In a paper consisting of ten pages the corporate sector is examined in terms of present information technology trends and future strategic directions. Ten sources are cited in these bibliography.
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late Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay Cosmetics is famous for saying, "Nothing happens until someone sells something." Internal and external pressures, the tightening economy and the continued trend
to globalization all have brought about business changes that are systemic and likely permanent. Business has undergone greatly significant changes in only the
past decade, and many of those changes are dependent on the efficient use of the higher levels of corporate information available now. Astute organizations are cognizant of these changes
and even now are creating climates in which that information can best enhance the bottom line. Corporate Application
There are many areas in which information technology (IT) is growing and changing, of course. There are education and medical applications that promise to change (or
already have changed) the form that these two broad areas take both now and in the future. As example, residents of outlying rural areas now have access to the
often-superior training, knowledge and specialization of urban medical professionals. Corporate application may apply in education and medicine as well as in manufacturing and
service industries, but corporate application of IT focuses on how available technologies and approaches to information can best have a positive effect on any organizations bottom line. There is
little room in todays business environment for anything but effective results. Any activity that cannot be justified in terms of a business case is one on which the organization
needs to spend none of its precious financial resources. At the same time, there are advances in IT that can result in the