The role of IT in business development

Information technologies provide opportunity of rational management of all types of resources of the enterprise, helps single entrepreneurs work. As resources are always limited the key factor of success is making right and timely managing decision about resources concentration for achieving maximum effect. The data provided by information technologies allow realizing resources concentration in the right place to solve main tasks.
Not all employees of information departments understand that company’s need not only increasing of amounts of data, improvement of information technologies or growth of computers’ speed. Management needs information that affects the competitiveness of the company including new concepts of organization of management. Lately top-managers of the hugest companies need information about products on global market which are bestselling. Today top-management require to find new management concepts, effective for work on global market in conditions of customer-oriented economy. Herein it is important to save company’s trade secret.
Any successful enterprise must have its own IT strategy – formalized system of approaches, principles and methods on base of which all the components of complex information-management system will be developed. The purpose of IT infrastructure development is organization of integrated corporate process of information technologies development to provide their correspondence to main company’s needs. The process of IT strategy development which should involve the top-management and specialists must be aimed at searching new replies on numerous main questions.
Information technologies and systems are first of all the tools of management. Like any other they serve to coordinate and control business-processes while achieving the goals. Simple possessing of these tools the same as any other doesn’t guarantee success but their absence at huge enterprise leads to collapse.