Evolution of Information Systems in Malaysia

Abstract

Malaysia has taken a gigantic decision by transforming itself from industrialization into an unknown territory of knowledge economy. Therefore it is important to establish a test bed to justify on the successfulness of leapfrogging onto this new bandwagon. Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project is the major project in the country and has been established to test this. The question is, can Malaysia achieve its dream in creating successful implementation of information systems when information systems history was full of catastrophe? This paper will discuss the findings of mapping triangle of dependencies model by Chris Sauer in order to foresee whether Malaysia has the potential to achieve successful implementation of information systems. Finally, through this investigation, we are able to outlined external influences that can nurture the continuity of information systems dependencies in Malaysia and embedded it as external factors of Sauer’s model.