Recent presentations & workshops
2025-4-29: Using AI to teach (Original German: KI in der Lehre nutzen). Introductory workshop for university lecturers on the use of AI in teaching. Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University.
2024-10-18: 購買プロセスのDXとAI戦略： 近年のドイツ企業における課題とベストプラクティス / DX and AI strategies for purchasing processes:Recent challenges and best practices in German companies. Invited lecture in Japanese at Tokyo University's Monodsukuri Management Research Consortium. Presentation on recent trends and best practices in purchasing process digitalization and AI strategies.
2024-3-18: Invited lecture in Japanese at the Collaborative DX Management Salon in Tokyo: "ドイツにおけるDXとインダストリー4.0：現状、課題、教訓"(DX and Industry 4.0 in Germany: Current Status, Challenges, and Lessons Learned). 【Collaborative DX経営サロン】 第9回 製造業 経営者・ビジネスリーダー勉強会欧州製造業の最新動向・日本製造業の課題 (Collaborative DX Management Salon 9th Study Session for Managers and Business Leaders in the Manufacturing Industry, The Latest Trend of European Manufacturing Industry and Challenges for Japanese Manufacturing Industry), Link. Presentation video (Japanese)
2024-3-14: Didactics workshop for professors: Using generative AI such as ChatGPT as a teaching and learning aid in university teaching (German, "Generative KI wie ChatGPT als Lehr- und Lernhilfe in der Hochschullehre").
2024-2-15: Didactics workshop for professors: Using team-based learning (TBL) - activating formats for a structured mix of individual and group work (German, "Team-based Learning (TBL) anwenden – aktivierende Formate zur strukturierten Mischung aus Einzel- und Gruppenarbeit").
Selected teaching
Advanced project management (Masters course, Business Engineering, TH Köln)
Lean Project Management (Masters course, Web Science, TH Köln)
Supply and Sales Management (Masters course, Business Engineering, TH Köln)
Playing Lean: Applied process improvement through serious games and simulations (German, for Bachelor students in Business Informatics and Business Engineering, TH Köln)
Older presentations
2016-11-19: Smarter, cleaner, fewer? Demand shifts and technological innovation from the carmakers‘ perspective. "Peak Car" panel presentation at the Annual Conference of the VSJF (German Association for Social Science Research on Japan): Mobility and the City of the Future. Duisburg, November 19, 2016. (Link)
2016-04-16: “The effect of institutional context on project management, department interface and information search in early innovation projects”. Presentation at the German Academic for Business Research Scientific Commission for International Manage-ment Annual Meeting, Fribourg, 2016-04-16.
2016-02-27: “Japanisches Management heute: Der Einfluss von nationalem Kontext zwischen Tradition und Innovation“. (Japanese management today: The influence of national context between tradition and innovation) Landesspracheninstitut Bochum.
2015-12-21: “Lean transformation: opportunities and challenges of transferring best practices across different implementation contexts”. Jacobs University Bremen.
2015-11-21: "Managing the Early Phase of Product Innovation in Japan and Germany". Presentation at the Asia Pacific Innovation Conference, 19-21 Nov., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
2015-11-20: "Innovation in the East Asian automotive industry: A structured review of what we know and how to use it". Presentation at the Asia Pacific Innovation Conference, 19-21 Nov., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
2015-10-30: "A structural equation model of coordination, motivation and communication in Japanese and German early innovation projects". Presentation at the 32nd EAMSA Annual Conference in 2015 SOAS, University of London.
"E-mobility時代におけるドイツ自動車産業の動向と展望 (2015-10-27: Guest lecture at the University of Tokyo Manufacturing Management Research Center, Executive Management Advisory Group: Presented in Japanese. English translation: "German Automotive Industry – Trends and Prospects in the Era of Electric Cars".
日本とドイツ自動車業界の挑戦. (2015-10-21: Guest lecture for management practitioners advisory group at Aoyama University, Tokyo: (In Japanese, English translation: "Challenges to the Japanese and German Automotive Industries").
2015-06-28: "With chopsticks and with forks: Untangling the fuzzy front end of innovation projects in Japan and Germany". Presentation at the Academy of International Business (AIB) Annual Conference, Bangalore, India.
2015-06-19: "Cruising East? A structured analysis of research on East Asian automotive innovation 2000-2015". Presentation at the Technovation Special Issue Workshop, June 19 2015, Duisburg-Essen University.
2015-06-19: "Introduction: Innovation in the East Asian Automotive Industry" Kick-off presentation the Technovation Special Issue Workshop, June 19 2015, Duisburg-Essen University.
2015-06-18: "Herding cats, mice and dogs: increasing technological breadth and its effects on information processing and coordination in automotive ECU procurement", 7th Scientific Forum on Mobility, June 18 2015, Duisburg-Essen University.
2015-06-13: HEV/EV用モーターの調達戦略に関する日独企業の比較－ダイナミック・ケイパビリティの視点から (In Japanese, English translation: “Comparing Japanese and German procurement strategies for HEV/EV motors from a dynamic capabilities perspective”. Presentation at the Society of Industrial Studies, Japan, June 13, 2015, based on joint paper with Yasuo Saeki of Ritsumeikan University. Underlying paper was among the top 30% of papers selected for publication in the Annals of the Society of Industrial Studies, Number 31, 2016.
2015-04-30: "Supplier selection and coordination: the effect of technical and economic characteristics of components on project purchasing strategies". In German: "Auswahl und Steuerung von Lieferanten: Einfluss technischer und betriebswirtschaftlicher Merkmale von Komponenten auf Strategien im Projekteinkauf". Presentation at the lecture series "Challenges for Automotive Engineering & Management", Duisburg-Essen University.
2015-04-27: "Innovation in the East Asian automotive industry and its effects on European companies." In German, "Innovationen in der Automobilindustrie Ostasiens und Auswirkungen auf europäische Unternehmen", Open lecture at Duisburg-Essen University for senior citizen students (Verein für Lebenslanges Lernen), Duisburg-Essen University
2015-03-27: "Effects of technological evolution on supply chain integration: Evidence from hybrid vehicle production and what we can learn for emerging markets." Presentation at the 7th Global Supply Chain Management Conference at Zhejiang University, China. Best paper award
2015-02-13: "Fighting for promotion, winning the title and the difficulty of avoiding relegation: change and constancy in Japanese firms". Presentation for practitioners at the LSI/Bochum on the historic rise and current challenges of Japanese companies with special focus on the automotive industry. In German: "Aufstiegskämpfe, Titelsieger und die Schwierigkeit des Klassenerhalts: Wandel und Konstanz in Japans Unternehmen", LSI Bochum.
Workshop & outreach activities:
2015-11-06: Organizer & moderator at alumni / student event "Speed Networking for Students with Alumni of the IN-EAST", 2015-11-06, Duisburg-Essen University.
2015-06-19: Managing Guest Editor of the Special Issue Technovation & International Workshop: "Innovation in the East Asian Automotive Industry“. Technovation is a high-impact journal for technological innovation and management. (Impact Factor: 2.7) (SJR Ranking). Workshop: 2015-06-19 to 20, Duisburg-Essen University, Campus Duisburg. (With Prof. Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo), Prof. Sven Horak, (St. John’s University, New York, USA), Prof. Werner Pascha (University of Duisburg-Essen), Prof. Markus Taube (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Prof. Miriam M. Wilhelm (Groningen University, Netherlands)). Call for papers.
2015-06-18: Panel organizer of the "International Track, 7. Scientific Forum Mobility: National and International Trends in Mobility“, 2015-06-18, Fraunhofer-inHaus-Zentrum, Duisburg. (With Prof. Markus Taube, Prof. Werner Pascha and Prof. Heike Proff, Duisburg-Essen University). Call for papers.
2015-05-19: Organizer of practitioner workshop on best practices of coordinating inter-firm integration and innovation in East/West M&As: "M&A workshop 2015: How to conduct a successful post merger integration?". (With Prof. Ralf Bebenroth and NRW Japan K.K.). Kobe University, Japan, May 19 2015. Details
2015-10-30: Best Reviewer Award of the Euro-Asia Management Studies Association, October 30, 2015.
2015-10-30: Panel Chair & Organizer "Innovation in Asia" at the EAMSA 2015 Conference, SOAS University of London, October 30 2015.
2015-06-19: Panel Chair "Innovation Strategies of Eastern and Western carmakers" at the Technovation Special Issue paper development workshop, June 19-20 2015, Duisburg-Essen University.
2015-06-18: Panel Chair "New Service and Product Business Models in International Comparison" at the 7th Scientific Forum Mobility, June 18 2015, Duisburg-Essen University.
2015-03-27: Panel Chair “Technology Management in Supply Chains” at the 7th Global Supply Chain Management Conference, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou/China, March 27-29 2015
2015-03-18: Panel Chair “E-commerce in China” at the Workshop on Innovation and Economic Development, Nankai University, Tianjin/China, March 18-19 2015.