There are technical and non-technical issues that can obstruct businesses from establishing global information technology systems, including the different standards, technologic-related skills of people, reliability of the connection to the Internet and its speed. The difference in standards that exists on the global level makes the compatibility of technology a significant concern for businesses. For example, the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), which are the standards of information exchange processes, for instance, computer to computer.
The issue of standards can be promptly resolved since the development of a structured approach to the management of technology systems is gaining increased attention. Out of the four, the easiest to solve is the problem of standards since the global community is implementing many standards. In this regard, reviewing other issues such as data speed or skills of people is necessary since resolving them through the efforts of one company is impossible. While an organisation can provide training to employees to ensure that they can use some software, it is unclear how much time, effort, and financial spending is required for this.
Other technological challenges to the global business systems are the quality of Internet services, security, costs and regulatory constraints. Other technical issues are connectivity and network capacity. In essence, the regulatory constraints are the issues that cannot be resolved by a single company. A notable example is China, where a large number of popular social platforms are blocked because of governmental requests, including Facebook and Twitter. Out of the listed challenges, security appears to be the easiest to resolve since a single company cannot affect the other aspects, for example, invest in improving the quality of capacity of the Internet within a county.