In the second part of the interview with Prof. Dr. Toker Doganoglu, Dean of the faculty of economic at the University of Wuerzburg and holder of the chair for Industrial Economics, we discussed the following topics:

✅ Economic and legal questions arising in the context of platform economies

✅ Superstar firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook and the economic implications of their market power

✅ Business models of Uber or Airbnb and the discusson on legal adjustment.

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In the first episode of interview with Prof. Dr. Toker Doganoglu, Dean of the faculty of economic at the University of Wuerzburg and holder of the chair for Industrial Economics, we talked about the odd species of economists, what they do and how they approach problems . 

Moreover, we discussed the basics of industrial economics and why its principles and messages are practically relevant for all organizations and decision-makers. Finally, 

Prof. Doganoglu explains at the example of organic eggs, how consumers could profit from product bans. 

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In the second part of the Podcast-Session with Prof. Dr. Christof Flath, we talked about two major topics: 

1) The German energy transition, regulatory obstacles and how data can improve the market mechanism. 

2) "New mobiliy systems" - Here, we discussed the inefficiencies of the current mobility system and the opportunities of sharing concepts, autonomous driving cars and eMobility.

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In this Episode of the WUEconomics Outside the Box Podcast, I talked to Prof. Dr. Christof Flath, holder of the chair for business informatics and information management at the University of Wuerzburg about the following topics:

• How to put data to action?
• Opportunities and challenges of digital transformation for small and medium-sized companies
• Opportunities of small-scale innovation seed Projects
• Digital Retail Lab - Innovation and industry-academia collaboration in the context of retail and fashion

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This is a extract from Podcast Episode 29 - here I forgot to Mention explicitly, that we discussed a very important Topic - the German Vocational Education System. Therefore, I provide it here as a single Episode - all about VET.  

The German System of Vacational Education is internationally admired and fundamental for the success of the German economy. But the system and especially the firms have to face challenges.

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In this Episode of the WUEconomics Outside the Box Podcast, I talked to Prof. Dr. Thomas Zwick, head of the chair of human resource management and organization at the University of Wuerzburg about the implications of digital change on the labor market - which options do employees have to protect themselves from being substituted by robots or machines in the future?

Moreover, we talked about a research project of Prof. Zwick, that aimed to identify personality traits of successful innovators and highly innovative personal. As innovations is very important in order to stay competitive, results of this research project are extremely interesting for almost every organization.

For more details, also read the article on the blog (www.wueconomics.de) and check out Prof. Zwick`s website (https://www.wiwi.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/lehrstuhl/bwl7/team/prof-dr-thomas-zwick).

I hope you are curious now! I really appreciate your feedback and opinion!

Lack of skilled workforce is currently one of the biggest issues for German firms - the implications of demographic change have led to fiercer competition for talents and firms of all sizes have to develop sustainable strategies to develop, acquire and bind employees for the future. Why? Because the quality of goods and therefore the competitiveness is directly related to the humans behind.

In Episode 29 of the WUEconomics Outside the Box Podcast, I talked to Prof. Dr. Thomas Zwick, head of the chair of human resource management and organization at the University of Wuerzburg.

Good news first, there are promising options - bad news, it will be expensive, not easy and firms have to open up for potential left and right of the mainstream. We talked about the need for further education, retraining, potential of older employees as well as the potential of woman returning after parental leave.

Thanks to Prof. Dr. Thomas Zwick, for participating and sharing your knowledge and opinion.

In Part 2 of the interview with Prof. Janiesch, we talked about a recent survey that tries to identify factors for success of digital transformation projects, considering differences in companies’ intent and goal. Moreover we talked about the importance of education in the context of DT, the opportunities coming along with the internet of service, game-changing potential of 5G and future projects.

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In this Episode, I talked with Prof. Dr. Christian Janiesch, Junior Professor for Information Management at the University of Würzburg about the impact of digitization on society and business, the challenges and opportunities for organizations and about his key research topics: business process management and business intelligence. Moreover, we talked about the importance of seed projects and the long tail of digitization projects. 

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In the final part of the interview with Prof. Dr. Roland Bogaschewsky, head of the chair of business industry management at the University of Wuerzburg, we talked about procurement in the public sector.

As public institutions are mostly spending tax money, there is a general interest that they are working highly efficient. In order to improve the procurement process of public institutions, Prof. Dr. Roland Bogaschewsky has launched an open network platform for public procurers. The platform functions as an exchange platform for ideas, for experiences and for these documents that are needed in the tender processes. At the moment, around 20.000 members in the German speaking area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) are participating.

At the end of the talk, Prof. Bogaschewsky pointed out, what in his eyes and a procurement and SCM standpoint is the next economic game changer. Here, he talks about demography, market shifts and the importance of global thinking and acting.

Link to Prof. Dr. Roland Bogaschewsky: https://www.wiwi.uni-wuerzburg.de/de/lehrstuhl/bwl2/team/lehrstuhlinhaber/