NUKAISLTSN Seminar Leeds Metropolitan University Innovation North Faculty of Information and Technol

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NUKAIS/LTSN SeminarLeeds Metropolitan
UniversityInnovation NorthFaculty of
Information and Technology

• Visioning The Future
• Information Systems Curriculum Development
• Aims Objectives
• To appreciate where we are now
• To evaluate key IS indicators/drivers
• To determine the future direction

Barbara Howell
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Overview

• Now
• Challenges
• Key Indicators/drivers
• Historical Perspective
• The Competition
• Job Market/Employers
• Current IS Research
• IS Academic Community
• The future
• Summary

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Now

• Increasing myriad of programmes BIS (109), IS
  (562), Accounting, Distributed, Finance,
  Geographical, Global, Internet, Management and
  Media Information Systems (UCAS 2004)
• Align to computing benchmark and professional
  bodies
• US - IS 2002 Model Curriculum (Gorgone et al,
  2002) Business, Analytical/Critical Thinking,
  Technology, Interpersonal/Communication and Team
  Skills.
• A Framework of Information System Concepts
  (FRISCO) Revised draft 2001
• Understand IS and provide a consistent framework
  of IS concepts

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Challenges

• Declining student numbers, high student
  attrition, student satisfaction, changes in
  funding methodology, variable fees, competition
  from private providers
• The LTSN (2003) - producing employable graduate
  is becoming more complex and more important
• Graduate numbers expanding faster than the market
  for traditional graduate jobs
• Graduates more diverse in age, social background
  and motivation
• Johnson et al (2002) poses the following
  questions
• What do I include in my course syllabus?
• Does the curriculum meet stakeholder needs?

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Historical Perspective

• IS have been around for at least 6000 years
• Fifty years ago no IS professionals.
• 70s Information Systems appearing
• 90s IS degrees developed from the computer
  systems analysis courses that in turn diverged
  from the original computing courses
• Student numbers had been increasing to 2000

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The competition

• Armstong Jayaratna (2002) examine content of
  similar courses
• MSc Information Systems (2003)
• DSS, Multimedia, KM, E-Commerce, HCI, UML
• BSc (Hons) IS/BIS (2003)
• Business orgs, Web Page Design, SD, DD, OO,
  Network Operating Systems, E-Government
• BSc (Hons) Derivatives (2003/4)
• Focus on E and Web Systems - Hypermedia Systems,
  Media Technologies, XML, Network Security

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UK Job Market - IS
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Job Market cont..

• Roberts Review (April 02) - financial services
  and media
• PricewaterhouseCoopers (2002) - market
  opportunities in 4 areas
• Communication - Professional services to support
  wireless infrastructure
• Creative, culture and Media - on-line marketing,
  on-line music, computer video games, publishing
  of digital books and interactive TV
• Electronics Manufacturing - operating systems,
  computer systems, storage media and semiconductor
  devices are all demonstrating growth
• Service providers - e-Learning, consultancy and
  internet services.
• Lambert Review (July 03) high growth in
  creative and media industries
• The LTSN (October 2003) - employers require
  generic skills, such as good at communicating,
  numerate, IT literate, capable of taking
  initiative, team working, manage themselves and
  continue to learn.

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Job Market e-skills ICT review

• IT services 57 rise over next 4yrs -
  infrastructure and outsourcing - an attractive
  market to be in.
• User support, strategy planning and software
  roles up for the 3rd qtr running
• Operations technicians, telecoms engineers and
  database assistants fell over the last 3
  quarters.
• Future demand for skills in broadband, wireless,
  Linux, content management, real time analytics,
  data mining security, middleware, business
  intelligence and KM
• (quarter 4, 2003)

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Current Research

• ISOneWorld 2004
• E-Government, E-Collaboration, E-Marketing,
  E-Health
• Accounting IS, Multimedia IS, Geographic IS
• KM, ERP, SSM, Information Security/Cyber Crime,
  Web Learning, HCI
• EMCIS 2004
• Strategic IS Planning, DSS Business
  Intelligence, Outsourcing
• ERP, EAI, CRM, SCM, Data quality and mining, IT
  Security, IS in Healthcare
• E-Government/Governance, Digital Divide,
  Teleworking, HCI, Virtual Communities
• ECIS 2004
• IS and HRM, Tourism, Telecom Industry, Media,
  Health Care, Finance.
• e-work and virtual organisations, Digital Divide,
  CRM, ERP, KM
• HICCS 2005
• E-Government, E-Democracy, E-Health, E-Logistics
• Streams - Digital Documents Media Health
• ERP, CRM, EAI, KM, Outsourcing, Business
  Intelligence, Data Mining.
• Handheld Devices Wireless, IT in Criminal
  Justice

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Current Research

• Cambridge
• GIS, Digital technologies
• Health care systems (JIT, KM) and e-health.
• E-Commerce, Organisational learning and KM,
  E-learning
• IS Journals
• The Journal of Information Systems Education
  (JISE)
• Special issue on Enterprise Systems Education -
  CRM, SCM, SEM, and Business Intelligence.
• (JISE- http//jise.appstate.edu/ERP.htm)
• Computing and Information Systems Journal
• Organisational Information Systems
• Computational Intelligence
• E-Business
• Knowledge and Information Management
• Interactive and Strategic Systems
• (CIS http//cis.paisley.ac.uk)

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IS Academic Community

• The integration of technology with business
  processesthere is an important role in managing
  systems development, project management and
  managing sourcing.
• E-Commerce. IS variants of MBA programmes.
  Undergrad a good future for joint degrees
  (Accounting with Information systems is clearly
  going to be a crowd puller)
• Systems can only be developed in the context
  in which they are intended to be exploited. NHS,
  local government, financial services.
• E-Notion, Action based research, Technical or
  Business bias.
• The days of the discipline based courses are
  numberedwe will be moving, especially at MBA
  level to them based courses where IS is an
  (important) component.
• The modern IS practitioner should have
  specialisms e.g. management, education or
  criminology.
• It is likely to be a mixture of the technical,
  managerial and social sciences but the exact
  proportions will depend on the University.
• Were spending a lot more time on web
  applications

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The Future

• Core functional specialism
• marketing, accounting, HR
• Core organisational context specialism
• NHS, local government, financial services, media,
  education, tourism, publishing, criminology
• Core subject specialism
• Mobile and wireless, CRM, KM
• Core product specialism
• SAP, Citrix, Oracle

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Summary

• Now experiencing growing pains
• History trend unclear moving target
• Jobs now not future trend?
• Competition now not future
• Current Research pockets of inquiry, level to
  which research informs practice
• IS Community Specialised IS courses
• Future Generic core specialism

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• References
• Armstrong, H. Jayaratna, N (2002) Internet
  Security Management A joint Postgraduate
  Curriculum Design. Journal of Information Systems
  Education. 13 (3) pp 249- 258
• Gorgone, J., Davis, G. B., Valacich, J. S.,
  Topi, J., Feinstein, D (2002) IS2002 Model
  Curriculum and Guidelines for Undergraduate
  Degree Programs in Information Systems (AITP).
• E-Skills Bulletin (2003) Quarterly Review of the
  ICT Labour Market. 7 (4), 2003. Available at
  www.e-skills.com
• Johnson, D. W., Wilkes, F. Ormond, P Figeuroa,
  R (2002) Adding Value to the IS97 Curriculum
  Models An Interactive Visualization and Analysis
  Prototype. Journal of Information Systems
  Education. 13. (2) pp. 135-142
• Lambert, R (2003) Lambert Review of
  Business-University Collaboration. Final Report.
  HMSO. Available at www.lambertreview.org.uk
• LTSN (2003) LTSN Generic Centre Circular 5.
  October 2003. Available at http//ltsn.ac.uk/ge
  nericcentre/index
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers (2002) Digital Industries
  Cluster Regional Framework Document.
• Roberts, G (2002) Set for Success. The Supply of
  People with Science, Technology, Engineering and
  Mathematics Skills. April 2002.
• Verrijn-Sturart, A (2001) A Framework of
  Information System Concepts. The Revised FRISCO
  Report. Available at http//www.wi.leidenuniv.nl