Soft skills versus technical skills: Finding the right balance for an IS curriculum

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 524-531

  Merhout, Jeffrey W ^a   Havelka, Douglas ^a   Hicks, Scott N ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIS Model Curriculum; And abilities (KSAs); Focus groups; Knowledge; Nominal group technique; Qualitative research; Skills

Indexed keywords

AND ABILITIES (KSAS); FOCUS GROUPS; GROUP TECHNIQUE; KNOWLEDGE; MODEL CURRICULUM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SKILLS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84870280916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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