Fostering IT human resources in Asia—Hong Kong: IT promotion as a leader of a knowledge and technology intensive industry

Starting from 2017, the management policy and education authority of Vocational High School in district region is taken over by the provincial government. In order to distribute the services to Vocational High School in several regions, the provincial government applies data service in online. To support online data service between the provincial education office and the Vocational High School in several regions, it is needed the supports of adequate IT infrastructure. The IT infrastructure components cover human resources and IT assets in form of hardware and software. To discover the maturity level of IT infrastructure in each Vocational High School, it is required analysis of IT human resources capability and IT asset owned. The research method used was COBIT 5 framework with a set of best practices which able to facilitate the management to assess and mitigate risks, as well as provide improvement recommendations. Subdomain focus used for evaluations and recommendations were APO07 and BAI09. The results obtained by capability level of each subdomain is at level 1 namely Performed Process that organization performs a process to achieve the purpose with improvement recommendations to Level 2 namely Managed Process.

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Trends in IT Human Resources and its Determinants

Human Resources Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1601-1.ch084 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1479-1495

Author(s):

Vijay K. Agrawal ◽

Vipin K. Agrawal ◽

Ross Taylor ◽

Frank Tenkorang

Keyword(s):

Human Resources ◽

21St Century ◽

It Professionals ◽

Scarce Resources ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Reasonable Degree ◽

It Human Resources

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the various, sometimes contradictory, factors influencing the demand for IT professionals and to build a simple framework that can be used to predict demand. The ability to predict the demand for IT professionals with a reasonable degree of accuracy is important for IHE’s and businesses to correctly identify where their scarce resources should be allocated to develop a curriculum for the 21st century workforce.

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Managing IT Human Resources

10.4018/978-1-60960-535-3 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Human Resources ◽

It Human Resources

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Definition of Engineering Asset Management: A Review

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.773-774.794 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 773-774 ◽

pp. 794-798

Author(s):

M.S. Somia Alfatih ◽

M. Salman Leong ◽

Lim Meng Hee

Keyword(s):

Human Resources ◽

Asset Management ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Cost Effective Approach ◽

Definition Of ◽

It Human Resources

The terminology of "Asset Management" (AM) has been widely used in many organizations. It has been generally accepted and defined as a cost effective approach for asset operation, maintenance, upgrade, and disposal. It covers many scopes and topics spanning from financial, IT, human resources, and also physical engineered assets. Engineering asset management (EAM) is the management of engineering assets and it provides guidelines on the effective usage of all the physical engineered assets within the organization. It is deemed essential to understand the concept of effective EAM and practices in an organization. This paper provides a review on the definition and concepts of AM and EAM with the aim of providing good insights and understanding on this topics.

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