I am pleased to have been selected as an AIS Distinguished Member Cum Laude for my support of the Association for Information Systems through continued membership, leadership roles, and promotion of research through AIS journals.

A couple of days ago, I gave an interview on the role and career of an IT consultant (in German). The interview has now been published in the HI:TECH CAMPUS magazine.

The second volume of Digitalization Cases presents a rich compilation of real-world cases on digitalization, aiming to share first-hand insights from renowned organizations and to make digitalization tangible. With all economic and societal sectors being challenged by emerging technologies, the digital economy is highly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. It confronts established organizations with substantial challenges and opportunities.

Against this backdrop, this book reports on best practices and lessons learned from organizations that succeeded in tackling the challenges and seizing the opportunities of the digital economy. It illustrates how twenty organizations leveraged their capabilities to create disruptive innovation, to develop digital business models, and to digitally transform themselves. These cases stem from various industries (e.g. automotive, insurance, consulting, and public services) and countries, covering the many facets that digitalization may have. As all case descriptions follow a unified template, they are easily accessible for readers and provide insightful examples for practitioners as well as interesting cases for researchers, teachers, and students.

The book is available here.

Know your customer (KYC) processes place a great burden on banks, because they are costly, inefficient, and inconvenient for customers. While blockchain technology is often mentioned as a potential solution, it is not clear how to use the technology’s advantages without violating data protection regulations and customer privacy.

In a recent research project, we demonstrated how blockchain-based self-sovereign identity (SSI) can solve the challenges of KYC. We followed a rigorous design science research approach to create a framework that utilizes SSI in the KYC process, deriving nascent design principles that theorize on blockchain’s role for SSI.

Please read more about our research in our latest paper published in Information & Management (50 days' free access).