2. By the end of today you should know
•What is ICT
•What is a system
•What is an ICT system
•What are the components of an ICT system
•What can ICT do for us?
3. What is ICT?
•Hardware
•Software
•Communications technologies
There can be overlap between what is hardware and
what is communications; it’s getting increasingly
blurred as technology develops.
4. What is a system?
A system is how we do something.
All systems have 3 common stages of operation
INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT
5. What is an ICT system?
An ICT system is a way of doing something whilst making use of ICT.
A few examples
•Supermarket stock control
•Payroll systems
•E-commerce
•Banking systems
All of these ICT systems will have some form of input followed by a
process and then finally an output
6. Components of an ICT system
An ICT system comprises 6 main components
PEOPLE
PROCEDURES
DATA
HARDWARE
SOFTWARE
INFORMATION
To make it easier to remember try do make a memorable acronym
7. What can ICT do for us?
We use ICT as it can give us an advantage over manual methods and
make our work easier.
There are 4 main benefits
VOLUME
ACCURACY
REPETITION
SPEED
VARS is the way to remember these benefits.
You could also think of the general advantages of using ICT.
