Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis or Project Study
📌 Key facts
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💡 Background
The news is packed with statistics and updates on the challenges we face as global citizens. Sometimes it can seem as though there are too many – from a global pandemic, to climate change, to the high rate of gender inequality, and the many people living without access to medical care. Unfortunately, there is a multitude of such problems and having a holistic view of all of them is crucial to their understanding and solving. The UN has defined 22 global issues, the EU hast defined societal challenges, and many other organizations have similar lists which will serve you as a start. We want you to identify the biggest challenges of humanity, the world, organisations, society, and the economy from various sources. You could for example create clusters or a hierarchy of problems and solutions.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on doing 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 academic literature on the topic
- Compile an overview and a list of the biggest challenges
- Discuss what solution approaches are being discussed
- Determine what is missing from the discussion
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for Customer Centricity / Product Design / Organizational Design
- 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 a 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 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!