Business Information Systems

Information on Teaching
The focus of the Chair's research and teaching activities is on selected aspects of business engineering in the context of the digital transformation of business and society. Besides the Introduction to Business Information Systems (EWI), courses on Digital Business Engineering (DBE) and Business Process Management (BPM) are offered. The teaching portfolio is rounded off by method courses (e.g., on case study research) and seminars on current topics in business engineering (e.g., on data-driven business models).

Research Focus

• Algorithmic control/management (in platform-based and traditional work contexts) and algorithmic transparency
• Data-driven organizations and digital transformation processes (at the organizational level)
• Socio-technical design of smart machines and servitized business models (in the manufacturing industry)

Information on Teaching
Our research-led, application-oriented topics are the digital transformation processes in corporate communications, knowledge management and community management. Conceptual lectures, accompanying, method-oriented exercises and application-oriented design projects are the pre-dominant teaching forms in the bachelor courses of the faculty and in the basic studies in the Diploma Business Information Systems. In the main study period the Diploma Business Information Sysrems and in the Master‘s programmes, interdisciplinary, interactive and seminaristic offers dominate which are increasingly supported by digital forms of teaching and learning, also in English. They are supplemented by extensive, individual self-study (technical literature, online materials), interactive small group projects (case study work) and accompanied by method- and tool-oriented exercises in small working groups and seminars.

Research Focus

• Application-oriented, design-oriented analysis of collaborative knowledge work and digital transformation processes in organisations of business and administration
• Community management
• Social learning analytics and conversational agents
• Digitalisation of learning, teaching, and tutoring processes and of knowledge-based organisational learning

Information on Teaching
Our Chair’s research and teaching centers around information systems (IS) supporting business processes in manufacturing and commerce. In teaching we mainly focus on the issue how information systems and technologies can be used to materialize the idea of fully integrated business processes supporting an end-to-end perspective on the enterprise or via inter-organizational processes on a business network.

From a conceptual point of view, this means looking at different aspects of architecture and integration as well as potential technologies for implementation in combination with managerial issues. Enterprise systems (such as SAP ERP or S/4HANA) play an important role in this context, as they constitute the core of business applications in industry and commerce today, usually required as a starting point in digital transformation initiatives. Thus, these systems are further explored in hands-on exercises, simulation games and projects.

Research Focus

We follow a multi-methodological approach by combining qualitative and quantitative research as well as design science approaches. Our main fields of research are: 

• Implementation and use of enterprise systems and their alignment with business goals (enterprise architectures, business/IT alignment, industry 4.0, digitalization) with a focus on industries such as manufacturing and commerce
• Application lifecycle management with a holistic approach to application development, implementation, operations and the respective management as well as governance issues (such as IS sourcing, business-managed IT, maturity models)
• Data-driven organizations and digital transformation processes (at the organizational level)

Information on Teaching
Our Chair is a center for research and teaching in the field of Business Information Systems and related disciplines of Business Administration. In our courses we focus on new technologies, innovative concepts and software solutions in the areas of the future of work, digital health and intelligent mobility. The specific characteristics of information and communication systems in these areas as well as the data, their storage, processing, analysis, interpretation and use are the focus of our teaching.

Research Focus

• Design of human-computer interaction against the background of digital technologies, such as mobile applications, wearables and chatbots
• Effective design of human-computer interaction in different use cases:
  1) Future of work
  2) Digital health, esp. neuro information systems
  3) Intelligent mobility, esp. Smart City

Information on Teaching
The Junior Professorship focuses on the development and use of enterprise systems and data analytics applications. Our courses aim to provide students with the skills and knowledge needed to deal with data in today's working world. The courses offered "Analytics Application Development" allow students to explore data sets and appropriate analytics methods. Students will be encouraged to think critically about the use and impact of contemporary technological applications and methods, such as data analytics and machine learning, in a business context (Data Ethics). In the context of seminar papers and theses (diploma and master), this critical questioning of socio-technical phenomena (e.g. data analytics in companies) can be continued in the research context in the fields of business informatics and business administration.

Research Focus

• Investigation of the impacts of modern technologies in the organizational context, related  to software development as well as to the use of technologies.
• Particular interest on development organizations (e.g., platform ecosystems), development methods (e.g., agile development), and the impact of product characteristics in connection with data analytics
• Analysis of interdependencies between the developers of data analytics applications, the application itself, and the potential users

Mission

Our Research Group investigates, develops, and evaluates innovative digital health solutions and accompanies their integration into information system landscapes to improve healthcare and help people. We strive to integrate complex socio-technical processes, active patient participation, quality-oriented care models, and lived interoperability.

Information on Teaching

As a group closely integrated into interdisciplinary national and international research projects, our teaching focuses on business information basics and domain-specific knowledge for describing and designing information systems in healthcare. In the focus area of health care management, we offer the courses "Health Information Management (HIM)" and "Health Care Management (HCM)" and impart the latest scientific knowledge from these topics to the students in an interdisciplinary way. Furthermore, we want to encourage students to experience the broad spectrum of engineering-oriented Business Information Systems. For this purpose, we offer the project seminar "Software Development" and the course "Model-Based Management". In addition, we have a rich catalog of thesis topics on our website.

Research Focus

The center of our research and development activities is the theoretical foundation, design, and optimization of complex information systems as they are found in integrated care, patient-oriented, and process-oriented information system design. Our research and development work focuses on the design-oriented and engineering-like problem-solving of business information challenges, the generation of evidence on digital healthcare solutions, and the theoretical foundation and reflection of complex design decisions. The goal of our research is always to balance theory and technology while adding value to research and practice through both practical relevance and scientific rigor. The theories and technologies developed can be used in various application areas.

• Theoretical foundation, design, and optimization of complex information systems as they are found in integrated care, patient-oriented, and process-oriented information system design
• Primary topic lines of the Research Group:

1. Patient-Centered Health Information Systems

2. Behavioural Change Support Systems

3. Digital Health Ecosystems

4. Methods, Modeling, and Theories in Wirtschaftsinformatik

Career Perspectives

With the scientific and applied profile of a Business Information Systems specialist, you have an excellent prerequisite for both science and business to be employed in administration, consulting, and industry. The healthcare sector, in particular, also offers an exciting and crisis-proof domain with many digitization projects on the agenda.