CASE STUDY

Imagine that you're a Project Manager of a large company that wants to develop and implement a collaborative information system connecting the Government, University, and Industry. The main objective is to collaborate the government, university, and industry where each of them is able to access, exchange, and represent information for the greater benefit of the potential graduates, parents, as well as citizens of a particular country with a wider information pool at a single portal - through standard online platform. The portal shall be working by pulling information from the three knowledge repositories to a single platform. By providing this central pool for all the required information to the various stakeholders, this system will help various decision-makers to reach informed decisions. It is expected that after the successful implementation of this web-based system, the targeted users such as graduates, parents, government, and employers, as well as all citizens would get the required information to make decisions for their particulars. Graduates would know which sector has the high demand, parents would know which department the children need to be enrolled in, potential employers (government and industry) would know what the university is producing, and the university would know what the skills industry demand, etc. Overall, this system would be a virtual platform for providing information on human capital development for strategic use in the country.

1. What does a collaborative information system do? Define and explain the benefits and challenges in this case? (5 marks)

2. What are the ethical issues exist for considerations in this case that can affect this collaborate information system quality, reliability, and security? (10 marks)

3. Explain your expected role to succeed? (5 marks)