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Karlheinz Kautz

Professor
Karlheinz Kautz

Department of Informatics

Howitzvej 60
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3763
Fax:+45 3815 2401
E-mail: Karl.Kautz@cbs.dk



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The primary objective of my research is to achieve a better understanding of information systems development in practice. Appreciating ISD less than a technical, but as a social work process performed within organisational structures and with organisational and managerial challenges, I focus on ISD and the utilisation of development methods as knowledge intensive, innovative activities in which continuous process improvement takes place based on learning from daily practice.

Primary research areas

  • System Development
  • Knowledge Management in the IT Industry
  • Adoption and Diffusion of IT
  • Software Process Improvement
  • Software Quality Management
  • Innovation
  • IT-related Knowledge Management
  • Organizational Theory

Administrative functions

PhD Coordinator


Selected publications

K. Kautz, J. Pries-Heje (2000), Systems Development Education and Methodology Adoption, Journal of COMPUTER PERSONNEL, Vol. 20, No. 3
J. Iversen, K. Kautz (2002), Principles of Metrics Implementation, in L. Mathiassen et al. (eds.), Improving Software Organizations-From Principles to Practice, chap. 17, p. 287-305, Addison-Wesley, Pearson Education CSD, Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA
B. Hansen, K. Kautz, D. Jacobsen (2003), Systems Development Methodologies in Practice, in Linger, H. et al. (eds.), Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy, Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice – Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Systems and Development, pp.127-139, Melbourne, Australia, August 29-31, 2003
K. Kautz, P.A. Nielsen (2004), Understanding the Implementation of Software Process Improvement Innovations in Software Organisations, in Information Systems Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 3-22
R. Vidgen, S. Madsen, K. Kautz (2004), Mapping the Information System Development Process, Fitzgerald, B. E. Wynn (eds.), Proceedings of the IFIP 8.6 on IT Innovation for Adaptability and Competitiveness, pp. 157-172, Leixlip, Ireland, May 30–June 2, 2004
B. Hansen, K. Kautz (2004), Knowledge Mapping: A technique for identifying knowledge flows in software organisations, in T. Dingsøyr (ed.), Software Process Improvement - Proceedings of EuroSPI 2004, Trondheim, Norway, November 10 – 12, pp. 126-137, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004
K. Kautz (2004), The Enactment of Methodology – The Case of Developing a MultiMedia Information System, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Washington D.C., USA, December 12 –15, 2004


Last updated by Vicki Antosz 14/10/2009