This table shows you all topics and their corresponding questions with initial resources as a starting point. Include more than 5 references for Part 1.
In Part 2, use further resources that you find helpful to answer the questions.
Most topics will touch the overarching topics of blockchain, entrepreneurship and diversity, or AI but some might deviate from those topics.
🆙A collection resources, that could be relevant for many blockchain topics: https://thealpharchives.com/ and click here for references.
AI Strategic Managment Literature
Nr. | Topic | Questions to answer | Initial Resources | Contact | YOUR NAME | |
1 | Blockchain | What is an NFT from the technological perspective?
Where are the problems? Is the NFT content really on the blockchain?
What is Staking and how does Proof-of-Stake for Ethereum Work? What is the Internet Computer by DFINITY? | https://twitter.com/vdWijden/status/1513447176344588295
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nfts-repairing-business-affairs-resolving-scandals-keir-finlow-bates/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-royalties-dreams-keir-finlow-bates/?trackingId=cEfcuvQUQWqzKO4hvUaJaA%3D%3D
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nfts-how-i-learned-stop-worrying-love-community-keir-finlow-bates/?trackingId=6BG5zTubRMKtrjkEpVEEjg%3D%3D | PM | ||
2 | Blockchain | What is a DAO or a DAC? Which are the most promising and biggest ones at the moment?
What is Tokenomics and what are best practices for the Governance of a DAO? | https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-NEXT-GENERATION-SMART-CONTRACT-%26-DECENTRALIZED-Buterin/0dbb8a54ca5066b82fa086bbf5db4c54b947719a
https://stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/pub/rise-of-daos/release/1
https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/
https://daomasters.mirror.xyz/SpQM5RxA2GvUq2KfZXrHMtVYQCiIBHfB5hkTIsfzAyw | PM | ||
3 | Blockchain | What is Tokenomics? What are L2 Tokens?
What are best practices and what should you avoid? Examples? Why is it interesting? | PM | |||
4 | Blockchain | Where do you find the best industry reports on Blockchain, DLT, DeFi and NFTs?
Who publishes those reports?
Do they have contradicting results?
| https://www.statista.com/topics/8513/nft/#dossierContents__outerWrapper
https://nonfungible.com/news/corporate/yearly-nft-market-report-2021
Consultancies like McKinsey & Co., Bain, BCG or Accenture?
Government Ministries?
Twitter Users in the space? Medium? Startups? | PM | ||
5 | Blockchain | What is the next big thing in the blockchain world?
Is decentralization an issue in web3?
Are high value individuals and VC a problem in web3?
In what way are Venture Capital firms accepting Tokens when they invest in web3 startups?
| PM | |||
6 | Blockchain | What is the adoption rate of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in Germany, the UK & other parts of the world?
How do people (not organizations) perceive blockchain technology?
Who is leading in Social Tokens, Collectibles, Gaming & Media in combination with blockchain? | PM | |||
7 | Blockchain | What are the most promising use cases for NFTs besides simple art and gifs?
What utility can NFTs have?
For which type of content are there NFTs? | PM | |||
8 | Blockchain | How can content creators monetize their content?
What is the future of content monetization? - for videos? podcasters? music? pictures? Examples and projects? | PM | Ognyana Dineva | ||
9 | Blockchain | What are current problems of content creators, especially Podcasters and Video creators concerning the platform they use and the way they monetize their content?
How is blockchain helping those content creators?
How can Podcasters and video creators use blockchain to monetize their content? | Startup Examples:
https://airtable.com/shrDWqZB6IFXMMrRt/tblXeHK4BsxdTGaf9 | PM | ||
10 | Blockchain | Which characteristics of blockchain are the most sought after for ordinary people? (e.g. self-sovereign-identity, micro transactions, fractionalization, tokenization of assets?) Examples of Startups using them? | PM | |||
11 | Startups | Valuation
How is the value of a start-up determined?
How does startup valuation work compared to traditional company valuation?
How does the valuation evolve over the life cycle of a startup?
How does the IPO valuation work at time of an IPO?
What role do the different investors play in determining the valuation?
Debt vs. equity - when to use which type of funding for a startup?
How does debt influence a valuation?
What factors impact valuation (e.g., geography, etc.)? | The Contracting and Valuation of Venture Capital-Backed Companies by Will Gornall, Ilya A. Strebulaev :: SSRN
https://www.feedough.com/startup-funding-rounds-seed-series-a-b-c-explained/
https://www.rocketlawyer.com/business-and-contracts/business-operations/corporate-finance/legal-guide/how-the-ipo-process-for-startups-works
https://fortune.com/2017/03/23/when-should-startups-use-debt/#:~:text=The best time for startups to raise debt,investors are tapped out in their older funds. | RJ | Sandra de Miguel | |
12 | Startups | Founder Team
What characteristics (number, gender, age) do typical founder teams have?
Are founding teams more successful compared to single founders?
What is the most common way, how founders get to know each other?
Same and same or same and different - do co-founders harmonize better if they are similar or different in education background? | RJ | |||
13 | Startups | Personality
What roles does the personality of a startup founder play?
How can personality be measured?
What are external data sources to measure personality?
Do VCs measure personality prior to investment via surveys or external sources? | Using available signals on LinkedIn for personality assessment - ScienceDirect
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00970.x
https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/spc3.12624
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1748-8583.12356?casa_token=hSSyw5JC-xMAAAAA:3N-NCsRWJQFXOgX_FHmMzJdgMYGmUcOjqOGApbeY7WW1pDDhrMi6-ttXhr14zUW5yHlYl3aA6d7Wso8
https://journalofbigdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40537-021-00459-1 | RJ | Janina Topp | |
14 | Startups | Machine Learning, AI and VCs
How can machine learning algorithms be used in the venture capital / angle investor context?
How does a typical VC process look like?
How can they be leverage prior-investment into start-ups and post-investment?
It the investment worth it given small VC teams? | Human Versus Computer: Benchmarking Venture Capitalists and Machine Learning Algorithms for Investment Screening by Andre Retterath :: SSRN
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-019-00595-2
https://hbr.org/2020/11/do-algorithms-make-better-and-fairer-investments-than-angel-investors
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335513573_Assessment_of_Machine_Learning_Performance_for_Decision_Support_in_Venture_Capital_Investments
https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-rctom/submission/man-or-machine-does-ai-have-a-place-in-venture-capital/ | RJ | ||
15 | Startups | Impact
What is the role of societal or environmental impact in the startup context?
Are there VCs focused specifically on impactful start-ups? If yes - how does their business model differ from traditional VCs?
What are examples of VCs (not PEs) that focus on impact?
Can start-ups be impactful and equally profitable as non-impactful start-ups? | https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability/our-insights/how-impact-investing-can-reach-the-mainstream
Smart green VCs you should know - ECOSUMMIT - Accelerating smart green startups
https://www.forbes.com/sites/francoisbotha/2020/06/26/what-benchmarks-reveal-about-the-profitability-of-impact-investing/?sh=5ecd6f003a64 | RJ | carlota teixidó pascual | |
16 | Startups | Diversity
Gender
Looking at numbers: are start-ups founded my men more profitable, than startups founded by women? What about mixed founding teams?
Are women approaching a startup differently than men (e.g., in funding, employee growth, marketing, negotiation strategy, etc.)?
Is society/media perceiving female founders different than male founders? | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-020-00403-2
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.1120.1674
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6883895474588286976-N1Zf?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6520.2006.00141.x
| RJ | ||
17 | Startups | Diversity
Race/Ethnicity
What are the challenges for founders who belong to a minority? Is there a difference between minorities in the US (US literature/sources) and Germany, given the different demographics?
How do the concepts of intersectionality and dual-subordinate identity fit into this context? | https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1151&context=mgmt_papers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#:~:text=The demography of Germany is monitored by the,and the most populous in the European Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States
https://startupverband.de/events/migrant-founders-5-5-22 | RJ | ||
18 | Strategic Management & AI | Generating value with AI
Main RQ: Where (areas) and how can AI generate value for strategists (people who create strategies)?
Sub research questions (RQ):
- How can AI automate processes in strategic management?
- How can AI improve decision making in strategic management?
- Where can’t AI generate value today (and everybody thinks it could)?
- What, when there is no data to analyze (i.e. about competitors strategic moves) - can AI still create value?
- Can AI create value through being creative and by generating strategies?
- Which value can AI generate with identifying future trends?
—> Always show sources in footer of PP-slides! | Intro literature review:
Conduct literature review (Link)
Intro AI:
Medium Intro AI (Link)
AI for Management (Link)
Executive Guide AI (Link)
AI applications (Link)
Initial literature:
Managing AI Decision-Making Tools (Link)
The Building Blocks of an AI Strategy (Link)
Competing in the age of AI (Link)
AI generate Strategy (Link)
AI Decision Making (Link)
AI Strategy Work (Link)
AI in Strategizing (Link) —> Full sources of presentation here (Link)
Book: Duhaim I. M. et al. (2021). Strategic Management: State of the Field and Its Future | FP | Yuhang Cui | |
19 | Strategic Management & AI | AI for strategic analysis
Main RQ: How can AI support strategic analysis?
Sub research questions (RQ):
- In which different areas of analysis can AI be used?
- Which insights can AI give strategists?
- What are specific use cases in which AI can support strategic analysis?
- Which AI methods can be used for those use cases?
- Be creative: how can AI support strategic analysis in the future?
- What initiatives in this field does academic literature already have identified?
—> Always show sources in footer of PP-slides! | Intro literature review:
Conduct literature review (Link)
Intro AI:
Medium Intro AI (Link)
AI for Management (Link)
Executive Guide AI (Link)
AI applications (Link)
Initial literature:
Strategy For and With AI (Link)
AI generate Strategy (Link)
AI Decision Making (Link)
AI Strategy Work (Link)
AI in Strategizing (Link) —> Full sources of presentation here (Link)
Book: Duhaim I. M. et al. (2021). Strategic Management: State of the Field and Its Future | FP | ||
20 | Strategic Management & AI | AI for strategy formulation & implementation
Main RQ: How can AI support the formulation & implementation of corporate strategies?
Sub research questions (RQ):
- What are specific use cases in which AI can support strategy formulation and implementation?
- Which AI methods can be used for those use cases?
- Be creative: how can AI support strategy formulation & implementation in the future?
- What initiatives in this field does academic literature already have identified?
—> Always show sources in footer of PP-slides! | Intro literature review:
Conduct literature review (Link)
Intro AI:
Medium Intro AI (Link)
AI for Management (Link)
Executive Guide AI (Link)
AI applications (Link)
Initial literature:
Generate Corporate Strategy (Link)
AI generate Strategy (Link)
AI Decision Making (Link)
AI Strategy Work (Link)
AI in Strategizing (Link) —> Full sources of presentation here (Link)
Book: Duhaim I. M. et al. (2021). Strategic Management: State of the Field and Its Future | FP | ||
21 | Strategic Management & AI | Challenges, limitations & risks of AI for strategizing
Main RQ: What are challenges, limitations and risks when using AI for strategizing?
Sub research questions (RQ):
- What can’t AI do (today) in strategizing? Why not?
- How can managers limit/reduce the risk associated with such challenges?
- Will AI replace strategists? Why/why not?
- Which of the identified limits/challenges are only limits today and will not be in the future (i.e. technological advancements)? Why?
- How to overcome the challenges AI has?
- What challenges/limits/risks does academic literature already have identified?
—> Always show sources in footer of PP-slides! | Intro literature review:
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Intro AI:
Medium Intro AI (Link)
AI for Management (Link)
Executive Guide AI (Link)
AI applications (Link)
Initial literature:
AI generate Strategy (Link)
Why AI Will Never Replace Managers (Link)
Biases of AI (Link)
Stanford AI Risks (Link)
AI Limitations (Link)
AI Decision Making (Link)
AI Strategy Work (Link)
AI in Strategizing (Link) —> Full sources of presentation here (Link)
Book: Duhaim I. M. et al. (2021). Strategic Management: State of the Field and Its Future | FP | Meghavi Trivedi | |
22 | Strategic Management & AI | Implementing AI for strategizing
Main RQ: How can AI initiatives for strategizing be implemented?
Sub research questions (RQ):
- How can the most promising/most value generating initiatives be identified?
- How can initiatives be prioritized?
- What are the steps to implement AI?
- Which factors matter when implementing AI for strategizing in organizations?
- What implementation strategies does academic literature already have identified?
—> Always show sources in footer of PP-slides! | Intro literature review:
Conduct literature review (Link)
Intro AI:
Medium Intro AI (Link)
AI for Management (Link)
Executive Guide AI (Link)
AI applications (Link)
Initial literature:
Hot to Scale AI in Your Organization (Link)
Where to start (Link)
Building AI Powered Organization (Link)
AI generate Strategy (Link)
AI Decision Making (Link)
AI Strategy Work (Link)
AI in Strategizing (Link) —> Full sources of presentation here (Link)
Book: Duhaim I. M. et al. (2021). Strategic Management: State of the Field and Its Future | FP | ||
23 | Strategic Management & AI | AI strategizing use cases/case studies
Main RQ: How do leading German/Munich based Organizations use AI for strategizing (strategic analysis, strategy formulation & implementation)? (i.e. Siemens, SAP, BMW, Allianz, Man, Audi, Deutsche Telekom, Linde, Münchner Rück, McKinsey, BCG, MTU, Telefónica, Microsoft, ...)
Sub research questions (RQ):
- If they are not using it/there is no public information, how could those organizations use AI for strategizing? Create company specific use-cases/case studies!
- How can AI help/support strategists? What can it do?
- Which AI methods are/can be used for strategizing?
—> Always show sources in footer of PP-slides! | Intro literature review:
Conduct literature review (Link)
Intro AI:
Medium Intro AI (Link)
AI for Management (Link)
Executive Guide AI (Link)
AI applications (Link)
Initial literature:
AI Decision Making (Link)
AI Strategy Work (Link)
BMW AI (Link)
Siemens AI (Link)
AI generate Strategy (Link)
Generate Corporate Strategy (Link)
Why AI Will Never Replace Managers (Link)
AI in Strategizing (Link) —> Full sources of presentation here (Link)
Book: Duhaim I. M. et al. (2021). Strategic Management: State of the Field and Its Future | FP | ||
24 | Web 3 | Web3 and Human Resources? | PM, IW | |||
25 | Web 3 | Web3 and Marketing? | PM, IW | Anna Illarionova | ||
26 | Web 3 | Web3 and Business model innovation and new revenue streams? | PM, IW | |||
27 | Web 3 | Web3 und teamwork, new work and working together? | PM, IW | |||
28 | Web 3 | Web3 onboarding of established firms | PM, IW | |||
29 | Web 3 | Web3 und Innovation in Firms and Startups and Venture Capital? | PM, IW | |||
30 | Web3 | Web3 and Pharma and Health Industry? | PM, IW | |||
31 | Web 3 | Web3 and community building? | PM, IW | |||
32 | Web3 | What are the most common pitfalls for web3 founders?
How is founding in web3 different from web2? | PM, IW | |||
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33 | Web 3 | Web 3 and Banking? | NA | |||
34 | Web3 | Web 3 and Automotive and Mobility Industry? | NA | |||
35 | Web3 | Web3 and Education? | NA | |||
36 | Web 3 | Web 3 and Insurance? | NA | |||
37 | Web 3 | Web3 and customer focus? | NA | |||
38 | Web 3 | Web3 and interoperability? | NA |