Letizia Tschetsche has joined the team of the Junior Professorship for Digital Transformation and Society as a research assistant on November 1, 2024.

Ms. Tschetsche completed a master's degree in “Psychology - Human Performance in Socio-Technical Systems” at the Technical University Dresden. In the coming years, she will continue to do research on issues related to humans at work as part of her doctoral thesis. Her research will focus on the use of (generative) artificial intelligence in organizational development and its impact on structures, processes and culture, as well as on the employees themselves and their cooperation.

Her interest in this topic stems from her previous research activities: She has already investigated the use of digital technologies in healthcare through a systematic literature review, as well as the use of explainable artificial intelligence in fault diagnosis in a simulated computer experiment.

We wish her the very best and are looking forward to working together!

Collaboration between the Chair for Transformation of Work, the Junior Professorship for Digital Transformation and Society and BASF Coatings

Das Rektorat der Universität Münster hat in einer Feierstunde in der Schloss-Aula 14 Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler mit dem Dissertationspreis des Jahres 2024 ausgezeichnet. Neben der wissenschaftlichen Exzellenz müssen die Dissertationen ein hohes Maß an Originalität aufweisen und einen bedeutsamen Beitrag zur aktuellen Forschung leisten. Rektor Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels sowie die Prorektorinnen Prof. Dr. Maike Tietjens und Prof. Dr. Monika Stoll verliehen die Preise, die mit jeweils 3.500 Euro dotiert sind. Unter den Preisträger:innen befindet sich auch Dr. Pascal Büsing von der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät. Seine Arbeit mit dem Titel „Reference Points and Expectations in Financial Decision Making“, betreut von Prof. Dr. Thomas Langer, untersucht, wie Referenzpunkte und Erwartungen finanzielle Entscheidungen beeinflussen.

Die kreativen und sozialen Kompetenzen der Beschäftigten werden in der künftigen Arbeitswelt immer wichtiger. Denn insbesondere neue Möglichkeiten der beruflichen Flexibilisierung, beispielsweise Homeoffice oder Gleitzeit, bergen neben vielen positiven Effekten die Gefahr der Isolation und des Verlustes der Unternehmenskultur, gibt Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin Prof. Dr. Julia Backmann in der neuen Folge des „Umdenken“-Podcasts der Universität Münster zu bedenken.

Die Fachschaft WiWi hat im Namen der Studierenden - zum ersten Mal seit Corona - wieder Auszeichnungen für besonders gute Lehre vergeben. In den drei Fächern Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Volkswirtschaftslehre und Wirtschaftsinformatik wurden jeweils fünf (BWL) bzw. drei (VWL und WI) Veranstaltungen im Bachelor- und im Masterstudium nominiert. Das Gremium Lehrpreis kürte daraus Martin Artz und Peter Kajüter (BWL), Martin Watzinger und Katharina Huesmann (VWL) sowie Christian Grimme und Fabian Gieseke (WI) zu den Gewinner:innen der diesjährigen Lehrpreise.

Die Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Münster gratuliert Prof. Dr. Manfred Krafft herzlich zur Verleihung des renommierten Selling & Sales Management Lifetime Achievement Award der American Marketing Association (AMA). Mit diesem Preis ehrt die AMA Sales Special Interest Group (SIG) herausragende Persönlichkeiten, die über einen längeren Zeitraum wesentliche Beiträge zur wissenschaftlichen Disziplin des Vertriebs geleistet haben. Die Verleihung findet im Rahmen der Winter AMA Academic Conference 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona, statt.

As part of the project seminar “Future Mobility Lab,” students presented their interim results on an exciting and practice-oriented topic: the use of Generative AI (GenAI) for crisis management in the mobility sector. The seminar is a collaboration with Transdev – a company within the Rethmann Group and the second-largest rail and bus operator in Germany – and aims to develop an innovative dashboard and a bot to support employees in critical situations.

The project focuses on providing tools that enable informed and faster decision-making in scenarios such as rail accidents, severe weather events, or acute staff shortages caused by sudden illnesses. The students offered detailed insights into their workflow, the underlying software architecture, and the data structure. They also explained how various Large Language Models (LLMs) were evaluated to select the best models for the specific use case.

A highlight of the interim presentation was the live demonstration of a working prototype. The showcased dashboard visualizes trains in real time, displays their locations and current issues, and integrates an interactive bot. This bot is already capable of accessing a local database and offers concrete suggestions to resolve issues, such as addressing staff shortages due to unexpected absences.

In the next phase of the project, the bot will be linked with live data to enable automated and informed decision-making. This functionality is expected to further optimize crisis management and significantly enhance operational response in real-world situations.

The project impressively demonstrates how GenAI technologies can create innovative solutions for the mobility sector while simultaneously fostering the practical education of students.

The lecture "Introduction to Information Systems" at the Department of Information Systems offers first-semester students a comprehensive introduction to this exciting field of study. In each session, all professors and junior professors of the department present their respective areas of expertise, covering a wide range of topics.

After an introduction to the organizational details and the scientific thinking of information systems experts at the University of Münster, participants gain in-depth insights into fundamental concepts such as process, object, and organizational modeling.

A special highlight of the lecture is a panel discussion with successful alumni of the program. This year, Nina Herrmann, Fabian Müller, Sina Nordlohne, Marvin Teus, and Yannick Verhoeven shared their professional experiences and impressively explained how they applied the knowledge they gained during their studies in practice. Their current roles range from research as postdoctoral researchers at the University of Münster to positions at renowned companies such as the d.velop Group, viadee, zeb, and the Provinzial Insurance.

In addition to inspiring insights into their career paths, the alumni provided students with valuable tips and tricks – especially for internships – that can serve as a springboard for a successful career launch. The event once again highlighted how versatile and future-oriented information systems is.

Am 20. Januar 2025 findet ab 18 Uhr das vierte CDC Career Dinner im Kaisersaal des Hotel Kaiserhof in Münster statt. Teilnehmende Unternehmen sind Kraft Heinz, Nagel Group, Procter & Gamble und Windmöller & Hölscher. Interessierte Studierende können sich bis zum 05. Januar 2025 über das Bewerbungsformular anmelden.  

Each year, the Assocciation for Information Systems (AIS) selects six international doctoral students to receive the AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship. We are delighted to announce that Shariga Sivanathan, PhD student and staff member at Prof. Tobias Brandt's Chair of Digital Innovation and the Public Sector, has been named one of the Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship Students for 2025.

The AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship (EIF) programme, funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, aims to enhance entrepreneurship-focused research worldwide. The programme focuses on entrepreneurial perspectives in information systems research and plays a pivotal role in advancing the field. The cohort members were selected based on the scientific and practical contributions of their research to the field of information systems.

Congratulations to Shariga on this outstanding achievement!

Der Lehrstuhl für Maschinelles Lernen und Data Engineering (Prof. Dr. Fabian Gieseke) sucht für den Zeitraum vom 01. April 2025 bis zum 30. September 2025 mehrere studentische Hilfskräfte (SHK, SHB) zur Leitung von Übungsgruppen für Studierende der Wirtschaftsinformatik im Rahmen des Moduls Informatik II (Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen). Die regelmäßige Arbeitszeit beträgt 7 Stunden wöchentlich.

Im Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Prozessmanagement (Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke) der Universität Münster zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Stelle als 

 

Akademische Rätin / Akademischer Rat auf Zeit in Business Process Management (Bes.Gr. A 13 LBesO)

 

Im Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Prozessmanagement (Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke) der Universität Münster zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine oder mehrere Stellen als

 

Im Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik im Fachbereich 04 der Universität Münster ist vorbehaltlich Bewilligung der Mittel zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle als

 

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (E 13 TV-L)

 

Im Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Prozessmanagement (Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke) der Universität Münster zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine oder mehrere Stellen als

 

Im dritten Teil unserer Panelserie Agile widmeten wir uns einem Thema, welches viele Unternehmen beschäftigt: die praktische Umsetzung des Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe). In unserem internen Panel zum Thema „SAFe“ diskutierten wir gemeinsam die Anwendung von SAFe in der Praxis, beleuchteten dabei Herausforderungen und Chancen des Frameworks und wagten einen Blick in die Zukunft der agilen Skalierung. 

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Are you passionate about exploring the challenges of digital transformation? Would you like to investigate how digital technologies – especially Artificial Intelligence (AI) – are reshaping society, organizations, and individual lives? Then this opportunity is for you!

The Junior Professorship for Digital Transformation and Society in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Münster invites applications for a full-time position as Doctoral Research Associate (E 13 TV-L, 100%), starting on April 1, 2025. The position is initially limited to three years and includes the opportunity to pursue a PhD.

What we offer:

• A dynamic role in a research team dedicated to studying the societal and organizational impacts of digital technologies.
• Exciting research opportunities at the intersection of technology, society, and innovation, leveraging qualitative and quantitative empirical methods.
• Membership in the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS), an international network of researchers and practitioners in information systems.
• An inspiring academic environment with teaching responsibilities (4 contact hours per week) and exciting research projects at a leading information systems department in Germany.

Join our team and contribute to shaping the digital transformation! Applications can be submitted until December 20, 2024. More information about the position and the application process can be found here.

43.000 Studierende, 8.000 Beschäftigte in Lehre, Forschung und Verwaltung, die gemeinsam Zukunftsperspektiven gestalten – das ist die Universität Münster. Eingebettet in die Atmosphäre der Stadt Münster mit ihrer hohen Lebensqualität zieht sie mit ihrem vielfältigen Forschungsprofil und attraktiven Lehrangeboten Studierende und Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus dem In- und Ausland an.

From 15 to 17 November 2024, students Lars Heimann, Maja Kirschnick, Theresa Hilp, Jonathan Grundmann and Lena Schleupen from the University of Münster's School of Business and Economics participated in the German American Conference (GAC) at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, MA. The GAC is a largest student-led conference in northern America and has been held annually since 2008. It brings together American and German thought leaders from business, politics and academia with talented students to strengthen transatlantic cooperation.

This year's motto was ‘Hard Conversations’. Our students heard keynotes on the role of the German constitution from Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, President of the Federal Constitutional Court, discussed the Republican perspective on the US election results with Thomas E. Price, M.D., former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, and learned from Dr. Andrej Levin, Partner at the Boston Consulting Group, how companies generate value through AI. Finally, the transatlantic relations were celebrated over the rooftops of Boston in the spectacular The View. Dr. Thomas Haskamp, associated researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), also gave a tour of the MIT, including a visit to the famous MIT Media Lab.

The European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) organised and financially supported the trip for all students of the School of Business and Economics. Special thanks go to Prof. Jan vom Brocke, Dr. Thomas Haskamp, Dr. Armin Stein and Dr. Michael Räckers for making the conference possible.

On 3 December 2024, this year's JobHub IT, the IT career fair for students, took place in the castlesfoyer in Münster. All students from IT-related degree programmes, regardless of the number of semesters they have completed so far, were invited to find out about possible internships, final theses in cooperation with companies or positions for a career start. Companies represented included AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG, LVM Versicherung, Sopra Steria Custom Software and Solutions GmbH.

We look back on an inspiring career fair and would like to thank the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Prof. Dr. Benjamin Risse for organizing it!

The IT career fair for students

The University of Münster and the ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research have jointly appointed Dr. Zareh Asatryan to the professorship ‘Economics with a Focus on Empirical Economic Research’. Zareh Asatryan is Deputy Head of the ZEW's Research Unit ‘Corporate Taxation and Public Finance’, one of Germany's leading economic research institutes. Previously, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim and received his doctoral degree in economics from the University of Freiburg. Currently he co-leads the Armenian Economic Association.