Impact

I am driven by the ambition to create lasting impact and tangible value for business and society through research, teaching, and academic leadership. At the core of this work lies close collaboration with national and international organizations, shaping digitalization and AI transformation journeys that matter in practice.
Examples
    • New Paper: Check out our recent paper on Research Impact in Information Systems forthcoming in JAIS – The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (together with Hind Benbya and Mareike Möhlmann) in 2026.
    • Over many years, my work has focused on building institutions that enable sustained, meaningful collaboration between academia and practice—such as the Flow Factory, an AI Lab for Process Innovation in the financial services sector. Follow our many activities on LinkedIn.
    • Research contributions extend beyond academia and inform public policy worldwide. According to SagePolicy Profiles, my work has been referenced in policy documents across more than 20 countries, spanning Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
    • As President-Elect of the AIS, I am advancing the communication of academic research into accessible insights for practice and the public, strengthening digital literacy and digital sovereignty. I initiated AIS Insights an AI-enabled platform that transforms Information Systems research into executive summaries and audio formats in eleven global languages since 2026.
    • I actively engage in the design and delivery of lifelong learning programs to create impact for organizations and society, working in close and continuous dialogue with practice. For more than 15 years, I have been involved in executive education at the Executive School of the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), teaching Business Process Management in the Executive Master in Business Engineering and the Executive Program on Innovation through IT.
    • As an Academic Research Fellow at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), I engage globally with organizations to shape research that matters. In close collaboration with industry, this work aims to co-create innovative solutions to real-world challenges—advancing digital capabilities, leadership, and sovereignty.

Industry Case Studies (Selected)

 

Leadership Roles (Selected) 

    • Member of the Executive Board, Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. – the oldest and most traditional association to initiate and coordinate the dialogue between business research, teaching and practice, since 2023.
    • Co-Chair – ICIS 2023 CIO Forum (together with Raghav Rao), Ai and the Future of the Service Industry, incl. Microsoft, Zebra Technologies, Accenture Technology Labs, and Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad, India.
    • Co-Chiar – AOM 2024 PDW on Impact Scholarship, Chicago, USA.
    • Co-Chair – ECIS 2024 Industry Forum, Information Systems Research from Practice (together with William Kettinger, Leona Chandra Kruse, Matthew Mullarkey, Annamina Rieder, Brian Donnellan), Paphos, Cyprus,
    • Founding President – Liechtenstein AIS Chapter (awarded outstanding AIS chapter since 2014), providing a platform for local industry, society and academia engagement.
    • Advisory Board Member – AIS SIGGreen, Special Interest Group on Green IS, Association for Information Systems, since 2010.

Entrepreneurial Activities (Selected)

    • Co-Founder and Director, Flow Factory, European Reserach Center for Information Systems, Powered by Sparkassen Finanzgruppe, Münster, since 2025.
    • Co-Founder and Board Member, Future Mobility Lab, European Reserach Center for Information Systems, Münster, since 2023.
    • Co-Founder and Board Member, Digitize AG – Strategic Advisory Network for Digital Innovation and Transformation, Liechtenstein, since 2020.
    • Co-Founder and Academic Advisor, Sensofy.io – Space Analytics Services for Healthy and Sustainable Living. Liechtenstein Venture Cooperative, Liechtenstein since 2020.
    • Co-Founder, The AIS Practitioner Research Community, Initiative to foster the engagement of doctorly qualified professionals in research, since 2019.
    • Co-Founder and Co-Editor, AIS in Practice, bringing scientific research to practice, Liechtenstein, Vaduz, since 2018.
    • Co-founder, Home of Innovation – HOI, Startup Incubator and Co-Working Space, Ruggell, Liechtenstein, since 2016.
    • Co-Founder and Partner, MyDesignProcess.com, documenting and sharing design science research in the cloud, Liechtenstein, Vaduz, since 2016.
    • Co-Founder and Partner, MineMyText.com. cloud services for text mining, Liechtenstein, Vaduz, since 2015.BAC 2015 Best Prototype and Demo Award at ICIS 2015.
    • Co-Founder and Academic Director, EDUglopedia.org. The Global Encyclopedia for Information Systems Education, Online-Community, since 2014. AIS Technology Challenge Award 2015.
    • Co-founder and Director, Competence Centers on Innovation and Technology, University of Liechtenstein, since 2009: Big Data Analytics (CC-BDA), Business Process Management (CC-BPM), Enterprise Content Management (CC-ECM), Enterprise Resource Planning (CC-ERP), GreenIT (CC-GIT). Funded by local industry.
    • Co-founder and Director, Competence Center for E-Learning, University of Münster, Germany, 2005-2007. Funded by BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany).
    • Co-founder and Director – Competence Center for Internet Economics and Hybrid Systems, University of Münster, Germany, 2005-2007. Funded by BMBF.

Advisory Roles (Selected)

    • Advisory Board Member, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, School of Business., Master Master of Science in Business Analytics, Dammam, Eastern, Saudi Arabia, since 2026.
    • Advisory Board Member, IVI – Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland.
    • Advisory Board Member, AACSB International, Supporting the Information Systems Task Force in developing the Management Curriculum for the Digital Era (MaCuDE), AACSB International, Steevens Institute of Technology and PwC, since 2019.
    • External Advisor in Business Information Systems to J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics at NUI Galway, since 2018.
    • Board Member, Digital Liechtenstein, a network and platform to support digital innovation and transformation in Liechtenstein.
    • Senior Advisor, Aptera.io, Blockchain start-up in the education sector, Munich, Germany, since 2018.
    • Senior Advisor, own.io, Blockchain start-up in the equity market, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, since 2017.
    • Executive Board Member, Gesellschaft für Prozessmanagement, Vienna, Austria, since 2016.
    • Advisory Board Member, Stiftungzukunft.li. Foundation for the Future of Liechtenstein, since 2012.
    • Advisory Board Member, Swisscleantech. Swiss Trade Association for Sustainable Business, Bern, Switzerland, since 2009.
    • Advisory Board Member, Liechtenstein Commission for Innovation and Technological Development, Member of the State Committee, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 2008 – 2012.
    • Delegate to the European Commission on Information Technology Research and Education for the Liechtenstein Government, 2008 – 2013.

Keynotes (Selected)