He holds a Diplom from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Humboldt University of Berlin and has as well taught at the University of Havana, Cuba. Prior to joining academe, he worked as a management consultant with a focus on IT strategy. His research on IT governance and the organizational arrangements for managing technology innovations, including Software as a Service and Mobile Government, has been presented at conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), and the International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI). Comment