Ongoing technological, economical, cultural, and political changes demand for a broader perspective of “information management” research. Examples of intra-company challenges for information management research include the discussion of the value of IT or the discussion of optimal sourcing strategies. Even the roles of IT staff  (e.g. the CIO) and IT departments become a subject of continuous (re-)assessment.

However, questions of the organization and the impact of new business models, innovative supply-chain-networks, and inter-organizational information management are increasingly arising. Recent examples show that new information and communication technologies as well as innovative business models are able to create a competitive advantage if applied well directed and well reflected. In particular, the intentional opening up of formerly closed and internal information resources to suppliers, partners, customers, or even competitors deserves closer attention. New challenges arise, e.g.  risk management in industry-spanning supply-chain-networks or finding the optimal degree of visibility of information. Existing information management and strategic management theories and methods are widely missing to describe, explain, and predict such phenomena.

The track Information Management will present new findings from both theory and praxis. Relevant topics are, but are not limited to:

• IT/IS Strategy
• IT Governance
• IT Compliance, IT Risk Management, and legal of IT
• Supply-Chain-Networks
• Open Value Creation, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0
• IT Organization/Business Engineering
• IT Controlling and Performance Monitoring
• IT Resources Management
• IT Service Management
• IT Sourcing (Out-, Global-, In-, Re-Sourcing)
• Information Logistics
• Knowledge Management
• Job description(s) of the CIO
• Leadership in IT
• Information Management in federal organizational structures

• Helmut Krcmar, TU Munich, Germany, http://www.winfobase.de/
• Detlef Schoder, University of Cologne, Germany, http://www.wim.uni-koeln.de/

• Heimo Adelsberger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Michael Amberg, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Hans-Knud Arndt, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• Tilo Böhmann, ISS International Business School of Service Management Hamburg, Germany
• Walter Brenner, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Hans Ulrich Buhl, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Kerstin Fink, University of Inssbruck, Austria
• Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Thomas Hummel, Accenture Ltd, Germany
• Lutz Kolbe, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany
• Kathrin Möslein, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Dirk Stelzer, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
• Eberhard Stickel, Sparkassen Finanzgruppe Hochschule, Bonn, Germany
• Alexander Teubner, University of Münster, Germany
• Stephanie Teufel, University of Freiburg, Switzerland
• Frank Teuteberg, University of Osnabrück, Germany
• A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
• Isabell Welpe, TU Munich, Germany
• Rüdiger Zarnekow, Technical University of Berlin, Germany