With 19 lecturing PhD students and a total of 27 participants, the 12th PhD Workshop on IT, Service, Innovation and Collaboration (WISIC) of the Department of Information Systems at the University of Kassel and the Institute of Information Systems at the University of St.Gallen took place from September 20-22, 2016. This workshop is part of the international and structured doctoral education of the Departments / Institutes of Information Systems of the Universities in Kassel and St. Gallen. The venue of this event alternates semi-annually between the two universities, this 12th workshop was held in Kassel.

During the workshop, the PhD students presented their respective topics in different formats depending on their PhD progress and status: Project Paper, Idea Talk, Proposal and Journal Paper Project. The goal of this workshop is to advance the respective dissertation project through intensive discussions with other doctoral students as well as professors, habilitation students and post-docs. In addition, new ideas and impulses for one's own dissertation project are to be gained through the feedback gained in this workshop and peer groups are to be established through points of contact to topics of other participants. 

The topics of the WISIC participants covered a wide range of research areas such as Agile Methods, Crowdsourcing, Service Engineering, eLearning, Collaboration Engineering and IT Innovation Management. Attached are some photo impressions of this three-day event.