Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis or Project Study
📌 Key facts
Contents
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals
- 🧠 Topics of Interest
- 🎓 Profile
- 📚 Further Reading
- 📄 Requirements to any Work
- 📬 How to Apply
💡 Background
You are interested in the latest innovations in the fields of Hardware and Cloud Computing, especially in the area of Software as a Service? In these promising areas many new startups with new business models are evolving. We have created a data record, comprising 1450 bootstrapped companies, with their monthly revenue, a link to their company/founder profile and the corresponding category (Hardware, Saas, etc.). Using this dataset you could analyse the underlying ideation frameworks and determine rising sectors.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- Research successful founders in the fields of Hardware and Cloud Computing
- Map the companys to Ideation Frameworks
- Determine the most promising Ideation Frameworks
- Determine the most promising sectors
- Visualize your results
🧠 Topics of Interest
- Innovation in the fields of Hardware and Cloud Computing
- Dealing with big data
- Finding innovative ideas
- Entrepreneurship in general
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for innovation / Hardware and Cloud Computing / entrepreneurship / venture capital
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside the university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!