DETERMINATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM ELEMENTS TO SUPPORT INITIAL PROMOTION OF FARM MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM USAGE Mohd Shahrul Nizam Mohd Danuri 1 International Islamic University College Selangor Mohd Sazili Shahibi 2 Mohd Razilan Abdul Kadir Universiti Teknologi MARA ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to determine the Information System Elements (ISE) in Farm Management Information System (FMIS) through multiple requirements elicitation before the development of FMIS to support the initial promotion of Farm Management Information System (FMIS) usage among smallholder farmers in Malaysia. The system requirements elicitation used three sources which literature review, existing software comparison in the market and empirical data collected from the smallholder farmers which been analysed by the researcher using descriptive statistic analysis. The result shows nine information system elements needed in FMIS and the system mobility availability is the most needed element with the highest mean score of 4.44. The result gave the researcher basic ISE indicator in the FMIS to support initial promotion of system usage before the development of the FMIS prototype for the smallholder farmers. Keywords: Information System Elements, Software Requirement Elicitation, FMIS Prototype INTRODUCTION An information system element (ISE) is a service that helps people to organise and analyse data to achieve their objective. An ISE is widely used in most organisations nowadays as part of ICT deployment to improve business processes and to enhance the organisation’s performance (Laudon & Laudon, 2007). Such processes are usually represented in the hierarchy of the organisation, and are usually reflected by the people in the organisation. Several levels incorporate ISE, such as transaction processing systems, management information systems, decision support systems, and finally, at the top of the hierarchy, executive information systems. As the ISE is most representative of the organisation, it also directly interacts with the people who are represented as the users of the system. The elements or components of the ISE interact with the users to ensure the functionality of the ISE is feasible. The elements 1 Centre for Core Studies (Pusat Pengajian Teras), International Islamic University College Selangor (KUIS) 43600 Bandar Seri Putra, Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, msnizam@kuis.edu.my 2 Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, No. 1, Jalan Pulau Angsa AU10/A, 40150 Section U10, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, mohdsazili@salam.uitm.edu.my and mrazilan@salam.uitm.my