We explain what technological resources are, what types exist, their importance and examples. Also, other types of resources.
What are technological resources?
Technological resources are those elements coming from scientific-technical innovation that enable or facilitate some work especially productive. More simply, it is about the contributions of technology to the other productive fields of human beings, making it possible, or easier and faster, to achieve a goal.
It is common to use “technological resources” in areas as different as business administration, economics or even education, with a similar meaning. But whatever their context of application, they constitute in today's hypertechnological world, one of the most determining factors in human activity, that is, It is one of the factors that usually makes the difference between success and failure.
This is because technological resources can, broadly speaking, fulfill important tasks in areas such as communication, production, regulation or transportation.
They make work or learning tasks much more efficient, agile or even entertaining. They can even revolutionize the very idea of work and learning, breaking paradigms in order to open the door to innovative and unsuspected panoramas, as has happened numerous times in recent decades.
Types of technological resources
These resources can be of two different types:
- Tangible technological resources when it comes to tools, pieces of machinery, concrete, physical elements that we can apply to a specific task.
- Intangible technological resources when on the contrary they are incorporeal, abstract elements, such as computer programs (software) or the Internet.
Importance of technological resources
As we said before, technological resources tend to be the first to be considered in today's world, because they allow more than ever before in history to carry out tasks in new ways.
For example, what online commerce represented for business, or ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) for personal and emotional life, are just examples of the gigantic potential that exists in applied technology, that is, the potential that it has. to solve problems. No other element developed by humanity has that capacity to transform reality like technology.
Examples of technological resources
Some examples of technological resources are:
- Internet and telecommunications capable of accelerating the transmission of information more than ever before, can be used commercially, as a resource for distance education, or as a way to effectively coordinate the links of a company.
- robotics and automation in the industrial and productive world, are the most revolutionary resource in terms of maximizing work time and speed, and at the same time putting in check the need for industrial workers.
- The specialized software one of the most powerful professional tools of recent decades, is already part of the knowledge that every recent graduate must use to practice their profession. Architects, engineers, librarians and even scriptwriters and designers use computer programs that allow them to work better and faster.
Other types of resources
In addition to technological resources, mention is often made of:
- Financial resources which have to do with capital and debt capacity, necessary to promote any productive project, with or without profit.
- Human resources which are nothing more than the staff of workers, specialized or not, who are dedicated to a specific productive task.
- Administrative resources which are the logistical heart of any company, organization or human initiative, since they serve as control, communication and decision-making.
Continue with: Resources of a company
References
- “Technology” on Wikipedia.
- “Technological resources” in Educational technology miracle.
- “Do you know how to manage your company's technological resources?” at OBS Business School.
- “Technological resources” at Reference.com.
