Here I want to emphasize that not only IS are also systems with their general
properties, but they also make systems out of non-systems (or poorly developed
systems with insufficient feedbacks and concerted collaboration among its parts
by connecting entities and processes together in a new mutually beneficial way.
This is a new power of business growth: not by using more resources, but
including more stuff in the orbit of their networks.
The reason why we
use quite a few software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools in this course is that many
of them are free, easy to use, and are very powerful mechanisms of connecting
things, processes, and people over the Internet. They are the modern resources
of organizational and individual power. Simple hardware, like smartphones and
publically available software services can allow individuals to have full office
support on the run (go mobile, like you can do with this course). Mafia
understood the benefits of being connected long ago :)
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