Information Technology Loop
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The concepts, products, services, processes, systems and the interrelated and interdependent horizontal and vertical technologies making up the world of information technology can be represented in a loop. From the time a concept is introduced, experimented, prototyped, innovated, consumed, deployed, and taught, it passes through key components in the loop.
These three (3) significant components are the technology initiator, the Delivery systems, and the customer.
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[edit] Technology Initiator
Inventors are industry leaders. They can be startup companies or conglomerates but the products they introduce revolutionizes the direction of information technology. Whether the products actually survive in the market place or not, the underlying technology will be the basis for innovation or a seed for a next breakthrough.
Innovators are people or organizations who either build on an invention or on a prior innovation in technology.
Technology Initiators can be research & development organizations, academe, government, original equipment manufacturers (OEM), etc.
[edit] Delivery Systems
[edit] Channel/Operator
This component is made up of people or institutions who by their organization, human resources, policies, professional/industry practices & standards pass on information technology to a wide range of people or groups of people within the different sectors of society. Channel/Operator can be a marketer, the academe, lead users, mass communication practitioners, distributors, retailers, standards organizations, or a technology initiator--an OEM.
[edit] Systems
The organizational, institutional or sectoral practices, techniques, processes, strategies and technologies use to deliver information technology.
[edit] Structure
The physical, operational, and legal structures that make delivery of information technology possible.
[edit] Client/User/Customer
The component of the loop that can roughly be group into direct consumer, intermediate user, and innovator.
A direct consumer is a client that uses information technology out-of-the-box and uses it for his or her organization's immediate need or requirement.
An intermediate user is a client that uses information technology to either create support, aid in the user of other technologies or in the production of goods and services.
An innovator is a client that uses information technology to upgrade or improve existing information technology products or services.
[edit] Environment
The conditions that either support or inhibit the creation, development and delivery of information technology constitute the environment. These conditions maybe legal, political, economic, technological, social, cultural, geographic, and climatic.
[edit] Sources
The Participant's Workshop materials developed for the Pre-summit and Cebu Information Technology Summit Workshops by Virgilio Paralisan for the Cebu Information Technology Summit of 2001 of City of Cebu, Philippines managed by TeamAsia.
