Digital Business Transformation

Research group

 

The team of the Blum endowed professorship and the Digital Business Transformation research group support Vorarlberg-based companies and students in navigating digital technologies – with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI). The focus is on supporting projects and events related to the digital transformation of business models, as well as developing the necessary competencies for working in digitally shaped environments.

Application-oriented research is combined with the latest scientific findings.

Research focus

Effective collaboration: humans & AI  

What makes human-AI collaboration really effective? Developing target images for effective human-AI collaboration, analysing different forms of collaboration and designing the roles of humans and AI. The focus is on the analysis of changing competence requirements and the consideration of relevant processes such as business decisions, expert activities, consumer behaviour as well as teaching and learning processes.

Digital work  

How do strategy, structure and motivation influence the interaction between people and technology? Analysis of organisations as an interplay of strategy, structure, processes, people and motivation. The focus is on identifying organisational factors that promote effective and motivating collaboration between humans and AI.

Digital business models  

What makes digital business models economically successful - today and tomorrow? Investigating the use of AI in companies to create sustainable competitive advantages and analysing the potential for economic success along the business model dimensions of value proposition, value creation and value creation.

Design of  the digital transformaiton  

How can the path to the digital future be successful? Focus on the transformation process from the status quo to the target image: on an individual level, the change in learning and skills, on an organisational level, the development of organisational designs and on a strategic level, the adaptation of business models.

The Digital Business Transformation research group team

Would you like to learn more about research at FHV? The research team welcomes enquiries regarding collaborative projects, strategic partnerships, or opportunities to contribute to our ongoing research activities: digitales-laendle@fhv.at

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