of functions and their expertise is thinned out in other areas to make up for this extra work that must be re-done. It was also found that IT experts may also be large roadblocks for new IT systems being put in place, due to their interest in older age company mainframes. This slows down the introduction of a new PC or company network. The three general types of roadblocks are technological problems, human resource problems, and assessment problems, all of these factors make it rather difficult to judge IT investments on a standard of cost-benefit analysis basis. Has IT made a difference? The key Information Technology related impact on corporations, workers, and society will be an introduced competitive advantage. Corporations are information engines as much as they are product engines. The corporations which realize this, and take advantage of the situation will have a great advantage over those who don't. Investments related to IT will increasingly impact the strategic decision making process within any corporation. Information Technology increases the capabilities of a firm to manage diverse parts of the organization. Research, development, and actual product design can be carried out by teams in different parts of the world. IT will also help corporations to move faster and to respond quicker to changes in the unpredictable market we live in today.Has It proven to be successful? IT advances are having very successful impacts on workers. Computers and other IT progresses are doing very well with both white-collar as well as blue-collar workers. It did however, take a while for the computer revolution to reach the white-collar jobs. Information Technology however, can be to blame for the downsizing of the group of middle managers, since middle managers were traditionally gatekeepers through which information flowed from the bottom of an organization to the top, and vice versa. Since the advances in Information Technology have dram...
