Title: Study on the influencing factors of the flexibility of university IT management in Education 4.0

Authors: Wasilah; Lukito Edi Nugroho; Paulus Insap Santosa; Shaymaa E. Sorour

Addresses: Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Department of Information System, IBI Darmajaya Lampung, Indonesia ' Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia ' Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia ' Department of Educational Technology, Faculty of Specific Education, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt

Abstract: Education systems at all levels should embrace new technologies to comply with Industry 4.0 developments. Universities need to adapt to these new changes. However, studies that discuss the flexibility in service-based organisations are limited. The study of IT flexibility currently focuses on manufacturing organisations in aspects of IT infrastructure. IT infrastructure flexibility is only a part of IT resources that is managed in IT management. The contribution of this study is to produce variables that significantly influence the flexibility of IT management in the university. T tests obtained six variables with a significant direct effect; they are data integration, modularity of an application, value drivers, human resource competence, human resource development and knowledge sharing. R square test shows that these variables also simultaneously influence the flexibility of IT management universities with a fairly high influence of 76%.

Keywords: IT management; IT flexibility; university changed; Education 4.0; IT infrastructure flexibility; data integration; application modularity; value drivers; HR competencies; HR development; knowledge sharing management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIL.2021.117219

International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 2021 Vol.30 No.2, pp.132 - 153

Received: 12 Nov 2019
Accepted: 26 Apr 2020
Published online: 24 Aug 2021 *

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