Perception gaps between IS academics and IS practitioners: an exploratory study

It has long been recognized that there are significant perception gaps between information systems (IS) academics and IS practitioners with regards to the required IS knowledge/skills to perform their professional jobs successfully. Unfortunately, there is no consensus about which knowledge/skills are more important in the IS profession. With the rapidly changing IS technology and IS industry, a study was urgently needed to find and understand the gaps between these two groups. We report here on a study to measure the gap.