Managing Information Technology in Engineering

INTRODUCTION

What is IT?

IT generally stands for Information technology, which clearly indicates the deployment of different tools, ways, techniques and framework to transform information from one end to the other in form of some signals or any other way. People generally associate IT with internet, some kind of software and even hardware but IT is integrated with electronics and telecommunications and networking field as well to a very large extent. Organizing and distributing data in various ways is the groundwork of information technology. Information Technology has some other features such as presentation of data, Deep analysis, storage and assemblage of data.

What is Computer Engineering?

Computer engineering is a combination of two different engineering mainly electronics engineering and computer science engineering. A computer engineer basically studies and examines the hardware system and the software system in the computer and is really efficient in solving the computer oriented problems. In view of the fact that computer engineers understand the problem well, they are able to come up with the best possible solution. A computer engineer  undergoes studies of various subjects during his/her training time such as OOPS (object oriented programming),Software quality management,Design.and.analysis.of.algorithm,structured query language, Multimedia and design ,Digital Electronics,Microprocessor,DataStructure,Software quality management. On successful completion of the computer engineering computer engineer can further specialize in various fields such as Networking, Designing of Hardware, software engineering, Software testing (QA) and many more.

INTERVIEWS

Two Interviews were conducted via email. One of the people is currently working in an IT firm and the other one is working with an Aluminum company. Below are the questions asked?  

Q.1 What are your roles and responsibilities in the company?

Q.2 What IT Tools do you use to complete your daily tasks?

Q.3 What is the benefit of adopting new technology as per you?

Q.4 Do you think that adopting a technology has a vital role in organizational transformation? If

Yes, then how? If not, why not?

Interviewee 1

Interviewee 1, Mr. Cheyyne Newman , is the strategy and innovation  head  at Capral ,Sydney, Australia. Following are his answers to the above questions

Ans.1 I am the head of strategy and innovation of my company that particularly deals and supplies aluminum all over Australia, as the head of the department my prime responsibility is creating new strategy  along with my team for  the betterment of the business and coordinating the plans to the other departments for further action

Ans.2 IT Tools: customer relationship Management tools (CRM) such as Microsoft Dynamics, Fresh desk and sales force. Executive dashboard report software such as SAP Lumera,Zoho reports. ERP suits such as SAP for invoice and finance, Business Email Systems (Microsoft Outlook), PMP tools such as Active Collab, Suits for accounting such as Cash flow manager, Day to day suites such as MS word, Office