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Higher education institutions (HEIs) face, nowadays, enormous challenges to be competitive in a global world. The competitive environment means that HEIs, like other organizations, must be concerned with evaluating and monitoring their strategic objectives. Business Information (BI) systems combine different sources of information, from different information systems (IS), with analytical tools to present competitive information to planners and decision makers. In this way, BI systems emerge as tools that allow institutions to create future competitive advantages. This paper presents a case study of a Portuguese HEI, describing the implementation of a BI system to support the quality assurance system, and to improve its future strategy. This study focuses on one of the three HEI mission vectors: Teaching and Learning. As a result of this work, it was possible to parameterize the BI system, and to identify the digital information missing in the IS, and the necessary developments to collect it.

Executive SummaryThe importance of information systems as a strategic resource to organizations and the amazing rate of information system technology evolution are widely recognized. As a result, undergraduate courses in this field need frequent updating to remain effective. This article presents a model to restructure the teaching of information systems. This model has received inputs from students, teachers and ex-students of our Computation Department and also from the organizational staff that interacts with our students in their training posts. These inputs help us to identify the main gaps in our curriculum and the organizational necessities that concern information systems staff. The model identifies the main areas that are the basis of our curriculum proposal, as well as the main knowledge topics to be covered. We conclude that an information systems curriculum must have an organizational emphasis as big as, or greater than the technological one. Keywords: information systems, information systems curriculum, teaching information systems, curriculum model, undergraduate courses IntroductionThis work describes our experiences over the years of teaching information systems (IS) and the lessons we have learned.We teach a course entitled "Computation and Management". The first three years of the curriculum focus on core modules and the fourth offers a set of optional modules, which aim to present emergent paradigms and technologies. After completing all the modules, students must do a six-month training post. We present them with a set of projects for them to choose. In the last few years 49% of students have made their training posts in software houses and consulting firms, 13% in industrial organizations, 12% in research organizations, 9% in the health sector, and the others in different fields.The difficulties felt by our students in their training posts help us to identify the organizational needs and the gaps in our curriculum. Organizations need IS people with technical and organizational skills to effectively conceptualize, develop and manage IS. Organizational survival is increasingly dependent on the ability to use information as a strategic and operational resource. A modern IS curriculum must reflect this need.In this work we present a model to restructure the teaching of IS. The first section describes the background and main problems of our students in information systems development. The second section describes the necessary knowledge domains to support a curriculum model which can give IS undergraduate students the necessary skills for the effective management of the information resources of organizations.

Many professions, in the most diverse sectors of activity, have undergone great changes over time, largely due to the responsibility of technological evolution.The rapid evolution of information technologies will, certainly imply, that employment in general and employment in Information Systems (IS), in particular, undergoes major changes both in terms of creating new professions and even for the extinction of others, as indeed it has already happened when professions such as telephone operators, typists, telegram distributors, typographers and even encyclopedias sellers disappeared.The purpose of this article is to analyze the changes that can be expected in employment in IS for 2030 -how will work in IS be: what professions will be extinguished, which ones must adapt to the new reality and what the need for professions that do not yet exist.After a review of the literature on the evolution of employment in IS over the years, realizing the trends of its evolution, a guide was elaborated for semi-structured interviews that were used in meetings with 6 (six) Portuguese organizations, in order to list their perceptions of the changes that are expected in the very near future.From the analysis of results, it will be possible to have a clearer idea of the changes that are already occurring today, as well as what still needs to be changed. This answer will allow us to reflect on how to prepare tomorrow's professionals, in IS, for the job market in 2030.

It has become obvious that corporate management, administration, planning, cash flow, and other business activities could hardly function without information technology in the organization of society. Relationships between human activities and the people themselves are reliant more and more broadly on electronic devices. In terms of using information technology devices and services, the development of enterprises are significantly different in the European Union. This has led to a strong and significant relationship with the added value created by micro, small-, and medium-sized enterprises. In order to meet the needs of corporations, enterprise resource planning and integrated management systems have evolved and have become more and more widespread among small- and medium-sized enterprises as well. Although Portugal in the group of Southern European countries and Hungary in the group of Eastern European countries lag behind the other countries belonging to their group, it turns out that in terms of using and intending to use business information systems, Portuguese enterprises are more advanced in the categories of small- and medium-sized enterprises. This chapter explores this.