Goals
National Dong Hwa University
acts as a networkinghubon the eastside of Taiwan. In order
to align with the central government's plan － Challenge
2008: e-Taiwan Plan－to implement high-tech service island,
we establish ERP/KM Research Center(ERP/KM RC) in the college
of Management in 2002. The main objectives are to create
a comprehensive e-businessenvironment, which focuses on
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Knowledge Management
(KM), and it may work as a training platform for all students
in our college.
Through cooperation with
industries, our school attempt to provide professional services
such as e-education management, research, consulting, training,
and information knowledge and so on. Thus, the center may
facilitate the development and prosperity of the eastside
of Taiwan.
The long-term goal of
ERP/KM research center is to cooperate with knowledge enterprises,
and integrate related departments of NationalDongHwaUniversity
with local resources to achieve goals as follows:
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Integrate ERP/KM
related research resources |
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Invest
in teaching and research resources to create ERP/KM
systems and to expand basic simulated e-business working
data. |
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Promote
ERP/KM research levels and the students' hands-on
experiences. |
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Create
e-business environment for teaching, research and
application. |
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Support
the teaching and research of junior colleges e-Solutions
on the eastside of Taiwan. |
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Provide benchmarking environment
of e-business. |
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Become
the center of teaching, research, training, and consulting
of e-business on the eastside of Taiwan. |
Software
and hardware equipments
In 2002, we have invested
NTD 10,600,000 to establish hardware/software and classrooms
needed to teach ERP/KM (including Oracle ERP, CRM, and WorkFlow,
IBM Notes system, 2 SUN computers, 30 pcs, UPS,etc. )
Between 2003 and 2004,
we have invested NTD 4,300,000 to create e-leaning environment
of ERP/KM center, expand system modules (KM, WorkFlow),
and build up equipments of ERP/KM center to meet the requirements
of synchronization teaching for 50 students and training
courses for teachers.
Important mileage stones
and future plans
Integrating teaching resources
and other resources, the college of management in national
Dong Hwa University has already achieved some goals such
as:
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We have
established the platform of ERP/KM software system
and the related hardware equipment, and developed
the e-learning environment. |
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We have already
offered basic core courses such as ERP and Database
Managemetn Systems (DBBMS) in undergraduate curriculum.
More related ERP core courses will be provided in
graduate school for further training higher level
ERP/KM talents. |
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In order to expand
the ERP/KMcourses scope, we have opened ERP related
application and practice courses: Accounting information
management, Production management information management.
The KM related coursers such as Data mining, Date
warehouse, Knowledge management have been opened in
undergraduate and graduate curriculum. |
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Several professors
have already completed preliminary training of ORACLE
courses between 2002 and 2003, and they will continue
to teach and do some relevant research. |
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In addition to ERP/KM
related courses, graduate project designs are needed
for practice training. Several teams are doing research
on ERP/KM related projects, and the project training
hones' students' hand-on experiences and practice
ability of ERP/KM. |
Future
goals
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Expand the scope
of ERP/KM application: besides core courses, ERP/KM
related application courses of other departments at
National Dong Hwa University will be integrated. |
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Offer basic education program
for ERP/KM to integrate related courses in our school
and provide students with complete training to promote
professional capability. |
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Integrated research on related
ERP/KM fields as well as transnational and cross-college
collaboration between industry and school：Integrate
teachers of ERP, KM, e-commerce, digital content,
etc to do cross-department and cross-college research. |
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