tool man

In John’s current line of work he carries around various things to make his life a little easier. He carries around a large diary, an address book, a large road atlas and numerous A –Z’s. He also carries around a bunch of coins for pay phones. Other things he carries around are things like calculators and bulky sales catalogues. He has problems sometimes with being late and getting into traffic jams. There a multiple in which John’s life could be improved with the aid of ICT. I will develop these ways below:

PDA – a ‘Personal Digital Assistant’ also known as a palmtop computer, this is basically a computer in your hand but this has vastly become obsolete with up and coming smartphones.

GPS – this stands for global positioning system. This is a type of equipment that uses satellites to find out where you are and where you want to go. This type of technology could help John out majorly in his endeavours. This piece would help him in many ways; one of these ways is that he would have to carry around a big Atlas and a bunch of A –Z’s because it will all be in the GPS. This will tell John exactly where to go with the directions; it also gives you a time of your arrival so he will never have to be late again. Also if John runs into traffic he can always change the route and go a different way around the traffic and still make it to his destination.

Internet – the internet will probably be the best thing that John will use in his travels. With the internet he will be able to find countless routes to a certain destination. One of the best things he will be able to do with the internet is he will be able to find out if there is any traffic during his route, this can also be used to find out if there are any delays on the way like road works or road accidents. Also he would be able to show client DIY tools and things of the kind without actually taking a bulky catalogue of the items. This will be achievable by going onto the website.

Mobile phone – a mobile phone is a must have in today’s business and with jobs of this job. Getting a smart phone would mean that he would no longer need to carry around all of the equipment he uses. You can get almost anything on your phone now because of the aid of things within the phone. Firstly he would no longer need to carry around maps and things like that because most phones have GPS in built to them and if they don’t you can always get an app for a GPS system. Also a diary and an address book come as a standard in phones now so he will no longer need to carry around countless books, he would just need to put everything into the phone and update details or put new details in. this will also help him in the case that he will no longer need to carry around small change for pay phones. He would be able to get a mobile phone contract and will be able to call at any time when he needs to. On phones, you can now get countless apps on your phone so that anything that John needs will be right there at his finger-tips this would be very useful if the company he works for has a website app, this would make it easy for him to access the certain things he needs to let people look at and show. Another thing that he could use his phone for is an MP3 player this, this would mean he would no longer need to carry around CD’s with him and he could fit a lot more songs onto his phone then he could with a couple of CD’s.

Laptop – on his laptop he would basically be able to do most of the same things that he does on his phone but will be able to do it on a larger scale. One thing that the laptop can be useful for that is more effective than a phone is that he will be able present things to people more effectively with the help of making a presentation or writing a detailed description of the things that he is selling. With the help of a laptop he can also use it to send emails to people and set reminders for himself in the case of appointments. Also his auditing could become a lot easier because he could just use a piece of software that means he could have all of the things that he has sold all in one place rather than in multiple places.

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