Description
IT education, particularly at business colleges, is undergoing a transformation because of the emerging federated systems or enterprise-wide systems (ES). This follows a trend in industry, which uses complex software applications like SAP and others. This movement toward ES in industry has created major challenges for integrating ES into the classroom.
Enterprise Systems Education in the 21st Century presents methods of reengineering business curricula in order to use ES solutions. It also helps ES vendors understand the higher education environment so they can support college and university programs. Enterprise Systems Education in the 21st Century acts as a platform for both educators and vendors to present solutions and experiences gained from the challenges of integrating ES into the business classroom.
Reviews and Testimonials
The book presents methods of re-engineering business curricula in order to incorporate ES methodologies.
– APADE (2007)
Author's/Editor's Biography
Andrew Targowski (Ed.)
Andrew Targowski was engaged in the development of social computing in totalitarian Poland (INFOSTRADA and Social Security # for 38 million citizens-PESEL, 1972) and received political asylum in the U.S. during the crackdown on solidarity in 1981. He has been a professor of business information systems at Western Michigan University since 1980. He published 21 books on information technology, history, and political science (Red Fascism, 1982) in English and Polish. During the 1990s, he was a director of the TeleCITY of Kalamazoo Project, one of the first digital cities in the U.S. He investigates the role of information-communication in enterprise, economy, and civilization. He is a president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations and a former chairman of the Advisory Council of the Information Resources Management Association (1995-2003).
J. Tarn (Ed.)
J. Michael Tarn is an associate professor of business information systems at Western Michigan University, USA. He holds a Ph.D. and an MS in information systems from Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Tarn has published numerous research papers in academic refereed journals, book chapters, and refereed conference proceedings. He currently serves as managing editor of the International Journal of Management Theory and Practices (IJMTP) and was editor-in-chief of Communications of the ICISA. He is a co-founder of the Telecommunications & Information Management (TIM) Program at Western Michigan University, the first interdisciplinary and inter-collegial TIM program in Michigan. Professor Tarn is former president of the International Chinese Information Systems Association.