Equipping Our Students in Welcoming IR 4.0 Era

Abstract

Nowadays, the world is witnessing an unprecedented technology advancement of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) that changes the business landscape. In this vein, the digital and physical technologies are combined to create digital enterprise, which can create ample opportunities for new services and products, better customer service methods, new jobs types, and even new business models . As a result, in the last two decades, new business models which were not existence previously, and need relevant skills. Katz (1974) legacy framework can be employed to describe the skills needed. He described three kinds of skills: technical skills, human skills and conceptual skills. Those skills need to be interpreted into subject matters that can be taught in current education system. This paper explains the needed skills and how to teach those skills.