All projects from the School of Management and Law
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A Governance Framework for the Swiss Blockchain Ecosystem
This study intends to provide initial guidance on how to develop a blockchain governance framework for practical use scientifically. The framework will enable business to expand its services to organizations operating in the still growing Swiss blockchain economy. To this end, the study aims to outline a possible ...
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BFE System Adequacy 2022
Study on security of supply in the electricity sector. Support in modeling the appropriate generation and system capacity (system adequacy) in Switzerland in the electricity sector.
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Blockchain Technology in Interorganizational Collaboration
The term ‘Blockchain Technology’ is currently a buzzword and is not always clearly defined. Different stakeholders have a different understanding of what it is and how it can be applied for fostering and enhancing the collaboration within business networks and ecosystems. Currently, we would define ‘blockchain’ as a ...
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Design Thinking Projects 2022
The design thinking projects are carried out as part of the elective modules "Design Thinking" in the Master in Business Administration with specialization in Marketing and "Customer Centric Innovation" in the Master in Business Administration with specialization in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The projects aim ...
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Digital (public) Health Hackathon
The Digital Health Lab (DHL) is initially planning a closed hackathon with an experienced partner, organized by the Institute of Business Information Technology (IWI). Thus, experiences shall be gathered to work on problems from the healthcare environment in annually recurring open hackathons and similar formats. In ...
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Micromate – Learning support through digital learning assistant
Development and testing of a digital learning assistant that counteracts the dwindling information literacy. Learning processes that adapt to individual needs not only serve to impart knowledge, but also promote independent knowledge acquisition.
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Monitoring eCH Standards
The eCH association promotes, develops and adopts standards in the field of e-government for efficient, electronic collaboration between public authorities, companies and private individuals. The eCH association is planning various activities to anchor its standards more firmly. One measure is the development of a ...
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no1s1 - A house owned by no one but itself
The project enhances Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and supports practitioners in the design and implementation of DAOs. For the first time, a DAO owning physical (and not only digital) assets is studied. For this, the No1s1 prototype is built – a physical space that owns and manages itself over an ...
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Parliamentary Friendship Group Switzerland-Japan
The purpose of the parliamentary friendship group Switzerland-Japan is to promote contacts between parliamentarians of the two states.
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Potential analysis of the need for standardisation in the thematic field of technology
The eCH association promotes, develops and adopts standards in the area of eGovernment for efficient, electronic collaboration between public authorities, companies and private individuals. On behalf of eCH, the Institute for Information Systems at the ZHAW School of Management and Law investigated the need for ...
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Smart Hospital – Integrated Framework, Tools & Solutions (SHIFT)
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WISER – Digital ecosystem for environmental data and greenhouse gas accounting
Private and public actors face two systemic challenges when conducting greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting as part of their sustainability assessments. First, there is a persistent lack of methodologically sound pathways to streamline the assessment of carbon footprints and resulting decarbonisation strategies. This ...
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Dashboard development for the international project evaluation of Caritas Switzerland
The aim of this project is to develop a dashboard that enables the interactive evaluation of the standard indicators of Caritas Switzerland's international projects. The content of the dashboard thereby forms an essential basis for strategic project management as well as for accountability in the context of the ...
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Breaking Security for Fun and Profit – Educational Bug Bounties for Micro Enterprises
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Development of Customizable ESG-compliant Financial Products for Swiss Asset Owners and Managers
Development of forward-looking ESG-compliant methods for systematic strategies on equities, corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, responsible shorting, and option overlays.
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Online Retailer Survey 2022
The Swiss Online Retailer Survey 2022 is the fifth online retail survey the first author has conducted. A total of 625 online retailers participated in it, including business-to-consumer (88%), business-to-business (43%), and direct-toconsumer (13%) companies. In addition to 496 Swiss retailers, 109 Austrian online ...
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ProdUse – Closing the gap between model-based energy scenarios and its potential users to support evidence-based decision-making for the transformation of the Swiss energy system
Model-based energy scenarios can guide decision-making under considerable uncertainty by conceptualizing multiple pathways and assessing associated trade-offs. Although energy transitions require various actors to make long-term and resource-intensive decisions with low margins of error, empirical evidence of how ...
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The Economic Reconstruction of Belarus
The economic performance of Belarus has been unimpressive ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, due mainly to the country’s lack of serious structural reforms. This study examines the consequences of this benign neglect should a democratic transition occur and attempts to understand the assistance that may be ...
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Visibility of soft skills in the agile organization
The idea is to create a toolkit/cockpit to make soft skills continuously visible. Such a tool could help teams identify their collaborative skills to drive optimization and innovation simultaneously. Especially in agile transformation processes and new work situations, soft skills play a crucial but often ...
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Prognostic Scoring of Innovations in Green-Tech patent clusters using Natural Language Processing
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Tele-Assessment: Leveraging Deep Learning to Assess Upper Limb Kinematics after Stroke with Off-the-shelf Webcams
We are developing and validating a camera-based compensation classifier ("3C") for tele-neurorehabilitation to distinguish normal arm movements from those with compensation. The algorithm can be used with a webcam alone or in combination with an inertial measurement unit (IMU). This method improves ...
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Green!Tea – Prospective life cycle assessment of agrivoltaics in the tea sector
Agrivoltaics (APV) is a promising approach to produce renewable electricity and agricultural goods on the same piece of land. It therefore contributes to defusing land-use conflicts. Besides electricity production, APV creates favorable microclimates with a reduced dependency on irrigation and mineral fertilizers. ...
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Sustainable Lending
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Flexible Learning Research
In 2014, the School of Management and Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) launched FLEX, a blended learning format that offers students more flexibility in when and where they want to learn. FLEX reduces classroom learning time by about half and provides a digital learning environment for ...
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Serious game for participative land use planning in São Tomé and Principe
The project addresses land use planning of an island nation in the context of climate change, economic use of natural resources, and ecosystem conservation and protection. This project will develop and test a serious game for participatory landscape planning in São Tomé and Príncipe. The goal is to: (I) understand ...