Creating business engineers for leading the 21th century organizations

The coming of the 21st Century is challenging management education. In this paper we present the case of e-Business Management Section (eBMS) of the Scuola Superiore ISUFI-University of Lecce (Italy) in experimenting new ways of creating human capital. The aim is to create “business engineers” capable to identify and exploit the distinctive potential of the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for reconfiguring traditional business contexts. We refer this capability as the ICT-driven Business Innovation Leadership (IBIL). In our view IBIL wants to represent an evolution of traditional management education, which goes beyond the MBA, integrating management studies with technological ones.