- Hilti Endowed Chair of Business Process Management and Head of the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein (#5 in Europe, #39 worldwide and #1 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, according to the latest three years AIS Research Rankings 2017-2019 and distinguished as Outstanding Chapter of the AIS six years in a row). Also, Associated Lecturer at the University of St.Gallen (HSG) and the University of Luzern as well as an Associated Researcher at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre at NUI Galway, and Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
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- Author of many articles in A+ and FT50 ranked journals, among others in Management Science (INFORMS), Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) and MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR), as well as Journal of Information Technology (JIT), European Journal for Information Systems (EJIS), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Communications of the ACM (CACM) and MIS Quarterly Executive (MISQe). Author and editor of 43 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 Study as one of the world’s top 0.5% most-cited scientists (based on current data from 2019) covering ~7 million scientists in 22 major fields ranging from medicine to engineering, physics, biology, economics and business. Identified the best published Swiss/Liechtenstein Information Systems researcher in the AIS Research Performance Ranking 2018-2020, and ranked #2 in Europe and #25 in the world (four up since last year). Also, listed as one of the Top 20 Management Professors by Wirtschaftswoche both in 2018 and 2020 out of over 3`000 researcher across all fields). Recipient of more than 30 international awards, incl. the Emerald Literati Network Award 2014 and 2015, the ICIS Best Paper Award 2015 and the AIS Senior Scholars` Best Publication of 2016 Award.
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- President of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS since 2008 (awarded Outstanding Chapter of the AIS in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019), 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), Editorial Board Member of Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) and Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). Program Co-Chair of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2019 in Stockholm, General Co-Chair of the Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) in 2018, and Program Co-Chair of the Gmunden Retreat on NeuroIS since 2010.
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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 (ranked #4 in Europe), the Vlerick Business School in Belgium (ranked #15 in Europe), the University of Warwick in the UK (ranked #22 in Europe), the Smurfit School of Business in Ireland (ranked #29 in Europe), and the Aarhus University (ranked #79 in Europe). Students won international prizes and recognitions like the Accenture Campus Challenge 2016, the SAP DemoJam 2015 and 2016, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Young Researcher Invitation in 2011, 2014 and 2017, and the Liechtenstein Young Researcher Award in 2011, 213, 214, 2015, 216, and 2017; Outreach is recognized by more than 100 press mentions per year. Awarded the AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching in 2013 and the AIS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Information Systems Education in 2017.
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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. Founder of competence centers on digital innovation and transformation, incl. on Business Process Innovation, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Resource Management Systems, Green IT, and Big Data Analytics. Co-Founder of initiatives to bring science to practice, such as AIS in Practice and the AIS Practice Research Community as well as prototypes to innovate research and innovation processes, such as MineMyText.com, providing cloud services for text mining and MyDesignProcess.com, a tool for conducting and documenting design science research. Co-author of industry cases on best practices in digital innovation and transformation.
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