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Capstone Course “HEC Business Game” started with 80 students

The start week of “HEC Business Game” from February 11 to 15 was a great success: 80 bachelor students – almost twice as much as last year – participate in this Capstone Course organized by professors Christine Legner, Thibault Estier, and Jacques Robert (HEC Montréal).
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Journal article on “Architecture-driven IT Management” published

The article “Overcoming implementation challenges in enterprise architecture management: a design theory for architecture-driven IT Management (ADRIMA)” by Jan Löhe and Christine Legner has just been published in Information Systems & eBusiness Management and is available as ‘Online First’ on SpringerLink: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10257-012-0211-y

Three papers at ICIS 2012, the top IS conference

The BISA research team was present with three papers at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): In the regular track, Professor Christine Legner gave a talk about a “design theory for end-to-end IT demand management” and Andrea Giessmann, doctoral student, presented her empirical study on consumer preferences for platform-as-a-service. Kazem Haki participated in the doctoral consortium with a paper on enterprise architecture management.
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First seminar week on cloud computing for master students in information systems

Approaching information systems master students of HEC Lausanne, a seminar week has been launched at the beginning of November for the first time. As a recently added module to master of information systems, the seminar weeks seek to involve students in discussions about state-of-the-art information technologies with professors and subject matter experts.
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Intense discussions on “Service Cloud” at the Service Congress in Munich

Last Thursday, Prof. Christine Legner gave a talk about the emerging cloud solutions for service management at the Service Congress in Munich, a large German conference with more than 400 participants. Our research reveals different types and forms of “Service Clouds” – from migrating the CRM system to the cloud (CRM-as-a-Service) to more specialized cloud solutions integrating mobile / Web apps with the existing backend systems (Mobile integration-as-a-Service).
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Welcome to bisa

Welcome to the bisa research lab at HEC Lausanne

bisa stands for Business Information Systems & Architecture. Our research focuses on the implications of new technologies for businesses and the management of business & IS architecture. Our research lab is part of the Department of Information Systems at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) at University of Lausanne.
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