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Knowledge and Skill Requisites on IS Practitioners: A Comparative Study on the Perception Discrepancy Among Practitioners, Recruiters, Professors, and Students  

Koh, Seok-Ha (Department of Management Information Systems, Chungbuk National University)
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Information Systems Review / v.12, no.2, 2010 , pp. 205-223 More about this Journal
Abstract
Korean professors and students majoring IS (information systems) were asked "How much knowledge and skills will be required for entry level IS practitioners?" The result shows that there are significant perception gaps between IS academics and IS practitioners and that the perception of IS academics is obsolete. The result implies that the obsolete perception of IS academics is one of the major causes that Korean IS practitioners are experiencing so severe knowledge and skill deficiency.
Keywords
IS Knowledge and Skill Requirements; Practitioners; Professors; Students; Curriculum;
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