All projects from the School of Management and Law
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Configurator as a Service (CaaS) # Sales Automation for KMUs
The Institute for Marketing Management (IMM) provided Sitewerk AG with technical and methodological support in the development of the "Configurator as a Service" (CaaS). The success of the CaaS will essentially depend on the acceptance and on the application possibilities by the companies and end users. The ...
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Battery-as-a-service: Integrating upcycled lithium batteries into light fleet e-vehicles
Embracing a product-as-a-service model represents an important opportunity for Swiss battery manufacturer Libattion. The project aims to address jointly the challenges of this transition: estimating battery health, the ability to deliver advanced services, and aligning with circular economy principles. ...
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Dynamic pricing against food waste in university catering facilities
The project's main focus is the analysis of readiness to pay of customers (students, staff) of university catering facilities, specifically in relatiom to vegetarian/vegan menus (with low environmental impact) vs. meat-based menus (with high environmental impact). The underlying goal is the leverage this obtained ...
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Online Retailer Survey 2021
The Online Retailer Survey has now been conducted four times. A total of 365 online stores participated in the 2021 study, which encompasses business-to-consumer (86 percent), business-to-business (46 percent) and direct-toconsumer (14 percent) companies. For the first time, 63 Austrian online retailers took part, ...
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The situation of paratransit users in Switzerland
Description Many people in Switzerland cannot use public transport or can only use it to a limited extent (e.g., due to a motor or visual impairment). They rely on paratransit services to participate in daily life. Various insurance providers, such as health insurance funds and the Swiss Disability Insurance and Old ...
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Machine-Learning for Demand-Response
In many countries, renewable energy investment is starting to become economically viable without support. This disrupts the business of electric utilities and may result in significant grid expansion needs in order to accommodate the increasing amount of renewable electricity. A promising solution to this problem is ...
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Osteoarthritis in Switzerland: prevalence, treatment and costs
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease most frequently affecting the knee, hand and hip in older adults. It is a major cause of disability and leads to substantial social costs. The aim of our study is to investigate the epidemiology, treatment and costs of OA in Switzerland using different data ...
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Business experiment testing of a revenue model for an eBoat sharing startup
Business experiments to test market potential, revenue model and product strategy: social media A/B campaign test to assess market size, organisation of a test day with semi-structured customer interviews on willingness to pay and product-market fit.
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Design Thinking Projects 2021
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 Literacy Skills in University Contexts (DigLit)
Writing in most contexts today is done with digital, computer-assisted support. Technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) such as intelligent tutoring (IT), automated writing evaluation (AWE), automated text production (ATP) and machine translation (MT) present new opportunities, perspectives, and risks for ...
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Digital Simulation of the Swiss Vaccination Center Winterthur
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Digitalisation and academic writing – new practices and theory development
Writing technology is developing at a breath-taking pace. However, there is a lack of empirical studies that reveal what these technologies mean for writing methodology and pedagogy, and of theoretical work guiding the understanding of digital writing within the academic domain. This fellowship aims to address these ...
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Financial analysis of teaching material expenditures of municipalities and cities in the Canton of Zurich
In the canton of Zurich, the municipalities and cities pay for teaching material on preschool, elementary-school and secondary-school level. Until now, there has been no financial analysis of these teaching material expenditures. The Institute for Public Management (IVM) of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ...
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Innnosuisse Startup Training Modul 3 und 4
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Insurance study 2021-2026
Digitalisation is not a new topic for insurers. First IT-system were already introduced in the 1970’s. Subsequent digitalisation waves included the attempt to go direct via pure digital distribution channels in the noughties. Their limited success as a result of the hybrid interaction patterns of insurance customers ...
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LeLa - LearningLab Higher Education ZHAW
The electronic support tool myScripting was developed for the didactic design of digital learning environments, especially blended and online learning (e.g. MOOC production). The tool suggests context-dependent activities for a teaching context, which can be assigned to topics and learning phases. In addition, the ...
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Pay Per Use Benchmark Study in the Industry
To investigate opportunities and feasibility of Pay Per Use business models for industrial goods, the project team conducted benchmark interviews with leading Swiss and German B-2-B companies on the current state of Pay Per Use business models to identify challenges, hurdles, drivers, trends and best practices. ...
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RRI-Leaders: Leveraging Leadership For Responsible Research and Innovation in Territories
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Swiss Payment Monitor 2021/22
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What international negotiators promise and domestic policymakers adopt
The goal of the Paris Agreement to keep global warming well below 2°C can only be reached if countries commit to and adopt ambitious climate change mitigation action. However, we often witness a gap between international commitments and the policies and instruments aimed at implementing them domestically. This ...
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Renal anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease in Switzerland: Epidemiology, treatment and costs
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a disease affecting the structure and function of the kidney. CKD is associated with a substantially higher risk of death, mainly due to cardiovascular disease, and substantially lower health-related quality of life. Renal anemia is a frequent complication of CKD. The objective of ...
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Analyst Indexing Platform Service
This project aims at developing a new, innovative platform service to review and rank sell-side analysts and their research reports. The planned platform product aims at uncovering and monitoring independency problems, update frequencies, thoroughness and preciseness in the research provided by sell-side analysts. ...
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Confidential Data Analytics based on Trusted Execution Environments
Currently there is an unmet need for trust and privacy in multi-party data analytics (e.g. in cloud computing). A new solution approach using hardware-based trusted execution environments is called Confidential Computing. The Zurich-based and investor-backed startup decentriq is a provider of confidential analytics ...
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Digital assistants in smart homes
The research project focuses on what people need and expect from “digital assistants” in the context of smart homes. The research is guided by the assumption that digital assistants have the potential to promote autonomous and self-determined living in old age at home and to relieve relatives. In the academic ...