Part I: Business Engineering and Beyond.- From Business Engineering to Life Engineering.- Management of Artificial Intelligence: Feasibility, Desirability and Viability.- How Fair Is IS Research?.- From Business Engineering to Digital Engineering: The Role of Metamodeling in Digital Transformation.- From Business Engineering to Digital Engineering: The Role of Metamodeling in Digital Transformation.- On Model-Based Coordination of Change in Organizations.- Part II: Design Science Research.- Reflections on the Practice of Design Science in Information Systems.- Design Science Research of High Practical Relevance.- Design Pattern as a Bridge Between Problem-Space and Solution-Space.- Incremental Accumulation of Information Systems Design Theory.- Assessing the Temporal Validity of Design Knowledge.- Pedagogy for Doctoral Seminars in Design Science Research.- Part III: Applied Fields.- Management of Enterprise-Wide Information Systems.- The Competence Center Health Network Engineering: ARetrospective.- A Research Agenda for Studying Platform Ecosystems.- A Concept for an IT-Supported Integrated Earnings and Risk Management to Strengthen the Resilience of Companies in Times of Crisis.- Data Vault as a Modeling Concept for the Data Warehouse.- Evaluating a Forward-Looking Maturity Model for Enterprise Performance Management.- The Evolution of IT Management Standards in Digital Transformation: Current Status and Research Implications.- Towards Conscious Enterprises: The Role of Enterprise Engineering in Realizing Living Sciences Paradigms into Management Sciences.- Digital Resilience to Normal Accidents in High-Reliability Organizations.- Mind the Gap: Why There Is a Gap Between Information Systems Research and Practice, and How to Manage It.- The Connection Between Winter and Information Systems.

The topics in this book cover a broad range of research interests: from business engineering and its application in corporate and business networking contexts to design science research as well as applied topics, where those research methods have been employed for modeling, data warehousing, information systems management, enterprise architecture management, management of large and complex projects, and enterprise transformation.The book is a Festschrift for Robert Winter in order to appreciate his work and to honor him as a personality with a high reputation in the information systems community. To this end, many professional colleagues or long-time companions both from the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen as well as from the international research community dedicated articles on topics related to Robert’s research. They reflect his ambition to uncompromisingly conduct high-class research that fuels the research community and at the same time contributes to improved industrial practice. The book is organized in three major parts: Part I “Business Engineering and Beyond” focuses on the methodology strongly shaped by Robert in St. Gallen with a focus on research being applied in corporate contexts. Part II “Design Science Research” spans from reflections on the practice of design science research to perspectives on design science research methodologies and eventually up to considerations to teach design science research methodology. Part III “Applied Fields” combines various applications of design science and related research methodologies with practical problems and future research topics.  

Festschrift for Robert Winter to honor his work and personality Combines topics from business engineering and design science with practical applications Includes over 20 contributions from more than 40 highly reputed researchers