This course will give students an introduction to central issues of innovation and strategy in the digital economy. I teach this course together with Lars Bo Jeppesen and Carmelo Cennamo. Topics covered include: 

• • Open Innovation & Crowds

  • Big Data

  • Experimentation

This course will introduce students to the challenges of managing projects in general and product development projects. Topics include:

• Product development processes & philosophies (e.g. Design Thinking, Design Sprints, Agile Development)

• New product portfolios

• Idea generation and selection

• The course "InnoLab" is an interdisciplinary course focused on new product and service development with Design Thinking for business partners

• Project partners include (among others): Wien Energie, Vienna International Airport, ÖBB, Beiersdorf, Zumtobel, Caritas

• In the course "Startup Garage" Student learn about developing their own start-up ideas into real business ideas

• This course is a interdisciplinary class with students from TU Vienna, WU Vienna and BOKU Vienna

• In the course "Advanced Innovation Management" students learn about a specific form of open innovation, namely crowdsourcing, and gain hands on experience in participating and organizing crowdsourcing challenges

• Collaboration Partner: Beiersdorf, Agorize.com

• The course "Business Model Innovation" focusses on developing new business models for business partners

• Project partners include (among others): Verlagsgruppe News, SPS Speech Processing, Fluidtime

• The course "Business Planning" centeres around developing a business plan for partnering Start ups

• Project partners include (among others): guh.io, Domonda, iamstudent, C7 Sugar

• In the course "Personal Skills" students learn about different communication styles and different models of communication.