Dr. Manuel Holler

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Lecturer & Researcher @ Product Management Center

Expertise and research interests

Digital Innovation for Sustainable Product and Service Business

Educational background

* University of St.Gallen (HSG): PhD Business Innovation
* Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW): CAS Higher & Professional Education
* Nanyang Technological University (NTU): Semester Abroad Mechanical Engineering
* University of Technology Munich (TUM): MSc Mechanical Engineering
* University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf (THD): BEng Mechanical Engineering

Professional milestones

* Swissnex Boston, US & Swissnex China: Visiting Scholar
* ZF Group, Friedrichshafen, Germany: Digital Product Manager
* thyssenkrupp, Essen, Germany: thyssenkrupp Research Lab Associate
* Oliver Wyman, Munich, Germany: Research Analyst
* Various Internships & Research Assistant Positions (e.g., Porsche)

Membership of networks

• Data Innovation Alliance
• Plattform Industrie 4.0
• Swissnex Network
• DIZH Digital Futures Lab
• Swiss Product Management Community
• HSG Research Lab Management of AI
• ZHAW entrepreneurship
• GoogleScholar
• ResearchGate
• LinkedIn

Projects

• Green Patterns / Project leader / Project ongoing
• AI for Industrial Product, Service & Innovation Management / Project leader / Project ongoing
• mympact - The one app for personal sustainability / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Ampliphi – The Plastic Action & Circular Economy Platform / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Verticeuticals – A blockchain-based vertical farming solution for sustainable nutraceutical production / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Carbon-Footprint-Management for Timly / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Enabling industrial companies to efficiently observe machine processes and resolve unplanned machine downtime / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Robotic Digital Manufacturing – Shaping Product Market Fit / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Innovation Potential Study for Oniri Dream Analysis / Project leader / Project completed
• Concept Development for Trustworthy Phygital Marketplaces / Project leader / Project completed
• Gossik - The Productivity Assistant for the Young & Ambitious / Project leader / Project completed
• Empirical Market Potential Analysis for ResGuard Med – B2B Toolbox for Early Respiratory Crisis Warning / Project leader / Project completed
• Making Society More Resilient – Innovation and Market Potential Analysis for Moodtalk / Project leader / Project completed
• How to Digitize a Textbook? / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• The ZHAW Partner Guide / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Touchless Robotic Gripper based on Acoustic Levitation / Project leader / Project completed
• Digital Certificates for Luxury Goods – From Product to Ecosystem / Project leader / Project completed
• Making AI Tangible – The ZHAW AI Demonstrator / Project leader / Project completed
• Concept Development for the Digital Management of Car Subscriptions / Project leader / Project completed
• Autonomous Flying Robots – From the Lab to the Industry / Project leader / Project completed
• Development of a Smart Connected Product System for the Industrial Piping Business / Project leader / Project completed
• Back-end Solution for Charging Stations to Advance Electric Mobility / Project leader / Project completed
• Smart Dust – Exploring Technology Affordances in the Industrial Economic Sector / Project leader / Project completed
• Software Platform for Shared Micro Mobility Management / Project leader / Project completed
• Requirements for Digital Value-added Services in the Context of Mobility-as-a-Service / Project leader / Project completed
• Digital Solution for Infection Prevention / Project leader / Project completed
• Product Requirements for Electric Trucks for Economical and Ecological Logistics / Project leader / Project completed
• Steigerung der Datenteilbereitschaft in B2B als Grundlage für die Entwicklung von neuen, datenbasierten Services / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Concept Development for the Implementation of Smart Cities for Liveable and Sustainable Urban Areas / Project leader / Project completed
• Development of a Modular All-in-One System for the Optimized Use of Flat Roofs / Project leader / Project completed
• Intelligent IoT Solution to Increase Efficiency in Outpatient and Inpatient (Geriatric) Care / Project leader / Project completed
• Conception of an Accommodation Platform to Combat the Vacancy Rate in Switzerland / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Holler, Manuel; Dremel, Christian; Hehn, Jennifer; van Giffen, Benjamin; Galeno, Gianluca,

  2022.

  Digitale Plattformen in der Praxis : Einsatz- und Entwicklungsmodelle.

  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik.

  59(5), pp. 1258-1268.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-022-00899-0

• Vogt, Helen; Ehrat, Matthias; Fuchs, Rainer; Holler, Manuel,

  2021.

  Welche datenbasierten Servicemodelle sind erfolgsversprechend für KMU der Maschinen‑, Anlagen‑, Elektro- und Metallindustrie?.

  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik.

  58, pp. 521-536.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-021-00728-w

• Holler, Manuel; Dremel, Christian; van Giffen, Benjamin; Fuchs, Rainer,

  2020.

  Smart Dust und Micro Robots im industriellen Sektor : Chancen, offene Punkte und Handlungsempfehlungen.

  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik.

  57(6), pp. 1239-1250.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-020-00666-z

• Holler, Manuel; Herterich, Matthias; Dremel, Christian; Uebernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2018.

  Towards a method compendium for the development of digitised products : findings from a case study.

  International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management.

  11(2), pp. 131-153.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPLM.2018.092825

• Holler, Manuel; Dremel, Christian; Herterich, Matthias; Uebernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2017.

  Product Lifecycle Management im Konzernumfeld : Herausforderungen, Lösungsansätze und Handlungsempfehlungen.

  HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik.

  55(1), pp. 133-150.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-017-0372-8

• Holler, Manuel,

  2018.

  Understanding product lifecycle management in manufacturing industries.

  St.Gallen:

  HSG Hochschulschrift.

• Holler, Manuel; Barth, Linard; Fuchs, Rainer,

  2019.

  Trustworthy product lifecycle management using blockchain technology : experience from the automotive ecosystem

  .

  In:

  Stark, John, ed.,

  Product lifecycle management (volume 4) : the case studies.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 13-19.

  Decision Engineering ; 30.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16134-7_2

• Uebernickel, Falk; Holler, Manuel; Brenner, Walter,

  2017.

  Fallbeispiel : Predictive Analytics im industriellen Servicegeschäft von Linde MH

  .

  In:

  Lemke, Claudia; Brenner, Walter; Kirchner, Kathrin, eds.,

  Einführung in die Wirtschaftsinformatik; Bd. 2: Gestalten des digitalen Zeitalters.

  Heidelberg:

  Springer.

  pp. 178-180.

• Holler, Manuel; Dremel, Christian; van Giffen, Benjamin; Vogt, Helen,

  2022.

  From smart connected products to systems of systems : case study and archetypes [paper].

  In:

  Canciglieri Junior, Osiris; Noël, Frédéric; Rivest, Louis; Bouras, Abdelaziz, eds.,

  Product lifecycle management : green and blue technologies to support smart and sustainable organizations.

  IFIP 18th International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Curitiba, Brazil, 11-14 July 2021.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 3-13.

  IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ; 640.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94399-8_1

• Barth, Linard; Ehrat, Matthias; Galeno, Gianluca; Holler, Manuel; Savic, Nikola,

  2022.

  Value generation in the product lifecycle with digital twins : status quo in Swiss companies [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

  55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), virtual, 3-6 January 2022.

  University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

  pp. 4528-4537.

  Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2022.551

• Holler, Manuel; van Giffen, Benjamin; Barth, Linard; Fuchs, Rainer,

  2021.

  Smart dust for smart(er) industrial product-service-systems : three strategies and their application [paper].

  In:

  West, Shaun; Meierhofer, Jürg; Ganz, Christopher, eds.,

  Smart services summit : digital as an enabler for smart service business development.

  Third Smart Services Summit 2020, Zurich (online), 23 October - 23 December 2020.

  Springer.

  pp. 15-20.

  Progress in IS.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72090-2_2

• Barth, Linard; Ehrat, Matthias; Holler, Manuel; Fuchs, Rainer,

  2021.

  Value creation with digital twins : framework validation and analysis of further development priorities [paper].

  In:

  West, Shauen; Meierhofer, Jürg; Ganz, Christopher, eds.,

  Smart services summit : digital as an enabler for smart service business development.

  Third Smart Services Summit 2020, Zurich (online), 23 October - 23 December 2020.

  Springer.

  pp. 35-47.

  Progress in IS.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72090-2_4

• Holler, Manuel; Haarmann, Jens; van Giffen, Benjamin; Frank, Alejandro German,

  2020.

  Smart dust in the industrial economic sector : on application cases in product lifecycle management [paper].

  In:

  Nyffenegger, Felix; Ríos, José; Rivest, Louis; Bouras, Abdelaziz, eds.,

  PLM 2020 : Product Lifecycle Management Enabling Smart X.

  17th IFIP International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Rapperswil, Switzerland, 5-8 July 2020.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 165-175.

  IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ; 594.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62807-9_14

• Holler, Manuel; van Giffen, Benjamin; Benzell, Seth; Ehrat, Matthias,

  2020.

  The general data protection regulation in financial services industries : how do companies approach the implementation of the GDPR and what can we learn from their approaches? [paper].

  In:

  82. Jahrestagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB 2020), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 March 2020.

• Holler, Manuel; Vogt, Helen; Barth, Linard,

  2019.

  Exploring the willingness-to-share data of digitized products in B2B manufacturing industries [paper].

  In:

  Pucihar, Andreja; Kljajić Borštnar, Mirjana; Bons, Roger; Seitz, Juergen; Cripps, Helen; Vidmar, Doroteja, eds.,

  32nd Bled eConference Proceedings.

  32nd Bled eConference - Humanizing Technology for a Sustainable Society, Bled, Slovenia, 16-19 June 2019.

  University of Manbor Press.

  pp. 1065-1072.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-280-0

• Holler, Manuel; Uebernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2018.

  The evolution of IS projects in manufacturing industries : the case of product lifecycle management [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

  51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa Village HI, USA, 3-6 January 2020.

  Honolulu:

  University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

  pp. 4867-4876.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2018.610

• Holler, Manuel; Uebernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2017.

  Defining archetypes of E-collaboration for product development in the automotive industry [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).

  25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Guimarães, Portugal, 5-10 June 2017.

  Association for Information Systems.

  pp. 113-130.

  Available from: https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2017_rp/8/

• Holler, Manuel; Neiditsch, Gerard; Uebernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2017.

  Digital product innovation in manufacturing industries : towards a taxonomy for feedback-driven product development scenarios [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

  50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa Village HI, USA, 4-7 January 2017.

  Honolulu:

  University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

  pp. 4726-4735.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2017.576

• Holler, Manuel; Übernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2016.

  Challenges in product lifecycle management : evidence from the automotive supply industry [paper].

  In:

  27th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS2016), Wollongong, 5-7 December 2016.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3158

• Holler, Manuel; Übernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2016.

  Understanding the business value of intelligent products for product development in manufacturing industries [paper].

  In:

  ICIME 2016 Proceedings of the 2016 8th International Conference on Information Management and Engineering.

  8th International Conference on Information Management and Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, 2-5 November 2016.

  New York:

  ACM.

  pp. 18-24.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3012258.3012266

• Holler, Manuel; Stöckli, Emanuel; Übernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2016.

  Towards understanding closed-loop PLM : the role of product usage data for product development enabled by intelligent properties [paper].

  In:

  29th Bled eConference Proceedings.

  29th Bled eConference - Digital Economy, Bled, Slovenia, June 19-22, 2016.

  AISeL.

  pp. 479-491.

  Available from: https://aisel.aisnet.org/bled2016/13

• Holler, Manuel; Übernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2016.

  An e-mail embedded software prototype for knowledge management [paper].

  In:

  CONF-IRM 2016 Proceedings.

  International Conference on Information Resources Management (CONF-IRM), Cape Town, South Africa, 18-20 May 2016.

  AISeL.

  Available from: https://aisel.aisnet.org/confirm2016/65/

• Holler, Manuel; Uebernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2016.

  Digital twin concepts in manufacturing industries : a literature review and avenues for further research [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the IJIE 2016.

  18th International Conference on Industrial Engineering (IJIE), Seoul, South Korea, 10-12 October 2016.

• Herterich, Matthias M.; Holler, Manuel; Uebernickel, Falk; Brenner, Walter,

  2015.

  Understanding the business value : towards a taxonomy of industrial use scenarios enabled by cyber-physical systems in the equipment manufacturing industry [paper].

  In:

  CONF-IRM 2015 Proceedings.

  CONF-IRM 2015 - International Conference on Information Resources Management, Ottawa, Canada, 18-20 May 2015.

  Association for Information Systems.

  pp. 1-15.

• Holler, Manuel,

  2018.

  Mapping the field of product lifecycle management : a bibliometric study.

  St.Gallen:

  Universität St.Gallen.

  Available from: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/254017/1/Article_VI.pdf

• Holler, Manuel; Ehrat, Matthias; Vogt, Helen,

  2020.

  Development of a smart connected product system for the industrial piping business.

  In:

  5. F&E Konferenz zu Industrie 4.0, Zürich, 5. Februar 2020.

• Vogt, Helen; Ehrat, Matthias; Holler, Manuel,

  2020.

  Steigerung der Datenteilbereitschaft in B2B als Grundlage für die Entwicklung von neuen, datenbasierten Services.

  In:

  5. F&E Konferenz zu Industrie 4.0, Zürich, 5. Februar 2020.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

GoogleScholar: scholar.google.com/citations
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel_Holler

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