This unit helps you to:
• Understand how organisations are structured
• Understand how organisations use and exchange information
• Evaluate how well ICT can and does help organisations
• Consider how ICT supports many different activities in organisations
• See how ICT offers new opportunities, such as just-in-time stock
management
You will produce a case study on how an organisation collects, disseminates and uses
information, how it manages the flow of information between sections or departments, and
the way it uses ICT to access and exchange information.
This unit links with:
- Unit 1: Presenting information (Advanced)
- Unit 3: Spreadsheet design (Advanced)
- Unit 5: Systems analysis (Advanced)
- Unit 6: Database design (Advanced)
The unit also builds on work done in Unit 5: Information resources (Intermediate).
This unit provides knowledge, skills and understanding in Installing & supporting IT systems
NVQ level 3.
While working on this unit you will become aware of various aspects of spiritual, moral,
ethical, social and cultural activities and beliefs.
You are not, for instance, allowed to use ICT to publish, present or transmit to others
material which is pornographic, issues threats, is libellous, contravenes the Race Relations
Acts, discloses confidential information or is blasphemous.
When undertaking work you need to be aware of the sensitivities of others as well as the
specific laws of the countries in which your work may appear.
If you are using information gathered from an organisation, it is at least unethical, and
possibly illegal, to pass on confidential information to another
organisation.
This unit will be assessed only through an external
assessment (examination).
The grade you achieve in this assessment will be your grade for the unit.
