RICAEN PJIM&A UiTM Perlis / Yusra Damia Mazlan

RICAEN is a Research, Industry, Community, Alumni, and Entrepreneurship & Network. It is the company located in UiTM Perlis that assists all faculty members with research funding applications, publications, intellectual property, consultation services, and commercialization. RICAN have their own vision, mission and the objective that they want to achieve. There are 8 members of staffs at RICAEN and 2 members of Research Management Unit, RICAEN manage 6 units which are Research Management Unit, Publishing & Excellence Unit, Innovation Management & Expertise Unit, Industry, Community & Alumni Network (ICAN) Unit, Malaysian Academy of SME & Entrepreneurship Development (MASMED) and UiTM Press. RICAEN also has its own SWOT which is strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The strength of RICAEN is that RICAEN staff are too friendly with their clients, RICAEN staff are responsible and professional in completing their tasks and also RICEAN staff have good teamwork. The weaknesses are poor time management skill, workload work during events and poor thinking skill. The opportunities for RICAEN are expansion in technology usage and establishing relationships with universities abroad. Last but not least, the threats of RICAEN are community issues and lack of funds for activities and events. There are a few recommendations in this report that I provided for RICAEN weaknesses.