Thorsten SchoormannUniversität Hildesheim
Thorsten Schoormann
Dr. (PhD)
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Introduction
My research interests include sustainability, business model innovation, business process management and supporting (digital) tools, as well as design science research and taxonomies.
Additional affiliations
October 2019 - present
January 2017 - November 2019
Position
- Research Project
Description
- Research Project: Smart Hybrid - Process Engineering
May 2015 - September 2019
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Lectures in Enterprise Modeling, Information Systems and Business Modeling (Sustainability)
Education
November 2015 - September 2019
April 2014 - May 2015
April 2011 - April 2014
Publications
Publications (59)
Software tools for business model development hold great promise for supporting business model innovation, but nonetheless, virtually no design-relevant knowledge exists concerning the functions that such tools should possess. As a result, practitioners lack guidance for choosing software tools, and researchers lack a foundation for advancing knowl...
Taxonomies constitute one fundamental type of artefact in design science, describing and classifying existing or future objects of a domain. Taxonomies support researchers and practitioners with analysing and understanding a domain, which in turn is a prerequisite for theory building. Despite the increasing interest in taxonomies (and methodologica...
The development of business models that boost fundamental changes in behavior to act more economically, ecologically, and socially is a challenging task because the consideration of sustainability is a multidimensional problem characterized by uncertainty and value conflicts. In order to deal with such complex tasks, methodological and technical to...
Understanding the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is crucial to contribute to sustainable development including the most fundamental challenges of our society, such as climate change, healthy lives, and inclusive economic growth. As Information Systems (IS) research has a great tradition of investigating how technology and methods can be emplo...
Taxonomies are classification systems that help researchers conceptualize phenomena based on their dimensions and characteristics. To address the problem of 'ad-hoc' taxonomy building, Nickerson et al. (2013) proposed a rigorous taxonomy development method for information systems researchers. Eight years on, however, the status quo of taxonomy rese...
Fulfilment is a key driver for the digitalisation of the grocery sector and thus a major source of value creation. Although value creation is contingent on a multiplicity of contextual factors, extant research has mainly explored fulfilment in the generic realms of e-commerce and does not provide empirically grounded insights into the collective in...
The booming adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) likewise poses benefits and challenges. In this paper, we particularly focus on the bright side of AI and its promising potential to face our society’s grand challenges. Given this potential, different studies have already conducted valuable work by conceptualizing specific facets of AI and susta...
Data ecosystems are a novel approach to enabledata sharing on an organizational and personal level. The track ‘Designing Data Ecosystems: Values,
Impacts, and Fundamentals’ invited papers on various issues exploring the phenomenon of data ecosystems from multiple angles. Themes included the
fundamentals of data sharing, incentives, and barriers to...
Abstracting and formalizing knowledge collected throughout a design science research (DSR) project is important to inform the design of future artifacts. Design principles are one of the prevailing forms to capture design-relevant knowledge and guide both research and practice to build new artifacts. Although today's DSR projects are often agile an...
One of Design Science Research's (DSR) principal purposes is to generate and codify design knowledge. Codification in DSR is done by providing clear chunks of prescriptive knowledge that guide the design of future solutions, including instructions on how to design (parts of) artifacts. Although various codification mechanisms have emerged over the...
Theory is an essential part of design research and helps us to explain what we see or guide what we design. In the paper, we shed light on how kernel theories are used in developing design principles in Design Science Research (DSR). We do this by reporting on a systematic literature review, from which we have extracted a set of six mechanisms to o...
Design principles capture prescriptive design knowledge to guide design science researchers and design professionals in their design works. In the context of a transdisciplinary team, design principles can also be a powerful vehicle to bridge knowledge barriers and facilitate collaboration among team members with different backgrounds and expertise...
The development of design principles is an important ingredient in design science research. Design principles capture and formalize lessons learned from a situational design endeavour to guide both academics and practitioners alike in build-ing similar artefacts. Although the development procedure is highly iterative and creative, it requires a cer...
Taxonomies are artifacts that can be used for numerous purposes, including gap spotting, decision-making, and theory building. Despite the variety of usage purposes, we can observe that designers state that their taxonomies help to ‘classify something’; leaving the full potential of taxonomies rather untapped. In order to lay attention on questions...
Formulating design principles is the primary mechanism to codify design knowledge which elevates its meaning to a general level and applicability. Although we can observe a great variety of abstraction levels in available design principles, spanning from more situated to more generic levels, there is only limited knowledge about the corresponding (...
Classification is an essential approach in business model research. Empirical classifications, termed taxonomies, are widespread in and beyond Information Systems (IS) and enjoy high popularity as both stand-alone artifacts and the foundation for further application. In this article, we focus on the study of empirical business model taxonomies for...
Mobility is an essential need that requires novel opportunities enabling us to travel more sustainably. In attempting to address this, our university—the University Hildesheim—, located within a city of about 100.000 residents seeks to improve especially the student’s and employee’s arrival approaches to, for instance, reduce greenhouse emissions c...
Museums preserve the cultural heritage and aim at providing study and education as well as enjoyment for the general public. In pursuing their missions, museums are increasingly concerned with making these experiences digitally available. Therefore, they start to use online platforms that make cultural objects publicly accessible, and therefore all...
Purpose. This study reports on a master-level university course that teaches sustainability by conveying factual and methodological knowledge in terms of business model development.
Design/methodology/approach. We designed the course based on several years of experience and knowledge obtained from previous iterations. For evaluating the course’s u...
Das Erreichen der Nachhaltigkeitsziele der Vereinten Nationen stellt eine der wichtigsten Herausforderungen der heutigen Zeit dar, welche Transformationen in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft unumgänglich machen. Die Entwicklung innovativer Geschäftsmodelle und deren Umsetzung in sich stetig neu bildenden Wertschöpfungssystemen spielen bei dieser Transfo...
Accumulating prescriptive design knowledge, such as design principles (DP), is one of the fundamental goals in design science research projects. As previous studies have examined the use of DPs in practice to advance the development and communication of such principles, we argue that this attention also needs to be paid to how and for what research...
Researchers and practitioners often face challenges in structuring
larger design projects and, therefore, struggle to capture, discuss, and reflect on
essential components that should be considered. These first steps are, however,
of great importance because decisions such as in terms of selecting an underpinning (kernel) theory, following certai...
Researchers often face challenges already in the early stages of a literature review, and thus, struggle in getting started with the search and in organizing the process. This starting point is however of great relevance because design decisions such as in terms of corpus creation have impacts on the entire results of the review. By following the d...
In face of the complexities of business models as well as their dynamic and uncertain environments, business model designers increasingly rely on a systemic view, for example by applying System Dynamics. Despite acceptance in research and practice, this approach comes however with several drawbacks such as high complexity of model construction and...
Although it is widely accepted to differentiate between economic, ecological, and social dimensions for sustainability, social concerns are often treated with secondary importance. In line with this, also authors from Information Systems (IS) tend, in addition to its economic obligations, to focus on the natural environment and rather neglect the s...
Zusammenfassung
Die Kooperation von Wissenschaft und Praxis in anwendungsorientierten Förderprojekten ist zu einem wesentlichen Instrument der Forschung avanciert und intensiviert den Austausch von realen Problemstellungen und innovativen Lösungsansätzen. Themenschwerpunkte, die ein hohes Innovationspotenzial aufweisen, aber noch unscharf diskutier...
Yet despite the great interest in taxonomies, there is virtually no guidance on how to purposefully visualize them. Interestingly, taxonomies are visualized in ways as diverse as morphological boxes, hierarchies and mathematical sets, to name three typical examples. As a result, taxonomy builders face the following question: Which type of taxonomy...
Taxonomies are design science artifacts used by researchers and practitioners to describe and classify existing or future objects of a domain. As such, they constitute a necessary foundation for theory building. Yet despite the great interest in taxonomies, there is virtually no guidance on how to rigorously evaluate them. Based on a literature rev...
In creative work such as design thinking projects, teams mostly seek to solve complex (wicked) problems as well as situations of uncertainty and value conflicts. To design solutions that cope with these aspects, teams usually start doing something, reflect on their results, and adjust their process. By actually doing something, tacit knowledge (i.e...
![Fig. 2: Research process (adapted from [KV08])](profile/Simon-Hagen-2/publication/341822122/figure/fig2/AS:897908668911618@1591089517941/Research-process-adapted-from-KV08_Q320.jpg)
In an increasingly dynamic environment, organizations need to be able to constantly adapt their business model. When making decisions in terms of adapting a business model, the operative structures that help to implement these adaptations need to be considered as well. Changes in both layers, the business model as well as the business processes, ha...
In order to face fundamental challenges of our society, sustainability has gained of increased interest for business research and practice. One approach that facilitates transforming businesses into more sustainable entities is business process management (BPM). While previous research on sustainable BPM (e.g., Green BPM) seeks to consider ecologic...
Taxonomies are design science artifacts used by researchers and practitioners to describe and classify existing or future objects of a domain. As such, they constitute a necessary foundation for theory building. Yet despite the great interest in taxonomies, there is virtually no guidance on how to rigorously evaluate them. Based on a literature rev...
Business research and practice increasingly focus on integrating sustainability in organizations. To contribute to rising challenges related to the society and the environment, sustainability-driven concepts (e.g., environmental-friendly) have to be implemented in the daily business routines, and thus, need to be considered during the design of bus...
Zusammenfassung
Kreativität ist zu einem fundamentalen Faktor für Unternehmen und Organisationen geworden, um bspw. neuartige Produkte und Dienstleistungen oder innovative Geschäftsmodelle zu entwickeln, die das Sicherstellen der langfristigen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ermöglichen. Zur Förderung von Kreativität kann auf kollaborative und iterative Vorge...
Successful innovation is the key to generate novel business model ideas. Current real-world challenges such as the deterioration of the natural environment require practitioners and academics alike to identify new ways of acting and behaving. Living the ‘virtues of German engineering’ in information systems research, we aim at supporting business m...
Business models can boost fundamental changes in behavior to act more economically, ecologically, and socially. To support the development of such business models, various approaches like business model notations and software tools have been proposed. However, while most of these approaches focus on economic aspects, ecological and social sustainab...
Demand Response (DR) facilitates the monitoring and management of appliances in energy grids by employing methods that, for example, increase the reliability of energy grids and reduce users’ cost. Within energy grids, Smart Home scenarios can be characterized by a unique combination of appliances and user preferences. To increase their impact, a s...
![Fig. 1. Main Categrories of PSS (acc.to Tukker [22])](profile/Paul-Gembarski/publication/327837410/figure/fig1/AS:703300282372096@1544691262418/Main-Categrories-of-PSS-accto-Tukker-22_Q320.jpg)
The importance of sustainability in business research and practice is still increasing. Taking into account circumstances such as shortage of resources, growth of population and stricter environmental legislation, fundamental changes to act economically, ecologically and socially are requiered. Mass Customization (MC) is a competitive strategy that...
Through growing use of the Internet and extensive access to publications and information, reviewing literature that addresses a certain topic or domain becomes increasingly complex. Systematically searching in particular is an essential task during a literature review because it requires fundamental decisions (e.g., choose search items) that affect...
Sustainability has become increasingly important to business research and practice. Approaches that support fundamental changes in behaviour to act economically, ecologically and socially are required. Modelling and analysing business models can contribute to this, for example by generating new ideas and enabling innovation as well as improving and...
Digital transformation becomes increasingly important to business research and practice. Transforming businesses poses various opportunities (e.g., creating novel business models) but, in contrast, constitutes numerous of challenges (e.g., changing processes and organizational structures). As Information Systems (IS) can support such transformation...
Sustainability has become increasingly important to business research and practice. Approaches, which support fundamental changes in behavior to act economic, ecological and social, are required. A popular concept that contributes to these challenges is Mass Customization (MC). MC—defined as a competitive strategy—allows for producing goods and ser...
Due to various challenges such as climatic changes or implementation of renewable energy generation, improvements in regulating energy grids are required. Demand-Side-Management (DSM) contributes to this progress by managing, shifting and controlling loads. However, many DSM algorithms make assumptions regarding load characteristics which do not co...
Product-service systems (PSS) offer great opportunities for companies to alter their business model, for example, for being competitive in the digital era. One important contributor for developing PSS is the presence of suitable modelling languages. In order to obtain requirements from the industry regarding process-oriented PSS modelling languages...
Due to technological improvement and the changing environment, energy grids face various challenges, which, for example, deal with integrating new appliances and generation such as electric vehicles and photovoltaic. Thus, managing such grids has become increasingly important for research and practice, as for example grid reliability and cost benef...
While numerous studies related to business models are dealing with understanding and representing businesses, limited research focus on the evaluation aspect. However, due to the highly dynamic environment, changing availability of resources and booming digitalization, the evaluation of such models and alternatives is an essential task. Analysing,...
Situation faced: Faced with challenges like heterogeneous processes across three campuses, a campus management system that was not up to date, and loss of knowledge because of demographic changes and undocumented, inconsistent processes, Jade University of Applied Science implemented a campus-management system developed by HIS. This system includes...
![Figure 1. Literature search ([] = database used)](profile/Thorsten-Schoormann/publication/320008986/figure/fig1/AS:542022224146432@1506239576885/Literature-search-database-used_Q320.jpg)
Sustainability has become increasingly important to business research and practice. Approaches that support fundamental changes in behavior to act ecologically, economically and socially are required. Business process modelling can contribute to this by improving organizational structures. However, prior research (e.g., Green IS/BPM) often tends to...
Sustainability has become increasingly important to research and practice. In order to determine impacts, identify improvement potential and to disclose efforts towards sustainability, an organization needs appropriate reporting. Thus, sustainability reporting has become a topic of broader interest, for example, to assess own situations, enable ben...
The interest in business model innovation has risen rapidly in recent years, and software tools for business model development hold great promise for supporting business model innovation. Nonetheless, virtually no design-relevant knowledge exists concerning the functions that such tools should possess. Therefore, we develop a comprehensive taxonomy...
In recent years, the number of domain-specific modelling techniques increased. Method engineering already provides text-based and semantic approaches which aim to unify constructs and allocate terminologies. As existing procedures are usually carried out manually, challenges arise such as reproducibility and standardization as well as ensuring qual...
Die Bedeutung von Carsharing nimmt über die letzten Jahre weiter zu, wodurch Angebote und Nutzerzahlen stetig steigen. Im Jahr 2014/2015 existierten bereits rund 150 Anbieter mit über 1.000.000 Kunden in Deutschland. Eine große Anzahl an Angeboten bringt allerdings auch eine große Vielfalt in den Angeboten mit sich, sodass zahlreiche Unterschiede i...
To address current challenges in the management of energy grids, Demand-Side-Management (DSM) is one possibility. In this field various ap-proaches exist but consider often different constraints regarding appliances. This paper aims at identifying these constraints through a triangulation: we conducted two literature reviews and several expert inte...
Communication between legal experts and laypersons takes place in many contexts related to law: contracts, for example. Visualization can support the communication and mitigate its barriers. In the field of legal visualization different approaches have been discussed, but a common language and standards are missing. This paper aims to identify the...
Dieser Beitrag zieht eine Zwischenbilanz zum Thema Rechtsvisualisierung in 20 Jahren IRIS. Dazu wurde eine multimethodische Literaturanalyse durchgeführt, die (I) sämtli-che Schwerpunkte der Tagungsbände (1998-2016) systematisch auf relevante Beiträge untersucht und (II) die Datenbasis (180 Beiträge) auswertet. Resultate zeigen u. a. Zu-sammenhänge...
Zur Modellierung von neuen Geschäftsmodellen wie z. B. im Bereich E-Carsharing, der Batte-rienachnutzung, neuer Ladeinfrastrukturen, der Stromerzeugung oder der Versorgungsdienstleitun-gen, werden geeignete Werkzeuge benötigt. Diese sollen den Konstruktionsprozess unterstützen und somit die Entwicklung von (kreativen) Lösungen ermöglichen. Dieser B...
Science and practice highlight the relevance of employing sustainability practices in consumption and production. A sustainable change requires the participation of society as well as companies and organizations. In addition, companies have to rethink their classical businesses and consider innovations for acting in an ecological, economic, and soc...
Illustrative Visualisierungen können zur Anschaulichkeit und Allgemeinverständlichkeit beitragen, implizieren allerdings auch Hemmnisse (z. B. Aufwand und Ästhetik). Zunächst soll daher geklärt werden, inwiefern bestehende Tools eine effiziente Comic -Erstellung für die Rechtsvisualisierung unterstützen. Dazu wird ein Toolvergleich durchgeführt, de...
Projects
Projects (6)
Nachhaltige Wertschöpfungssysteme (NaWerSys) ist ein jährlich stattfindender Workshop auf der Konferenz INFORMATIK.
Der Workshop begreift die Gestaltung zukünftiger nachhaltiger Wertschöpfungssysteme als interdisziplinäres Spannungsfeld, in dem sich unterschiedliche Fragestellungen verbinden: Hierzu zählt der Fortschritt datengetriebener Technologien, auch mit Blick auf innovative Anwendungen der Künstlichen Intelligenz, aber auch grundlegende Infrastrukturmaßnahmen, wie der Aufbau von Datenökosystemen wie GAIA-X. Gleichermaßen ist zu klären, wie technische Innovationen messbar und zuverlässig Beiträge zu ökonomisch, ökologisch und sozial nachhaltigen Angeboten leisten können. Hierfür gilt es, auch das Verhältnis zwischen erzieltem Nutzen und in Kauf genommenen Aufwänden kritisch zu beleuchten und neue, wirksame Geschäfts- und Kooperationsmodelle zu identifizieren. NaWerSys möchte in diesem Spannungsfeld ForscherInnen die Möglichkeit geben, Werkzeuge, Modelle und Fallstudien disziplinübergreifend vorzustellen, zu diskutieren und weiterzuentwickeln.
Webseite: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/nawersys/
Even though IS has the potential to promote social concerns such as through enabling (political) participation, promoting healthcare in developing countries, or creating equity and diversity Information Systems (IS) research tends, in addition to its economic obligations, to focus on the natural environment and rather neglect the social dimension or do not position their research as such. Against this backdrop, we seek to examine the status quo of IS research on social sustainability and provide artifacts for social sustainability to help researchers and practitioners in classifying current initiatives, getting ideas for future opportunities, and position their research as a contribution to the social dimension of sustainability.
Business models can boost fundamental changes in behavior to act more economically, ecologically, and socially. To support the development of such business models, various approaches have been proposed. However, while most of these approaches focus on economic aspects, ecological and social sustainability is rather neglected. In this project, we seek to explore how to design information systems that effectively facilitate reflection of sustainability in business models in a multidimensional manner.