Opracowanie zintegrowanego systemu zarządzania w libijskim szkolnictwie wyższym
[Collaborative development of an Enterprise Resource Planning system in the Libyan 
Higher Education System]

Tareq Salahi (KBO, PWr, Wrocław & University of Tripoli, Libya)


The field of information systems (IS) has already become a major functional area 
of business. IS are found everywhere and can be shared by various organizations. 
Indeed, in today's inter-networked global environment, IS play a vital role in 
e-business and e-commerce operations, the management of enterprises, collaboration 
between enterprises, and the strategic success of businesses. Many authors argue 
that successful IS development is most likely to be achieved by the adoption of a 
formalized system of development methodologies. Development methodologies may vary 
in terms of the model adopted. Commercial and Open-source software are the main, 
well-known models available. Both of them possess their own pros and cons. 

To avoid the problems associated with these two models, an intermediate model is 
proposed in this study. In fact, the contribution of this study is to cover the 
gap in research and literature on issues related to ICT in the Libyan Higher 
Education (LHE) system, evaluating the LHE system (especially universities) and 
its readiness for implementing in-house applications, and finally trying to 
implement collaboratively-developed, cloud-based multi-tenant ERP systems (CD-ERP) 
within the LHE system that will serve all the Libyan public universities and the 
planners of the LHE at the Ministry of Education as well. This study focuses on 
the following: 1) investigating international examples which use a similar 
approach; 2) investigating the Libyan context and how to equip Libyan universities 
and their working environment to adopt the CD-ERP approach; 3) appraising findings 
from a review of the relevant literature and 4) proposing a system prototype 
accordingly. 

In the talk, the I will emphasize the following:
1. The background of the proposed model.
2. The theoretical framework of the study.
3. The findings so far
   i) Findings from a short-visit to the University of Tripoli (UOT) as part of 
   the pilot study.
   ii) An empirical study of the online system of UOT as part of the pilot study.
   iii) Findings from the literature review (ERP, Collaboratively-Development, 
   Cloud