Question

2. Business and commerce are activities much older than the microchip (or the phone for that matter). In a similar vein as the previous question, imagine companies in the 1600s through the 1800s and how information was managed in these instances. The East India Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company (which still exists today) were some of the biggest companies of their day. Imagine how simple business tasks such as logistics and employee transfer (from one country to another) might have been accomplished. What might this tell us about how companies use IT today? What lessons can we draw from this knowledge?

Answer 1

In early 16's or in late 17's, there was no such thing called as a database management system, where one can store, modify, make replicas, alter and delete the records easily. During those days, everything was wriiten under register and records are written manually which is surely a lengthy process. There used to be no backup for database, if the registers are lost or damaged. Some of the functionalities such as transferring an employee from one country to another is done by sending a letter to another branch to let them know that this operation is going to take place, and his detailed records are also sent by him to the other branch.

From this we can clearly observe that how difficult it was t manage, transfer, store the data manually. And in todays world we have such a huge technologies where we can easily perform all the operations within a fraction of seconds.

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