NUKAIS/LTSN Seminar Leeds Metropolitan University Innovation North Faculty of Information and Technology

1. 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

2. Overview • Now • Challenges • Key Indicators/drivers • Historical Perspective • The Competition • Job Market/Employers • Current IS Research • IS Academic Community • The future • Summary Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

3. 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 Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

4. 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? Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

5. Historical Perspective • IS have been around for at least 6000 years • Fifty years ago no IS professionals. • 70’s ‘Information Systems’ appearing • 90’s 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 Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

6. 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 Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

7. UK Job Market - IS Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

8. 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. Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

9. 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) Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

10. 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 Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

11. 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) Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

12. IS Academic Community “The integration of technology with business processes…there 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 numbered…we 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” Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

13. 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 Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

14. 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 Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology

15. 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 IS’97… 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/genericcentre/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 Barbara Howell - Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology