Recomdations Baised on Current Problems Faced in Telstra It
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As Information Technology is increasing rapidly IT organisations should keep up-to-date with changing guidelines, software and hardware and skill set. The most of common challenges most of the IT industry face are: disaster recovery, platforms, security and consultants (Small Business - Chron.com, 2013).
Information technology has become the essential part of the telecommunications industry. Today every organization is facing the task of balancing the need of have a sophisticated Technology with the need to keep the cost of IT reasonable (atkearney.com, 2010). Telstra at its current growth phase faces host of different challenges in all sectors of its business.
Network Management
The Telstra has recently look to invest heavily on fast expansion of 4G network (Lemay, 2013). The decision for this expansion was taken to limit growth and reputation of its competitor Vodafone in the 4G race. This huge investment has led to expensive 4G tariff to existing and new Telstra customers when compared to its competitors like Optus.
The reason for the above problem is due to poor network planning. According to Finchman and Kemerer (1999), introduction of new technology is always greeted with great sense of enthusiasm and enjoy widespread initial attainment, however it fails to be carefully deployed among many firms. They propose to have diffusion modelling curve to solve above problem. In a diffusion modelling curve Company should jot down the time they take for acquisition and deployment against cumulative adoption. The distance between the acquisition and deployment is called the assimilation gap. They suggest that in order for the technology to survive in the market company should carefully time the assimilation gap between Acquisition of the technology and deploying the technology to the market. Lesser the gap would lead to huge loss of resources and vast