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Information systems skills requirements in Malaysia

This paper is based on the findings of a survey carried out on more than 70 organizations in the private and public sectors to investigate the current requirements of information systems (IS) skills in the Malaysian IT community. The survey data was analysed pertaining to seven categories of IS skil...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Rodina, Abu Bakar, Zaitun
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Published: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya 2000
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/25832/
https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJCS/article/view/5835
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spelling my.um.eprints.258322021-04-06T04:05:25Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/25832/ Information systems skills requirements in Malaysia Ahmad, Rodina Abu Bakar, Zaitun QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science This paper is based on the findings of a survey carried out on more than 70 organizations in the private and public sectors to investigate the current requirements of information systems (IS) skills in the Malaysian IT community. The survey data was analysed pertaining to seven categories of IS skills. A comparison is made with a similar study carried out in Hong Kong. The findings show that there is an increasing demand for non-technical skills as well as technical skills for IS professionals. Degree programs in the public universities, however, are giving more emphasis on courses, which are more technically oriented. Recommendations are made to these institutions to review their IT curriculum to produce graduates more suited for the industry needs. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya 2000 Article PeerReviewed Ahmad, Rodina and Abu Bakar, Zaitun (2000) Information systems skills requirements in Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, 13 (2). pp. 64-69. ISSN 0127-9084 https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJCS/article/view/5835
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topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Ahmad, Rodina
Abu Bakar, Zaitun
Information systems skills requirements in Malaysia
description This paper is based on the findings of a survey carried out on more than 70 organizations in the private and public sectors to investigate the current requirements of information systems (IS) skills in the Malaysian IT community. The survey data was analysed pertaining to seven categories of IS skills. A comparison is made with a similar study carried out in Hong Kong. The findings show that there is an increasing demand for non-technical skills as well as technical skills for IS professionals. Degree programs in the public universities, however, are giving more emphasis on courses, which are more technically oriented. Recommendations are made to these institutions to review their IT curriculum to produce graduates more suited for the industry needs.
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author Ahmad, Rodina
Abu Bakar, Zaitun
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Abu Bakar, Zaitun
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title Information systems skills requirements in Malaysia
title_short Information systems skills requirements in Malaysia
title_full Information systems skills requirements in Malaysia
title_fullStr Information systems skills requirements in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Information systems skills requirements in Malaysia
title_sort information systems skills requirements in malaysia
publisher Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya
publishDate 2000
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/25832/
https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJCS/article/view/5835
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