Achieving an E-Collaboration Integration between the Outputs of Higher Institutions and the Requirements of the Labor Market

Abstract

this paper aims to establish a proposed model by adopting the components of e- collaboration to achieve strategic integration between the vision of higher education in the outputs it provides and the needs of the labor market in the public and private sector. The research has adopted a case study as a method of its work. For the purpose of achieving the research objectives, a proposed model based on the structural synergy between the components of e-collaboration has been designed by employing an electronic collaboration platform that enables the possibility of strategic integration through the combination of components, tools and techniques provided by this collaborative platform, study concluded with a number of conclusions, the most important of which are: Strategic integration can be achieved through the adoption of the e-collaboration approach as a new generation in the field of ICT, and it is one of the features of modern management, based on the organization's capabilities and expertise. The implementation of the proposed model will achieve strategic integration and harmonization of the narration to achieve the compatibility between the outputs of higher education and the requirements of the labor market in the public and private sectors, In light of the conclusions, the study concluded with a number of proposals, most conspicuously the need to support the senior management of the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to instrument the proposed model to include a number of diverse tools and their integration with many other software applications.