Language and ICT: The Impact Of using ICT for Bussiness..................

Information and communication technology (ICT) has changed the way we learn, communicate, obtain information, purchase products and do business. ICT can improve efficiency and lower costs; increase your understanding of your clients, suppliers and partners; and improve your communications. This means better customer service, access to new markets, growth and greater profits.

"There is no suggestion that ICT can...offer a panacea for all development problems," the report said. "But detailed analysis of experience around the world reveals ample evidence that, used in the right way and for the right purposes, ICT can have a dramatic impact on achieving specific social and economic development goals as well as play a key role in broader national development strategies." (CnetNews.com)

The report that was written by one of the CnetNews' staff showed that ICT is important to the business aspect and can contribute the good impacts. The proves that we can see now are such as electronic business or e-business. everyone knows that e-business is very helping in economic growth in our world.This kind of business is fully using ICT to develop and expand. In Singapore for example, they are taking fully advantages of using ICT to expand their small and medium-size of business. other in business is in construction field, engineering, education or even in transportation. Resource from EBSCO Host said that government of Singapore spent a lot of money to upgrade their ICT facilities to get and after the target of being one of the best and advance country of business,construction and education field.

The concept of strategic alignment advocates that decisions on business strategy, information and communication technology (ICT) strategy, business infrastructure and ICT infrastructure need to be coordinated in order to better realize the benefits from ICT investments. In Singapore, there is a 10-year plan presented by the government to transform the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and ICT is identified as an area for SMEs to acquire new capabilities. In this context, the strategic alignment framework is used to evaluate Singapore's small and medium-sized architecture, engineering and construction enterprises on their current practices in the ICT domain. An industry-wide postal survey, adopting the IT Barometer questionnaire and applying stratified sampling, obtained 84 responses out of a total of 754 companies contacted. Of the 84, 67 responses were further stratified by size and annual turnover, according to the SMEs definition, to allow a closer examination of each strata or class. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis are used, and the main findings of the research are: (1) targeted schemes need to be set up to address the specific needs and concerns of the micro and small enterprises as distinct from those of the medium-sized enterprises pertaining to building ICTfor the strategic use of ICTs. (Goh Bee Hua, Business Strategy, Singapore) capability; (2) the two common alignment perspectives adopted by the larger ‘designer’ and ‘builder’ SMEs are ‘strategy execution’ and ‘competitive potential’; and (3) the medium-sized ‘designer’ and ‘builder’ enterprises are shown to favour technology leadership and customer satisfaction, respectively, as their niche performance criteria

ICT can make anything that useless become worthy. For example, the website was created as the electronic auction place that can help people to sell the smallest and cheapest thing to the people around the world. One of these auction websites out there is e-Bay. Maybe other people is searching the thing that you think is worthless. this website is one of example of impacts using ICT toward business. you can sell and buy anything at the internet or at this e-business.The other hand, all of these is helping of growing marketing.The businessmen can expand their stuff and products through this world wide marketing. Our previous Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad said that every house should have at least one computer. Based on his statement before, we can assume that at least our people have one computer in their house.So the potential of selling Products through the internet can help the marketing grow up positively. Even a 5 years kid can make deal through the internet.

Nowadays , almost country in the world have created and launched a program named e-governance. This program are updated day by day to give information to the people of country. In this page, they will be providing every single information about the country. People and country can develop their business through this way. They can promote their products through this page.

This is the rough information about the e-government...

What is E-Government?

@ E-Government: The use of ICT tools such as Internet, mobile computing and cellular phones by government to streamline processes and transactions.

@ The resulting benefits include:

– Make the working of the government more efficient and effective

– Disseminate information about government procedures and rules

– Save costs and capture revenue

– Improve service delivery to citizens and businesses and other arms of government

E-government provides an opportunity to develop a new relationship between local governments, citizens, service users and businesses, by using new ICTs, which enable the dissemination and collection of information, and services both within and outside of government (government to citizen; government to business; government to government) for the purposes of service delivery, decision-making and accountability. The challenges presented to local e-government include encouraging all citizens to use e-service delivery, involving the private and civil sectors, and making government willing and able to change.

In short, we can identify and know more about the advantage or benefits from using the ICT towards business. Not in business only, we also can develop anything through this ICT. According to Craig Barret, Chairman of Intel, the largest chip maker in the world, "The Internet and computers are tools. And the impact they make depends on how intelligently those tools are used. We believe that intelligent use of technology can make education better".