From March 23 - 25, 2015, the 9th Workshop on IT, Service, Innovation and Collaboration (WISIC) of the Department of Information Systems took place in St. Gallen. During the three-day workshop, doctoral students of the Department of Information Systems as well as doctoral students of the Institute of Information Systems at the University of St. Gallen presented their dissertation projects. The respective presentations were followed by discussions in which the presenters received feedback from the audience on their dissertation projects. The topics of the 30 WISIC participants covered the research areas of Open Innovation and Digital Business Innovation, Service Engineering, eLearning, Collaboration Engineering, IT Innovation Management, IT Outsourcing as well as Crowdsourcing.

In addition to different presentation formats, Prof. Rafael A. Gonzàlez delivered a closing keynote address. The presentation "The Hive of the Mind" was dedicated to the topic of socio-technical system design and reflected experiences from different design-oriented research projects.