Information technology is used by businesses for many functions. They get IT workers to build websites, support their systems, develop applications, and build servers. However, the role of all IT workers can be covered by one term – to better allow a business to perform its processes.
What does this even mean? Well, companies don’t hire IT workers just because they can. They hire IT workers because they realise the benefits that IT can have to their organisation. This can involve increasing profits, reducing costs, increasing market share and awareness, and other areas. All of them involve taking a process and using technology to assist it.
This is a very important point to remember when working in IT – build the system around the process, not the other way around.
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