Stone Rice Big dot Net

My proposal

“Modeling risk mitigation solutions for interorganizational information systems”

has been accepted today!

Here is what I want to do to get the PhD:

Modern information systems can be characterized as inter-organizationally distributed networks of subsystems. Subsequently, IT risks are distributed among involved organizations as well. Mitigating risks always requires a trade-off between technological possibilities, organizational suitability, and economic feasibility. Stakeholders from various organizations have to integrate, communicate, and negotiate aspects of risk mitigation solutions. The objective of this thesis is to develop a conceptual modeling method called CORAX that supports the assessment and design of risk mitigation solutions in distributed information systems. First, a graphical modeling language is developed to visualize risk mitigation solutions to make them understandable to all stakeholders. Second, this research develops model-based techniques that enable visualizing and assessing technological, organizational, and economic impacts of risk mitigation designs. Third, a pattern approach is used to enable reusing experiences and accelerating the design of effective risk mitigation solutions. This research builds upon foundations in method-engineering and conceptual modeling. Overall, it contributes to IT risk management by enabling risk managers to systematically visualize and assess the technological, organizational, and economic aspects of risk mitigation solutions in inter-organizationally distributed information systems.

So, now I am really looking forward to attending the ECIS

The first part of your paper that someone reads is the abstract. Still many writers (including me) have a lot of difficulties in writing a good abstract. Markus Kuhn from lightbluetouchpaper gives some useful advice on writing an abstract.

From my experience, writing the abstract is the most difficult part of writing a paper. Therefore, it is the first thing I write. It serves as a guideline for my writing. During the rest of the paper I will regularly come back to the abstract and change something or get some guidance on how to proceed.

… geht es um die neueste IT-Technik - ja klar. Gutes Deutsch hat wohl keinen Praxisnutzen mehr.

Aus einem SZ-Interview mit einem (promovierten) Berater:

Ich würde den Doktortitel gleich gewichten mit einem Auslandsaufenthalt. Wenn jemand längere Zeit in Spanien oder England gearbeitet hat, dann spricht er die Sprache fließend und beweist, dass er flexibel, international und mobil ist. Er ist Teil eines individuellen Lebenslaufs.

Tja, das bestätigt in gewisser Weise meine Vermutung. Erst ab einer gewissen Hierarchiestufe kommt es wieder zum Tragen:

… Er [der Dr.] könnte allerdings das Zünglein an der Waage sein, bei gleicher Qualifikation mehrerer Bewerber.