Assessing the Role of Automation in Managing of Iranian E-banking and its Impact on Social Benefit
Banks in the field of commercial developments have attention to create structural changes in the receiving and payment systems and also have facilities in services process to customers. In fact we can claim one of the reasons of general tendency to electronic business is the banks managers’ attention to the importance and necessity of this phenomenon, thus have led to their trend and serious attention for providing banking structure, based on electronic method. What banking services makes it different in comparing with other conventional methods for using E-Banking systems, is, quantitative and qualitative expansion in customer service. In other words, E-Banking, prepares the situation to customer till have wider and more diverse services. Furthermore, time and spatial dimension will not have effect in reducing or increasing services to customers. Also the customer can control his/her financial activities in every time and everywhere without attending in bank’s branches. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the status of banking automation, its social and organizational consequences in Iranian E-banking system, and providing appropriate recommendations.
Technological Innovation and the Adoption of Internet Banking in Oman
Omani banks continue to conduct most of their banking transactions using traditional methods. Given the prevalence of Internet technology adoption by the banking industry in developed countries, reasons for the lack of such innovation in developing countries such as Oman is of interest in any consideration of technological innovation. After providing some background on Internet banking, this article considers various factors that might act to determine whether a given technology is likely to be adopted by the banking industry in a developing country such as Oman, by comparison with a developed country like Australia. Data was collected from interviews with bank managers in each country, based on a consideration of each bank manager’s perceptions of four factors that might affect their decisions to adopt, or not adopt Internet technologies: Relative Advantage, Organisational Performance, Customer/ Organisational Relationship and Ease of Use. It thus addresses the question: What are the enablers and the inhibitors of Internet technology adoption in the Omani banking industry compared with those in the Australian banking industry?
Automation in industry: Bleaching the blue collar: Computerization can increase workers' output, but it may also distance product designers from assembly and process requirements
At first glance, there appears to be an enormous contrast between the Chrysler Corp's Jefferson Avenue plant, an aging assembly facility built in 1907 on Detroit's now deteriorating East Side, and the John Hancock Building, a gleaming glass and steel skyscraper near one of Boston' s poshest neighborhoods. Inside, however, new forms of automation, based on computers and microelectronics, are being used to transform both. At the Jefferson Avenue plant, robots accomplish 98 percent of the welds on new car bodies automatically, while at John Hancock, word processors and other electronic office technologies are laying the basis for a restructured office. The exploding technical capabilities of these new machines and systems, combined in many cases with their plummeting costs, are extending automation to every sector of the economy.