of information systems. As a subset, it typically only focuses on the
technology component of information systems. IT specialists focus on ensuring the
organization has the right hardware and software products, installing them,
customizing them, integrating them with existing products, maintaining them,
supporting users to use them, and ensuring that the security, availability, and
accessibility of each product (and of the information system as a whole) is optimized.
IT specialists typically require degrees in information technology or computer
science. Within such degrees, they often specialize in hardware and/or software
areas such as network design, hardware design, software design, software
development, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things (IoT).
They enter jobs such as network architects, software developers, IT systems
analysts, security analysts, web developers, systems administrators, software
product man- agers, and IT managers.
,3. Is Information Systems a part of IT or is IT a part of information systems? Does it
matter which is a part of which?
IT is part (or a subset) of information systems. Yes, it matters as it can lead to
misunderstandings, trivialization of the importance of one or all terms, and feelingsof
overwhelm for some stakeholders outside of the IT or IS profession (at times even within
the IT/IS professions). It is these misunderstandings of the slippery and overlapping
terms that often drives some managers to trivialize, or only see a part of, the importance
and value of information systems and digital technologies to business operations and
strategy. In turn, this leads them to misunderstand their role in IS and digital technology
issues and therefore sideline them, or to see such issues as ones that can be relegated
to the IT/IS/Technology function. This misunderstanding and the resultant attitudes and
actions can be a risk to both managers’ careers and the fates of their organizations.
IT, Information Systems, and Digital Technologies
4. What is the best metaphor you can think of to explain the interrelationship between
digital technologies and information systems?
anchorage, and storage.**Stem Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofstems:**Stem Anatomy**: Epidermis, cortex, vascular bundles (xylem and phloem), and pith.**Functions**:
Support, transportofwater and nutrients, and storage.**Leaf Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofleaves:**Leaf Anatomy**: Epidermis, mesophyll (palisade and spongy layers),
stomata, and vascular bundles.**Functions**: Photosynthesis, gas exchange (transpiration and respiration), and storage.**Plant Growth and Development**:Processesofplant growth:**Meristems**:
Apical, lateral (vascular and cork cambium), and intercalary meristems.**Primary Growth**: Lengtheningofroots and shoots.**Secondary Growth**: Thickeningofstems and roots due tovascular and
cork cambium activity.**Plant Hormones**:Roleofplant hormonesingrowth and development:**Auxins**: Roleinapical dominance, phototropism, and root growth.**Gibberellins**: Stem elongation
and seed germination.**Cytokinins**: Cell division and lateral bud growth.**Ethylene**: Fruit ripening and senescence.**Abscisic Acid**: Dormancy and stress responses.**Plant Responses
toEnvironmental Stimuli**:Plant adaptations and responses toenvironmental factors:**Photoperiodism**: Flowering responses today length.**Tropisms**: Growth responses tolight (phototropism),
gravity (gravitropism), and touch (thigmotropism).**Plant Movements**: Nastic movements and responses toenvironmental cues.**Plant Adaptations toEnvironmental Stress**:Adaptationsofplants
toextreme environmental conditions:**Water Conservation**: Adaptationsindesert plants (e.g., succulence, CAM photosynthesis).**Cold and Heat Tolerance**: Adaptationsinpolar and desert
plants.**Salt Tolerance**: Adaptationsinhalophytes.**Summary and Key Concepts**:The chapter concludes withasummaryofkey concepts related toplant anatomy and growth, reinforcing
understandingofplant structures, functions, growth processes, and adaptations.Chapter 20 providesacomprehensive explorationofplant anatomy and growth, highlighting thestructural diversity,
physiological adaptations, and growth mechanisms that enable plants tothriveindiverse environments. It prepares students forfurther exploration into plant physiology, ecology, and agriculture
coveredinsubsequent chaptersofthetextbook.If you have specific questions about anyofthese topics or would like more detailed informationona particular aspectofChapter 20, feel free toask!Chapter
21Chapter 21of"EssentialsofBiology" by Sylvia Mader and Michael Windelspecht, titled "Plant Responses and Reproduction," typically covers how plants respond toenvironmental stimuli and
thevarious mechanismsofplant reproduction. Here’s an overviewofwhat you might findinthis chapter:**Plant Responses toEnvironmental
Lots of different metaphors can be used here. E.g.:
-digital technologies are like a catalyst for information systems
-digital technologies are like jigsaw pieces in an information system
-digital technologies are like components of a computer
-digital technologies are like building components of an IS building
-digital technologies are like athletes on an IS team
5. Are digital technologies a part of IT or is IT a part of digital technologies?
Digital technologie scan be a part of IT and IT can be a part of digital technologies.
The term “digital technologies” refers to combinations of information (or data),
computing (or computation), communication, and connectivity technologies. Digital
technologies include all types of electronic hardware and software that use
information in the form of binary code (information represented by strings of 0's and
1's). Digital technologies include electronic tools, systems, devices, personal
computers, calculators, traffic light controllers, mobile telephones, satellite
technology, high-definition television, the internet and other networks, software
applications, email, mobile apps etc.
,6. What is the role of digital technologies in information systems?
Used the right way, information systems can become very pow- erful strategic
weapons capable of conferring often insurmountable strategic advantages. The right
digital technologies can supercharge this strategic power of information systems by
drastically enhancing how efficiently and effectively such information systems
function. For example, the right combination of digital technologies can speed up the
rate at which data flows between hardware, software, networks, business processes,
and people, making it near instant. The right combination of digital technologies can
transform all of an organization’s infrastructure (buildings, machinery, furniture, cars,
stationery, etc.) into smart things capable of collecting data, communicating data,
and acting on data insights, and doing all of these things autonomously. The right
combination of digital technologies can enable an organization’s employees to work
from anywhere in the world, to collaborate with any of the organization’s
infrastructure and other physical things, and to serve large numbers of customers
globally in real time, irrespective of their location. The right combination of digital
technologies can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of interactions between
people, technology, and processes. These examples only scratch the surface of the
power of digital technologies to supercharge the strategic power of information
systems.
anchorage, and storage.**Stem Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofstems:**Stem Anatomy**: Epidermis, cortex, vascular bundles (xylem and phloem), and pith.**Functions**:
Support, transportofwater and nutrients, and storage.**Leaf Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofleaves:**Leaf Anatomy**: Epidermis, mesophyll (palisade and spongy layers),
stomata, and vascular bundles.**Functions**: Photosynthesis, gas exchange (transpiration and respiration), and storage.**Plant Growth and Development**:Processesofplant growth:**Meristems**:
Apical, lateral (vascular and cork cambium), and intercalary meristems.**Primary Growth**: Lengtheningofroots and shoots.**Secondary Growth**: Thickeningofstems and roots due tovascular and
cork cambium activity.**Plant Hormones**:Roleofplant hormonesingrowth and development:**Auxins**: Roleinapical dominance, phototropism, and root growth.**Gibberellins**: Stem elongation
and seed germination.**Cytokinins**: Cell division and lateral bud growth.**Ethylene**: Fruit ripening and senescence.**Abscisic Acid**: Dormancy and stress responses.**Plant Responses
toEnvironmental Stimuli**:Plant adaptations and responses toenvironmental factors:**Photoperiodism**: Flowering responses today length.**Tropisms**: Growth responses tolight (phototropism),
gravity (gravitropism), and touch (thigmotropism).**Plant Movements**: Nastic movements and responses toenvironmental cues.**Plant Adaptations toEnvironmental Stress**:Adaptationsofplants
toextreme environmental conditions:**Water Conservation**: Adaptationsindesert plants (e.g., succulence, CAM photosynthesis).**Cold and Heat Tolerance**: Adaptationsinpolar and desert
plants.**Salt Tolerance**: Adaptationsinhalophytes.**Summary and Key Concepts**:The chapter concludes withasummaryofkey concepts related toplant anatomy and growth, reinforcing
understandingofplant structures, functions, growth processes, and adaptations.Chapter 20 providesacomprehensive explorationofplant anatomy and growth, highlighting thestructural diversity,
physiological adaptations, and growth mechanisms that enable plants tothriveindiverse environments. It prepares students forfurther exploration into plant physiology, ecology, and agriculture
coveredinsubsequent chaptersofthetextbook.If you have specific questions about anyofthese topics or would like more detailed informationona particular aspectofChapter 20, feel free toask!Chapter
21Chapter 21of"EssentialsofBiology" by Sylvia Mader and Michael Windelspecht, titled "Plant Responses and Reproduction," typically covers how plants respond toenvironmental stimuli and
thevarious mechanismsofplant reproduction. Here’s an overviewofwhat you might findinthis chapter:**Plant Responses toEnvironmental
7. What are five different types of digital technologies?
Digital technologies include electronic tools, systems, devices, personal computers,
calculators, traffic light controllers, mobile telephones, satellite technology, high-
definition television, the inter- net and other networks, software applications, email,
and mobile apps.
They also include emerging digital technologies such as the internet of things,
blockchain, LPWAN, LEO satellites,
8. Assuming that an organization is not already using the digital technologies you
identified in question 7, how could using them improve each component of an
information system?
Answers will vary depending on the specific digital technologies chosen. Below is a
suggested solution for one digital technology (the internet of things)
, Information System Improvement / Positive Impact
Component
Hardware IoT can enable bringing all IS hardware online so that
real-time monitoring and preventative maintenance of IS
hardware can occur to minimise disruptions in IS
functioning.
Software IoT enables software to play a significantly expanded role
in IS. For example, instead of the activities software can
Support, transportofwater and nutrients, and storage.**Leaf Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofleaves:**Leaf Anatomy**: Epidermis, mesophyll (palisade and spongy layers),
stomata, and vascular bundles.**Functions**: Photosynthesis, gas exchange (transpiration and respiration), and storage.**Plant Growth and Development**:Processesofplant growth:**Meristems**:
Apical, lateral (vascular and cork cambium), and intercalary meristems.**Primary Growth**: Lengtheningofroots and shoots.**Secondary Growth**: Thickeningofstems and roots due tovascular and
cork cambium activity.**Plant Hormones**:Roleofplant hormonesingrowth and development:**Auxins**: Roleinapical dominance, phototropism, and root growth.**Gibberellins**: Stem elongation
and seed germination.**Cytokinins**: Cell division and lateral bud growth.**Ethylene**: Fruit ripening and senescence.**Abscisic Acid**: Dormancy and stress responses.**Plant Responses
toEnvironmental Stimuli**:Plant adaptations and responses toenvironmental factors:**Photoperiodism**: Flowering responses today length.**Tropisms**: Growth responses tolight (phototropism),
gravity (gravitropism), and touch (thigmotropism).**Plant Movements**: Nastic movements and responses toenvironmental cues.**Plant Adaptations toEnvironmental Stress**:Adaptationsofplants
toextreme environmental conditions:**Water Conservation**: Adaptationsindesert plants (e.g., succulence, CAM photosynthesis).**Cold and Heat Tolerance**: Adaptationsinpolar and desert
plants.**Salt Tolerance**: Adaptationsinhalophytes.**Summary and Key Concepts**:The chapter concludes withasummaryofkey concepts related toplant anatomy and growth, reinforcing
understandingofplant structures, functions, growth processes, and adaptations.Chapter 20 providesacomprehensive explorationofplant anatomy and growth, highlighting thestructural diversity,
physiological adaptations, and growth mechanisms that enable plants tothriveindiverse environments. It prepares students forfurther exploration into plant physiology, ecology, and agriculture
coveredinsubsequent chaptersofthetextbook.If you have specific questions about anyofthese topics or would like more detailed informationona particular aspectofChapter 20, feel free toask!Chapter
21Chapter 21of"EssentialsofBiology" by Sylvia Mader and Michael Windelspecht, titled "Plant Responses and Reproduction," typically covers how plants respond toenvironmental stimuli and
thevarious mechanismsofplant reproduction. Here’s an overviewofwhat you might findinthis chapter:**Plant Responses toEnvironmental
Solution Manual For
Navigating Digital Transformation in Management 1st Edition By Richard
Busulwa chapter 2-15
Chapter 2:
Getting out of the digital terminology
zoo
IT, ICT, and Information Systems
1. What is the difference between IT and ICT?
The term ICT (information communications technology) is sometimes used
interchangeably with IT. It refers to the convergence or integration of IT with audio-
visual technologies and telephone networks (e.g., media broadcasting technologies,
audio and video transmission, and telephony). Thus, the term ICT can be thought of
as an extended synonym for the term IT.
2. What is the difference between IT and Information Systems?
Although people use the terms IT and IS interchangeably, information technology is
actually a subset of information systems. As a subset, it typically only focuses on the
technology component of information systems. IT specialists focus on ensuring the
organization has the right hardware and software products, installing them,
customizing them, integrating them with existing products, maintaining them,
supporting users to use them, and ensuring that the security, availability, and
accessibility of each product (and of the information system as a whole) is optimized.
IT specialists typically require degrees in information technology or computer
science. Within such degrees, they often specialize in hardware and/or software
areas such as network design, hardware design, software design, software
development, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things (IoT).
They enter jobs such as network architects, software developers, IT systems
analysts, security analysts, web developers, systems administrators, software
product man- agers, and IT managers.
,3. Is Information Systems a part of IT or is IT a part of information systems? Does it
matter which is a part of which?
IT is part (or a subset) of information systems. Yes, it matters as it can lead to
misunderstandings, trivialization of the importance of one or all terms, and feelingsof
overwhelm for some stakeholders outside of the IT or IS profession (at times even within
the IT/IS professions). It is these misunderstandings of the slippery and overlapping
terms that often drives some managers to trivialize, or only see a part of, the importance
and value of information systems and digital technologies to business operations and
strategy. In turn, this leads them to misunderstand their role in IS and digital technology
issues and therefore sideline them, or to see such issues as ones that can be relegated
to the IT/IS/Technology function. This misunderstanding and the resultant attitudes and
actions can be a risk to both managers’ careers and the fates of their organizations.
IT, Information Systems, and Digital Technologies
4. What is the best metaphor you can think of to explain the interrelationship between
digital technologies and information systems?
anchorage, and storage.**Stem Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofstems:**Stem Anatomy**: Epidermis, cortex, vascular bundles (xylem and phloem), and pith.**Functions**:
Support, transportofwater and nutrients, and storage.**Leaf Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofleaves:**Leaf Anatomy**: Epidermis, mesophyll (palisade and spongy layers),
stomata, and vascular bundles.**Functions**: Photosynthesis, gas exchange (transpiration and respiration), and storage.**Plant Growth and Development**:Processesofplant growth:**Meristems**:
Apical, lateral (vascular and cork cambium), and intercalary meristems.**Primary Growth**: Lengtheningofroots and shoots.**Secondary Growth**: Thickeningofstems and roots due tovascular and
cork cambium activity.**Plant Hormones**:Roleofplant hormonesingrowth and development:**Auxins**: Roleinapical dominance, phototropism, and root growth.**Gibberellins**: Stem elongation
and seed germination.**Cytokinins**: Cell division and lateral bud growth.**Ethylene**: Fruit ripening and senescence.**Abscisic Acid**: Dormancy and stress responses.**Plant Responses
toEnvironmental Stimuli**:Plant adaptations and responses toenvironmental factors:**Photoperiodism**: Flowering responses today length.**Tropisms**: Growth responses tolight (phototropism),
gravity (gravitropism), and touch (thigmotropism).**Plant Movements**: Nastic movements and responses toenvironmental cues.**Plant Adaptations toEnvironmental Stress**:Adaptationsofplants
toextreme environmental conditions:**Water Conservation**: Adaptationsindesert plants (e.g., succulence, CAM photosynthesis).**Cold and Heat Tolerance**: Adaptationsinpolar and desert
plants.**Salt Tolerance**: Adaptationsinhalophytes.**Summary and Key Concepts**:The chapter concludes withasummaryofkey concepts related toplant anatomy and growth, reinforcing
understandingofplant structures, functions, growth processes, and adaptations.Chapter 20 providesacomprehensive explorationofplant anatomy and growth, highlighting thestructural diversity,
physiological adaptations, and growth mechanisms that enable plants tothriveindiverse environments. It prepares students forfurther exploration into plant physiology, ecology, and agriculture
coveredinsubsequent chaptersofthetextbook.If you have specific questions about anyofthese topics or would like more detailed informationona particular aspectofChapter 20, feel free toask!Chapter
21Chapter 21of"EssentialsofBiology" by Sylvia Mader and Michael Windelspecht, titled "Plant Responses and Reproduction," typically covers how plants respond toenvironmental stimuli and
thevarious mechanismsofplant reproduction. Here’s an overviewofwhat you might findinthis chapter:**Plant Responses toEnvironmental
Lots of different metaphors can be used here. E.g.:
-digital technologies are like a catalyst for information systems
-digital technologies are like jigsaw pieces in an information system
-digital technologies are like components of a computer
-digital technologies are like building components of an IS building
-digital technologies are like athletes on an IS team
5. Are digital technologies a part of IT or is IT a part of digital technologies?
Digital technologie scan be a part of IT and IT can be a part of digital technologies.
The term “digital technologies” refers to combinations of information (or data),
computing (or computation), communication, and connectivity technologies. Digital
technologies include all types of electronic hardware and software that use
information in the form of binary code (information represented by strings of 0's and
1's). Digital technologies include electronic tools, systems, devices, personal
computers, calculators, traffic light controllers, mobile telephones, satellite
technology, high-definition television, the internet and other networks, software
applications, email, mobile apps etc.
,6. What is the role of digital technologies in information systems?
Used the right way, information systems can become very pow- erful strategic
weapons capable of conferring often insurmountable strategic advantages. The right
digital technologies can supercharge this strategic power of information systems by
drastically enhancing how efficiently and effectively such information systems
function. For example, the right combination of digital technologies can speed up the
rate at which data flows between hardware, software, networks, business processes,
and people, making it near instant. The right combination of digital technologies can
transform all of an organization’s infrastructure (buildings, machinery, furniture, cars,
stationery, etc.) into smart things capable of collecting data, communicating data,
and acting on data insights, and doing all of these things autonomously. The right
combination of digital technologies can enable an organization’s employees to work
from anywhere in the world, to collaborate with any of the organization’s
infrastructure and other physical things, and to serve large numbers of customers
globally in real time, irrespective of their location. The right combination of digital
technologies can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of interactions between
people, technology, and processes. These examples only scratch the surface of the
power of digital technologies to supercharge the strategic power of information
systems.
anchorage, and storage.**Stem Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofstems:**Stem Anatomy**: Epidermis, cortex, vascular bundles (xylem and phloem), and pith.**Functions**:
Support, transportofwater and nutrients, and storage.**Leaf Structure and Function**:Morphology and functionsofleaves:**Leaf Anatomy**: Epidermis, mesophyll (palisade and spongy layers),
stomata, and vascular bundles.**Functions**: Photosynthesis, gas exchange (transpiration and respiration), and storage.**Plant Growth and Development**:Processesofplant growth:**Meristems**:
Apical, lateral (vascular and cork cambium), and intercalary meristems.**Primary Growth**: Lengtheningofroots and shoots.**Secondary Growth**: Thickeningofstems and roots due tovascular and
cork cambium activity.**Plant Hormones**:Roleofplant hormonesingrowth and development:**Auxins**: Roleinapical dominance, phototropism, and root growth.**Gibberellins**: Stem elongation
and seed germination.**Cytokinins**: Cell division and lateral bud growth.**Ethylene**: Fruit ripening and senescence.**Abscisic Acid**: Dormancy and stress responses.**Plant Responses
toEnvironmental Stimuli**:Plant adaptations and responses toenvironmental factors:**Photoperiodism**: Flowering responses today length.**Tropisms**: Growth responses tolight (phototropism),
gravity (gravitropism), and touch (thigmotropism).**Plant Movements**: Nastic movements and responses toenvironmental cues.**Plant Adaptations toEnvironmental Stress**:Adaptationsofplants
toextreme environmental conditions:**Water Conservation**: Adaptationsindesert plants (e.g., succulence, CAM photosynthesis).**Cold and Heat Tolerance**: Adaptationsinpolar and desert
plants.**Salt Tolerance**: Adaptationsinhalophytes.**Summary and Key Concepts**:The chapter concludes withasummaryofkey concepts related toplant anatomy and growth, reinforcing
understandingofplant structures, functions, growth processes, and adaptations.Chapter 20 providesacomprehensive explorationofplant anatomy and growth, highlighting thestructural diversity,
physiological adaptations, and growth mechanisms that enable plants tothriveindiverse environments. It prepares students forfurther exploration into plant physiology, ecology, and agriculture
coveredinsubsequent chaptersofthetextbook.If you have specific questions about anyofthese topics or would like more detailed informationona particular aspectofChapter 20, feel free toask!Chapter
21Chapter 21of"EssentialsofBiology" by Sylvia Mader and Michael Windelspecht, titled "Plant Responses and Reproduction," typically covers how plants respond toenvironmental stimuli and
thevarious mechanismsofplant reproduction. Here’s an overviewofwhat you might findinthis chapter:**Plant Responses toEnvironmental
7. What are five different types of digital technologies?
Digital technologies include electronic tools, systems, devices, personal computers,
calculators, traffic light controllers, mobile telephones, satellite technology, high-
definition television, the inter- net and other networks, software applications, email,
and mobile apps.
They also include emerging digital technologies such as the internet of things,
blockchain, LPWAN, LEO satellites,
8. Assuming that an organization is not already using the digital technologies you
identified in question 7, how could using them improve each component of an
information system?
Answers will vary depending on the specific digital technologies chosen. Below is a
suggested solution for one digital technology (the internet of things)
, Information System Improvement / Positive Impact
Component
Hardware IoT can enable bringing all IS hardware online so that
real-time monitoring and preventative maintenance of IS
hardware can occur to minimise disruptions in IS
functioning.
Software IoT enables software to play a significantly expanded role
in IS. For example, instead of the activities software can
