Entrepreneurs are one of the major driving forces of the economy and will likely lead it out of the current recession. Entrepreneurship programs and courses at institutions of higher education are flourishing with increasing enrollments. This trend towards an increasing entrepreneurial focus has not bypassed the Information Technology (IT) department; even Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are becoming increasingly entrepreneurial. At the same time that IT is becoming more entrepreneurial,

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... preneurs have also shown an increasing focus on the use of IT. This paper illustrates the intersection of business and technology priorities for IT professionals and entrepreneurs and the relationship of those priorities to typical topics covered in the core Computer Information Systems (CIS) course required for most business and entrepreneurship students.