The future of universities

Changing times warrant a change in the way companies and organizations deal with their stakeholders and shareholders. In other words, predictable and unpredictable environmental factors push organizations to keep changing and improving their strategies in order to have competitive advantage over oth...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Abdulkarem Al Shawtari, Ahmed, Mariwa, Amal Jumah, Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Eclat Research Publication 2016
Subjects:	T58.6 Management information systems
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/50415/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50415/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50415/1/IJERM_March2016_UotF_ShawtariAmal.pdf

id	iium-50415
recordtype	eprints
spelling	iium-504152016-11-16T08:42:23Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50415/ The future of universities Abdulkarem Al Shawtari, Ahmed Mariwa, Amal Jumah Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman T58.6 Management information systems Changing times warrant a change in the way companies and organizations deal with their stakeholders and shareholders. In other words, predictable and unpredictable environmental factors push organizations to keep changing and improving their strategies in order to have competitive advantage over other organizations in the market. In the case of universities, not only does it have competitors within the educational sector but it also has within other sectors. This makes it challenging for a university to remain relevant in the next few years. This paper examined the different environmental factors that are affecting the universities. It has established that in order to have competitive advantage over its competitors, it has to re-evaluate its business model and processes. After studying and analyzing BMC and value proposition canvas, the study has discovered that to be a “the future of universities”, a university needs streamline its business model according to the needs of the customer segments by offering specializations on sought after degrees (e.g. Islamic banking), training (online), develop an MOOC, as well as provide other online educational resources for the customers. This study forms a basis for future research and work on the ever changing environmental factors that continuously affect a university. Eclat Research Publication 2016-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50415/1/IJERM_March2016_UotF_ShawtariAmal.pdf Abdulkarem Al Shawtari, Ahmed and Mariwa, Amal Jumah and Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman (2016) The future of universities. International Journal of Engineering Research and Management, 3 (3). pp. 180-184. ISSN 2349-2058 https://www.ijerm.com/download_data/IJERM0304002.pdf
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	International Islamic University Malaysia
building	IIUM Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
topic	T58.6 Management information systems
spellingShingle	T58.6 Management information systems Abdulkarem Al Shawtari, Ahmed Mariwa, Amal Jumah Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman The future of universities
description	Changing times warrant a change in the way companies and organizations deal with their stakeholders and shareholders. In other words, predictable and unpredictable environmental factors push organizations to keep changing and improving their strategies in order to have competitive advantage over other organizations in the market. In the case of universities, not only does it have competitors within the educational sector but it also has within other sectors. This makes it challenging for a university to remain relevant in the next few years. This paper examined the different environmental factors that are affecting the universities. It has established that in order to have competitive advantage over its competitors, it has to re-evaluate its business model and processes. After studying and analyzing BMC and value proposition canvas, the study has discovered that to be a “the future of universities”, a university needs streamline its business model according to the needs of the customer segments by offering specializations on sought after degrees (e.g. Islamic banking), training (online), develop an MOOC, as well as provide other online educational resources for the customers. This study forms a basis for future research and work on the ever changing environmental factors that continuously affect a university.
format	Article
author	Abdulkarem Al Shawtari, Ahmed Mariwa, Amal Jumah Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman
author_facet	Abdulkarem Al Shawtari, Ahmed Mariwa, Amal Jumah Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman
author_sort	Abdulkarem Al Shawtari, Ahmed
title	The future of universities
title_short	The future of universities
title_full	The future of universities
title_fullStr	The future of universities
title_full_unstemmed	The future of universities
title_sort	future of universities
publisher	Eclat Research Publication
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/50415/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50415/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50415/1/IJERM_March2016_UotF_ShawtariAmal.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T21:11:16Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T21:11:16Z
_version_	1777411268250959872

The future of universities

Similar Items