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Business Information Systems & Innovative Production and Logistics
The Business Information Systems area
at Paderborn takes a special holistic
approach to the subject, with interdisciplinary
teams exploring new ways of
translating the rapid changes in information
and communication technologies
into economically effective applications.
This helps businesses and public
sector institutions to operate effectively
while keeping cost and effort down and
quality and output up. People – the
users of these applications – are at the
center of attention. The applications
they use are designed to facilitate their
activities, make them more productive
and enhance the quality of their work.
The Department of Business Infor -
mation Systems has been working in
this challenging field since the early
1990s. Its activities have repeatedly
earned the Department top rankings in
recent CHE surveys. It currently comprises
four full chairs and one junior
professorship.
Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
Business Information Systems &
Innovative Production and Logistics
On the teaching side, the Department
of Business Information Systems provides
a combination of economics and
computer science courses built around
the business information systems core
subjects. Students gain a thorough theoretical
grounding as well as practical
skills. BIS graduates are prepared for
a high-profile career in developing,
designing, rolling out and using information
and communication systems
(ICS) in management and production.
The Department offers one Bachelor
and two Master programs, as well as a
Ph.D. program. Its research activities
center on the theoretical side of BIS,
specifically, the development and application
of concepts, models, methods
and tools for analyzing, designing and
using ICS. The process of information
and service production in business
environments is analyzed and systematized
to the point where – often in
combination with information systems
such as SAP and “human” input – they
can be used on a day-to-day basis in
order to produce a measurable increase
in efficiency and profits. The four teaching
and research units in the Department
manage a large number of research
projects in BIS, Information Manage -
ment & E-Finance, Computer-Integrated
Manufacturing, and Decision Support
& Operations Research.
Above: The Business Information Systems research team (from left): Jun.-Prof. Dr. Achim Koberstein,
Prof. Dr. Dennis Kundisch, Prof. Dr. Leena Suhl, Prof. Dr. Joachim Fischer, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Dangelmaier
Innovative Production and Logistics
This is a priority area within BIS that
develops new IT-based concepts, methods
and systems for use in production,
logistics and transportation. These
serve to sharpen businesses’ competitive
edge and safeguard it for the long
term. Emphasis is placed on the process
of service production. Typical areas of
application are supply chain management,
optimization systems and simulation.
The resulting tools are used to
identify weak points, test possible solutions,
and optimize entire processes and
networks by designing entire service
production networks and introducing
production planning and/or logistics
management systems. In recent years
Innovation Production and Logistics has
launched several alliances with leading
industry representatives and managed
research projects with assistance from
the German Research Foundation,
the European Union and the German
Federal Ministry of Education and
Research. The chairs involved in this
area also supervise a number of interdisciplinary
research projects at the
International Graduate School of
Dynamic Intelligent Systems.
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