We are proud to announce that the paper “Understanding the Success of Strategic IT Benchmarking - Exploring the Role of the Individual Level” by Dr. Katharina Ebner (University of Hagen), Prof. Dr. Benjamin Müller (University of Groningen), and Prof. Dr. Frederik Ahlemann was accepted for publication in the Information & Management journal. In this article, the authors address the issue of strategic IT benchmarking often not resulting in the desired outcomes for IT organizations. In this context, they show that the individual level is instrumental for explaining strategic IT benchmarking's success, because it specifically ensures the relevant project team members' buy-in. Information & Management is a B-ranked journal (VHB-JOURQUAL3) with an impact factor of 3.890.