[AISWorld] Disagreements on new MSIS 2016 curriclum. Re: Fwd: Announcing the first public deliverable of the MSIS 2016 task force for your review and comments

[mmora at securenym.net]

Dear colleagues in AIS:
It seems that MSIS 2016 curriculum is more M than IS/IT. In this MSIS 2016
version, compared with previous one (MSIS 2006) has been focused in
specific poor IT (technological mandatory courses). So I understand why
the MIS undergraduate and graduate curricula is diminishing. Despite of
the appendix 4 (on specific track specialization recommendations), core IT
technological courses are missing (Agile SDMs, Cloud-based SDMs, ITIL/IT
Service Management, Data Center Operations, Intelligent Systems, and so
on). The Task Force should include academic staff with strong IT
technological background. PhD in MIS with an emphasis more in managerial
topics than IT only is damaging the IS/IT area. So none in the IT industry
is interested in top flag research journals: MISQ, ISR and JMIS. Is our
intellectual vanity so great for doing research far of the everyday IT
reality lived in thousands of large, SMBs and micro enterprises in the
world? Data Centers are the core of any IT operation and few research
papers in top MIS journals are published or accepted. Well, our MIS
discipline needs a strong re-structure and a new leadership.
Thanks.
Dr. Manuel Mora


On Wed, July 1, 2015 12:11 pm, Manuel Mora wrote:
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> From: Heikki Topi <hetopi at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:00 PM
> Subject: [AISWorld] Announcing the first public deliverable of the MSIS
> 2016 task force for your review and comments
> To: AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org
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> Dear Colleagues:
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> The joint ACM/AIS MSIS 2016 task force was established in late 2014 to
> review and revise the master’s level curriculum recommendation in
> Information Systems (MSIS 2006). The task force is pleased to announce
> that its first public deliverable is now available for your review and
> feedback. This document is a position paper that describes the project’s
> background and context and outlines the task force’s current thinking
> regarding the project’s direction.
>
> The document is available at the project’s website www.msis2016.org,
> which also provides you with directions regarding the ways in which you
> can provide feedback to the task force and a link to a survey targeted to
> various MSIS stakeholder groups, including faculty. We greatly appreciate
>  your feedback on the document and survey responses regarding MSIS
> expected competences and curriculum topics!
>
> Thank you in advance for being part of this important process!
>
>
> Members of the MSIS 2016 task force:
> Sue Brown (University of Arizona; representing AIS)
> João Alvaro Carvalho (Universidade do Minho; AIS)
> Brian Donnellan (Maynooth University; ACM)
> Eija Karsten (Ã
bo Akademi University; AIS, co-chair; ekarsten at abo.fi)
> Jun Shen (University of Wollongong; ACM)
> Bernard Tan (National University of Singapore; AIS)
> Mark Thouin (University of Texas, Dallas; ACM)
> Heikki Topi (Bentley University; ACM, co-chair; htopi at bentley.edu)
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>  Manuel Mora, EngD.
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> ACM Senior Member / SNI Level I
> Department of Information Systems
> Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
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