Joint Forces: Merging Competencies and Cultures in University IT

9 pages•Published: October 12, 2021

Dominik Rudolph, Anne Thoring, Raimund Vogl and Alice Fleury

Abstract

Mergers in university IT are a major challenge, as ongoing operations should be affected as little as possible. At the same time, it is not uncommon for different work cultures to collide between data centres, decentralized IT and administrative IT. There are also different expectations on the part of the user groups that need to be met. The merger of the Zentrum für Informationsverarbeitung (the IT centre with approx. 100 employees whose focus is on infrastructure) and the Stabsstelle IT und Prozessentwicklung (the administrative IT department with approx. 60 employees whose focus is on operations and organisation projects) to form the “WWU IT”, which took place at Münster University (WWU) at the beginning of 2020, can serve as a good example for similar IT restructuring at universities.

Keyphrases: corona, merger, organisational change

In: Spiros Bolis, Jean-François Desnos, Lazaros Merakos and Raimund Vogl (editors). Proceedings of the European University Information Systems Conference 2021, vol 78, pages 22-30.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/57nM
	https://doi.org/10.29007/knhp

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2021:Joint_Forces_Merging_Competencies,
  author    = {Dominik Rudolph and Anne Thoring and Raimund Vogl and Alice Fleury},
  title     = {Joint Forces: Merging Competencies and Cultures in University IT},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the European University Information Systems Conference 2021},
  editor    = {Spiros Bolis and Jean-François Desnos and Lazaros Merakos and Raimund Vogl},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {78},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/57nM},
  doi       = {10.29007/knhp},
  pages     = {22-30},
  year      = {2021}}

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