Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Paul Drews, the department of Information Systems, in particular Digital Transformation and Information Management, deals with current and fundamental questions concerning the application and use of information technology in organizations and companies. The department is anchored information system discipline with an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary orientation.

The research focus of the department is on the digital transformation of organizations and companies, the development, diffusion and adoption of IT innovations, IT innovation management, digital entrepreneurship, the role of the IT function, enterprise architecture and business ecosystem architecture, strategic IT and information management, the scaled use of agile methods and data-driven business models. In addition, inter- and transdisciplinary projects with colleagues from business administration, engineering and psychology are being conducted to investigate, among other topics, big data in auditing, digital entrepreneurship and architectures for processing sensor data for autonomous vehicles.