Benjamin J. J. Voigt joined the Information Management Group in July 2005 as a PhD student and research assistant. His research is focused on outsourcing in general and backsourcing and knowledge transfer, as well as expertise sharing, specifically.

Voigt graduated M Sc. Computer Science at the University of Zurich in June 2005. The past 3 years prior to joining the Department of Informatics Benjamin Voigt has been working with Microsoft where he was responsible for marketing and technical consulting for the academic market. Apart from designing and launching a academic download service he established a weblog portal for Microsoft Switzerland. In his spare time he is involved in his own start-up activities and he just recently started to like wakeboarding. Mr. Voigt maintains a weblog at www.shamiro.ch.

• How culture orientations affects offshore knowledge transfer The 2nd Information Systems Workshop on Global Sourcing, France, 2008 Erik Wende, Benjamin Voigt
• IT Outsourcing bei Schweizer Unternehmen Technical Report No ifi-2007-12, 2007 Benjamin Voigt, Martin Schill
• How to Manage Knowledge Transfer in IT-Outsourcing Relationships 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, Colorado, USA, 2007 Benjamin Voigt, Jasminko Novak, Gerhard Schwabe
• Mashups: Strukturelle Eigenschaften und Herausforderungen von End-User Development im Web 2.0 I-COM 2007 Jasminko Novak, Benjamin Voigt
• DEAN: Demand Analysis Method for Knowledge Transfer in IT Outsourcing Relationships Third International Conference on Knowledge Management, London, 2006 Mishka Bugajska, Gerhard Schwabe, Benjamin Voigt
• Mashing-up mashups: from collaborative mapping to community innovation toolkits Proc. of MCIS 06 - Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Venice, 2006 Jasminko Novak, Benjamin Voigt

• Knowledge transfer in IT outsourcing for financial institutions
  Start: June 2005, End: June 2007
• Various projects with the Collaborative Technologies & Social Media Lab

Mr. Voigt has been supervising the following master theses projects (German titles translated).

• An Outsourcing Survey
  Student: Martin Schill
• Implementation of a Graph Based Knowledge Browser for a CMS
  Student: Amancio Bouza
• Validation of a Knowledge Transfer Reference Model for Outsourcing Business Contexts
  Student: Ueli Dahinden
• Workflow Implementation for Knowledge Management Methods in Outsourcing Projects
  Student: Marco Oetterli
• Towards the Requirements for an Interactive Knowledge Integration Software for Heterogeneous Asynchronous Environments
  Student: Sebastiaan Krist
• Current Research Overview on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Transfer in Outsourcing Efforts of IT and Software Development Functions
  Student: Gregory Filippi
• Knowledge Management in Outsourcing Relationships and Continued Knowledge Culture Development Evaluation
  Student: Cécile Novara
• Knowledge Transfer during Business Process Outsourcing
  Student: Charles Aegerter
• Knowledge Management and Knowledge Transfer in Regard to Outsourcing
  Student: Stefan Keller
• Management in Outsourcing Relationships at Credit Suisse
  Student: Oliver Meili