MIS People Skill Sets

At the very beginning, when I engaged with the MIS department, the assumption was that the senior people must be matured enough about the professional since they had been staying in the field for many years. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

Then I tried to get more understanding about their background and experience.

The first thing, most of their major were "information management" from school like university of scientific and technology that provided vocational curriculum in business like accounting, economics, e-commerce, marketing, database, ERP, business operation...etc.

Basically, technology courses played a very slight weight in the plan, ex lack of OS and networking concept, not to mention open source SW like Linux.

From my view, course for marketing, business are more like “street, or hands-on knowledge” which can't be taught efficiently in classroom especially for those young kids w/o the knowledge of what really business company are doing.

Furthermore, MIS people, seemingly lack of capability or even motivation to learn something new, didn't know how to evaluate the solution that vendors proposed. They might totally rely on vendors' support w/o knowing what risk they brought in or even what they really did.

For sure, to capture the new trend is really a huge challenge in such a rapid changing environment today. So the best policy is to get some ready-to-run black boxes and change it by try-error if necessary.

Or even it was worse or sad that they had no idea when they were running into the grey boundary between the vendor and company.

In such way, after taking the job for many years, their professional maturity didn't go beyond the apprentice level.

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