Question

Explain how the adoption of the cloud may be a model for future outsourcing of applications and jobs. List some changes and developments that will have an effect on an organization’s management of IS and IT. How might the gig economy affect organizational effectiveness? Explain how robotics and automation will affect the workplace. Describe how virtual workers and “connected” digital devices may actually make an organization less cohesive. Explain the organizational cultural change that will affect the IS department.

Answer 1

Ans: Cloud computing - It is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network. it entrusts remote services with a user's data, software, and computation. End users access the cloud-based applications through a web browser or mobile app or desktop, while the business software and user's data are stored on servers at a remote location.

• How cloud computing helps in future outsourcing of applications and jobs: Cloud services are now the choice of every company that would cut cost and scale resources.
• stronger quality of hires
• cost reduction
• talent pooling
• reduced time to hire: accelerating the process of hiring and helping recruitment companies gain a competitive edge in the market.
• Allowing HR managers to share relen=vant document with the aspiring candidate
• Saving time by enabling recruiters to check reference online.
• Easy to handle as just require web browser.
• It allows users to easily access new features once the application upgrades itself automatically.

Changes and developments that will an effect on an organizations management of IS AND IT:

• With the cloud, information travels rapidly in both directions, across computing systems that, with attributes like virtualization, scaling up or down to handle bigger workloads
• More flexible work structure
• Rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software.
• closer collaboration between the IT department and other business units including sales, finance, purchasing, HR dept, and more customer interaction

Gig economy affects by organizational effectiveness: The gig economy is the free market system where temporary positions are common and companies tend to contract independent workers for short term engagements. many organizations are following the concept of the gig economy as business and societal norms are changing, a change in career goals coupled with a shift in generational work ethics have combined to make work a part of a lifestyle as opposed to distractions from it. It reduces fixed cost of the organization, customer needs to address effectively in the seasonal month, no need to go several HR programs, etc.

• robotics and automation will affect the workplace: It has affected individual at the basic level with robotics and innovation some people quick to adapt, while others may react with fear, anger, and resistance
• It has overall impacted the strategic planning of the organization.

• virtual workers and connected digital devices may actually make an organization less cohesive: virtual teams choose their own work hours, make an organisation more fragmented.   
• organizational cultural change that will affect the IS department: It increases the flow of information