Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS) has appointed four distinguished colleagues to the editorial board, one of them being Professor Karlheinz Kautz.Karlheinz Kautz is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Copenhagen Business School. His research specialties are in systems development, knowledge management in the IT industry, adoption and diffusion of IT, software process improvement, software quality management, innovation, IT-related knowledge management, and organizational theory.