To be successful in the business market, it is vital for a company to keep up with all the latest technological development. Nowadays it is (1)widen_____accepted that running a company without computers, in particular, is virtually (2)____. This is why businesses are so keen to hire the best people available for their technology departments.

Apart from the needs of the technology department, it is important that almost all (3)______________have some degree of (4)______________with personal or desktop computers, even if this involves no more than the (5)______________of a basic computer course. Like all new things, however, most people will only become (6)______________with using computers after practical experience.

Thanks to computers, today’s businesses are run and managed with far less (7)______________than companies could hope to achieve in the past. For example, computers enable the (8)______________of huge amounts of information and greatly speed up the (9)preparation_____of documents and reports.

In short, although the average businessperson has no need to be a technology expert, they are (10)______________to get very far without at least a basic knowledge of computers.