I am deeply committed to research, teaching, and engagement that benefit society, and I share a few examples of my work below.
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- Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) and Chair of Information Systems & Business Process Management at the University of Münster in Germany. Named an AIS Fellow, an Academic Research Fellow at MIT Center for Information Systems Research, Distinguished Professor at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, a Fellow of the ESCP Center for Design Science in Entrepreneurship and a Schöller Senior Fellow at at the FAU Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg. Also, Visiting Professor at the University of Liechtenstein, and Associated Lecturer at the University of St.Gallen (HSG) and the University of Luzern in Switzerland.
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- Author of many articles in A+ and FT50 ranked journals, among others in MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Management Science (INFORMS), and MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR), as well as Information Systems Journal (ISJ), European Journal for Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), Communications of the ACM (CACM), Decision Support Systems (DSS), and MIS Quarterly Executive (MISQe). Author and editor of 45 books, ranked among the top 10% best selling books in the Springer eBook library including the International Handbook on Business Process Management and the books Business Process Management. Driving Innovation in a Digital World and Business Process Management Cases. Digital Innovation and Business Transformation in Practice – with over 5 Mio downloads.
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- Named in Stanford/Elsevier Study – Top 2% Scientists, as one of the world’s top 0.5% most-cited scientists (based on current data from 2025) covering ~7 million scientists in 22 major fields ranging from medicine to engineering, physics, biology, economics and business, and #1 Best Cited Information Systems Research in Germany. Regularly mentioned in the AIS research rankings, as one of the best published authors in the AIS Senior Scholars list of leading journals. Also, listed as one of the Top 25 Management Professors by the managers magazine Wirtschaftswoche since 2008 out of over 3`000 researcher across all fields. Recipient of more than 30 international awards, incl. the AIS Senior Scholars` Best Publication Award of 2025 and 2016, the AIS Technology Challenge Award, and the AIS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Information Systems Education.
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- Teaching experience from 26 universities in 13 countries on Executive, PhD-, Master and Bachelor-level, incl. many of the FT50 Top Business Schools, such as the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland, the Vlerick Business School in Belgium, the University of Warwick in the UK, the Smurfit School of Business in Ireland, and the Aarhus University. Students won international prizes and recognitions like the Accenture Campus Challenge, the SAP DemoJam, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Young Researcher Invitation, and the Liechtenstein Young Researcher Award. Awarded the AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching and the AIS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Information Systems Education in 2017.
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- President of the Association for Information Systems (2025 -2028), Founding President of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS since 2008 (awarded Outstanding Chapter of the AIS ten times in the row 2014-2023), Vice-Dean for Internationalization at the Münster School of Economics and Business (since 2024), Vice-President Research at the University of Liechtenstein (2012-2018), Vice-President of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) (2015/16 and 2017/18), Vice-President of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) (2014 – 2017); Senior Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), Editorial Board Member of Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) and Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS).
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- Invited speaker and trusted advisor to many DAX 30 and Fortune 500 companies as well as Start ups and governmental institutions across Europe. Focus on building collaborations and organizations that enable sustained, meaningful collaboration between academia and practice—such as the Flow Factory, a multi-million AI Lab for Process Innovation in the financial services sector. SagePolicy Profiles reports my work been referenced in policy documents across more than 20 countries, spanning Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Initiated AIS Insights an AI-enabled platform that transforms Information Systems research into executive summaries and audio formats in eleven global languages since 2026. Co-author of industry cases with e.g. SAP, Hilti, Siemens, Fujitsu, Nestlé, ThyssenKrupp, Beiersdorf, Nestlé, EDEKA – such as the Audi-Case of Scaling AI, wich has been awarded the 2025 AIS Senior Scholar Best IS Publication Award.
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