Electronic Business Curriculum - Evolution and Revolution @ the Speed of Innovation
Keng Siau, Sid Davis
Time is not on our side. Neither is the luxury of doing only one preparation for a course. E-business is changing every day and every hour. What was true one month ago may no longer be true today. So is the existence of dot.coms. Frequent mergers andacquisitions changethee-businessterrain continuously. Insucha volatile environment, how can one keep the e-business curriculum up-to-date and relevant? What are the skills required by undergraduate and MBA students? What are companies looking for in our students? What are the invariants in the e-business curriculum and what are the elective topics? This article looks at the e-business curriculum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Keng Siau is an associate professor of management information systems (MIS) at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). He received his Ph.D. degree in business administration from the University of British Columbia (UBC) where he majored in management information systems and minored in cognitive psychology. He has published more than 25 journal articles and these articles have appeared in journals such as MISQ, IEEE Computer, Information Systems, ACM's Data Base, Journal of Database Management, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Transactions on Information and Systems, and others. In addition, he has published over 45 refereed conference papers in proceedings such as ICIS, ECIS, HICSS, CAiSE, and HC/. His primary research interests are enterprise e-business, enterprise resource planning (ERP), object oriented systems development using unified modeling language (UML), and web-based systemsdevelopment. Dr. Sian served as the organizing chair and program chair for the International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD) (1996 - 2000).
Sid Davis is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He holds a Ph.D. in management information systems from Indiana University and has served as a faculty member at Concordia University in Montreal and at East Carolina University. His research interests include electronic commerce, distributed work group computing, human-computer interaction, IS education, and software training. Dr. Davis has published in MIS Quarterly, International Journal ofHuman Computer Studies, Information Systems Journal, and other journals.
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