Supply Chain & Value Networks

School of Business

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

Vision

We design resilient, sustainable, and intelligent value creation 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 sound yet practical concepts, methods, and tools for the next generation of sustainable value creation.

Focus areas

There are key levers for transforming and orchestrating supply chains into sustainable 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

Selected projects

Lead AI

An Organisational Digital Twin based Leadership Consulting Eco-System

Institute: Institute for Human Resource Management and Institute for Information Systems
Research field: Digital Business

DC4HC – Digital Competence for Healthcare

DC4HC provides transparency regarding the digital maturity of healthcare institutions and enables targeted, comparable, and scalable digitization decisions thanks to AI-supported benchmarking.

Institute: Institute for Human Resource Management and Institute for Information Systems
Research field: Digital Business