Enterprise Information Systems Curriculum Model for Multidisciplinary Information Systems Professionals

A number of major trends that will impose significant impacts on the education for Information Systems (IS) graduates. In this paper, three important trends are identified to have profound influence on the IS education: the fast changing workplace, information technology revolution and rapidly emerging information systems management philosophies. Responding to these trends, this research proposes a model for the design of a new cross-disciplinary IS curriculum, especially focusing on the integrated enterprise information systems design courses, to well fit up the IS students with required skills and marketable knowledge. With the proposed curriculum model, a new breed of IS discipline, called the Multidisciplinary Information Systems, is to emerge and will be playing a pivotal role in the rapidly changing workplace.