TOPICS: Management and technology

It built slowly, often unnoticed. Then, there came a phase when everyone around started noticing the affinity between management and technology.

Tension escalated and dilemma hovered, and then the “affair” reached an irresistible stage. As of late, it is eventually attempting to culminate into a complementary as well as sustainable relationship.

Many management gurus have developed various definitions of management. The crux is planning and decision making, organizing, leading, and controlling amalgamates to give life to the school of thought called management.

Despite this fact, the definition given by Mary Parker Follett, the mother of modern management, is remarkably striking and to the point that “Management is the art of getting things done through people.” Technology—the most recent development of the scientific era—is the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering and applied sciences. Simply put, technology is something which makes modern-day complex tasks simpler, easier, and faster.

The “maturity” of management has further brought various schools of thought, viz. finance, marketing, strategic management, entrepreneurship, brand management, operations management, organizational behavior, critical thinking and decision making, and so on within the horizon of management.

While considering the increasing need to manage the tremendous volume and different categories of information. Besides, the world saw the technology boom in the recent decade. Seemingly pre-planned, this boom is giving sufficient stability to the different branches and day-to-day functions of management.

Various universities around the globe have recently introduced an entirely radical and hybrid course: Management Information Systems (MIS) in their respective business schools.

This course educates students about the processing of both financial and non-financial information by computers and other automated machines to manage and support managerial decisions within an organization.

Had Mary Parker Follett been alive today, it is conceivable that she would have modified her definition of management as: “Management is the art of getting things done through people and technology.” Shouldn’t the managers and technology professionals rather accept and favor the rising “love affair” between management and technology?