IT Knowledge Requirements Identification in Organizational Networks: Cooperation Between Industrial Organizations and Universities

ICT professionals face rapid technology development, changes in design paradigms, methodologies, approaches and cooperation patterns. These changes impact relationships between universities that teach ICT disciplines and industrial organizations that develop and use ICT-based products. The required knowledge and skills of university graduates depend mainly on the current industrial situation therefore university graduates have to meet industry requirements which are stated at the time point of their graduation, not at the start of their studies. Continuous cooperation between universities and industrial organizations is needed to identify a time and situation dependent set of knowledge requirements, which lead to situation aware, industry acknowledged, balanced and productive ICT study programs. The paper proposes information systems solutions supporting cooperation between university and industrial organizations with respect to curriculum development in ICT area.