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Seminar seeks to set IT curriculum

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jul 11, 2006

A forthcoming seminar will bring together UK academics and delegates from industry to identify current enterprise implementation requirements.

A Cranfield University-led project to develop an international masters level curriculum in IT implementation in Europe and China is bringing together UK academics and delegates from industry at a forthcoming seminar to identify current enterprise implementation requirements.

The seminar, to be held at Cranfield University on Tuesday 15th August, will address the challenge of educating and enabling four million UK managers for enterprise system implementation, and seeks to bring participants together for possible future collaboration.

Keynote speakers will include delegates from the UK and European policy makers in e-skills.

As Dr Ip-Shing Fan, Project Co-ordinator, explains: "It is widely recognised that the implementation of IT systems is a serious, and often expensive, challenge".

"There is an increasing need for systems to be implemented successfully, especially with the growth in trans-national and cross-border projects, and experience and knowledge of implementation on a large scale is scarce".

"The MI-EIS project aims to address this skills gap by developing a systematic education and training programme to train professionals in the integration skills of information technology, business studies and technology management".

The EU-funded project, entitled Managing Implementation of Enterprise Information Systems (MI-EIS) aims to deliver state-of-the-art training in theory and practice on managing implementation of enterprise information systems.

Cranfield already offers an MSc in enterprise system implementation and this initiative provides the opportunity to both extend this existing programme structure to an international system and also incorporate good practice from other programmes.

Having completed the first stage of the project to develop a reference curriculum for the delivery of teaching in UK, the Netherlands and China, eight identified modules are now being developed and will form the basis of two pilot courses later in the year.