| 2006-12-07 | Project FlexNet offers assignments to companies |
| In the context of the research project FlexNet, companies of the areas planning, production and recycling get the chance to get an assigment to contribute to the project. The respective announcements can be found here. |
| 2006-11-30 | Project ServPay approved |
| The project ServPay has been approved by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and will start at January, 1st 2007. ServPay is conducted by the Institute for Business-to-Business Marketing and the Institute for Information Systems. In the project, the willingness to pay for industrial services will be ascertained and business models for a successful implementation of the services will be derived. Analyzing industrial services from the suppliers’ and customer's point of view, the project will provide advice for identifying valuable services and choosing an adequate business model. In addition to that, a lifecycle-oriented cost calculation can be conducted by utilizing a software-tool. Best-practice business processes are made available and can be easily adapted to specific company backgrounds. For further information, please visit the ServPay project website: www.servpay.de |
| 2006-11-18 | ERCIS Tutorial on Epistemology and Design Science Research at Wirtschaftsinformatik 2007 |
| ERCIS researchers Dr. Björn Niehaves and Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker will give a tutorial on philosophical, methodological and epistemological issues in design science research. The proposal was selected from a high number of submission. Here, the tutorial aims at profiling and strenghtening German Information Systems Research (Wirtschaftsinformatik) on the international research market with regard to its core competency: design-oriented research. The international conference Wirtschaftsinformatik is the central forum for German Information Systems Research and will be held in 2007 from February 28th to March 2nd in Karlsruhe. |
| 2006-11-01 | ERCIS Researcher Exchange with the Japanese Elite University Waseda, Tokyo |
| Dr. Björn Niehaves was recently awarded with the "JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for North-American and European Researchers" by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. During a five month stay at Waseda University, starting from November 1st, he will investigate into Japanese public administration modernisation and reflect the findings in the context of modernisation efforts undertaken in Germany. Thus, the results aimed at shall stimulate research and practice in New Public Management and Electronic Government in both countries. The current exchange programme potentially opens up for further exchange and joint research activities with the Japanese elite university Waseda, Tokyo. |
| 2006-10-26 | PICTURE Te@M captures process landscapes of Public Administrations |
| The PICTURE Te@M, consisting of 11 master students, will explore the structures of assignment processes in Public Administrations in the coming six months. In the Administrations of Bielefeld, Hamm, Cologne, and Münster the processes about assignment management will be grasped in order to introduce a common assignment management system. During the process modelling phase the PICTURE method will be used, which makes it possible, to provide (partly) automatic comparable models. For further information see project website. |
| 2006-10-20 | ERCIS master students to develop a master data platform for integrated retail promotions |
| Master students at the ERCIS will develop a master data pool for integrated retail promotions in the next months. VIP, a promotional master data platform, will be part of a research project in the area of automatic coupon clearing. In cooperation with a leading industry partner, students learn to develop a platform prototype that will be connected to market leading master data platforms. |
| 2006-10-20 | PICTURE made it clear |
| During a six month's project called PICTURE@MS students from ERCIS collected approx. 170 business processes in selected offices in cooperation with employees of the city of Münster. With PICTURE, processes could be modelled efficiently and understandable. On this basis, an estimation of the use of investments in information technology is possible. Other municipalities and governmental organisations have already stated their interest in applying the method, as well. Members of the city administration and ERCIS were very happy with the results. Professor Dr. Joerg Becker, director of the ERCIS, emphasized the good cooperation with government and industry, especially the citeq GmbH. Project Website |
| 2006-10-15 | Research Project FlexNet approved by Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| The research project FlexNet - Flexible Information System Architectures for Hybrid Value Networks has been approved by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. FlexNet, which is funded until 2009, supports cooperation types among manufacturers and service companies when developing and offering hybrid products. During the project, existing forms of cooperation will be analysed in cooperation with real-life companies on a process-level. Services will be unitised and described within a reference model. A modelling language for describing product related services will be developed and standardized. Consecutively, a flexible information systems architecture will be developed and deployed in a prototypical way, thereby enhancing organisational flexibility. Project website. |
| 2006-10-05 | ERCIS-Colloquium: Starting points for a gender sensible design of virtual networks. Dr. Andrea Wolffram |
| The impact of (software-) technical solutions on various user groups is an important factor in software development. Within the diversity approach gender is an especially important social category. GARNET, an international network on virtual cooperations, not only develops an electronic platform for cooperative processes but also defines criteria for a gender specific design. The colloquium will discuss technological studies from a gender perspective. No complete answers will be given but examples will be taken as a basis for discussions on technical gender barriers. The colloquium will take place in Room Leo3, Leonardo-Campus 10 on November, 6th, at 11 am. For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Gottfried Vossen. |
| 2006-09-29 | Presentation of meta modelling tool indapata |
| Within the research project indapata, researchers of the ERCIS developed a meta modelling tool that will be presented on 24th of October 2006. It enables the construction and usage of modelling languages with simple or complex syntactical structures and provides functionality of configurative reference modelling that enables the management of model variants without redundancies. In order to achieve extensive target groups, the tool is implemented on top of VISIO. A first application case (product data management) is part of the research case indapata in cooperation with itemis GmbH & Co. KG. With help of MDA-constructs configurative models are transformed automatically into software. |
| 2006-08-23 | Dissertation Grant awarded for IS/IT strategy PhD project at ERCIS |
| Martin Mocker's ongoing dissertation on IS/IT strategy content is among the three worldwide awardees of the 2006 Harriet Fulbright Dissertation Grant for Business Technology Management. The grant is awarded by the BTM Institute – the Michael Nobel and Harriet Fulbright Institute of Business Technology Management (BTM). It supports dissertation research addressing the long-standing need to manage business and technology together. The reviewing committee for the PhD thesis proposals included Prof. R. Zmud and Prof. V. Sambamurthy among others. Martin Mocker is a Fellow of the ERCIS Research Group on Strategic Information Management. With his research he seeks to answer which IT/IS-related decisions have strategic relevance and why. |
| 2006-07-26 | University of Münster’s e-learning organisational model as a case study at e-teaching.org. |
| Further information can be found here. |
| 2006-05-26 | Interim Report EU-Project PICTURE |
| During the project meeting with the PICTURE-partners in Karlsruhe on 12th and 13th of July first intermediate results were presented and consolidated. In the first project phase it is task of the group of the associated ERCIS-member IWI St. Gallen (Switzerland) to design Process Building Blocks for the PICTURE modelling method. Together with the project partners the ideas of the IWI were detailed and first building blocks were designed. Project website |
| 2006-05-26 | ERCIS@ECIS |
| ERCIS likes to invite its associated partners to the annual ERCIS@ECIS-meeting in Göteburg. The meeting will take place in room C32 on Tuesday, the 13th of June, from 13:30 to 15:30 in the afternoon. For further information please contact Axel Winkelmann. |
| 2006-05-24 | Memo 2006: Conference on Methods and Tools for Modernising Public Administrations |
| The modernisation of public administrations demand a common examination and coordination concerning strategy, processes, organisation and information systems. The implementation of technology does not end in itself. Therefore, ERCIS and the University of Muenster reacts to increasing needs from public administrations for sensible and valid instruments for the modernisation. Memo 2006 will not take place on May, 31st and June, 1st in the Baroque Palace of the University of Muenster but in the H-Building in the neighbourhood. For further information (German only) please click here. |
| 2006-05-24 | Retail Information Symposium 2006: Added Value Networks - Brands & Information |
| Cooperation between companies by establishing added value networks is gaining more impact. Information technology acts as an enabler which makes an economically reasonable cooperation even possible. Strategic brand management facilitates the financial success of the whole aggregate and fosters the realisation of the business objectives. The Retail Information Symposium 2006 will not take place on May, 29th/30th in the Baroque Palace of the University of Muenster but in the H-Building in the neighbourhood. For further information (German only) please click here. |
| 2006-05-17 | ERCIS-Colloquium: New frontiers in the theorisation of ICT-mediated interaction? Dr. Séamas Kelly |
| Dr. Séamas Kelly suggests that recent contributions to the ‘knowledge management’ literature could be taken to constitute a dramatic epistemic shift for the IS field, which may open up new frontiers in the theorisation of information, communication, and forms of ICT-mediated social interaction. Specifically, he argues that a move away from an overly ‘intellectualist’ conception of information and communication (and attendant forms of representationalism), offers the prospect of re-conceptualising the role of ICT as a complementary mode of engagement with the lifeworld, which may facilitate distinctive forms of collective sensemaking/ learning. Moreover, he suggests that by conceptualising such processes as a duality of reification and social participation the specific material constitution of the technology (i.e. the form of the medium), and its significance for mediating and shaping important features of social interaction and the relationships that underpin them, is brought firmly into the analytical foreground. Amongst other things, this may offer promising opportunities for a more substantive theorisation of the ICT artefact. As a tentative first step in this new terrain, he offers the concept of ‘digiscribing’ as an alternative to Zuboff’s (1988) influential notion of ‘informating’, as a means of thinking about the relationship between information, ICT and organisation. The ideas are illustrated and developed with reference to an in-depth, interpretive study of groupware implementation and use at a large global consulting services firm. The colloquium will take place on May, 24th. Please contact Prof. Dr. Gottfried Vossen for further information. |
| 2006-04-26 | cHL-Day at University of Muenster |
| The promotion of E-Learning activities has been precociously identified as an essential part of the mission of muenster university. The cHL-day 2006 will take place at may 9th in university of muenster’s castle. At this day actual developments in the field of E-Learning will be presented from the rectorate as well as from E-Learning projects (cHL-hybrid and MIRO). The cHL-Application group and the center for E-Learning are the hosts for this day. Reports from projects enablend by the first E-learning tendering are one focal point of this day. The second tendering will be opened on this day. Further Information and the actual schedule (in german) can be found here. |
| 2006-03-14 | Girls Day: Academics at the ERCIS encourage young females |
| Statistically, many girls limit their choice of apprenticeships to only 10 occupations, although there are more than 350 occupations available. They especially avoid craft jobs or technical occupations. Therefore, as every year the ERCIS would like to counterbalance within the national intiative Girls Day. The ERCIS and its female apprentices plan to introduce young girls of the 8th to 10th grade to computer technology under the direction of Prof. Dr. Gottfried Vossen at the Girls Day on April, 27th, 2006. Further information (German only)... |
| 2006-03-10 | EU-Project ITAIDE to start with 4 ERCIS partners |
| ITAIDE (Information Technology for Administration and Intelligent Design of E-Government) is a 4 year, multi-million euro ‘Integrated Project’ funded by the European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate-General under the Sixth Framework Programme ‘Information Society Technologies.’ Integrated Projects are the European Commission’s premier R&D instrument supporting the Lisbon agenda, driving objective-driven research and creating new knowledge to make the EU “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010.” The ITAIDE consortium is made up of a combination of academic, industry and government players. ERCIS partners in this initiative include Copenhagen Business School, UCD, SAP, and the University of Muenster. The overall aim of ITAIDE is to facilitate the design and adoption of e-government practices and systems to improve the way taxation and customs information is exchanged between businesses and public administrations. The goal is to significantly reduce red tape while increasing the control and security of cross-border trade. The development of these complex systems, however, poses a range of significant problems many of which exist on the fuzzy boundary between the human and the technological. Further information are provided here. |
| 2006-02-28 | ERCIS-Colloquium: Integration of Clinical and Genetical Data, Prof. Dr. med. Dipl.-Inform. Martin Dugas |
| Advances in the area of molecular medicine foster the role of genetical data in clinical medicine. Therefore, they should be available via hospital information systems and laboratory information systems. They have to be integrated into the context of diagnosis and therapy decisions for individual patients. Challenges are the high number of attributes, complex codification schemes, and missing values. The topic will be presented with reference to microarray data in the clinical context, especially with reference to data management and data analysis methods. The colloquium will take place on March, 24th. Please contact Prof. Dr. Gottfried Vossen for further information. |
| 2006-02-22 | CeBIT 2006 - ERCIS on information management in commerce and public administration |
| ERCIS presents insights gained in practical and research project at the trade fair CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. From March, 9th, to March, 15th exhibits of the research areas management information systems, electronic government, reference modelling, internet economy, retail information systems and producer-service provider-cooperation are shown. We look forward to welcoming you (hall 9, booth C16). Further information and contact persons |
| 2006-02-21 | Martin Mocker has been granted doctoral scholarship |
| The University of Muenster has granted a scholarship to Martin Mocker, fellow of the ERCIS research group on Strategic Information Management. Scholarships are provided by the University of Muenster to highly qualified doctoral students in order to promote academic research. Martin Mocker’s work is concerned with information technology and systems (IT/IS-) strategy. Interviewing CIOs and other managers, he is working on the question which IT/IS-related decisions have strategic relevance and why. |
| 2006-02-01 | EU to accredit Research Project PICTURE |
| In the 6th Framework Program, the European Union now accredited the research project PICTURE, which is an ERCIS driven 3 year and 3 million e-government project with focus on the modernization of administrative services. Especially in municipalities, the potential for rationalization is not utilized. People in charge frequently fear investment into IT that is necessary for the efficient process management. PICTURE will develop a tool that enables public administrations to calculate the potential use for specific information technology in advance to an investment. For that, an easy to use application will enable administrations to collect all administrative processes (>1000) and to measure their efficiency. On basis of these correlations, it will become possible to measure qualitative, quantitative, and monetary effects. PICTURE comprehends of twelve partners from six European countries. Next to the University of Muenster, the ERCIS members University of St. Gallen (Swiss) and SAP participate as well. |
| 2005-12-13 | ERCIS receives Mandate for Study on Virtual Town Halls |
| No latencies, over-worked staffers or endless forms and stamping anymore: Virtual Town Halls are known as administrative services of the future. Dreams of the future or reality already? In accordance with this question a study on virtual town halls will be conducted state-wide by ERCIS on behalf of the Information Office d-NRW. The status-quo shall be documented and future perspectives in the area of e-government will be identified . From December 2005 to May 2006 the internet sites of all 396 towns and municipalities as well as all 31 districts of North Rhine-Westphalia will be analyzed. Results of the Virtual Town Hall Study 2006 will presented at the Symposium MEMO ("Methods and Tools for the Modernization of Administrations" (MEMO2006) in the Baroque Palace in Muenster on May, 31st and June, 1st, 2006. |
| P005-11-17 | Memo 2006: Conference on Methods and Tools for Modernising Public Administrations |
| The modernisation of public administrations demand a common examination and coordination concerning strategy, processes, organisation and information systems. The implementation of technology does not end in itself. Therefore, ERCIS and the University of Muenster reacts to increasing needs from public administrations for sensible and valid instruments for the modernisation. Memo 2006 will take place on May, 31st and June, 1st in the Baroque Palace of the University of Muenster, Germany. For further information (German only) please click here. |
| 2005-11-11 | Retail Information Symposium 2006: Added Value Networks - Brands & Information |
| Cooperation between companies by establishing added value networks is gaining more impact. Information technology acts as an enabler which makes an economically reasonable cooperation even possible. Strategic brand management facilitates the financial success of the whole aggregate and fosters the realisation of the business objectives. The Retail Information Symposium 2006 will take place on May, 29th/30th in the Baroque Palace of the University of Muenster, Germany. For further information (German only) please click here. |
| 2005-11-01 | ERCIS-Colloquium: Strategic Issues in University Management, Prof. Dr. Hans E. von der Roosendaal, University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands |
| On Tuesday, November 8th, Prof. Dr. Hans E. von der Roosendaal will visit ERCIS to discuss issues of strategic university management. All members of ERCIS are invited to join his lecture. The discussion will take place in the Seminarraum 1 (Leonardo-Campus 3) at 4 p.m. |
| 2005-10-28 | 15 Years Department of Information Systems and 1 Year ERCIS in Muenster - Pictures |
| Appr. 200 congratulators visited the University of Muenster on October, 27th. For pictures, click here. |
| 2005-09-17 | 15 Years Department of Information Systems and 1 Year ERCIS in Muenster - Celebration |
| In 1990 the Department of Information Systems at the University of Muenster was established. With 6 full time professors, appr. 60 research assistants and 800 students the Department of Information Systems is one of the bigger departments in Germany. Many university rankings such as the CHE-ranking document its high reputation in teachings and research. Due to its outstanding reputation in both research and teaching within the field of information systems and business administration, the University of Münster has been selected by the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia to found the European Research Center for Information Systems in 2004. Therefore, we would like to invite you to celebrate 15 years Department of Information Systems and 1 Year ERCIS on October, 27th 2005. Further Information are available here. |
