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The Chair of Industrial Management participated in the scientific symposium “Supply Management”, organized by the Federation of Material Management, Purchasing, and Logistics (Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik) on 10th March 2020. Johannes Veile and Prof. Dr. Julian Müller prese...

On February 21st, as part of the “Innovation Module” of Prof. Voigt, the MBA class 2019-2021 had the opportunity to visit the adidas headquarter in Herzogenaurach. After having a short tour across the fascinating adidas campus, Dr. Timm Wagner, Elizabeth Martin and Willem van Beuningen (all members ...

Once again, Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt, Dr. Christian Baccarella and Lukas Maier took up the invitation of the tradition-rich Universidad de Alcalá, nearby Madrid. From the 17th to 19th February they gave the lecture “Technology and Innovation Management” to students of the international MBA program. ...

During an intensive MBA lecture in Innovation Management, Dietmar Bendheimer and his team from WFA stepped in to deliver warm congratulations to Prof. Voigt's birthday - and the whole MBA class joined with good wishes. So the coffee break merged into a spontaneous birthday party - for 20 minutes, fo...

It is a pleasure to announce that our paper “Does applying design thinking result in better new product concepts than a traditional innovation approach? An experimental comparison study” has been accepted for publication in The European Management Journal (EMJ). EMJ is a flagship scholarly journal, ...

We are proud to announce that our article “The role of absorptive capacity and innovation strategy in the design of Industry 4.0 Business Models - A comparison between SMEs and large enterprises” has been published in European Management Journal (VHB B-Ranking, Impact Factor 2,985). The article auth...

At the beginning of the winter semester the Chair of Industrial Management launched a call: CALLING ALL CREATORS - Invitation to our new Creative Case Study together with adidas. In this context, 100 students in the course Organizational Creativity and in cooperation with adidas were given the oppor...

On February 4th 2020, the highlight of this year’s 5-Euro Business competition took place in the Marmorsaal of the Presseclub Nuremberg. A total of five teams presented their business ideas to an interested audience and a top-class jury by a short presentation and an exhibition stand. Prof. Voigt an...