1. 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica Class 3 Communication IT/IS II (Chapter 6) Asper School of Business 9.614 Information Age Organizations Part-Time MBA, April 2002 Instructor: Bob Travica

2. 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica Outline Telecommunications Concepts Telecommunications Trends Virtual Organization

3. 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica Telecommunications Concepts Telecommunications = Transfer of electronic information; another name for modern communication or CMC. Cyberspace = space created through electronic information flows (Castells, 1989) by means of information systems and computer networks. Telecommunication standard = specifications of functional, physical and performance characteristics of a telecommunication entity. (e.g., T1 Line is a medium for transfer of digital data via twisted pair of wires with the transfer capacity of 1.544 Megabits/sec) Digital = based on discrete quantities of voltage or something else Analog = based on continuous quantities “ “.

4. 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica Telecommunications Trends Deregulation of Telecommunications Privatization Computer networks (ISO-OSI standard; T1, 2, 3, 4; ISDN; Frame Relay; ATM...) Internet (TCP/IP standard; from military network to de facto global standard) Wireless communication

5. 9.614 Information Age Organizations Instructor: Bob Travica Virtual Organization (VO) Enabled by modern telecommunications Concept of VO: An effect of interacting rather than factual organization... Definition of VO (Travica, 2002): A dynamic, electronic more or less temporary inter- or intra-organizational network that is capable of delivering special products. Types of VO (corporation, storefront, office, team, alliance) VO Issues (drivers, boundary, IT role, product, structure...)