Research
Implenting digital Technologies
Exemplary challenges
- Resistance: Overcoming complex barriers responsibly
- Change management: Successful integration of new technologies
Research areas
- Implementation, use, and consequences of (digital) technologies on sustainable and economic outcomes
- Overcoming challenges in technology implementation, their management and consequences
- Contribution: Responsible and successful design of technology-induced organizational change
Managing digital innovation processes
Exemplary challenges
- Unfitting management approaches: Insufficient Effectiveness of established management approaches in the digital age
- Complex organizing: Numerous digital technologies characterized by diverse (dys)functional consequence
Research areas
- Exploration of new management approaches (e.g.,. agile) for the development of digital innovations
- Governing the change potential of digital technologies and management approaches successfully
- Contribution: Improvement of organizational skills & instruments for managing innovation activities
(Digital) Business model innovation
Exemplary challenges
- Pressure from digital technologies: Blurring of organizational boundaries, emergence of new competitors & outdated business models
- Persistence: Challenged innovation of value propositions and value creation
Research areas
- Overcoming barriers and leveraging drivers for digital business model innovations
- Interrelation of business models and the implementation of technologies, innovation processes, and innovation outcomes
- Contribution: Managing the transformation of structures; processes, and skills to identify, use and institutionalize opportunities for digital business model innovations