Chair of Information Management

IT Innovation Management by Matthias Kießling

IT Innovation Management
During the past 30 years, information technology (IT) has been the source of endless new possibilities and successful business innovations. Starting and moving well beyond the back office into the area of customers encompassing new products, processes and business models. In the beginning only used as support for the business, the potential of the IT function has meanwhile developed to an important driver of business innovations.

Changing role of the it
Figure: The changing role of the IT

However, many IT organizations have lost their way in the past few years. Only 7% of CEOs view IT as a source of innovation and more than 42% of CIOs do not have budget for innovations. This situation demands reorientation of IT management. We perceive that nowadays an active IT Innovation Management in the company is essential. Therefore we apply the following research questions:

Our research questions

  • What are the characteristics of IT innovations?
  • How can an IT innovation management be implemented in the organizational structure?
  • How can an IT innovation management be measured and which methods and models have to be applied?



We are working on this topic closely together with our partner from Arthur D. Little

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Publications

  • Innovationsmanagement in IT-Abteilungen - Eine fallstudienbasierte Untersuchung, in: Proceedings of the Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI 2012), Braunschweig, Germany, 2012, February 29 - March 2, 2012, accepted for Publication (Kießling, M., Wittig, N., Kolbe, L. M.)

  • Bausteine für ein erfolgreiches IT-Innovationsmanagement. In: Lang, M., Amberg, M. (Hrsg.) Dynamisches IT-Management: So steigern Sie die Agilität, Flexibilität und Innovationskraft Ihrer IT, Symposium Publishing, 2012 (Kießling, M., Rosenberger, S., Kolbe, L. M.)

  • An organizational model for managing IT innovations in non-IT companies, Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2011), January 4-7, 2011, Koloa, Hawaii, USA, 2011 (Kiessling, M., Wilke, H., Kolbe, L. M.)

  • Overcoming challenges for managing IT innovations in non-IT companies, in Proceedings of the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010), August 12-15, 2010, Lima, Peru, Association of Information Systems (AIS), 2010, (Kiessling, M., Wilke, H., Kolbe, L. M.)

  • IT innovations in turbulent times, in Proceedings of the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010), August 12-15, 2010, Lima, Peru, Association of Information Systems (AIS), 2010, (Kießling, M., Wenzel, S., Kolbe, L. M.)

  • Are We Really Innovating? An Exploratory Study on Innovation Management and Service Management, In IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT 2010), June 2-5, 2010, Singapore, 2010 (Marrone, M., Kießling, M., Kolbe, L. M.)

  • Influence of IT Service Management on Innovation Management: First insights from exploratory studies, In A. D'Atri et al., eds. Management of the Interconnected World: ItAIS:The Italian Association for Information Systems, Springer, 2010, (Kießling, M., Marrone, M., Kolbe, L.)



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For further information please contact Matthias Kießling.