1. Read the text.
What Is Information Technology Today?
A 1958 article in Harvard Business Review referred to information technology as consisting of three basic parts: computational data processing, decision support, and business software. This time period marked the beginning of IT as an officially defined area of business; in fact, this article probably coined the term.
Over the ensuring decades, many corporations created so-called "IT departments" to manage the computer technologies related to their business. Today, IT departments have responsibility in areas like: computer technical support; business computer network and database administration; business software deployment; information security.
Especially during the dot-com boom of the 1990s, Information Technology also became associated with aspects of computing beyond those owned by IT departments. This broader definition of IT includes areas like: software development; computer systems architecture; project management.
Job posting sites commonly use IT as a category in their databases. The category includes a wide range of jobs across architecture, engineering and administration functions. People with jobs in these areas typically have college degrees in computer science and/or information systems. A career in Information Technology can involve working in or leading IT departments, product development teams, or research groups.
Since adequate IT support has become absolutely indispensable in managing business processes, there is a huge variety of employment opportunities in almost every industry branch, starting from the IT branch itself (e.g. software companies, business consultancies, computer manufacturer) to processing/manufacturing industry branches, credit institutions and insurance companies to service providers and management consultancy firms.
2. Make up 5 special questions on the text “What Is Information Technology Today?” starting them with:
1. Why…?
2. Where…?
3. When…?
4. What …?
5. Who …?
3. Put the words in the right order to make sentences. Write them down.
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4. Make up the outline of the text.
