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Digital technology - Coggle Diagram
Digital technology
Cloud Based software
Advantages - Facilitates mobile working, Unlimited storage. Disadvantages - Service provider has control, a vendor lock-in and security risks
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Remote Working
Advantages - Rent smaller offices - cost savings and flexibility leading to productivity.
Disadvantages - Isolation and need for meetings, security risks
Impacts - New HR policies on access to technology, promotion, sick pay etc
To establish norms across independent locations
Robotics
Advantages - Increased production at lower costs, improved quality assurance
Disadvantages - Threat of job losses, hiring skilled staff to program the robots
Impacts - Staff training to harness for human ends and avoid driving out
Flatter organisation structure
Big Data
Advantages - Understanding and targeting customers, better decisions with data driven insights.
Disadvantages - Privacy and security concerns, open-source technology but costs for hardware and skilled staff
Impacts - The personalisation of products and services, fuels new services and business models, able to mitigate risks, ethical dilemmas of accurate customer profilling
Biometrics
Advantages - can be faster and more convenient security, under more control and cannot be passed on
Disadvantages - Variability in modalities and false non-match errors, technologies are not interoperable
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Internet of things
Advantages - Inventory management helped by smart devices, facilitates remote work
Disadvantages - High dependency on the internet and security issues and corruption
Impacts - The need to establish and uphold connectivity standards, flaws arising with code and need to train staff, status of equipment sensors are creating savings.
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