Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS)

We are very happy that Till Janner and Joschka Mehler from BCG Platinion gave a guest lecture on enterprise systems in our course on Integrated Information Systems. They provided our students with first-hand insights on migrating SAP ERP to SAP S4/ HANA. Thank you, Till and Joschka, for taking the time and engaging into a lively discussion with our students on the future of enterprise systems, digital transformation, and digital innovation! This is a great example of our collaboration with leading industry partners, and we are very thankful for BCG Platinion to make this happen! #ERP #EnterpriseSystems #ProcessFlows #Today’sideasTomorrow’simpact Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität zu Köln BCG Platinion Leonie Groß Dr. Kevin Ortbach Christoph Rosenkranz

🌟 Thrilled to announce that digitalization expert Dr. Katharina Drechsler has been awarded the prestigious Wolfgang Ritter Prize for her groundbreaking dissertation, "Promoting Digital Innovation and Transformation - Innovation Champions in the Digital Age." Dr. Drechsler's work at the University of Cologne's WiSo Faculty explores how companies can drive digital innovation by nurturing "innovation champions" within teams, rather than relying on individual entrepreneurial heroes. Her research provides valuable insights on structuring innovation processes and leveraging digital platforms to foster an innovative environment. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Information Systems, Dr. Drechsler has an impressive academic background, including a summa cum laude doctorate from the University of Bamberg. Her interdisciplinary research spans digital technologies like Industry 4.0, blockchain, and AI, focusing on the roles of employees and leaders in digital transformation. Her work is published in top journals such as the Journal of Information Technology and Information and Management. At the award ceremony, Bremen’s Senator Kathrin Moosdorf highlighted the relevance of Dr. Drechsler's research to social, ecological, and economic sustainability. This award, one of Germany's most prestigious in business administration and economics, reflects the multidisciplinary excellence of the WiSo Faculty. Congratulations to Dr. Drechsler on this well-deserved recognition! 🎉👏 #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #AwardWinner #ResearchExcellence #WiSoFaculty #UniversityOfCologne #Industry40 #Blockchain #AI #Leadership #DigitalInnovation

Dr. Kevin Bauer from Universität Mannheim presented results from a joint study with Oliver Hinz and Moritz von Zahn during our research seminar series, and gave a talk on “Please take over: XAI, delegation, and domain knowledge”. Thanks for the insights and the hopefully constructive discussion! #CIIS #Brownbag #AIExplainability #ISResearch

WiSo achieves top results in the WirtschaftsWoche ranking - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences remains among the Top10. The WirtschaftsWoche ranking was published this week and the results for the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the Universität zu Köln are impressive: Graduates from Cologne are highly regarded by employers throughout Germany. Our degree programmes in Information Systems, Business Administration and Economics are particularly successful and popular with employers. In these three subjects, WiSo remains in the top 10 and can therefore count itself among the best-listed universities in Germany. Our Business Administration and Economics departments have been in the top 10 for more than 10 years. The University of Cologne is ranked 7th in Business Administration and 5th in Economics. Among Information Systems students, WiSo is even ranked 4th – the best result of all non-technical universities. About the ranking: WirtschaftsWoche publishes an annual ranking to find out which universities HR managers prefer to recruit their young talent. This year's ranking was carried out between February and March by the employer branding consultancy Universum, which surveyed around 500 HR managers from companies with between ten and more than 1,000 employees. In addition to the latest WirtschaftsWoche ranking, you can find more information about the WiSo rankings here: https://lnkd.in/eceCcmWc #rankings #businessadministration #economics #informationsystems

How are computer vision and other AI models inspecting and safeguarding the quality of production? Our Jun. Prof. Dr. Bonald Ziyue LI, together with his colleagues from various institutions, will organize the 2nd workshop on Vision-based InduStrial InspectiON (VISION) ECCV 2024 at Milan on 30th Sept! ECCV is one of the top three prestigious conferences in computer vision. Highlight 1: This workshop welcomes papers from industry and academia. Guess who will be the best paper at VISION @ ECCV 2024. The paper submission deadline is July 19th. [Submission Portal via CMT3: https://lnkd.in/eBdvYQYB] Highlight 2: Want to test your algorithm in a real industrial data challenge? This workshop opens a challenge of "One Shot Industrial Defect Segmentation." Come and sign up! You might be the champion we've been waiting for. [Link to the challenge: https://lnkd.in/ermwQDJm] Highlight 3: We are honored to have top researchers and leaders from Politecnico di Milano, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Apple to share their insights in VISION! Topics of Interest (not limited to) 1) From an industry point of view: - Opportunities for development in vision-based inspection technology, new problem formulation, data formats, and potential applications - Deployment practices and challenges of production vision-based inspection systems - Open source datasets for vision-based inspection research 2) From an academic point of view: - Meta-Learning, Transfer Learning, and Domain Adaptation - Foundation Models in Industry Inspection - Multi-Modality Data Fusion for Industry Inspection - Unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised anomaly detection algorithms under data and annotation limitations - Data generation techniques for real-world data challenges - Data-centric tools to simplify data collection, and increase quality & efficiency - Robust, explainable machine learning for high-stake applications - Vision-based modeling, diagnosis, control, and quality improvement of the manufacturing system For more details, please refer to https://lnkd.in/eFssPaFD We thank the organizers from Georgia Institute of Technology, Arizona State University, University of Cologne, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University, University of Waterloo, Tsinghua University, and more! #computervision #industry4 #machinelearning #milan #metalearning #transferlearning #domainadaptation #foundationmodels #multimodality #anomalydetection #explainableai #qualitycontrol #smartmanufacturing #informationsystems

Wir bieten im November ein Zertifikatsprogramm zu KI im Management an. Wir vermitteln ein grundlegendes Verständnis von KI-Methoden und zeigen wie diese zu besseren Entscheidungen führen können.

🎓 Today, we were honored to have Prof. Kai-Lung Hui from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at our recent seminar. Prof. Hui shared about the sentiment influences on sentiment with discussion in football subreddits. Professor Hui provided an in-depth exploration of sentiment contagion in social media, presenting robust evidence that this contagion persists even when accounting for concurrent events and users' past behaviors. The contagion was observed both within the same thread and across different threads within forums. Additionally, the impact varied based on the source of the thread, with more experienced users showing lower sensitivity to contagion, highlighting a potential negativity bias. One of the most intriguing findings was that exposure to extreme sentiment—whether negative or positive—leads to reduced user activity in both the short and long term, with effects lasting up to two years. These insights have profound managerial and practical implications for understanding and managing user behavior in social media contexts. We are grateful to Professor Hui for sharing his valuable research and insights. Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to the engaging discussion! #PhDSeminar #SocialMediaResearch #SentimentAnalysis #HKUST #AcademicTalks #socialmedia #footballfames

We are very happy to have Niall Deehan from Camunda as a guest in our course on Integrated Information Systems, giving our students first-hand experience on process orchestration using Camunda 8. Thank you, Niall, for taking the time and engaging into a discussion on process flows, architectural decisions, process orchestration versus process mining! #BPMN #ProcessOrchestration #Workflows

📢 Exciting updates from the Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS)! 🎉 1. Top Rankings: CIIS has been ranked first in Germany by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and secured a top position in Europe and globally. 2. Program Success: Our degree programs have been re-accredited, with increasing applicant numbers, particularly for the new Master's in Business Analytics and Econometrics. 3. New Initiatives: We are launching an An-Institut to strengthen our ties with the industry, focusing on Business Analytics and AI. 4. New Faces: Welcome to our new research assistants, Julia Campmann and Mei Wu-Gehbauer, team assistant Norman Ansorg, and new Ph.D. student Lazar Milosevi. 5. Awards & Recognition: Congratulations to Dr. Jannik Rößler for winning the EHI Science Prize 2024 for his outstanding dissertation. 6. Expanded Curriculum: More computer science lectures are now available to our IS students, broadening their learning opportunities. Stay connected and follow us on LinkedIn for more updates! #CIIS #UniversityOfCologne #InformationSystems #BusinessAnalytics #AI #AcademicExcellence #HigherEducation #LinkedIn

The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2024 will take place 13-19 June 2024 in Paphos, Cyprus. Several participants from Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS) will attend and present work on the conference's theme “People First: Constructing Digital Futures Together”. And of course, our own Stefan Seidel is one of the conference's program chairs! The papers presented and discussed are: Sercan Demir, Andreas Fügener, Alok Gupta, and Markus Weinmann: The Effect of AI Support on Torrance's Creativity Dimensions: Evidence from an Online Experiment, https://lnkd.in/e2CbJnmR Oliver Rath, Frederic Haase, Tom Celig, Johannes Melsbach, and Detlef Schoder: Profiling Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes in DeFi: A Chain-Level Analysis of Coins and Participants, https://lnkd.in/e3hgD_Yg Anna Taudien, Sebastian Schiffels, Andreas Fügener, Alok Gupta, and Wolf Ketter: One Versus Many: Advice-Taking from Ensemble Algorithms, https://lnkd.in/e3FEUX_q Philipp Mazur and Tim Alvaro Ockenga: Rolling Up the Hill? Designing Physical Information Systems, https://lnkd.in/eAXWfXSW Mei Wu-Gehbauer and Christoph Rosenkranz: Towards a Framework for Developing Artificial Intelligence Systems for Human-Artificial Intelligence Augmentation, https://lnkd.in/es2RFHsa Ramin Ahadi, Karsten Schroer, and Wolf Ketter: Managing Electric Vehicle Charging Hubs Through Dynamic Capacity-Based Pricing, https://lnkd.in/eqisvQD2 Universität zu Köln Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität zu Köln Die Wirtschaftsinformatik Association for Information Systems Universität Augsburg University of Minnesota #ECIS2024 #InformationSystems #StayConnected