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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Mastering Development of Networks: Critical Skills and Knowledge |
| Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland |
| Most information systems rely on networks in sharing data and information. Here we focus on networks and discuss |
| skills and knowledge that are needed in the network development process. |
| In general, information systems development is based on existing systems. Especially networks follow this rule, |
| because all earlier development work and decisions impact the reliability and flexibility of the network. This makes |
| management of network development and in a wider perspective information sys-tems development an important |
| Today computers and applications need more bandwidth than ever. Existing networks need to be rebuilt so that |
| there would be more capacity available. One possible solution is network traffic management; the other alternative |
| is changing to faster network technology. However, it is likely that in the future the demand for bandwidth will |
| increase further. Therefore we argue that the skills and knowledge of the persons in the development process is a |
| Keywords: information technology, infrastructure, development, skills, knowledge |
ISSN
1535-07-03
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