Research Fields and Projects

Projects and research activities conducted at the chairs and institutes in the Department of Supply Chain Management & Information Systems cover a broad range of subject areas including:

Institute of Research on Information Systems

  • IT Strategy
  • IT Governance
  • IT Outsourcing
  • Enterprise Architecture Management
  • Project and Project Portfolio Management
  • IS & KM/KMS Success & Benchmarking
  • Collaborative Systems/Social Software in Organizations
  • Competence Management & eLearning
  • Document Management & Information Lifecycle Management
  • Mobile Computing

Institute for Supply Chain Management - Procurement and Logistics

  • Purchasing & Supply Management
  • Strategy and Operations
  • Financial Supply Management
  • Global Supply Networks
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Innovations in Logistics
  • Document Logistics
  • HR Management in SCM

Institute for Future Studies and Knowledge Management

  • Cross-industry and technology foresight
  • Future mobility and logistics
  • Scenario-based Supply Chain Management
  • Scenario planning and transfer to strategy
  • Delphi expert research and wisdom of the crowds
  • Quality and success factors in (Corporate) Foresight
  • Futures research methodologies
  • Risk and wildcard analyses
  • Backcasting and roadmapping
  • Strategic Issue Management
  • Innovation-focused scenario processes