Controlling Tools in IT-Innovation Processes

Numerous studies have shown that innovation is the main driving force behind business value creation or the production of value-added. But what exactly is innovation, and why has it become so critical to business success and what connections it has to information technology? The article approaches the question by introducing the system of innovation. After appointing the place of the assessment of IT-novelties with a new conception, explores the very interesting area in the intersection of IT, innovation and controlling with the aim of giving a map in the hand of decision makers.information technology (IT), innovation, controlling, Stage-Gate process

IT Controlling – Concepts and Transformation into Practice

In the first part the paper depicts central IT controlling terms and selected IT controlling concepts of the last decade. In the second part a performance oriented IT controlling concept describes central processes of the IT controlling concept by using a three step life cycle model in terms of a reference model. Finally some important results from a current survey concerning the development of IT controlling in German speaking countries are given. Based on these facts the paper describes the needs for action in academia and practice: The role of the IT controller has been established in German speaking countries, but there is disagreement concerning targets, tasks and processes of IT controlling, cost oriented tasks and reporting are dominating the practitioner’s work, established economic methods of IT controlling are not consistently used in companies