Activity 1 -Tool Man

John the salesman prides himself in being the best he can be. However at the moment he is struggling with all the unnecessary accessories he is carrying around with him. ICT could help him in many ways, firstly he could use a PDA (personal digital assistant) as it is a hand held computer that would allow him to easily access contacts and infromation needed for his work. The PDA would allow John to input important dates such as customer consultations and appointments, these would remind him where to go and when.


GPS stands for Global Positioning System, this would help John get to a certain destination in a reduced amount of time, for it actually provides you with routes and roads to travel down. Since he meets new clients often they will obviously be located in new places that may be unfamiliar to him so travelling would be alot easier.


Laptop, this could be used to type up letters, forward recipets an informative e-mail's. John could also calculate the companies income, expenditures and wages using Microsoft Excel. By using a laptop John would be able to get his administrations and sales done a lot quicker and would therefore be able to get to more customers. If John likes listening to music he could download music via the internet onto his laptop and listen to it on his computer whilst sitting in his car.

Mobile phone, this could be used to make business calls whenever he wished to do so. If John is late due to traffic he could call his client on his mobile out of courtesy to let them know. John could get a phone that had access to the internet such as the iphone and would be able to send e-mail's from their.


If John had the internet he could create a website for his company to publicise himself and reach out to more customers. Problems with incorporating ICT within his buisness is that it is not always reliable. Viruses and spam make computer's vulnerable to crashing and loosing important documents. Not every one likes to depend on modern technology.