The effecets of information technologies on institutional performance

Information technology can be defined as the attainment, processing, saving and distribution of information through computers. Economic and social changes resulting from new technologies carry a new formation known as the information society with them. Developments in information technology have resulted in radical changes in many sectors, whereas they are responsible from the demise or the establishment of some others. Until recently, information technologies have served as a boon to the routine duties of lower and middle echelon executives; however, fast processors, developing database softwares and internet technology today have important effects over strategic decisions of the top management. The transfer of knowledge, composed by the eduaction and experiences of the employees, is extremely difficult and a private resource. It proves beneficial to register this knowledge and especially to open it to the use of others form a competitive point of view. The key to this advantage is the institutionalization of the process of the creation of information. The impact of information technologies on institutional organisations is immense. The effect of many factors such as efficiency, performance, motivation, communicaiton etc. increases in a positive way with the active use of information technology in organisations. Information technologies have been intensively used in educational institutuions. In this study, the effect of information technologies in secondary schools on institutional performance has been explored.