The book volume of the project "Challenge Cloud and Crowd - Designing new organizational concepts for services sustainably", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research(BMBF) and supervised by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe(PTKA), was recently published as a book tip in theHarvard Business Manageras a book tip. It is featured as a recommended readin issue 8/2019 of the German-language edition of Harvard Business Review. You can find this article from the Harvard Business Manager here.

The Department of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister) at the University of Kassel was responsible for the sub-project"Crowdworking platforms as innovative service systems" as part of this project (funding code: 02K14A071). In the book volume published by Haufe-Verlag, the department is represented with the following contributions, among others:

• "Cloud, hybrid intelligence and digital work for the engineering of socio-technical systems" (Christoph Peters, Jan Marco Leimeister)

and

• "Crowdworking platforms and the digitalization of work" (Volkmar Mrass, Christoph Peters, Jan Marco Leimeister)

The Cloud & Crowd project volume aims to reassessthe digital upheaval. It offers an overall view of the strategic upheavals in business and work. In their contributions, the authors from academia, business, trade unions and associations develop analyses and ideas on how the digital upheaval can be successfully shaped.

The book offers the latest findings from research, interviews on the strategies of international pioneering companies, analyses of the cloud and crowd and the transformation of work, as well as positions from prominent thought leaders.

The "Cloud and Crowd Challenge" project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and supervised by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA), includes the Institute for Social Science Research (ISF) (network coordinator), the University of Kassel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), IG Metall, Ver.di and andrena objects AG.

The Department of Information Systems at the University of Kassel was represented in this project by Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, head of the department, Prof. Dr. Christoph Peters, assistant professor (at the University of St.Gallen) and research group leader, and Volkmar Mrass, research assistant, among others. The Cloud & Crowd book volume can be ordered here.