The chair of Information Management perceives the management of information and information technology (IT) as a crucial key success factor for corporations in the digital age.

Therefore research is performed in cooperation with large firms and strives to find answers for relevant questions in IT management. In parallel, research is targeted towards acceptance in the academic community such as leading conferences and journals.

The chair's current research topic focuses on crucial management challenges in changing and running IT:


Further information: Project Management, IT Innovation Management, Sustainable IT Management, IT Security, Governance

In research and in teaching, the chair focuses on three different domains:

1. Strategic information management: IT governance, Business-IT relations and alignment, corporate knowledge, IT project management, Sustainable IT resource management

2. Management of Information Security: IT-Risk Management, Risk Assessment of Emerging IT, Return on Investment for IT, Privacy and security for electronic channels, regulatory demands, security across companies' borders (business networks)

3. Management of IT-innovations and emerging IT, new business models on the basis of IT such as mobile technologies, emerging IT as enabler of new business ideas such as Web 2.0 opportunities, IT in the residential environment