The DVV (Duisburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH) offers an 18-month IT trainee program for their sub company DU-IT in January 2015. Besides the opportunity to work independently on project-related tasks and being...

Dr. Andreas Drechsler is one of the chairs of the new mini-track “IT Consulting as a Change Agent” for AMCIS 2015 in Puerto Rico. The track aims at providing a forum for conceptual, empirical, and design-oriented advances in IT...

On September 11, 2014, Dr. Andreas Drechsler of SITM delivered the keynote address at this year’s “Expertentagung COMPACT Focus > Agiles Projektmanagement” (COMPACT focus expert conference on agile project management). His...

Currently, the SITM chair is revising the teaching concept for its bachelor lecture “IT-Projektmanagement.” A new blended learning concept will improve the teaching and learning conditions for all the participants. In short,...

The Chair of Information Systems and Strategic IT Management collaborated with Lufthansa AirPlus on a study to determine the principles of effective project portfolio governance. Project portfolio governance refers to standardized...

The article "Standardisierung der Unternehmens-IT – Der weite Weg vom Lippenbekenntnis zu nachhaltigem Nutzen" by Sven Dittes, Prof. Nils Urbach, and Prof. Frederik Ahlemann has been published in Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management...

As of May 2014 the DU-IT (the IT service provider of the municipality of Duisburg and the DVV group) and the SITM chair have collaborated on a joint project. The project was set up to improve the management and steering of IT...

On July 1, Prof. Ahlemann held a presentation at the Project Management Office (PMO) Days 2014 titled “Project Management Office – Quo Vadis? Von der Support-Einheit für Projektleiter zur strategischen Stabsfunktion”. The...

On Wednesday, June 25, Florian Hesselmann was honored at the Dies Academicus event for his master thesis “Towards Effective Implementations of Benefits Management – A Design Theory,” which was also successfully published at the...

The evaluation of the “Strategic Planning of IS” course, presented by Prof. Frederik Ahlemann has been disclosed. When questioned about the lecture’s learning effect, nearly 40% of the students gave the lecture the best possible...

Prof. Ahlemann has accepted an invitation to serve on the advisory board of the Institute for Information Technology at Volkswagen. He will contribute his expertise in strategic IT management. The Institute for Information...

The "CIO Handbuch 2014/15" has been released and is now available on Symposion Publishing’s website (see link below). Dr. Andreas Drechsler and Prof. Frederik Ahlemann contributed to the book with their chapter on “IT project...