Teaching

Our goals

The meaning and the intention of information systems is changing. In the past the primary challenge was to structure information. Today organisations have to manage information available within and across their boundaries to create value. Only if organisations know how to use fluid, unstructured, and changing information through the interplay of cooperation and leadership they will create their unique ability to innovate. The chair for “Information Systems I – Innovation and Value Creation” focuses on the ability to innovate to foster the competitiveness of organisations. We aim to analyze, explain, and develop a systematic understanding in the topic of “Innovation Support Systems”. We focus on the design, piloting, and evaluation of systems that support innovation, cooperation, and leadership as the driving forces of innovation in organisations and their markets.

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Teaching Team

Our mission

Dealing with these hanges requires outstanding research and openness towards management practice. Our heterogeneous team of assionate researchers is engaged in various research projects and strives to contribute to both the international academic community as well as management practice for our corporate partners. As we are committed to high quality standards in teaching, we strive to transfer our research findings into our lectures and at the same time integrate our students into our intellectual life.

Studies at WI 1

Everything connects with everything – everyone connects with everyone. New technologies open up new opportunities for organisations to become innovative. But are today’s organisations ready to use them? The challenge that organisations face is how to explore and exploit the innovative potential available within the organisation and/or across its boundaries. The course offerings “General WI1: IT-enabled Corporate Management”and “Specific WI2: Innovation and Value Creation” deal with the management of innovation on different levels:

The organisational level

Does interactive value creation, i.e. the exchange of knowledge between customers and suppliers, really lead to new products and processes or even both?

Innovation is a process – not a single event. How can the innovation process be managed? Can it be managed at all? Isn’t it better to offer an “innovation bubble” rather than to structure the innovation process?

The team level

How do virtual teams search for new ideas? What role do social software support tools play in supporting international and virtual teams to exchange their knowledge?

Jump off other people’s ideas and make your voice get heard, or, what is it that leaders of successful innovative teams do or don’t do?

The technology level

Searching, evaluating, implementing and learning from new ideas is a complex process. What tools are available for organisations to integrate different ideas?

Blogs, SharePoint, wiki … the more the better? Or, how to make sure that the company’s use of technology goes hand in hand with its innovation strategy?

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