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Class 3 Communication IT/IS II (Chapter 6)

Asper School of Business 9.614 Information Age Organizations Part-Time MBA, April 2002 Instructor: Bob Travica. Class 3 Communication IT/IS II (Chapter 6). Outline. Telecommunications Concepts Telecommunications Trends Virtual Organization. Telecommunications Concepts.

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Class 3 Communication IT/IS II (Chapter 6)

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  1. Asper School of Business 9.614 Information Age Organizations Part-Time MBA, April 2002 Instructor: Bob Travica Class 3 Communication IT/IS II (Chapter 6) 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica

  2. Outline • Telecommunications Concepts • Telecommunications Trends • Virtual Organization 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica

  3. Telecommunications Concepts • Telecommunications = Transfer of electronic information; • another name for modern communication or CMC. Cyberspace = space created through electronic information flows (Castells, 1989) by means of information systems and computer networks. • Digital = based on discrete quantities of voltage or something else • Analog = based on continuous quantities “ “ . • Telecommunication standard = specifications of functional, physical • and performance characteristics of a telecommunication entity. • (e.g., T1 Line is a medium for transfer of digital data via twisted pair of • wires with the transfer capacity of 1.544 Megabits/sec) 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica

  4. Telecommunications Trends • Deregulation of Telecommunications • Privatization • Computer networks (ISO-OSI standard; T1, 2, 3, 4; • ISDN; Frame Relay; ATM...) • Internet (TCP/IP standard; from military network to de facto • global standard) • Wireless communication 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica

  5. Virtual Organization (VO) • Enabled by modern telecommunications • Concept of VO: An effect of interacting rather than factual • organization... • Definition of VO (Travica, 2002): • A dynamic, electronic more or less temporary inter- or • intra-organizational network that is capable of delivering • special products. • Types of VO (corporation, storefront, office, team, alliance) • VO Issues (drivers, boundary, IT role, product, structure...) 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica

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