Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) is at a turning point. Planning, designing, developing and operating IT used to be a management task of a few elites in public ad-ministrations and corporations. But the continuous digitization of nearly all areas of life changes the IT...

Although managerial issues of data warehousingand business intelligence received considerable attentionin recent years, the strategy process has notoften been investigated. This is particularly true forthe recently proposed, more holistic concept of informationlogistics. This paper discusses the...

Most agree that enterprise architecture (EA) arti-facts include not only representation models, but also design principles [35]. While EA modeling and EA models are covered broadly in the EA state-of-the-art, design activity issues and design principles in particular are still neglected. While...

A challenge in Information Systems Design Science Research (ISDSR) is the evaluation of constructedInformation Systems Design Theories. March and Smith (1995, p. 254) state that “significant difficulties… result from the fact that artifact performance is related to the environment in which...

Based on an IEEE definition and its adaptation by The OpenGroup enterprise architecture (EA) is often defined as the fundamentalorganization of a company or government agency and theprinciples governing its design and evolution [16, 25]. Whiledesign representation issues like meta-modeling or...

Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is expected to providebusiness value by guiding the continuous development andtransformation of an enterprise. Based on the approach we strivefor constructing useful artifacts that guide the successful andsituational design of EAM. In order to do so we...

The digitization of society is changing the way we work, live, communicate, interact, as well as how and when we consume and produce products and services. The transformation of the information society into the digital society creates a new wave of business start-ups. Within this context, it is...

Dieser Sammelband wird anlässlich des 15jährigen Bestehens des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik der Universität St. Gallen (IWI-HSG) herausgegeben. Er vereinigt die wichtigsten Arbeiten der ehemaligen IWI-Professoren Bartmann, Nastansky und Schmid sowie der derzeitigen IWI-Professoren...