The European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) was founded on October, 12th 2004. This Working Paper was written with respect to the establishment of ERCIS. Jörg Becker, Managing Director of the ERCIS, writes about fundamental issues of ERCIS. Furthermore all Founding Members...

Modern society is a network society permeated by information technology (IT). As a result of innovations in IT, enormous amounts of information can be communicated to a larger number of recipients faster than ever before. The evolution of networks is heavily influenced by the extensive use of...

Information available online has exploded over the last 20 years. However this lead to the phenomenon known as information overload, making it harder and harder for organisations and individuals to find information that is really relevant to them. We previously have proposed a solution to this...

[Introduction ...] The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 covers background material on IS courses in general and the one at Münster in particular. Section 3 describes the design of our course in detail, while Section 4 provides a discussion of the approach both from a...

BPM research has been of great importance in Germany since the early 1990s. In Russia, increased competition and new IT possibilities have only recently forced both companies and governmental institutions to start taking benefits from BPM. Against this background, the workshop PropelleR 2012...

Notwithstanding the substantial overall research efforts in the field of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP), the 'IS strategy' as the goal and outcome of SISP has received only limited research attention to date. In addition, there is considerable evidence that the debates on IS...

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) has been among the highest ranked issues on management agendas for many years. As such, SISP should be a major concern for researchers as well. However, SISP does not play that important of a role in the academic discussion, at least in Germany....

Cloud sourcing and cloud computing have become de-facto standards in recent years for a range of applications. Cloud solutions are attractive for a number of reasons including ease of use, pricing, availability, scalability, and reliability. In particular, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)...