Computer technology and the Networked Organization

Computer technology and the Networked Organization

In the recent era, Information technology (IT) is playing a vital role for guiding and leading the organizations for attaining and achieving their pre settled goals and objectives in a manner that could save its time as well as cost efficiently. Computer technologies in the networked organizations offer several distinctive tools that not just use for enhancing the productivity of the organization's employees but also allow them to work collaboratively in a more eco-friendly and effective work environment through reducing the organizational infrastructure. Any kind of introduction, change or elimination of organizational procedures in any work setting as well as various types of alterations in the hierarchal designs of an organization are largely influenced by the proper utilization of Computer Technology infrastructure (Huber, 2011).

What is a wiki and how can be useful for an organization?

A website that can be easily edited and modified is known as wiki. This kind of website can be really very useful for any organization as it has the 'edit' button for making any changes or modification on the web page and it can be easily accessed whenever one want to change any data or any information about the organization over that website. After all the modifications are done then such changes can be saved and the previous version of the web page is totally replaced by the newly modified page. In an organization, the use of wiki is very beneficial as it makes convenient for the organization to updating the website on timely basis and also makes contributions for the people in the web content. There is a history regarding previous pages in which every page version is stored and can also be retrieved whenever it needs. Most of the wikis involve some extra ordinary features by which the IT mangers of the organizations enable for the rights of accessing to content notifications and managements (Griffith, 2012).

The chief advantage of the wiki in any organization in comparison with old systems of ECM and content management lies in its ease and flexibility of adding and linking to new pages. A great advantage that comes in an organization by using the convenience and flexibility of the wikis can be addressed into broad perspectives in various organizational situations. For instance, it helps an organization in sharing information regarding documentation, knowledge base, and product catalog. It also helps an organization in managing some projects that are about creating a new product, organizing an event, and setting up any new tool. It also assists an organization in communicating with other departments and people via intranet or extranet on website.

Fundamentally, a wiki can be benefited whenever an organization wishes using a dynamic platform for centralizing information and sharing it with other employees of the organization. It emerges as an alternative of emails when there is a need arise for taking place many-to-many communication and when there is a need for making access of useful information to each employee simultaneously (Grace, ...