PICTURE
An Instrument to Provide ICT Investment Strategies for European Public Administrations
Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
The Institute of Information Management (IWI-HSG) is one of the leading research institutes of the University of St. Gallen. Founded in 1989, it employs more than 50 researchers, today. The research program "Business Engineering" of the University of St. Gallen incorporates all larger research projects at the IWI-HSG. The aim of this research program is to bring together researchers of the university and public sector experts and business experts from our corporate partners. IWI-HSG’s applied research is performed within the context of competence centres that focus on specific research themes. The IWI-HSG is a full Associate Member of the European Research Center for Information Systems.
In the context of PICTURE IWI-HSG will take advantage of resources of the “Center of Excellence for E-Government” (CE eGov) and of the “Institute for Public Services and Tourism”. Core competencies of IWI-HSG and the connected competence centres are: Process Management and Modelling, extensive knowledge about process-landscapes of PA, Reference Modelling for PA, and Process-Cost Management and Analysis.
Within this project IWI-HSG will contribute with its strong process knowledge in the area of public administrations. IWI-HSG will be responsible for analysing the state-of-the-art of process modelling in European PA. IWI-HSG will identify, develop, and document adequate process building blocks of administrational processes (WP1).
IWI-HSG will also coordinate the involvement of the City of Winterthur. The City of Winterthur is in the immediate neighbourhood of IWI-HSG.