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Restructuring the IS Curriculum around the Theme of Service Orientation
January/February 2009 (vol. 11 no. 1)
pp. 59-63
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Bill Karakostas, "Restructuring the IS Curriculum around the Theme of Service Orientation," IT Professional, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 59-63, January/February, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MITP.2009.16,
author = {Bill Karakostas},
title = {Restructuring the IS Curriculum around the Theme of Service Orientation},
journal ={IT Professional},
volume = {11},
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issn = {1520-9202},
year = {2009},
pages = {59-63},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP.2009.16},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Bill Karakostas, City University, London
This article proposes restructuring and updating the information systems (IS) course curriculum to reflect current and forthcoming changes in the IS profession caused primarily by the growing popularity of service orientation both in the business and information technology domains.

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Index Terms:
SOA, IS Curriculum, IT skills
Citation:
Bill Karakostas, "Restructuring the IS Curriculum around the Theme of Service Orientation," IT Professional, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 59-63, Jan.-Feb. 2009, doi:10.1109/MITP.2009.16
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