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Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association

SACLA 2017: ICT Education pp 147–161Cite as

Information Systems as Creative Products: What Are Industry’s Expectations?

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Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 730))

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This paper presents the first step in exploring the match between IT managers’ expectations of functional creativity within an information system (IS), and the functional creativity of the information systems developed by final-year undergraduate IS students. The Creative Product Assessment Model (CPAM) is used as a means to elicit the expectations that IT managers in various IT industry sectors have of functional creativity within information systems. Final-year IS student projects are evaluated for functional creativity by the same IT managers. Though IT managers value functional creativity in an information system, there are other creativity aspects considered even more valuable. These include the skills to design, as well as the end-user experience.

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    In other words, the coffee machine must have the status of a device [41].

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    The mandatory procedures of gaining consent and protecting identities were followed; ‘ethical clearance’ was obtained.

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    In engineering, mandatory standards also play an important role.

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    Anine Kruger, Machdel Matthee & Marita Turpin

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Kruger, A., Matthee, M., Turpin, M. (2017). Information Systems as Creative Products: What Are Industry’s Expectations?. In: Liebenberg, J., Gruner, S. (eds) ICT Education. SACLA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 730. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69670-6_10

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