André SchweizerUniversity of Bayreuth · FIM Research Center Finance & Information Management, Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT
André Schweizer
Master of Science with Honors
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Introduction
André Schweizer currently works at the FIM Research Center Finance & Information Management, Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT, University of Bayreuth. André does research in Blockchain and Strategic IT-Management. Their most recent publication is 'Entwicklung Disruptiver Innovationen mit Blockchain: Der Weg zum Richtigen Anwendungsfall'.
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The banking sector has been subject to fundamental changes as digitalization is enabling novel technology-driven banking services and is creating new customer demands. While banks face sluggish innovation processes, fintechs take advantage of the digital era, delivering customer-centric solutions. Although banks have realized that cooperation with...
Social businesses are increasingly gaining relevance as alternatives to traditional businesses. Nonetheless, such organizations face specific problems. The emerging blockchain technology may represent an opportunity to solve several problems of social businesses and an alternative to established technologies. However, evidence about the potential o...
Mit diesem Beitrag möchten wir die Grundlagen der Blockchain darlegen und das Konzept der Smart Contracts vorstellen. Anschließend diskutieren wir anhand von ausgewählten Anwendungsfällen die Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Blockchain in der Finanzbranche. Der Artikel endet mit einer kritischen Beurteilung des gegenwärtigen Stands von Blockchain und einem...
The advancements in the fields of IT and robotics are provoking the fourth industrial revolution and transforming our economy toward the machine economy. Billions of economically autonomous machines engaging in business relationships raise novel requirements regarding security, privacy, regulation, business models, trustful transaction processing,...
Die digitale Transformation in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft sorgt für eine Veränderung zahlreicher Prozesse. Immer kürzere Innovationszyklen, die zunehmend intelligentere Vernetzung sowie die daraus resultierenden enormen Informationsflüsse bedeuten einen herausfordernden Paradigmenwechsel für Unternehmen. Statt der reinen Entwicklung von Technologi...
Blockchain’s inherent characteristics render it a promising solution in collaborative supply chain networks. However, the technology still faces challenges in coopetition, as sharing business data on blockchains requires balancing the benefits of data transparency for process automation with concerns about exposing business information to competito...
Zusammenfassung
Kritische Infrastrukturen – wie diejenigen der Sektoren Wasser, Energie und Ernährung – bilden die Grundlage einer funktionierenden, modernen Gesellschaft. Eine Kompromittierung dieser Infrastrukturen kann zu weitreichenden Störungen und Gefahren für Leib und Leben führen. Der Schutz sowie die Sicherstellung des Betriebs kritischer...
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique and indivisible blockchain-based tokens introduced in late 2017. While fungible tokens have enabled new use cases such as Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the potentials of NFTs as a valuable component have not been fully exploited yet. Our work addresses this gap in theoretical and practical knowledge and demons...
In response to weaknesses of current network security solutions, the zero-trust model follows the idea that no network – whether internal or external – is trustworthy. The concept of zero-trust is enjoying increasing attention in both research and practice due to its promise to fulfil complex new network security requirements. Despite zero-trust's...
In the financial services industry, blockchain is assumed to have significant impacts. From research and practice, we observe two main paradigms of how organizations interact with blockchain. First, organizations use blockchain to optimize existing processes (blockchain-based business process optimization – BPO). Second, organizations use blockchai...
Recently a novel phenomenon, the machine economy, experiences rapidly increasing recognition from both research and practice. However, we still lack a thorough conceptual understanding of its driving technologies and their interrelations. This hampers the incorporation of the machine economy in today's organizations to unleash its full potential. T...
The phenomenon of a blockchain use case called initial coin offering (ICO) is drawing increasing attention as a novel funding mechanism. ICO is a crowdfunding type that utilizes blockchain tokens to allow for truly peer-to-peer investments. Although more than $7bn has been raised globally via ICOs as at 2018, the concept and its implications are no...
Supply chain literature has long recognized the benefits of information sharing. Researchers and practitioners see high potential for improving processes, enabling new replenishment policies , and enhancing supply chain integration. Even though information technology represents a vital role as a driver and a success factor for implementing informat...
The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the concept of physical objects equipped with identifying, sensing, networking, and processing capabilities being connected to the Internet. Architectures for the IoT typically rely on transmitting data to centralized cloud servers for processing. Although cloud services are supposed to enhance the IoT in stor...
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a new type of unique and indivisible blockchain-based tokens introduced in late 2017. While fungible tokens have enabled new use cases such as Initial Coin Offerings, the potential of NFTs as a valuable component remains unclear. This paper addresses this gap in theoretical and practical knowledge and demonstrates the...
Bitcoin as the first and still most important decentralized cryptocurrency has gained wide popularity due to the steep rise of its price during the second half of 2017. Because of its digital nature, Bitcoin cannot be valuated exclusively with fundamental approaches, which is why factors such as investor sentiment have become a common alternative t...
The sale of blockchain-based digital tokens as a novel funding mechanism, referred to as initial coin offerings (ICO), has grown exponentially, resulting in $12bn raised globally during the first half of 2018. Due to the novelty of the phenomenon, the concept is not yet entirely understood. Existing research provides first insights into ICO endeavo...
Digitalization is forcing organizations to continuously evaluate and innovate their business models. In particular, digital innovation is leading to fundamental changes in the financial services industry. Agile and innovative financial technology startups (fintechs) are known as a driver of these changes, since they address emerging customer demand...
Blockchain technology is a very recent and fast evolving phenomenon with the potential to disrupt various industries. Organizations are thus increasingly looking at the technology and are forming multi-functional teams to evaluate the technology and its impact on their businesses. However, researchers and practitioners still lack a technology-drive...
Interest in Blockchain technology is growing rapidly and at a global scale. As scrutiny from practitioners and researchers intensifies, various industries and use cases are identified that may benefit from adopting Blockchain. In this context, peer-to-peer (P2P) funding through initial coin offerings (ICOs) is often singled out as one of the most v...
Blockchain is rapidly evolving and there is an increasing interest in the technology in both practice and academia. Recently, a blockchain use case called Initial Coin Offering (ICO) draws a lot of attention. ICO is a novel form of crowdfunding that utilizes blockchain tokens to allow for truly peer-to-peer investments. Although, more than 4.5 bill...
The public sector presents several promising applications for blockchain technology. Global organizations and innovative ministries in countries such as Dubai, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, and Germany have recognized these potentials and have initiated projects to evaluate the adoption of blockchain technology. As these projects can have a far...
Interest in blockchain is growing rapidly and at a global scale. The potential to disrupt various industries is attributed to the emerging blockchain technology. Organizations and institutions have thus begun to examine the emerging the technology and its impact on their businesses. However, researchers and practitioners still lack a systematic app...
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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Schlatt, V., Schweizer, A., Urbach, N., and Fridgen, G. 2016. Blockchain: Grundlagen, Anwendungen und Potenziale. Projektgruppe Wirtschaftsinformatik des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT Bildquellen Titelseite: © arrow/fotolia.de Alle übrigen Abbildungen: © Fraunhofer FIT Disclaimer Dieses White Pa...
Professional Service Firms (PSFs) such as accounting, consulting, law, engineering or advertising firms increasingly face changing attitudes and fluctuation among young people with high potential who question traditional career and human resource (HR) concepts. In this context, it seems vital to foster a spirit of corporate entrepreneurship in PSFs...