Supply Chain & Value Networks

Twin Transition: We conduct research for a sustainable and digital future of value creation.

We design resilient, sustainable, and intelligent value networks and transform traditional, linear supply chains into adaptive, networked, and technology-based value networks. In doing so, we combine economic performance with social and environmental responsibility. Our aim is to develop theoretically based and at the same time practically relevant concepts, methods, and tools – for the next generation of sustainable value creation.

There are key levers for transforming and orchestrating supply chains into future-proof value networks. Our focus is on:

• Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, blockchain, cloud, and Web3
• Decentralized, resilient value networks based, among other things, on the development of new governance models for autonomously cooperating, technologically networked partner networks
• Sustainability and the circular economy, as well as new incentive systems, e.g., through tokenization
• Platform and ecosystem strategies for the intelligent networking of actors
• Omnichannel and direct-to-consumer (D2C) strategies in e-commerce
• Product-as-a-service models and circular value creation approaches
• Maturity models to make progress and transformability measurable, comparable, and controllable

• Eurostars project LeadAI, project management Dominik Wörner, funded by Euro-stars/Innosuisse, 2025 - 2027
• Virtual CTO (vCTO), project management Dominik Wörner, funded by Innosuisse, 2025 - 2026
• Authenticity Infrastructure for Luxury Timepieces, project management Irene Buller, funded by Innosuisse Innovation Booster, 2025
• Model-Based Consulting, project management Dominik Wörner, funded by Forschungs-fonds Aargau, 2024 - 2025
• Automated Patient Admission Process, project management Dominik Wörner (with Thomas Hanne), funded by Hightech Zentrum Aargau, 2024 - 2025