정보시스템 관련 지식 및 기술의 신 분류구조

Abstract

It is a point to be considered that information systems(IS) are an important strategic tool for achieving and maintaining competitive advantage for the enterprises survival in a rapidly changing environment. The large amount of knowledge/skills accumulated in IS today has created a status where the IS researchers need some sort of taxonomy to construct the IS classification schemes and link with its relational items(i.e. IS knowledge/skills). Owing to growing demand of IS specialists, not programming experts but IS experts with management skills, to resolve the general management problem(e.g. IS strategy formulating/planning/analyzing/etc.) by utilizing IS, IS specialists are necessary especially to have management knowledge and skills. To meet this demand, educational institution like universities have make a variety of curriculum designed to prepare students for careers in IS. Due to the rapidly changing environment of IS, there is much debate about schemes of curriculum in IS. Few Standards are existed to introduction and evaluation of such taxonomy in relation to the needs of IS students and specialists. When considering the changes of IS cognition of general user as well as IS specialists, it is very important to analyze IS knowledge/skills to be necessary in academia(research) and industry(practice). The key questions were what are the expected changes in IS knowledge/skills required by IS specialists and what are the implications of the expected changes on IS curriculum. It can also serve as a guide for recruiting the IS specialists and developing IS curriculum. IS specialists need a balance of both social/managerial and technological knowledge/skills to develop IS that satisfy customers’ requirement. Unfortunately, there is no complete consensus about which knowledge/skills are more important in the IS field. The paper has been an attempt to increase understanding of required IS knowledge/skills so that educators, researchers, and specialists may better prepare for the future. Therefore, it is very significant to analyze comprehensively IS knowledge/skills as well as management knowledge/skills to be focused on the demand of academia and industry. Because of having relation between the study results and academic preparation of future IS specialists, it presents very important implications. That’s why it presents a list about IS knowledge/skills categories observed in the protocols of IS educators or IS researchers or IS specialists. The paper is organized as follows: First, the previous classification schemes(foreign and domestic study) on the IS knowledge/skills is reviewed. Second, based on this review, the researcher induce the limit on the existing classification schemes and the new classification schemes based on the six prepositions are then presented. It need to analyze comprehensively the results of diverse studies area because IS study has the interdisciplinary characteristics(e.g. management, MIS, computer science, etc.). It is time to strive with competitive advantage of enterprises besides IT and service area. It means that the national․social/organizational dimensions as well as technological dimension of IS are also important. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to present the new classification schemes(i.e. large → medium → small taxonomy: symmetric 3 level hierarchical classification schemes) about IS knowledge/skills after investigating the structures of existing classification schemes of IS knowledge/skills to be focused on the demand of academia and industry. It is desirable that the researcher consider the next prepositions to present the new classification schemes with few duplication/easy understanding/multiple items improving the limit of various researchers: First, classification schemes are characterized by (symmetric 3 level) large → medium → small taxonomy not array structure/large → medium taxonomy/asymmetric structure. The new classification schemes are expressed by national․social systems(environmental dimension), organizational systems(managerial dimension), technological systems(technological dimension). Second, it is desirable that multiple items are included in new classification schemes after analysing various items of the existing classification schemes, it enables new classification schemes to have external validity(not completeness, convergence, standardization) on account of variety and generality. Third, it is desirable that duplication among technology or duplication among items could not be existed or could be existed small. Fourth, it is desirable that general knowledge/skills were excluded from new classification schemes. Fifth, it is desirable that items with meta meaning comparatively are included, items with precise meaning are excluded, and important items are expressed by large one term after tied up properly. Six, all terms are expressed by unified one style each and other. According to new classification schemes, IS knowledge/skills are classified into national․social systems, organizational systems, technological systems. It is a taxonomy to understand easily for general public, business manager, and general educator on account of separating non-technological systems from technological systems. The new classification schemes seem to be comprehensive classification schemes on account of including almost all of the items about IS knowledge/skills. Overall, the study suggests that industry will demand a IS specialists with IS knowledge/skills in relation to national․social systems/organizational systems/technological systems. The national and social systems include information-orientation, related science, and etc.. The organizational systems include organization and business management, interpersonal relationships management, technology management. The technological systems include H/W, S/W, N/W, methodology, and complex technology. But, on account of the new classification schemes were made by reconstructing the existing classification schemes, the new classification schemes would have the limit. The analysis of academic and practitioner literature is based on a study of specific journals and magazines, the new classification schemes would have the limit. Therefore, the new classification schemes and related-items would be interpreted and applied prudentially. The researcher insist that collaboration by communication channel will be necessary to address continuously common subject/issue of academia and industry. That is to say enterprises need to send continuous message to educational institution(e.g. universities) about their expectations while recognizing that the mission of educational institution business programs is career education, not job training.