Component | Definition | TOE aspect |
Cost-efficiency | ・ Spending less on computer hardware and software, ・ Reduce staffing costs ・ Saving on space and energy required to run IT facilities | ・ Significantly reduced the cost of external storage ・ Free and cheaper external storage services ・ Eliminates online storage costs ・ Cost linked with green IT: eliminates printing costs ・ Demonstrates not only cost savings, but environmental benefits environment by wasting less paper |
Collaboration | ・ Increases collaboration between users and organisations ・ Implement tools ・ Share applications and data ・ Synchronise and work on documents simultaneously ・ Track colleagues and records to acquire real-time updates | ・ Facilitates group learning and communication ・ Provides simple and effective means of sharing information ・ Communicate easily with professors and fellow students ・ Promotes the management of assignments and research projects: each project comes with its own task notes, files and conversations. ・ Promotes file sharing with the project team ・ Smooth data sharing process when engaging in group work with fellow students ・ Work can be done without having to meet up personally ・ Data and work progress monitoring: other group member’s progress and uploaded work can be observed ・ Group chat and notes feature of the cloud helped to get points and queries across much clearer in real-time |