From February 9 to 11, 2017, the 13th Doctoral 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 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister. 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 13th workshop was held in rotation at St. Gallen.

In the course of the workshop, 25 PhD students presented their respective topics to a total of 33 participants in different formats depending on their PhD progress and status: 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 crowdsourcing, service engineering, eLearning, collaboration engineering and IT innovation management.