Towards an Executive Master Degree for the New Job Profile of a Service Systems Innovation Architect

The paper reports on the final results of the European DELLIISS project (www.delliiss.eu) which objective was to establish an Executive Master degree in Innovative Service Systems (EMISS) targeting professional people. The paper explains the systematic process that has been followed for building the content of the EMISS curriculum, including: (1) the collection of the requirements, their prioritization through Think Tanks with professional attendance, and the identification of the associated skills card for this new service systems architect job profile, (2) the elaboration of a knowledge map structuring the components of knowledge available in the ICT, service science, and innovation scientific domains, and finally (3) the definition of the learning trajectories and the associated program content proposed for the EMISS Executive Master, a new diploma that is offered from January 2011 by 6 European Institutions.