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Information Systems and your project

Dozent: Stefan Hanke The course is open to all students of the ENS in semester 3. No specific prior knowledge is required; being familiar with the literature of the courses Effective Cultural Entrepreneurship and Introduction to Management Information Systems or similar courses can helpful. Relevant literature will be provided before the semester starts. The working language for the entire colloquium will be English. With the start of semester 3 the students have two options: Either they complete an internship, or they develop and realize a digital project in groups of up to five students in cooperation with a local business school, public institution, or non-profit organization. This course offers ENS students scientific assistance and reflection of their internship, individual project or group project. The weekly discussions are split between scientific input, presentations and subsequent discussion. This course offers the students to employ an informed design science perspective on their practical work: it combines practitioner’s expectations on the concrete project with scientific modes of inquiry and theory. In particular, Design Science Research and Action Design Research are the two methods of choice that the students are using to scientifically inform the design of their concrete project. Depending upon the concrete project, one method is then recommended after consultation with the instructor. Likewise assistance on formulating a research question and conceptualization will be offered during synchronous discussions.